Deputy Prime Minister Sok An met with the top U.S. diplomat in Cambodia on Friday to discuss the formation of the country’s National Assembly following the disputed July 28 election. Both the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP claim to have won the ballot, and the opposition href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sok-an-us-ambassador-discuss-formation-of-national%e2%80%88assembly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 50 supporters of jailed anti-eviction activist Yorm Bopha marched through central Phnom Penh on Tuesday to demand her speedy retrial, acquittal and release, visiting the Supreme Court, the Royal Palace and the European Union and World Bank offices. Ms. Bopha has consistently professed href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-kak-women-march-for-activists-release/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of families continue to be affected by relentless flooding caused by heavy rains and the opening of dams in neighboring Thailand and Vietnam, causing a surge in the Mekong River in Cambodia that has inundated communities along its banks. The floods have claimed at least href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-affected-by-flooding-more-predicted-in-coming-days/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Popular online news website CEN (Cambodia Express News) reported Wednesday that European Union (E.U.) Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain told CPP Deputy Prime Minister Sok An that the E.U. wished to see the opposition CNRP take their seats in the National Assembly. Mr. Cautain’s comments were made during href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-ambassador-meets-sok-an-says-cnrp-should-take-seats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Bar Association of Cambodia has written to Justice Minister Ang Vong Vattana requesting that an official price be set for photocopies of court case files, claiming that court clerks are taking advantage of the current system by charging lawyers extortionate amounts. The letter, dated October href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bar-association-requests-set-price-for-copies-of-case-files/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In case the 29 officers Prime Minister Hun Sen promoted on January 30 to four-star general were not enough, six Interior Ministry police chiefs were also promoted to the same top rank late last month. A January 22 royal decree, obtained Wednesday, elevated the six lieutenant href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-hands-more-four-star-promotions-to-6-police-chiefs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Officials said two people were killed on Tuesday by separate lightning strikes in Pailin and Kompong Cham provinces as the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a warning about seasonal storms spreading across the country. Searing temperatures and the approach of wet season ignited the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-killed-73-houses-destroyed-by-lightning-in-northwest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Copies of grade 12 examination papers will only be provided to a single teacher for each subject this year in order to identify the source of leaks, said Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron during a speech on Saturday. Mr. Naron, speaking at the American University of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/to-stop-leaks-exam-papers-to-be-given-to-only-one-teacher/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-five unionists, garment workers and bystanders were found guilty by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday for their involvement in three separate garment protest-related cases, but were handed down suspended sentences. The 22 men who had not been bailed ahead of trial were ordered href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/25-found-guilty-for-roles-in-garment-protests-sentences-suspended/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Indigenous villagers in Mondolkiri province say relevant authorities that are supposed to crack down on forestry crimes instead collude with logging companies and powerful businessmen, allowing them cut down trees. That has put their forest tribal traditions and livelihoods, which are dependent on forests, in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indigenous-communities-say-authorities-collude-with-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Justice is moving ahead with plans to expand the Appeal Court system around the country as part of inter-ministerial talks that began on Monday on the subject of judicial reform. The talks, which are expected to wrap up today, focus on a long-awaited href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministries-discuss-new-appeal-courts-judicial-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Defense released a statement Wednesday condemning an opposition party spokesman for allegedly “looking down on” Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government and the armed forces. The statement, dated Tuesday, attacked CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann for comments made to the media on January 23, in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/defense-ministry-statement-claims-cnrp-belittles-troops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam and China lead the pack of foreign companies granted economic land concessions in Cambodia for agro-industrial development by a wide margin, new data released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries show. According to the ministry’s annual report, released last month, since 1993 the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kings-of-concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian garment manufacturers and the association that governs them are failing to meet the standards set by the U.N.’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as evidenced by lethal violence against workers during garment strikes in January, when five people were shot dead and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-report-says-garment-sector-fails-to-meet-un-standards/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Bunong ethnic community in Mondulkiri province’s Me Pai village, Pou Chrei commune, in Pech Chreada district alleged that an estimated 100ha of protected forest at the foot of the Phnom Preah mountain had been illegally logged with help from local authorities. Sreunh Sinuon, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bunong-complain-of-logging-at-phnom-preah-mountain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Exports of Cambodian milled rice rose sharply during the first four weeks of this year, and traders are optimistic about the demand in Asian markets, particularly China. Figures from the one-stop service office at the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) show the Kingdom exported href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-shipments-up165-per-cent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Before the big dinner with Hillary Clinton, Prime Minister Hun Sen and the leaders of Thailand and Myanmar on July 13 in Siem Reap, Tom Whitcraft of RMA Group, which owns the Ford dealership in Cambodia, sat down for an interview. Whitcraft said Ford has about href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ford-takes-20-per-cent-of-new-car-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Six Southeast Asian journalist organizations from five countries formed a regional partnership to combat increasing repression and deteriorating press freedom at a conference in Phnom Penh on Monday.  href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/southeast-asia-journalist-organizations-launch-regional-collaboration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thirteen employees at a Puma-supplying factory have lost their jobs after participating in a union election earlier this year. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/puma-supplier-employees-lose-their-jobs-again-in-alleged-union-busting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new report alleges that conservation NGO Wildlife Alliance forcibly evicted, arrested and mistreated members of the Indigenous Chong community who live in the Cardamom Mountain National Park in the name of a carbon offset scheme. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hrw-rights-of-indigenous-chong-residents-violated-in-southern-cardamom-carbon-offset-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...