Malaysia’s leading armoured vehicle maker DRB-Hicom Defence Technologies Sdn Bhd (DefTech) is setting its sights on Cambodia and Myanmar, said chief executive officer amril Samsudin. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deftech-targets-cambodia-myanmar-jobs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than five months after the Cambodian People’s Party and the Cambodia National Rescue Party first announced a joint commitment to electoral reform following a September 16 meeting, specific measures have finally been agreed upon. The first official meeting yesterday of a bipartisan committee tasked with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/voter-list-overhaul-eyed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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The Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) planned to invest US$235 million in two Cambodian mega projects, one of which was the modernisation of a TV station that one analyst said might not be necessary given the country’s level of development. During a meeting with Prime Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-exim-bank-to-put-235m-in-steel-media/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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A commune officiAl in PursAt province’s VeAl Veng district hAs filed A lAwsuit Accusing A humAn rights worker of incitement And disinformAtion After villAgers the NGO stAffer spoke to trAveled to Phnom Penh to protest over A lAnd dispute involving A well-known businessmAn Try PheAp. PursAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/incitement-disinformAtion-suit-filed-AgAinst-rights-worker/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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Japanese companies are facing a shortage of skilled workers which is hindering progress in Japanese-owned electronic factories, the Japanese Business association of Cambodia (JBaC) said. The statement comes after the asian Development Bank said in april that a shortage of skilled workers would continue to hinder <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-companies-face-domestic-employee-shortage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Implementation Plan for the Social accountability Framework (I-SaF) aims to empower local citizens, enhance local authorities’ accountability and improve the relationship between local service providers and citizens. 61The project is implemented under four main components:access to information and open budgetscitizen monitoringfacilitation and capacity buildinglearning <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/social-accountability/primary-school-budget/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thousands of people have been evicted from their homes to make way for a Chinese development in Koh Kong province. But some of the families have returned to their land, leaving a relocation site they say was insufficient for their needs. For families like those of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/some-return-after-eviction-from-coastal-resort-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opposition CNRP announced Wednesday that it will hold a mass demonstration on September 7 against the preliminary results of what it claims was a rigged national election, one day before final results are expected to be released by the Constitutional Council of Cambodia. Unless the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-sets-date-for-mass-protests-against-election-results/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP President Sam Rainsy nearly exhausted all manner of wheeled, motorized transport during his opposition party’s latest protest procession through Phnom Penh on Wednesday, at one point even getting behind the handlebars of a tuk-tuk. It was the fourth straight day of what the CNRP says <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-takes-to-tuk-tuk-for-latest-opposition-protest-rally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In its switch to a strategy of nonstop demonstrations calling for a new election, the opposition party has made a calculated decision to go “all-in” and toughen its stance in a bid to ramp up domestic pressure on the ruling party, political analysts said yesterday. Since <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gambit-by-cnrp-an-all-in-move/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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Cambodia will push to finalise a rice-exporting bloc with four other regional countries by the end of the year in a bid to become the world’s “food basket”, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The group of countries including Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar &ndash; <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-looks-to-counter-opec-push-rice-exporting-power/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Investors, along with the next two companies expected to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, will watch carefully this morning the action on the country’s first initial public offering, nine months after the CSX officially opened. after a book-building process that was 17 times over-subscribed, Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ppwsa-stock-to-list-today/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The law-making process is about making and enacting new laws or revising existing laws.In the Kingdom of Cambodia, three institutions can initiate the law-making process: any member of the National assembly, any member of the Senate and the prime minister. 89 Most of the texts <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/law-making-process/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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Responding to parliament’s order to investigate allegations against a recruitment agency with a record of mistreating its workers, the Ministry of Labour dispatched a team today to meet with a group of defrauded labourers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-ministry-vows-to-investigate-recruiter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>