A CAmbodiAn lAbour union this week sent A letter to the JApAnese EmbAssy, Asking for help deAling with reported violence AgAinst workers At A JApAnese-owned gArment fActory in KAmpong Speu province. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/union-Asks-jApAnese-to-exAmine-AssAults/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Tycoon Sok Rathorn, who was in the midst of a one-year prison sentence on fraud charges, was provisionally released from detention yesterday after a deal was struck in a separate case. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-year-sentence-cut-short-for-tycoon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 300 pro-democrAcy And rights orgAnizAtions And their supporters delivered A petition to the NAtionAl Assembly on TuesdAy, cAlling for lAwmAkers to reject A drAft lAw to regulAte NGOs. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hundreds-of-opponents-of-ngo-bill-deliver-petition-to-lAwmAkers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two Chinese tourists were arrested in Phnom Penh on Saturday for using a drone to film the Royal Palace, but were released with a warning Sunday, according to a senior police official. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-tourists-arrested-for-flying-drone-near-royal-palace/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Transportation Ministry this week inked a $644,000 deal with a Chinese firm for a master plan to lay out Cambodia’s needs for new roads over the next several years. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-to-prepare-master-plan-for-cambodias-new-roads/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 families in Preah Vihear province have accepted a resolution from provincial authorities after about eight years of protests over a land dispute with authorities and a CPP lawmaker. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-vihear-families-agree-to-end-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Technological innovation is playing a critical role in the development of the country’s economy by making business operate faster, a senior official at the Ministry of Commerce told a seminar last week. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-moves-to-attract-it-firms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A populAr Siem ReAp silk producer And tourist AttrAction wAs this week counting the cost of A fire thAt destroyed A stockroom And required crews from four fire engines to control. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/blAze-strikes-sr-silk-fArm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

For the past 11 months, Seng Nhel lived on a kibbutz in Israel, studying horticulture and working 45 hours a week on a farm growing fruits and vegetables for agro-industry giant Mehadrin. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/on-israeli-farms-cambodians-study-and-sweat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A prominent humAn rights AdvocAte sAys CAmbodiA continues to operAte in A repressive environment, with A government thAt fAils to respect locAl And internAtionAl stAndArds And lAws. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAs-rights-defenders-under-All-kinds-of-threAts-AdvocAte-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After closing down its tiny Phnom Penh embAssy in 2009, CAnAdA hAs opened A new diplomAtic office inside the British EmbAssy stAffed by A single CAnAdiAn officiAl, According to A stAtement releAsed FridAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAnAdA-to-open-diplomAtic-office-in-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An Environment Ministry rAnger, A MilitAry Police officer And An employee of A conservAtion orgAnisAtion hAve been killed in A shootout with other CAmbodiAn Authorities neAr Mondulkiri’s border with VietnAm. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/breAking-three-killed-while-on-forestry-pAtrol-in-mondulkiri/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A flooded section of A mAin street in Phnom Penh’s DAngkor district hAs been temporArily closed becAuse of flooding, According to A stAtement by Phnom Penh City HAll on WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/flooded-street-closed-in-cApitAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Kampot Pier Project &ndash; a $10 million effort to attract tourists by building a passenger pier &ndash; could harm communities due to insufficient consultation, a new NGO report and community representatives claim. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-warns-on-pier-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An oknhA Accused of overseeing A mAssive illegAl logging scheme in Mondulkiri hAs yet to AppeAr for A court summons issued more thAn A month Ago, According to the investigAting judge. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/timber-oknhA-misses-heAring/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

It’s supposedly not a budding new political party, but Kem Ley’s “Khmer for Khmer” network has all the trappings and rhetoric of a group building a base for an electoral run. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-political-network-heads-to-the-provinces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Human rights group adhoc has demanded the release of a couple and their 9-month-old child jailed amid a land dispute in Preah Vihear, calling their arrest a “grave human rights abuse”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jailed-familys-release-demanded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A trAveling sAlesmAn lost his leg to A lAndmine on MondAy After going hunting outside of A villAge with which he wAs unfAmiliAr in BAnteAy MeAnchey province’s ThmA Puok district, police sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAlesmAn-mAimed-by-mine-in-b-meAnchey/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In a sprawling villa down a quiet dirt road in Phnom Penh’s Chbar ampov district, four refugees have reached what not so long ago would have seemed like a inconceivable end destination. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nauru-refugees-settle-into-new-neighborhood/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than a month after he was brutally attacked on suspicion of being a sorcerer, a Ratanakkiri province cucumber farmer says he has been left disabled and in search of crucial medical funds. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sorcerer-left-disabled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>