Cambodia is considered “the most promising country” in the aSEaN community where Thai business entrepreneurs could set up trade and investment projects, according to a noted Thai academic and economist. Roongrote Benjamasuthin, director of the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce’s aSEaN Business &amp; Economic Center, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/news-analysis-cambodia-viewed-as-best-investment-venue-for-thais/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The 2013 China’s Zhejiang and Cambodia matchmaking symposium was held here on Tuesday to seek opportunities to expand business ties between China and Cambodia. Gong Zheng said the Chinese firms are doing businesses in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure development, construction and real estate, mineral <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-chinese-entrepreneurs-meet-to-seek-business-chances/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ninety&ndash;nine per cent of Cambodians have a television set in their home, according to data compiled by Indochina Research. “We know everybody watches television,” said General Manager Laurent Notin. “Television is the most trusted media channel for Cambodians.” The saturation of television is only one of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/research-shows-cambodian-entrepreneurship-tendency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 families in Preah Sihanouk province were forcefully removed from their homes yesterday morning by at least 100 armed police officers  who dispersed the crowd by firing shots into the air from aK-47 rifles and spraying villagers with water cannons, accoring to provincial <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hundreds-of-preah-sihanouk-families-forced-from-homes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has publicly issued lists showing the costs of fees that businesses must pay to authorities for various services, in an effort to help companies avoid making informal payments made illegal by the anticorruption law. The lists were drafted during the past year after Cambodia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ministry-lists-fees-to-help-firms-avoid-graft-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When tales emerge from the retail supply chain, they’re usually tragic, like the alleged sweatshop conditions at the Foxconn (HKG:2038) plants that churn out apple (NaSDaQ:aaPL) products, or the 112 Bangladeshi workers who died when their factory, where clothes for Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Sears Holdings (NaSDaQ:SHLD), <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/wal-mart-and-hm-pay-200000-to-cambodian-workers-in-historic-settlement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand’s recent announcement of a 20 per cent price cut within the government rice-pledging scheme will have little impact for Cambodian exports, but farmers may feel the effects, say industry insiders. In an article published in the Bangkok Post on June 19, Thailand’s cabinet had agreed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thai-rice-cuts-pose-problems/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Monks residing in Koh Kong’s remote Areng VAlley hAve begun rAising funds online to renovAte their locAl temple, despite plAns in store for A lArge Chinese bAcked hydropower dAm thAt would leAve the site completely inundAted. The 108-MW hydropower dAm, to be built by <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/fAcing-chinese-dAm-monks-fight-for-temple/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After the fourth Joint TrAde Commission (JTC) recently, Commerce Minister Boonsong TeriyApirom sAid thAt ThAilAnd And CAmbodiA hAd the potentiAl to drive two-wAy trAde up by 30 per cent, due to strong growth in 2012. LAst yeAr, bilAterAl trAde grew by 40.5 per cent yeAr on <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/thAilAnd-And-cAmbodiA-to-forge-closer-trAde-tAlks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/firms-timber-trade-decried/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Newly-designated ambassador of China to Cambodia Bu Jianguo on Thursday vowed to help further deepen all rounds of cooperation with Cambodia for the benefits [sic] of the two countries and peoples. Paying a courtesy call on Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, Bu <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/new-chinese-envoy-pledges-to-further-enhance-ties-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday clarified that Prime Minister Hun Sen did not express willingness to see international involvement in an independent investigation into election irregularities, after state media incorrectly reported to the contrary. State news service agence Kampuchea Presse (aKP), which operates out of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/akp%e2%80%88corrects-report-on-call-for-international-vote-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday inaugurated a rubber processing plant here, saying the factory would contribute to developing the country’s fast-growing rubber sector. The 7 million U.S. dollar plant, invested by Cambodia’s Sopheak Nika Investment agro-Industry Company, was built on the area of 9 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-pm-inaugurates-rubber-processing-plant-in-far-northern-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On the palm-studded plains of Cambodia, rice farmers’ eyes light up with the prospect of sending their crop northward to China. The poor Southeast asian nation had been trying for several years to export rice to the mainland but only last year did it gain <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/against-the-grain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two days after Huawei introduced the world’s thinnest smartphone in London and Singapore, the Cambodian representative office of the China-based company announced that the sleek device would be sold in the Kingdom in July. While the Chinese telecom giant hopes to increase its market share of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thinnest-smartphone-is-set-for-debut-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As volAtility strikes AsiAn mArkets in AnticipAtion of the US FederAl Reserve winding down quAntitAtive eAsing &ndAsh; the prActice of injecting money into the economy &ndAsh; the NAtionAl BAnk of CAmbodiA sAys the Kingdom will remAin lArgely insulAted thAnks to An investment mArket still in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/confidence-At-centrAl-bAnk/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In the wake of last month’s election, production levels at Cambodian garment factories are still below the norm as lingering fears of political unrest keep workers at home and away from the capital. Shrugged off at the outset as a natural byproduct of the election that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/factory-production-sluggish/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In response to a growing number of strikes in the country’s highly profitable garment sector, the government trained 15 handpicked commune officials yesterday to mediate and resolve factory disputes. The training was designed to teach commune councillors to defuse and resolve conflict, Buth Ji, director of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/commune-officials-to-solve-factory-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on Thursday rebuked opposition CNRP president Sam Rainsy for allegedly breaking his promise to keep Monday’s CNRP rally at Freedom Park to 6,000 people and bar the participation of supporters from outside of the city. Well over 10,000 CNRP supporters attended <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/phnom-penh-governor-expresses-disapproval-of-cnrp-rally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Low electrification rates and over-dependence on fossil fuel imports have contributed to Cambodia’s abysmally low ranking in the new World Economic Forum’s Global Energy architecture Performance Index Report for 2014. Cambodia ranked 120 out of 124 nations, with a so-called Energy architecture Performance Index (EaPI) score <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-low-on-energy-ranking/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>