The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is committed to promoting the connectivity and common development of all countries, and China will continue to advance Belt and Road cooperation with Cambodia, delivering more benefits to the two peoples, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-to-advance-bri-cooperation-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnam Electrical Equipment Corporation subsidiary has broken ground on a new factory to be built in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ). THIBIDI is building a $1.5 million factory in order to manufacture transformers and will employ approximately 150 people. The plant is href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-company-breaks-ground-on-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An NGO director and a youth leader from two little-known organizations were elected by 2,779 NGO and youth association members at a meeting on March 15 to represent civil society at a meeting with Asean leaders next week, according to a statement released by state-run href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-representatives-chosen-months-ago-statement-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

“I have my defence right to a court hearing as stated in an international covenant and Cambodian laws. My defence lawyer has tried for more than two-and-a-half years, since March 2016, to push for a hearing. The court dared not schedule a hearing until several href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-summons-issued-to-mother-nature-founder/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Kampot provincial governor Cheav Tay created an unauthorised investment scheme last week. But the plan has been dismisssed as a “baseless fantasy”.​ He set up a firm called Kampot Capital Development, which plans to raise $50 million from individual investors to develop a high-speed rail and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-rail-scheme-dismissed-as-fantasy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new study has revealed that the last breeding population of leopards in Cambodia is at immediate risk of extinction after declining a staggering 72 percent over a five-year period. The population represents the last remaining leopards in all of eastern Indochina – a region that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/few-leopards-in-cambodia-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 5,000 workers from across seven factories in Svay Rieng province protested yesterday, demanding a doubling of the current minimum wage, a provincial labor official said yesterday. The country’s minimum wage sits at $61, and is supplemented by a $5 health benefit and a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-of-workers-protest-for-increase-of-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A 50 per cent stunting rate among Cambodian children contributed to lower-skilled labour and slower economic development for the Kingdom, a senior government economist said yesterday at a workshop on food security. Stunted growth as a result of malnutrition led to ineffective learning among children and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malnutrition-affecting-cambodias-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A 5-year-old girl from Takeo province and a 2-year-old girl from Kampot province – who has already died – mark the 19th and 20th confirmed cases of avian influenza this year, a hospital spokesman said. The Ministry of Health is expected to issue a statement href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-more-h5n1-cases-confirmed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Twelve families locked in a land dispute in Kampot province blocked a construction company on Wednesday from dumping earth onto fields they maintain are theirs, villagers and a rights worker said Thursday. The villagers say the company began encroaching on their land in 2011, when they href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-claim-intimidation-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Battambang woman and teen were both struck and killed by lightning in two different districts on Monday, police said yesterday. A 28-year-old woman from Rokak Kiri district was taken to the commune hospital after she was killed by a lightning strike, according to Keo Vichet, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lightning-kills-two-in-bbang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Talks between officials in Preah Vihear province and local villagers whose land is in the way of a proposed domestic airport hit some turbulence on Tuesday, as homeowners bristled over the various forms of compensation being offered. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plan-for-airport-faces-resistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two opposing camps of unions representing a large share of the country’s roughly 700,000 garment workers handed in petitions this week to the U.S. Embassy and others asking for their support on a controversial draft union law during a visit to the country from a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposing-unions-compete-for-international-support-on-draft-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives for 77 families involved in a land dispute with a company that plans to build a dry port and industrial area in Kratie province petitioned the Interior Ministry and the National Assembly in Phnom Penh on Monday against a court order for them to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-file-petition-over-land-dispute-with-dry-port-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A local journalist told court and police officials in Siem Reap City this week that he received a phone call on Monday from a man who threatened to cut his throat in retaliation for an article he wrote about a group of alleged drug dealers, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/reporter-files-complaints-over-death-threat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-rejects-video-photo-evidence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Local conglomerate Sokimex Group plans to construct a 15-story hotel as well as a supermarket and high-end shops on a more than 15,000-square-meter plot of land behind Phnom Penh’s Wat Ounalom, the firm’s founder, Sok Kong, said Thursday. Mr. Kong said his company had applied for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sokimex-group-plans-15-story-hotel-near-royal-palace/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An investment company owned by the Singaporean government is a minority partner in a fully licensed commercial bank set to open later this month in cooperation with Canadia Bank PLC and the country’s postal service, a source familiar with the deal confirmed Tuesday. Fullerton Financial Holdings, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/singapore-invests-in-new-cambodian-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A villager involved in a long-running land dispute in Kompong Chhnang province with the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem has accused his commune police chief of discrimination after he was refused a character statement he needed to apply for a garment factory href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villager-in-land-row-denied-character-statement-by-police/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Describing a 5,000-hectare land dispute between Koh Kong villagers and a sugar company owned by CPP Senator Ly Yong Pgat as “a complicated case,” Koh Kong Provincial Court has decided to try it before a three-judge panel, a lawyer for the villagers said yesterday. The href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-senators-sugar-plantation-land-dispute-case-goes-to-trial/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...