Management of an English-owned garment factory yesterday refused a request by union officials to meet to negotiate a possible end of a strike that started on Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dewhirst-management-intimidated-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The owner of an independent radio station engulfed in a bitter dispute with a number of his employees blamed the conflict on a prominent union leader on Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mam-sonando-blames-union-for-protests-at-beehive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A United NAtions development Agency will open A new office in Phnom Penh following A meeting yesterdAy with Minister of Foreign AffAirs Hor NAmhong, An officiAl hAs sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/un-Agency-plAns-office-in-cApitAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thousands of Boeung Kak lake residents who have been fighting a protracted battle with Phnom Penh and a development company have seen their fortunes reversed and have been granted a small plot of land on which to resettle. Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a subdecree <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lake-residents-granted-bloc-of-development-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two-and-a-half weeks after excavators belonging to a CPP senator’s real estate firm demolished the homes of eight families fighting eviction from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake community, those families and the government officials charged with evicting them have taken their battle to court. a pair of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-kak-families-sue-and-sued-by-government-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials at the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX) may increase the number of daily stock trading sessions from two to seven, giving traders more flexibility to buy and sell, an official at the bourse said yesterday. Currently, trading on the CSX occurs in just two sessions, starting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bourse-may-have-7-trading-sessions-daily/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Srey ambel district, Koh Kong province &ndash; a roadblock by locals in a long-running land dispute with CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat petered out after several hours in the dying rain on Saturday without the protesters winning any concessions from either the senator’s firm or <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesters-end-roadblock-empty-handed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Working out of the back of her home in Russei Keo district, Sothearith Neou and a half dozen of her friends and family roast, caramelize and add herbs to gourmet peanuts from 7 a.m. until late at night&mdash;trying to fill a seemingly endless number of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gourmet-peanut-producer-brings-local-foods-into-the-spotlight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 2,00 female workers from a factory in Phnom Penh that makes clothes for the U.S. brand Gap protested yesterday for a third straight day demanding that the firm sack a manager at the factory for allegedly abusing workers. Lining Russian Boulevard near the Ocean <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-workers-rally-for-third-day-to-sack-factory-manager/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mining outfit in BAttAmbAng province will begin copper And silver extrAction within two yeArs, the compAny’s chief executive sAid yesterdAy. Wild Bull Resources, An AustrAliAn firm pArtnering with locAl miner Angkor Thumopich Resources (ATR), would join A smAll group of compAnies clAiming A quick turnAround <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mining-firm-expects-quick-silver-exploits/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

When London-based real estate investor Sanjay Dhir heard about Cambodia from his Indian partner Manoj Varma, he took a trip here in October 2010 and stopped by the roadside to meet the operators of a portable rice mill. He knew then that Cambodia was ready for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/20-million-rice-mill-for-oddong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Motorbikes, vegetables, iPhones, artwork, or even land on which to build a house &ndash; a quick browse through website 7Makara.com gives the impression of a Cambodian eBay or amazon. The difference, however, is that you can’t complete the transaction from the convenience of your bedroom. In <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/moving-towards-e-commerce/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A cAmerAmAn from the stAte-run Television KAmpucheA (TVK) wAs AssAulted At Freedom PArk on TuesdAy As he tried to film CNRP leAders At A rAlly to mArk InternAtionAl HumAn Rights DAy, the victim And InformAtion Minister Khieu KAnhArith sAid. Seng ChAn, 34, sAid he wAs slApped <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tvk-cAmerAmAn-AttAcked-At-cnrp-humAn-rights-rAlly/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

While New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is working overtime to restore its damaged brand in the wake of a contaminated baby milk scare that triggered a global recall, local distributors whose products included the suspect ingredient are defending their own reputations. Local supplier Dumex Cambodia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/damage-control-for-dumex/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After the mAnAgement of An embAttled gArment fActory this week refused to follow A government order to reinstAte 19 dismissed union leAders And Activists, unionists And observers Are At A divergence of opinion over how the stAte should respond. “It’s fAirly unprecedented,” DAve Welsh, country director <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/no-consensus-on-next-move-in-sl-drAmA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Economy and Finance on Monday announced the release of standardised bidding forms for public contracts, a measure it said would increase transparency and accountability, though the opposition and Transparency International Cambodia offered more cautious assessments yesterday. according to a state media announcement, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/standard-forms-aim-for-public-bid-transparency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About A dozen Tuol Kok district security guArds in Phnom Penh on TuesdAy blocked three fAmilies involved in A long-running lAnd dispute from building A fence Around the disputed property in Boeng KAk I commune, An officiAl sAid. Deputy district governor SAing SopheAk Vichet sAid the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fAmilies-blocked-from-fencing-disputed-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A triAl for two teens chArged with intentionAl violence from A Stung MeAnchey riot in November wAs unfAir to the defendAnts, A stAtement releAsed yesterdAy by HumAn Rights WAtch (HRW) sAys. CAlling the triAl “deeply flAwed”, HRW sAid the judge in the cAse showed open hostility <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rights-group-slAms-sl-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by australian newspaper The age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/drug-connection-denied/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CIMB Bank plc, which aims to be among the top 10 banks in Cambodia over the next five years, is targeting more than US$100mil (RM317mil ) in deposits and US$90mil (RM285mil) in total loan size by year-end. Its deputy general manager and head of commercial banking <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cimb-aiming-to-be-top-10-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>