The Mekong River Commission held its second stakeholder meeting on Laos’s controversial proposed Pak Beng dam on Friday, giving involved parties The opportunity to hear responses to concerns raised at The first meeting in February. ...

Tripartite discussions on the 2022 minimum wage for workers in the garment, textile and footwear sectors were set to begin on September 14. According to industry observers, the employers are planning to offer $183.40, as opposed to $214.20 requested by trade unions. ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in an effort to support The government, has approved a $40 million policy-based loan to expand access to credit among micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) and implement reforms to boost financial stability and upgrade financial sector infrastructure amid The ...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Green Prey Lang project provided support to The Non-Timber Forest Products-Exchange Programme Cambodia to enable The NGO to provide certificates and fInancial awards to three community based-enterprises In Stung Treng, Kratie and Preah Vihear provInces. ...

Road deaths need to be cut by 2000 a year or they will exceed regional targets, a new traffic-safety NGO says. ASEAN has called on member countries to reduce road deaths by half over the next five years, and the Myanmar Organisation for Road Safety, which ...

The government has decided to extend The stamp duty tax exemption deadline for property worth less than $70,000 from January to December 2021. The official announcement, released this week, is intended to boost The economy by encouraging more property transactions.  in its announcement, The government ...

Pursat provincial authorities on Wednesday raided a sawmill operating without a licence and confiscated 21 logs totalling 13 cubic metres at Kset Borei village in Phnom Kravanh district’s Santre commune, while the owner escaped. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday appointed Tep Nytha to anoTher term as secretary general, in a selection process that civil society and opposition party members have criticized as fraudulent and closed from public scrutiny. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen urged Cambodians to fully develop inland fish production so they would not have to depend solely on fish caught in the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers for their main diet. ...

Statistics released by the National Social Security Fund yesterday showed that it increased its reach in 2016, adding more than 900 new private firms encompassing some 59,000 workers, and increasing its workplace accident payouts. ...

The Siem Reap Provincial Court on Friday charged a Swiss national with having sex with three underage boys in Siem Reap City earlier this year, according to police and anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE). ...

More than one million baby fish and 100,000 young shrimps were freed into a reservoir in northeast Cambodia’s Kampong Cham province on Wednesday to mark the 13th National Fish Day, Prime Minister Hun Sen said. ...

King Norodom Sihamoni has endorsed the Food Safety Law and its edicts are now in effect. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “Disaster and emergency response funding”. This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of Disaster and emergency response funding in Cambodia.=>Please click here to go to “Disaster and emergency response funding”.   ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “Poverty policy and regulation”. This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of Poverty policy and regulation in Cambodia.=>Please click here to go to “Poverty policy and regulation”.    ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and Canada have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on political consultation and cooperation between Laos’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.More ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday asked all taxi drivers and transportation companies to not increase prices during the Khmer New Year and said public buses in Phnom Penh would be free for citizens during that time. ...

Australian Ambassador Angela Corcoran and Cambodian Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn reaffirmed their two countries’ commitment to a controversial and unpopular refugee resettlement deal they struck in 2014, a spokesman for the minister said on Thursday. ...

A former garment worker announced plans on Thursday to launch a political party focused on alleviating the problems faced by Cambodia’s youth, targeting what he says is a lacuna in current policy.   ...