Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday rebuked opposition leader Sam Rainsy for telling a French newspaper that a high-profile dinner between their families last month was an example of how the premier has turned over a new leaf in a life of tyranny. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-rebukes-sam-rainsy-over-french-media-interview/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Law and order in Cambodia this year has been a strange mix of the brutal and the bizarre. From horrific murders to the police’s decision to deliver crystal meth to phony hostage-takers during a bank heist, crime has continually made headlines in a year when the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/years-crime-ranged-from-brutal-to-bizarre/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Officials are attempting to se­cure the release of two Cambo­dian men who were sentenced to three months in a Thai prison on Thursday after being summarily convicted of at­tacking government inspectors at a market in Sa Kaeo province the day before, ac­cording to the Ministry href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-cambodians-convicted-following-thailand-market-melee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thai financing firm Group Lease Plc posted a record-high 222.17 million baht ($6.3 million) net profit from its operations in the first quarter of the year, a 101.5 per cent increase from the same period a year earlier, driven by improvements in its Thai operations href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-lease-sees-spike-in-cambodian-income/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from Koh Kong province’s environment department have confirmed that the construction of a yellow vine processing plant has been halted after a directive from the Environment Ministry.​ Department chief Morn Phalla said that while the plant’s construction had ceased, factory equipment was on the site href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/yellow-vine-factory-closed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thirteen land protesters who were seized during a demonstration earlier this week were handed heavy prison sentences after a quick court hearing on Thursday, even as two more people were arrested and a monk was facing the threat of defrocking for participating in similar land href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/snap-court-verdict-sentences-13-lake-protesters-to-prison/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Indochine Mining Limited (ASX:IDC.AX – News) is pleased to announce a successful capital raising from existing institutional shareholders and a new major global fund Indochine Mining Limited (ASX:IDC.AX – News) is a gold-copper exploration and development company. In Cambodia, it has the largest mining property holding href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indochine-mining-limited-asxidc-successful-capital-raising/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A small number of workers from four union groups took part in a stay-at-home-strike yesterday, union leaders said, after mass industrial action was postponed the day before. Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun said members of his union from a “small amount” of factories had href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minority-of-unions-still-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-trafficking groups in Cambodia are urging donors to maintain support for their cause, following claims a well-known activist fabricated her life story, to raise funds. Somaly Mam resigned from the charity she co-founded, after a news investigation cast doubt on her story, including being sold into href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-ngo-concerns-over-funding-after-somaly-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities say they are investigating whether a Thai “Red Shirt” movement is indeed seeking to form a government in exile within its borders, following a military coup in Thailand last month. The coup ousted Yingluck Shinawatra as prime minister, and supporters of her and her href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/authorities-wary-of-red-shirt-government-in-exile-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the Ministry of Interior will meet tomorrow to review the results of an investigation into a crackdown that left four dead on Veng Sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh last month, a police spokesman said. After saying on Tuesday that a report on the investigation’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-to-examine-probe-results/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Japanese national is being accused by a Preah Sihanouk farmer of shooting him over a logging dispute in Kampong Seila district, the alleged victim and a rights monitor said yesterday. Kanha Phan, 32, is alleging that Peter Ly, 39, shot him in the waist after href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-results-in-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Eight land activists put in prison last month after a swift trial say they will hold a hunger strike if they are not released. The eight activists were part of a roundup in November for street protests against city officials and a development project at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/8-jailed-activists-threaten-hunger-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Tauranga business and a charity have so far raised enough to provide 43 people with freshwater for the rest of their life in Kratie, a rural state of Cambodia. Good Trust, a registered charity where 100 per cent of proceeds goes directly to water projects, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/coffee-helps-build-third-world-wells/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Border tensions between Vietnam and Cambodia are set to be investigated by a bilateral body, it was reported Saturday. The body was established in the wake of a skirmish involving a member of parliament, who was visiting the site of a border marker that is in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-vietnam-to-investigate-border-tensions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A real estate tycoon accused of launching a brutal attack on a well-known TV presenter at a Phnom Penh restaurant is reported to have fled Cambodia after leaked security camera footage of the incident began to circulate on the internet on Wednesday. A warrant has been href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tycoon-sought-in-brutal-attack/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A team of disabled security guards hired to protect the embattled SL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh is seeking the formalization of their employment and an end to what they claim is the factory’s exploitation of their impairments. In November—at the height of an occasionally violent, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unrest-among-disabled-security-guards-at-sl-garment-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Environment rights group Global Witness yesterday joined the call for an independent investigation into the April 26 murder of conservation activist Chut Wutty following the conviction of a security guard in the case. On Monday the Koh Rong Provincial Court sentenced Rann Boroth, a security guard href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/global-witness-adds-to-criticism-of-chut-wutty-murder-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 500 Cambodian-Americans gathered at a rally on Capitol Hill Wednesday, demanding a transparent investigation into Cambodia’s alleged election irregularities. The rally was addressed by three Republican congressmen who called on a change in Cambodia’s governance. Rep. Steve Chabot, a Republican who chairs the House Foreign href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-washington-hundreds-rally-for-election-investigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

SBI Royal Securities, a subsidiary of Japanese-based SBI Holdings, has concluded a basic agreement to form a business and capital alliance with one of Thailand’s leading securities firms, in a move that could attract more investment from Cambodia’s northern neighbour. The agreement with Thailand’s Finansia Syrus href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-thai-firms-form-business-alliance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...