Cambodia’s finance sector should increase insurance accessibility to its smallest lenders to help protect against indebtedness at times of disaster, an industry expert said at a conference in Phnom Penh yesterday. Speaking at the Hotel Cambodiana to an audience of industry representatives on rural entrepreneurship, Jaime <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/micro-insurance-access-urged/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in CAmbodiA hAve imposed unusuAl trAvel restrictions in A southeAstern province AheAd of A plAnned opposition mAss protest AgAinst election results this weekend, residents And non-governmentAl groups sAid TuesdAy, criticizing the move As A violAtion of freedom of movement. Some of them suspect thAt the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/trAvel-restrictions-in-cAmbodiAn-province-AheAd-of-mAss-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two years out from the 2015 Millennium Development Goals’ target of universal access to education, Cambodia remains plagued by school infrastructure shortages, with a scarcity of classrooms and decrepit facilities that threaten students’ safety, NGOs and teachers say. at Slorkram Primary School in Battambang, teachers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/school-buildings-failing-test/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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(Reuters) &ndash; a deadlock over Cambodia’s disputed election hardened on Monday as the opposition rejected official results confirming a victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s long-ruling party and raised the prospect of further street protests. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said it would not accept <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-election-crisis-deepens-as-opposition-rejects-results/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Most mornings, garment worker Vicheka buys food from the street vendors outside her factory in Kampong Chhnang province. The beef and pork dishes, she says, have a tendency to give workers a stomach ache &ndash; a reputation forged long before Vicheka and her co-workers at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mind-the-wage-gap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Koh Kong villagers facing the loss of their land to a Chinese mega-tourism project held a news conference in Phnom Penh yesterday to appeal to the government for the right to remain on their property. Kith Ten, 54, from Kiri Sakor district’s Prek Khsach commune, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/villagers-ask-for-governments-help-in-koh-kong-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To hit back strongly yesterday at allegations published in a leading australian newspaper, The age, which linked him to an international drug smuggling and money laundering ring, demanding that the publisher print a retraction. Mr. To sent a letter to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sens-nephew-hits-back-at-allegations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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A controversiAl order instructing lAwyers to consult the CAm­bodiAn BAr AssociAtion before mAking public stAtements wAs triggered by comments mAde by An Attorney involved in the high-profile legAl bAttle involving mo­bile operAtor Mfone, A spokes­mAn confirmed on MondAy. Kuoy ThunnA&mdAsh;who is representing Chinese telecommunicAtions firm HuAwei <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/gAg-order-on-lAwyers-spArked-by-comments-in-mfone-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

THE Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), the recently established bourse with a single player, will increase the number of trade executions from twice to six times a day, a move that will take effect on March 11. a CSX officer and the managing director of a securities <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/csx-to-increase-trade-times/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hattha Kaksekar Limited, one of the country’s largest microfinance institutions (MFIs), is in talks to become a commercial bank by 2014, an official at the micro-lender said yesterday. The move, if successful, will be in line with the Central Bank’s policy to support MFIs in diversifying <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/micro-lender-to-roll-out-atm-service/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The dismissal of a worker allegedly fired by Xin Lan (Cambodia) garment factory in Kandal province’s ang Snuol district for frequently relieving himself on the factory’s perimeter fence has sparked a mass strike of about 1,000 fellow workers &ndash; almost all of the factory’s staff. Nov <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/worker-relieved-of-factory-job/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The UAE’s non-oil exports to CAmbodiA hAve risen by 639 percent from 2010 to 2011, with totAl EmirAti exports to the AsiAn country going up by 271 percent during which the UAE Achieved A surplus in trAde between the two countries of Around USD 2.3 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/over-600-growth-in-uAe-re-exports-to-cAmbodiA-in-2011/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>