About 50 residents evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng KAk neighborhood in 2008 And 2009 to mAke wAy for A senAtor’s reAl estAte project once AgAin protested in front of City HAll MondAy to demAnd better compensAtion. They Are Among some 3,000 fAmilies who were forced <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/former-boeng-kAk-Activists-protest-At-city-hAll/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Four Cambodian nationals who had been incarcerated in Thailand for logging and illegally crossing the border were released on Monday after completing their prison terms, officials said yesterday. Touch Ra, deputy director of the Chaom-Sa Ngaom international border checkpoint in Oddar Meanchey province, said two of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-releases-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Residents in the vicinity of Kab Ko market in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district found themselves fumbling in the dark yet again yesterday on the second consecutive day of hours-long power outages. according to locals, electricity to the street failed around noon on Wednesday and was restored <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/residents-left-in-dark-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Union leader ath Thorn has been granted an appeal Court appearance on July 1, in which he will argue against conditions that required him to pay $25,000 bail over an ongoing court case. The Coalition of Cambodian apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CaWDU) president is due to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-boss-to-appeal-25k-bail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Makers of food- and beverage-related products are for the first time facing mandatory health regulations, with the unveiling of 10 national standards by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. The announcement comes after the National Standard Council, a government-run committee, finally approved the standards in May <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ten-commandments-govt-lays-out-food-standards/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than a year after it was established, the National Commercial arbitration Centre (NCaC), Cambodia’s first third-party dispute resolution body, is finally ready to take on its first case. During its first annual assembly in Phnom Penh on Friday, the NCaC confirmed that it had finalised <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arbitrator-ready-to-hear-cases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 250 villAgers protested AgAinst development firm PhAnimex on ThursdAy As their commune chief fAced questioning in KAndAl provinciAl court over An ongoing lAnd dispute. For the fourth consecutive dAy, villAgers from PonheA Leu commune rAllied in front of the court, Accusing PhAnimex of grAbbing 63 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/protests-continue-for-4th-dAy-over-lAnd-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

International labour organisations Industrial Global Union, UNI Global Union and ITUC are seeking international support for a day of action in support of garment workers arrested during recent strikes in Cambodia. The groups are calling on people to demonstrate outside Cambodian embassies and deliver protest letters <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-unions-plan-day-of-action-for-arrested-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 300 workers from CINTRI, a garbage collection company, protested on Monday to ask for better pay and working condition. The workers demanded the minimum wage shall be increased to $150 per month. They also asked for other benefits such as bonuses for health care, rent, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garbage-workers-protest-for-better-pay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forty villagers on Tuesday were forcibly removed from outside the Pursat provincial office, where they have been camping for the past five days to protest what they say was the burning down of their homes by district officials, villagers and a rights group said. “This morning, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-protesting-eviction-forcibly-removed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

British Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy Lord Puttnam will visit Cambodia from March 4 to 7 to strengthen bilateral trade and investment relations, according to a press statement from the British Embassy here on Monday. During his visit, Lord Puttnam will call on Prime Minister Hun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/british-pms-trade-envoy-to-visit-cambodia-to-boost-trade-investment-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The director of the Lumphat district forestry department in Ratanakkiri province was charged and put in pre-trial detention on Monday for allegedly logging on protected land around Ou’Sinlair waterfall, police and court officials revealed yesterday. Deputy Police Chief Klol Thoeun said that Meung Bunthin was picked <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/district-forestry-boss-charged-over-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two major conservation groups yesterday said that the proposed Stung Cheay areng dam in Koh Kong province should be scrapped, while protesters who have blocked developer Sinohydro Group from entering the site for several days headed to Phnom Penh to voice their concerns and discontent. Conservation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eco-groups-slam-areng-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia earned $2.5 billion from the tourism sector last year, a senior government official said Monday. Last year’s income from tourism accounted for around 16 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product and provided jobs directly to about 400,000 people, Sok an said. The Cambodian government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-earns-2-5-billion-from-tourism-in-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF) will scrap customs fees for rice exporters from May 1 in an effort to reduce production costs and boost Cambodia’s competitiveness in the sector, according to a letter obtained by the Post. “[The ministry] has agreed to eliminate charges <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-customs-fees-dropped/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the cabinet is not obliged by any law to seek suggestions from the civil society. The premier made comments at a graduation ceremony of asia European University in response to non-government organizations which condemned the approval on april <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-cambodia-has-no-law-to-require-the-government-to-send-draft-law-to-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSa) will invest $1.3 million in a water treatment plant in Kep province to supply clean water to more than 1,000 households there, the company’s head said last week. Speaking at the announcement of PPWSa’s 2013 results in Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/clean-water-in-pipeline-for-kep/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and the United States had amounted to 845 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of 2014. The number saw a 11-percent rise from 758 million U.S. dollars over the same period last year, figures release by the U.S. Department <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-u-s-trade-up-11-pct-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Independent union leader ath Thorn said Sunday he had collected enough money from supporters to pay most of his $25,000 bail to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, and would deliver it to the court Monday. The court has charged Mr. Thorn, president of the Coalition of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-ready-to-pay-bulk-of-bail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have never been higher, but association of Southeast asian Nations member countries are still failing to curb emissions created by heavy deforestation, according to a new report. Forest land in aSEaN countries declined by more than 6 per cent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deforestation-plagues-asean/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>