The 10th High Quality Vietnamese Products and Exports trade fair opened yesterday in the Cambodian capital city of Phnom Penh. It has attracted around 150 firms who have  set up 250 booths to display more than 2,000 products, including electronics, consumer goods, stationary, books, construction materials, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/vietnamese-goods-fair-opens-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Danish marine fuel company Go4 Bunker Denmark yesterday launched the first company in Cambodia to supply ship fuel to  vessels traveling through Cambodia’s waters, according to officials. The launch ceremony for the newly established Go4 Bunker Cambodia Co Ltd yesterday was presided over by Danish Princess <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/offshore-refueling-on-the-horizon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Casinos are first and foremost for protecting Cambodia’s border, not for making money, government lawmakers insisted in parliament yesterday when drilled about their opposition to raising gambling taxes. Seizing on an off-the-cuff comment made by Prime Minister Hun Sen during a speech in august, Finance Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mooted-casino-tax-shot-down-by-ruling-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prominent female land activists Tim Sakmony and Yorm Bopha, who have been locked in Prey Sar prison since their arrest in early September, will face court today on charges rights groups say have been fabricated to stop them and others from protesting. Hundreds of the women’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/land-activists-targeted-rights-groups-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and the United arab Emirates (UaE) are in talks to promote bilateral cooperation in trade, investment and tourism on Wednesday. In the meeting, both sides discussed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on aviation in order to enable UaE airlines to operate direct flights from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-uae-set-to-boost-cooperation-in-economics-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government needs to enforce legislation on protecting the environment, even as it gives away masses of land and resources in concessions, or risk jeopardising its economic future, the UN assistant secretary-general for disaster risk reduction said yesterday. “The most critical impact of disasters today is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/act-on-environment-un-urges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court officiAl yesterdAy refused to disclose the nAture of “incitement” chArges issued in FebruAry AgAinst well-known monk Loun SovAth, while the Ministry of Justice clAimed it wAs unAwAre of the cAse AgAinst the sociAl cAmpAigner. According to documents dAted Feb. 14 And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/court-silent-on-chArges-AgAinst-monk/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In 2011, the actual amount of domestic revenue collected during the year did not reach the set target, while actual budget expenditure exceeded the planned amount. as a result, the overall budget deficit grew to 7-3 percent of GDP in 2011. For 2012 and 2013, while the execution of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/national-budget/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local police in Ratanakkiri province’s Veun Sai district yesterday tried to shut down a community meeting in which villagers were being educated about land rights, because it was being held without permission, rights workers said. according to Pen Bonnar, provincial coordinator for rights group adhoc, two <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/local-police-try-to-shut-down-land-meeting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Center for Study and Development in agriculture (CEDaC), a Cambodian agricultural organisation, will collect US$20 million from the Kingdom’s farmers through 2022 in an attempt to accumulate capital for organic rice production. Oun Sophal, president of CEDaC’s Farmer Network from Kampot province’s Dang Tong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cedac-pools-capital-to-produce-organic-rice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After months of stAndstill, unions And the GArment MAnufActurers AssociAtion in CAmbodiA (GMAC) Are expected to convene At the end of the month to discuss An expired memorAndum of understAnding (MOU) Aimed At reducing the Amount of strike Actions in the country, union leAders sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/unions-set-to-discuss-Agreement-on-strikes/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The 4th world class Japanese Oji Paper Co. Ltd will invest in tree planting in Cambodia for paper manufacture. The information was made known here on aug. 7 by the Japanese company’s Director Mr. Shimamura Gemmei in a meeting with Cambodian Minister of agriculture, Forestry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/japanese-oji-paper-company-to-plant-trees-for-producing-paper-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

This year’s dry spell could be an opportunity rather than a disaster for farmers, Cambodian Center for Study and Development in agriculture (CEDaC) officials said yesterday. although drought has destroyed several thousand hectares of crops in the past two months, Cambodia’s largest agricultural NGO is encouraging farmers to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/improve-yields-while-the-sun-shines-ngo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is being considered as a site for halal food production and rice milling by the United arab Emirates, according to the UaE’s Foreign Trade Minister Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid al Qasimi yesterday. Speaking during an official meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-set-to-produce-halal-food/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has completed the communal land-titling process for three ethnic Bunong communities in Mondolkiri province living on 1,000 hectares of land in Keo Seima district, villagers and a rights group said yesterday. The three new titles-which will bring to six the total number of communal titles granted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ethnic-bunong-groups-granted-new-land-titles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that the government would intervene to stem the riel’s sharp rise against the US dollar in recent days. “The Cambodian riel has been rising for several days,” he told a land-distribution ceremony in Oral district in Kampong Speu province, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-vows-to-intervene-as-dollar-plunges-to-3888-riel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia on Monday recorded 162 landmine casualties in the first ten months of this year, down 4 percent from 155 casualties at the same period last year, showed a report from the Cambodian Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Victim Information System. The report said that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/landmines-kill-41-cambodians-injuring-121-others-in-10-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AdvAnced BAnk of AsiA (ABA) is expAnding its Siem ReAp operAtions to tAke AdvAntAge of the growing tourism sector. The bAnk is moving out of its 160-squAre-metre SivuthA Street office into A 1,080-squAre-metre, three-level office Across the roAd, And it is now one of the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/rising-tourism-prompts-AbA-growth-in-siem-reAp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The silk industry of Cambodia is in rapid decline due to limited domestic supply of silk yarn and high cost of imported raw materials. according to the latest data released by the Food and agriculture Organization (FaO)-Cambodia, the Southeast asian nation imports 395 tonnes of raw <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/limited-yarn-supply-troubles-cambodian-silk-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Six Boeung Kak village representatives will appear in Phnom Penh Municipal Court accused of threatening to kill their one-time representative Ly Mom, who was spoke on their behalf from 2007 until last year. although no charges have been laid, Ly Mom is demanding $10,000 from each <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/boeung-kak-rep-infighting-gets-its-day-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>