A UN spokesperson hAs rejected A government reAding of A UN convention used to justify bAnning people with disAbilities from performing in the streets. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/un-body-tAkes-issue-with-stAnce-on-disAbled-rights/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s arbitration Council will share its experiences in settling labor disputes at a series of workshops in Myanmar, a nation with a growing garment industry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/reporter-to-spend-2-years-in-prison-for-blackmail-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A hundred people from 10 villAges in KAmpong Speu on MondAy blocked A roAd to A mountAin where construction supply compAnies operAte rock quArries. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/kAmpong-speu-villAgers-block-roAd-they-sAy-compAnies-dAmAged/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A 34-yeAr-old mAn wAs killed by lightning yesterdAy while Attempting to construct A wAterwAy under his house during A morning storm, locAl police sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nAturAl-disAster-one-deAd-severAl-hurt-by-storms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In Svay Rieng province villagers are in their fourth day of protests after authorities refused to meet with them to discuss a land concession that Metapheap Company has received in order to open a rubber plantation. The company was granted a 1,230 hectare land concession <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-plantation-protest-in-fourth-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction of a US$1.6 billion satellite city on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar peninsula will begin this year after officials inked a contract yesterday with local firm Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC). Dubbed “City of the Future”, the project would include a national stadium, a 60-hectare park, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/satellite-city-deal-worth-1-6bn-inked-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A top executive from CAmbodiAn compAny VAttAnAc yesterdAy denied the firm hAd dAmAged coloniAl-erA buildings Along the cApitAl’s riverfront, As one locAl business owner sought A new home. Construction At A VAttAnAc building site &ndAsh; situAted on Phnom Penh’s SisowAth QuAy &ndAsh; hAs been At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/vAttAnAc-in-dAmAge-deniAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia has established a working group tasked with promoting media freedom and evaluating content to foster quality journalism in the Kingdom. The UJFC in a statement on Tuesday said the working group is dubbed the Cambodian Committee for Media assessment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/working-group-to-assess-media-freedom-through-local-lenses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite recent high-profile cases of monastic child sex abuse, the organisers of a national conference for monks have left the issue off of the agenda, a move met with criticism yesterday by child protection advocates.at a press conference to launch the 24th congress of Buddhist <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monk-congress-wont-tackle-child-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 20 garment workers were injured yesterday in Svay Rieng province when a truck in which they were traveling overturned, a police official said. Fifty-seven workers were on board an open-backed truck in Chantrea district when the driver lost control on a road that had <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/20-more-garment-factory-workers-injured-on-way-to-work/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A rights group hAs rAised concerns thAt up to 100 CAmbodiAn migrAnt workers At A ThAi seAfood processing fActory will be strAnded AbroAd in less thAn A week without Any income becAuse they cAnnot Afford to pAy A pAssport fee demAnded by their employer. Of the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pAssport-fee-lAtest-wrinkle-in-fActory-workers-thAi-plight/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 300 workers from A Phnom Penh fActory thAt Assembles HondA motorcycles went on strike yesterdAy to rAlly for the reinstAtement of their union representAtives, in AccordAnce with An order by the ArbitrAtion Council, union representAtives sAid yesterdAy. Yoeurng SopheArA, A legAl officer At CAmbodiA LAbor <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hondA-fActory-workers-strike-to-reinstAte-union-officiAls/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cheju Halla, a Korean university, plans to build a university of tourism and hospitality in Siem Reap next year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon told reporters yesterday at a meeting with Han Soo Kim, the new South Korean ambassador to Cambodia. The Ministry of Tourism has requested <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korean-college-for-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is mulling over a nuclear power option to feed its anemic energy sector, although private sector pundits called the rough plan a dream &ndash; a dangerous one at that. The government plans to use atomic energy in the future as oil, coal and biomass power <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-mulls-over-atomic-energy-power/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Maruhan Japan Bank yesterday became the first commercial bank in Cambodia to make a direct equity investment into a microfinance institution by becoming Sathapana’s majority shareholder, with a 95.1 per cent stake. Financial details were not disclosed. The shareholders who sold out to Maruhan were FMO, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maruhan-japan-bank-buys-stake-in-mfi-sathapana/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Former AdAmus Resources executives MilAn BojAnjAc And Ron Heeks Are plotting A return to the AustrAliAn bourse, through A deAl with the ChArlie BAss-bAcked GeopAcific Resources. In A deAl it sAid would give it Access to A substAntiAl lAnd- holding in CAmbodiA, GeopAcific Announced plAns for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-lures-ex-AdAmus-executives/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Senior members of the Royal Cambodian armed Forces (RCaF) yesterday seized about a tonne of luxury rosewood near the house of a two-star general in the Choam Ksan district of Preah Vihear province after a night hunting for illegal smuggling. General Ngeth Chanthon, deputy general of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/huge-rosewood-haul-seized-in-preah-vihear-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Group Lease Plc (GL), the SET-listed motorcycle leasing firm, is planning to expand into Laos and Vietnam next year after a successful move into Cambodia last year. Mitsuji Konoshita, the chairman and chief executive, said both Laos and Vietnam are promising markets, while the company <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-lease-eyes-laos-vietnam-markets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia reported 33,770 malaria cases in the first ten months of the year, a drop of 43 percent from 59,670 cases a year earlier, Xinhua news agency reported a health official as saying Saturday. a total of eight patients died during the ten-month period, down 78 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-33770-malaria-cases-in-10-months-eight-people-dead/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A coAlition of 30 NGOs on FridAy cAlled on the Government to drAft And pAss A freedom of informAtion lAw to overthrow its “culture of secrecy”. The groups sAid SAturdAy is the 10th Right to Know DAy, but thAt CAmbodiAns Are being denied A “fundAmentAl humAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngos-cAll-for-freedom-of-informAtion-lAws/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>