The Ministry of Labour is investigating the death of a 19-year-old female garment worker who fainted at a factory in Prey Veng on Thursday. ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/young-garment-worker-faints-on-shift-dies-later/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministries of Environment, Education, Youth and Sport, and the Cambodia rural Students Trust (CrST) have collaborated to implement an environmental care project called Project “r” in Siem reap province. ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/push-to-stop-plastic-in-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s agriculture sector will benefit from a grant of $35 million by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with some of the money also going towards public health and education. ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/usaid-grant-to-help-agriculture-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Residents and evictees fRom Phnom Penh&Rsquo;s Boeng Kak and Bo­R­ei Keila neighboRhoods Re­tuRned to the WoRld Bank&Rsquo;s countRy headquaRteRs on NoRodom Boul­evaRd on Monday to huRl eggs at the fRont gate and demand that the inteRnational lendeR leave Cambodia.   Ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pRotesteRs-huRl-eggs-at-woRld-bank-office-pRomise-to-RetuRn/ ' class='cambodia-coloR'>...

Russia plans to join the InteRnational CooRdinatoR Committee to safeguaRd and develop the PReah ViheaR histoRical site, an official confiRmed yesteRday. Ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/Russian-fedeRation-to-help-safeguaRd-pReah-viheaR/ ' class='cambodia-coloR'>...

Officials from the Ministry of Labour met with former workers from three garment factories in the capital’s Por Senchey district this morning after the owner absconded without warning last week, leaving 2,000 workers without their severance or salary for the month of January. ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-meets-with-protesting-garment-workers-following-factory-closures/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 1,000 workers from three factories in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district yesterday protested after learning that their employer has fled without paying their January wages. ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-workers-protest-over-unpaid-wages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Apsara Authority officials on Tuesday began moving to their new offices far outside of Siem reap onto land within the Angkor Archaeological Park as part of a swap with the city’s provincial government, officials said. The move comes after Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered Siem reap’s ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/apsara-authority-moves-to-offices-far-from-siem-reap-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Future growth of telecom networks in rural Cambodia will be funded by a three percent tax on gross revenue for the country’s telecom operators, due to begin within the first half of 2017.​ Im Vutha, spokesperson for the Telecom regulator of Cambodia (TrC) told Khmer Times ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/telecom-tax-in-pipeline/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Some 9.5 million Cambodians who directly engage in agriculture must adopt new techniques in order to counter dynamic weather patterns caused by climate change, and the government must work with farmers to ensure that it happens, an agricultural conference was told last week. Flown in from ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-must-work-with-farmers-to-combat-climate-change/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Reap&Rsquo;s pRovincial goveRnment appaRatus, which in 2010 was Relocated to a Remote site 16 km outside of the city as paRt of an extensive and hugely contRoveRsial swap of goveRnment land and buildings, is moving back to its old home in the touRist city&Rsquo;s Ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/afteR-land-swap-siem-Reap-goveRnment-moves-again/ ' class='cambodia-coloR'>...

responsAbility Social Investments AG, a Swiss for-profit company that operates four microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it has invested USD 13.5 million in microfinance institutions (MFIs) Equity Bank of Kenya and VisionFund Cambodia. The investments have been made through three MIVs: ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/responsability-invests-13-5m-in-microfinance-institutions-mfis-visionfund-cambodia-equity-bank-of-kenya/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The head of a construction firm that was involved in a massive land swap with Siem reap’s provincial government in 2010 defended the deal on Friday saying orders for the move of government offices and civil servants—which is now being reversed—came directly from the national ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/contractor-says-senior-official-approved-siem-reap-land-swap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of External Affairs today signed two agreements with the public sector WAPCOS Limited for assisting Cambodia in water resources management. One of the agreements is on Study of Ground Water resources of Kampong Spue Province in Cambodia and the other on Development of ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mea-wapcos-sign-agreements-for-assisting-cambodia-in-water-resources-management/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh municipal officials Nov. 8, 2012 dismissed the complaints of more than 60 families about a russei Keo district ice factory’s levels of noise and bad fumes. Following their inspection of the Om rith factory, a manufacturer of Super Ice, officials from Phnom Penh’s Department ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-brushes-off-ice-factory-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Inside the grounds of this city’s old provincial hall, past a green corrugated iron fence, municipal street cleaners and their families are squatting in what was once a bustling government office filled with civil servants. Across the road, the former department of rural development is a ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reaps-secret-multimillion-dollar-land-swap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s largest bank is ready to launch its first micro-finance institution (MFI) in Myanmar, but one final barrier remains: an operating licence from Myanmar’s government. Acleda Bank’s chief executive, In Channy, expects the licence to be granted by the end of this month. Once that is done, ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acleda-readies-to-open-myanmars-first-micro-finance-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In June, after about a quarter million migrant workers returned from their jobs in Thailand fearing the military junta’s crackdown on illegal labor, Cambodia’s government announced it had slashed the cost of emigration, and would charge workers only $49 to legally return to work across ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/recruitment-agencies-operate-without-oversight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of ratanakkiri residents trapped in their homes by floodwater that continues to rise amid relentless rain is now estimated by provincial authorities to be at least 4,000. Heavy rain has put five Lumphat district communes – Lbaing I, Chey Uddom, Batang, Seda and Kaleng ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rkiri-floods-trap-thousands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 40 hectares of protected forest in rattanakiri’s O’Yadav district was razed by a Vietnamese company over the course of six days before they were stopped yesterday by villagers and investigators from rights group Adhoc, a local official said. Sav Hlin, a village chief in ref='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/40-hectares-razed-in-rkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...