PhillipCapital, a Singapore-based integrated financial services provider and a majority stakeholder in three of Cambodia’s micro-finance institutions (MFIs), plans to consolidate the three into a commercial bank. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfis-as-one-commercial-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protests-in-city-province-keep-going/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 families in Rattanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding a solution after a Chinese company allegedly bulldozed their land and nearby family graves to create a rubber plantation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-say-firm-cleared-land-graves/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Pharmacists in Cambodia have a particular affinity for prescribing antibiotics, so much so that resistance to the drugs has become a public health problem worthy of a national response. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/antibiotic-resistance-sparks-new-health-policy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A womAn lured into mArriAge in ChinA And A group of men forced to work on A ThAi fishing boAt in IndonesiA Are the lAtest CAmbodiAns rescued After being trAfficked AbroAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAfficking-victims-eye-homelAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A womAn lured into mArriAge in ChinA And A group of men forced to work on A ThAi fishing boAt in IndonesiA Are the lAtest CAmbodiAns rescued After being trAfficked AbroAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAfficking-victims-eye-homelAnd-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A CAmbodiAn migrAnt worker wAs shot deAd by A ThAi foremAn At the construction site where he wAs working lAst week in ThAilAnd’s ChAchoengsAo province, A border officiAl sAid SundAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Authorities-probe-shooting-deAth-of-mAn-in-thAilAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Representatives from five communes in Koh Kong province engaged in a long-running land dispute with a private Chinese firm urged the government to issue them proper land titles during a press conference in the capital yesterday. Representative Chhai Beng Hout asked the government to instruct the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-take-case-to-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Unions and labour groups fear a solitary sick day could cost garment workers their entire month’s attendance bonuses &ndash; about 15 per cent of their base wage &ndash; under a new scheme meant to make life easier. The Kingdom’s 600,000 garment and footwear workers will receive <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questions-over-bonuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new tourist promenAde is to open in the heArt of Phnom Penh’s old French quArter. Scheduled for A FebruAry opening, the tourist wAlk zone will provide An outdoor leisure AreA on street 13 thAt will be closed to cArs And motorbikes on weekends from <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penhs-historic-quArter-to-go-to-pedestriAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government last month privatized more than a dozen department and commune offices in some prime locations around Phnom Penh, and will move many of them to Sen Sok district, according to documents and officials. a sub-decree dated June 27 and signed by Prime Minister Hun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dozens-of-city-offices-privatized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hang Serei Oudom told his 7-month pregnant wife that he was going out to meet a source. a journalist for Vorakchun Khmer Daily, he was investigating illegal logging for luxury woods in the jungles of Cambodia’s northeastern Ratanakkiri province. Three days later, on Sept. 11, he <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-shrinking-forests-breed-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives of nearly 200 ethnic Kreung families living in Ra­tanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on Tuesday filed a complaint with local rights group adhoc, accusing a Vietnamese rubber company of clearing their ancestral land, local officials and a rights worker said. Chhay Thy, provincial investigator for adhoc, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-firm-clears-kreung-land-sparking-latest-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local human rights group adhoc has called on the government to investigate the alleged detention and torture of a Cambodian woman at a Bangkok casino where she was employed. In a statement released Friday, adhoc said the government must push for a “full investigation” into the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-thai-casino-torture-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh’s chief prosecutor yesterday attributed an alleged rise in Cambodia’s crime rate to an increase in public demonstrations. Prosecutor general of Phnom Penh Municipal Court Ouk Savuth’s theory came out during a speech he made at a meeting of police and prosecutors held at City <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/crime-rise-blamed-on-protesters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A novel project Aimed At reducing AnemiA is being triAlled in CAmbodiA where mAny millions of people suffer from A lAck of iron in their diets. The Lucky Iron Fish project uses A piece of iron metAl, shAped in the form of A fish, As pArt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/progrAm-to-end-AnemiA-in-cAmbodiA-finding-success/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The army created a new platoon on Monday to guard an area near the areng Valley in Koh Kong province, where hundreds of ethnic minority residents have fiercely resisted plans by a Chinese company to build a hydropower dam that would flood their ancestral lands. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/army-creates-new-platoon-in-areng-valley/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The European Union has called on Cambodia to release 21 jailed activists and protesters and told the government during high level talks held here this week that a failure to reform the judiciary and electoral process could have severe consequences for the ruling party by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-concerned-but-no-threats-to-cut-cambodia-aid-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

News of an end to a year-long political deadlock has labour union leaders believing the opposition party can bring their interests to parliament, but a lack of follow-through could cost the Cambodia National Rescue Party vital support from one of its key interest groups. Different union <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-deal-unions-expect-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A secretAry of stAte At the Foreign AffAirs Ministry on TuesdAy defended the government’s widely criticized imprisonment of 11 Activists And An opposition officiAl during A closed-door meeting with A visiting U.S. diplomAt. DAniel Russel, An AssistAnt secretAry of stAte At the U.S. government’s BureAu of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAl-defends-imprisonment-of-Activists-to-visiting-us-envoy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>