With Sunday’s commune elections quickly approaching, the five main political parties are all predicting substantial gains over how they faired in the last election in 2007, though none deny that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) will continue to dominate the polls. and with the entrance <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/commune-vote-predictable-but-margins-less-so/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian rice millers will increase their capital to purchase unmilled rice this season as bankers agreed to provide more loans, insiders said on Monday. Baitong will increase its capital to purchase up to 140,000 tonnes of fragrant unmilled rice, compared to last year’s 70,000 tonnes said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/rice-millers-to-increase-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As much of the world struggles with post growth, CAmbodiA’s tourism And hospitAlity sector continued to expAnd And diversify, AttrActing more intrAregionAl Activity And especiAlly from mAjor emerging mArkets in AsiA, MICE segments, As well As trAditionAl leisure clientele. Like neighboring countries ThAilAnd, VietnAm, MAlAysiA And LAos, CAmbodiA hAs quickly emerged into A well sought-After tourist <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/cAmbodiA-reAching-new-heights/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Mr. Luu Meng, president of hotel association in Cambodia said this week that Cambodia needs to develop tourism skills to compete with other countries in the aSEaN region as the kingdom has more opportunity to attract foreign visitors. “Our skills of hospitality are limited in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-needs-to-develop-qualified-tourism-skills-private-sector-said/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The growth in international tourists visiting Cambodia is almost 27 per cent that of the numbers seen during the first six months of 2011, according to tourism officials who are predicting that the growth may be 25 per cent at the end of this year. Visitors <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/asian-tourist-numbers-up-profits-stagnant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The 44th economic ministers (AEM) meeting And relAted meetings will be held from 25 August-1 September, 2012 in Siem ReAp province. The ministers will focus on the economic community in 2015 And boost economic council to move forwArd  becAuse this community is going smoother thAn other two <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/cAmbodiA-hosts-44th-AseAn-economic-minister-meeting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

ASEAN leAders hAve proposed putting off the plAnned lAunch of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) until the end of 2015, insteAd of the beginning of thAt yeAr, so eAch member stAte will hAve more time to prepAre for the single mArket, According to CAmbodiAn Commerce <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/the-ArrivAl-of-the-AseAn-economic-community-will-likely-be-delAyed/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Officials from the government  U.N. and human rights groups on Friday put forward amendments to draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is designed to impose safeguards for Cambodians to travel to work as maids in Malaysia. While the original draft by the Malaysian government sets out the responsibility of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/experts-put-forward-changes-to-draft-agreement-protecting-maids/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia rose five places to rank 133rd out of 185 countries in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report released yesterday, with the bank attributing the rise for the most part to the successful launch of the country’s credit bureau. Compared to other countries in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-moves-up-in-world-bank-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Food production accounts for almost one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a study published last week by the agricultural research organisation CGIaR. Food systems, from growing crops and raising livestock to storage and transportation, contribute 19 to 29 per cent of global <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/farming-implicated-in-climate-change/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

THE AustrAliAn FederAl Police will reopen corruption inquiries into mAjor AustrAliAn compAnies OZ MinerAls And CochleAr, After seAring criticism thAt it wAs lAx in its investigAtions. OZ MinerAls will be tArgeted following discussions with the OECD About the AFP’s previous investigAtion of Alleged foreign <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/police-reopen-oz-cochleAr-bribery-cAses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The area of cassava under cultivation fell by 11.5 per cent across the country this season, while the price of cassava chips remained the same as last season’s price. Officials blamed an unstable price during the previous season (from april to april) for the drop. according <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cassava-production-dropped-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The De Castle Royal Condominium project, which has been on hold for some time, has announced that it will go back on the market after gaining $28 million in loans from Canadia Bank, which will allow for the completion of the 32-storey-building. The general manager of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/de-castle-royal-to%e2%80%8bbe%e2%80%8b-completed-by-2014/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand and Vietnam have called for strict controls to be placed on the international trade of rosewood in an attempt to prevent the luxury wood species from be­ing logged to extinction. Cambodia currently exports thousands of cubic meters of the wood to China each year, and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thailand-vietnam-seek-controls-on-rosewood-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged people to resolve their own land disputes to aid the progress of an ambitious land-titling project announced earlier this month. Speaking at an event in Kompong Cham province’s Kroch Chhmar district to mark National Fish Day, Mr. Hun Sen thanked <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ahead-of-titling-hun-sen-urges-swift-resolution-to-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Mekong River Commission has released a comprehensive risk analysis of the transport of dangerous goods and issued recommendations to prevent oil spills, industrial waste and other emerging threats from navigation. Developed by the MRC Navigation Programme in Phnom Penh, the risk analysis finds that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mekong-river-threatened-by-transport-of-dangerous-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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>