Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh yesterday signed an agreement with Indonesia’s Trade Minister Gita Wijrawan to export 100,000 tons of milled rice to Indonesia every year, officials said. although the details-such as when the exports will begin and where the rice will be sourced-have yet to be <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-to-export-100000-tons-of-rice-to-indonesia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the deadline to pay annual property taxes rapidly approaching, hundreds of Phnom Penh homeowners queued this week at Canadia Bank’s headquarters on Monivong Boulevard to pay their tax bills in relative comfort, and avoid long visits to district and municipal taxation offices. Canadia Bank signed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/canadia-govt-look-to-soothe-tax-process/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Employee at timber company angkor Flywood in Kampong Cham province will return to work today after their bosses agreed yesterday to all but one of their demands: an increase in wages. Sok Kin, vice president of the Building and Word Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/timber-firms-workers-back/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Investment in the Cambodian construction sector reached US$1.38 billion in the first seven months of 2012, an 8s-percent rise over the same period last year, according to figures from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. During the January to July period this <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/construction-sector-investment-soars/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s economic land concession (ELC) policies are hindering development far more than helping it and beginning to erode the country’s hard-won stability, Cambodia’s special rapporteur warned yesterday. “as I have noted in relation to other sectors in Cambodia, the existence of the legal framework on paper <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/land-abuses-threaten-stability/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ongoing story of garment workers left jobless by company closures in late December is fast becoming a Tale of Two Factories: one group of workers has everything before it, the other has nothing. It’s this widening gulf between workers at Yung Wah Industrial and Kingsland <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/unequal-treatment-at-cambodian-factories/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s tourism minister Thong Khon said this week that aSEaN is protected to gain around 107 million international tourists in 2015 as the bloc will create the community that year. Speaking at closing ceremony of the 10th Tour Guide Training and the Opening of 11th Tour Guide Training for Phnom Penh city at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/asean-projects-to-receive-around-1-07-million-tourists-in-2015/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Less than four months after suspending work on Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network, Toll Royal Railways (TRR), the network’s operator, has informed the government that it will recommence transporting construction materials needed to build the southern line on aug. 1, company officials said yesterday. The decision to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/toll-royal-to-restart-rail-services-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The share price of the Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSa) fell 50 riel yesterday to 6,250 riel, or about $1.52, bringing the authority’s share price lower than its initial public offering (IPO) in april. The decline matches views expressed by investors here that the authority’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/water-supply-shares-fall-below-launch-price/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The import flow of bicycles (excluding e-bikes) into the European Union is changing rapidly between countries What is in particular striking is the massive upswing in imports from Cambodia. In 2011 the European Union imported 366,000 bikes from Cambodia which took the country to the 9th <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/eu-bike-import-shows-huge-shifts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

At the CAmbodiAn Rice Forum 2012, Agriculture Minister ChAn SArun sAid thAt if the Kingdom wAnts to reAch the government’s goAl of exporting 1 million tons of rice AnnuAlly by 2015, rice mills need to join forces And work closely together. Such An AssociAtion [of rice <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/rice-mills-need-to-show-solidArity-minister-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Hoping to end the cycle of violence in land disputes in Cambodia, and to garner public support for people who are the victims of land grabbing, five concerned citizens held a press conference Friday to announce the launch of their own online petition whose results <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/group-starts-online-petition-to-stop-land-dispute-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Net profits at NagaCorp Ltd., owners of Phnom Penh’s only licensed casino, jumped 38 percent to reach $52.4 million in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period last year, the company said in its most recent financial report. The casino generated a total <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/nagaworld-profits-jump-in-first-half-of-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five months after the fatal shooting of forestry activist Chut Wutty, Koh Kong Provincial Court dropped his case yesterday morning, saying they would only be looking into the shooting of the man who allegedly killed Wutty &ndash; a trial that wound up lasting less than <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/court-drops-wutty-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of families from more than a dozen communities joined local human rights groups yesterday as they rallied outside the National assembly for World Habitat Day, calling for an end to forced land evictions in Phnom Penh. among those protesting were residents from the Boeng <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hundreds-rally-to-stop-forced-land-evictions-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Four Land Management Ministry officials charged with corruption last week were released on bail yesterday, less than five days after arriving at Prey Sar prison for detention ahead of trial, officials said. Srung Leang, director of the prison’s center no. 1, said he received the written release order <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/arrested-land-officials-now-free-on-bail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Anti-eviction Activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeng KAk And Borei KeilA neighborhoods, dressed As white doves, protested yesterdAy in front of the Council for the Development of CAmbodiA, where the country’s donors were meeting with top government officiAls to discuss the country’s reform tArgets. Donning pAper helmets <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/eviction-protest-held-outside-donor-meeting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An AssistAnt to former US president Bill Clinton sAid CAmbodiA hAs mAny potentiAl AreAs for foreign direct investment (FDI) from mAny countries, including the US. KAren TrAmontAno, founder, Along with Clinton, And president of the GlobAl FAirness InitiAtive And CEO At Blue StAr StrAtegies, met with <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/cAmbodiA-hAs-greAt-potentiAl-for-fdi/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A 3-dAy CAmbodiA-ReAl EstAte Exhibition 2013 kicked off [in Phnom Penh] on MondAy As the country’s construction sector is rApidly growing in the lAst couple of yeArs. The event, held At the DiAmond IslAnd Exhibition Center, brought together 68 exhibitors who Are reAl estAte developers, reAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/cAmbodiA-orgAnizes-reAl-estAte-exhibition/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Dozens of families at Borei Keila have moved back on to land they were evicted from last year, despite intimidation and threats of arrest by security forces employed by developer Phan Imex. Earlier this month, security guards tore down the shelters of 12 families who had <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/evictees-back-on-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>