Union leaders raised their concerns with a draft law aiming to regulate their activities&mdash;including a provision that they must report their finances every year&mdash;during their first meeting with CPP lawmakers on a new bipartisan committee formed to review the controversial bill before it goes to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-meet-with-lawmakers-raise-concerns-on-draft-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of Boeung Chhouk villAge residents being Asked to vAcAte to mAke room for A new roAd met yesterdAy with A senior Council of Ministers officiAl in A bid to resolve the long-running dispute. However, they wAlked AwAy with nothing but the possibility of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAnd-row-meet-yields-no-Answers-new-meeting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

MQ Technology Bhd, a Malaysian investment holding company, is looking to form a joint venture with a newly formed entity, Cambodian Resorts and Entertainment Co Ltd, to build a $30 million casino and theme park in Prey Veng province near the Vietnamese border, according to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/30b-casino-theme-park-project-mooted/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior Ministry of Defence officiAl yesterdAy clAimed thAt housing rights group SAhmAkum TeAng TnAut (STT) hAd received close to hAlf A million dollArs A yeAr from the United StAtes to foment “colour revolution” Among the lAnd dispute groups it worked with &ndAsh; A clAim <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngo-Accused-of-plotting-revolution/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Representatives of more than 400 families in Kratie’s Snuol district protested yesterday following the temporary detention of two fellow community members at a demonstration the day before, when locals blocked a road to demand the government find a solution to their land dispute with a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/second-land-protest-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A morAtorium on the movement of chickens, deAd or Alive, hAs been put into effect in A commune of Prey Veng’s BA Phnom district After A chicken sAmple tested positive for A1H5N1 bird flu, the provinciAl DepArtment of Agriculture, Forests And Fisheries sAid todAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bird-flu-detected-in-prey-veng/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Representatives from the E.U., CNRP and civil society organizations put newly delivered election ink to the test on Wednesday, a week after a spokesman for the country’s top election body warned that a sample batch of the ink could be washed off using a hair <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-observers-put-election-ink-to-test/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Preah Sihanouk provincial administration said a highway from Phnom Penh to Preah Sihanouk province will commence construction by next year. The decision was made after a study of the 190-kilometre highway was recently completed, setting in motion a $1.7 billion infrastructure project with a Chinese <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-highway-due-by-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two men were sentenced to three years in prison yesterday by Phnom Penh Municipal Court for impersonating a police officer by donning a National Police uniform, complete with a plastic pistol and fake number plate. “after stopping, checking and asking him, we knew he was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fake-outfits-real-time/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 50 migrAnt workers on WednesdAy protested outside A brAnch of A recruitment Agency in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district thAt they sAy duped them out of $260 they pAid for A guArAntee of employment in ThAilAnd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/neArly-200-migrAnt-workers-duped-out-of-260/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

On the southern outskirts of Cambodia’s capital, a ramshackle factory turns out tens of thousands of bricks each month. Pale rows of freshly fired bricks wait for buyers under the corrugated iron roof, while a 50-meter-long oven leaks a dull heat as it bakes a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-struggling-to-curb-child-labor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives from five communes in Koh Kong province are scheduled to hold a press conference in the capital today, appealing for government intervention in a land dispute with a Chinese development company that has spanned nearly four years. Lov Hov, a representative from Thmar Sar commune, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-capital-to-protest-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In parts of rural Cambodia, farmers’ primary source of income comes from harvesting rice &mdash; once a year. This is a poor outcome compared to other aSEaN countries which harvest twice or thrice a year. To help increase farmers’ income, Victor Combal-Weiss and Guillaume Virag founded <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-cambodia-project-alba-helps-farmers-increase-income-protect-against-seed-raiders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two weeks after Prime Minister Hun Sen returned from China with more than half a billion dollars in new loans and grants, Cambodia once again asked Beijing for money on Thursday. In a bilateral discussion held alongside this week’s series of meetings between asean energy ministers, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-asks-china-to-fund-power-cables/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The first time Leang Horng, a resident of Kandal province’s Saang district, made use of a micro-finance institution, a loan was the only service he needed. at that time, Horng had no idea about deposits or money transfers. But things have changed in the past few <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-mfis-high-tech-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two political activists were injured by district security guards outside the Daun Penh district office Monday morning after a protest to free 21 protesters beaten and imprisoned during a strike in January turned into an effort to reclaim a confiscated protest drum. The protesters, dressed in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/daun-penh-guards-seize-protest-drum-scuffle-with-activists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Negotiations held on Friday between garment factory owners, union leaders and government officials failed to set a new industry minimum wage for next year, but a final decision will be reached by October 10, according to Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng. The tripartite Labor advisory Council <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-says-wage-agreement-must-be-reached-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Toll Group has informed the Cambodian government that it will suspend all railway operations and lay off half of its Cambodian staff at the end of the month, according to a source familiar with the situation. The australian logistics firm, which in partnership with Royal Group <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/toll-trains-said-to-stop-march-31/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Copper exploration is concentrated in Preah Vihear province in the northern part of Cambodia. The most active explorer is australian-based Geopacific Resources, in collaboration with Cambodian tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group. Geopacific Resources is working with Cambodian-based Royal Group at Kou Sa, a 158 km2 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/copper/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 10 percent of children in the country aged between 5 and 17 work as laborers, with more than 5 percent engaged in “hazardous labor,” a situation that must be addressed by the government, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report released <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-says-more-than-10-percent-of-children-are-laborers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>