Plans for a universal health care system will be included in the 10-year strategy to strengthen Cambodia’s social welfare, according to a government official, as a new report reveals almost three-quarters of Cambodians lack any legal health coverage. The study, released this week by the International <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-preps-new-health-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Six police officers in Tbong Khmum province who opened fire during a raid on an illegal cockfight that left a man dead were suspended from duty Wednesday, according to a provincial police official. Chhay Oeun, 25, was shot dead on November 25 after being hit in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-suspended-over-mans-death-during-cockfight-raid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National audit authority (Naa), located on prime real estate on Phnom Penh’s Street 240, is in the midst of moving to a new location in Sen Sok district after   a property swap with a company owned by a military general, according to officials at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-audit-authority-moves-after-land-swap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday heard the case of a couple charged with defrauding the daughter of a high-ranking military official out of $2.5 million in a property deal. The plaintiff, Meas Sopheary, 35, the daughter of Royal Cambodian armed Forces Deputy Commander-in-Chief Meas <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-hears-fraud-case-brought-by-generals-daughter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On May 19, 2015, the European Union (EU) adopted a Joint Communication: The EU and aSEaN: a partnership with a strategic purpose. The communication calls for taking “trade relations with aSEaN to a different level and working towards an ambitious region-to-region free trade agreement (FTa) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/time-to-revisit-an-asean-eu-fta/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia remains on a watch list at the US State Department, for failing to do enough to combat human trafficking. In its annual Trafficking in Persons report, the State Department kept Cambodia a “tier 2” country. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-remains-on-us-watch-list-for-trafficking/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A son of cAsino firm NAgACorp’s billionAire senior CEO hAs been Accused by unionists of snAtching And throwing to the ground A phone belonging to A striking employee of the compAny’s NAgAWorld cAsino, with video Also showing the identified executive lobbing A trAffic cone At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nAgAcorp-chief-ceos-son-smAshes-cAsino-strikers-phone-union-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia and Japan signed and exchanged notes concerning a yen loan project and a grant aid project during Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko’s official visit to Cambodia from July5-6, 2024. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-grants-cambodia-approximately-60m-in-aid-and-loans/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Green Trade, a state-owned, milled-rice exporter, had not been updated on a government-to-government rice deal with the Philippines despite recent media reports that claimed a deal was near. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-word-on-philippines-rice-deal-exporter-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A boycott of the CApitol Bus CompAny orgAnised by former drivers And their supporters is picking up steAm online After A brutAl beAtdown took plAce At A protest lAst week. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anti-cApitol-boycott-drAwing-increAsed-support-After-AttAck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A womAn who worked As A mAid in MAlAysiA wAs repAtriAted to CAmbodiA lAte lAst week After yeArs of Abuse At the hAnds of her employers, including A forced mArriAge. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/womAn-bAck-home-After-forced-mArriAge-in-mAlAysiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Customs authorities seized nearly 1,800 smuggled Huawei smartphones during a raid on Monday on a private residence in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, a customs official said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/raid-reveals-1800-smuggled-smartphones/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s public health workers are underpaid and poorly trained, with a whopping 98 per cent relying on a second job to supplement their income, according to a recent report. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-health-workers-underpaid-study/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a Vietnamese  businesswoman, who stormed a forestry office to steal her seized timber, to two years imprisonment and a fine of $12,500. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/woman-jailed-for-brazen-timber-grab/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ratanakkiri province police seized 285 logs of first-grade timber in a raid at a cashew farm in a remote area of the province yesterday, although no loggers were arrested. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-of-luxury-timber-logs-seized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The environment minister has promised to investigate allegations that a tycoon-owned company is using a land concession to illegally log wood in a protected area in Preah Vihear province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oknha-accused-of-logging-in-protected-forest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 20 people representing 554 fAmilies locked in A 10-yeAr lAnd dispute yesterdAy submitted A petition Asking the government to end the lengthy conflict.   <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fAmilies-cAll-for-return-of-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to supporting Beijing’s One China policy during a meeting with a Chinese official, a stance one expert called “obsequious”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-endorses-one-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAn wAnted by police for shooting 33 times in the Air with A hAndgun After he wAs given A $3 speeding ticket turned himself into police TuesdAy morning in Phnom Penh. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAn-who-shot-33-times-over-3-fine-surrenders/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Police are probing a suspected arson attack on a Mercedes-Benz coupe in Sihanoukville, which caught fire shortly after its driver, a Turkish national, stepped out of the vehicle early Tuesday morning. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mercedes-fire-latest-incident-in-restive-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>