An NGO director And A youth leAder from two little-known orgAnizAtions were elected by 2,779 NGO And youth AssociAtion members At A meeting on MArch 15 to represent civil society At A meeting with AseAn leAders next week, According to A stAtement releAsed by stAte-run <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngo-representAtives-chosen-months-Ago-stAtement-clAims/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

“I have my defence right to a court hearing as stated in an international covenant and Cambodian laws. My defence lawyer has tried for more than two-and-a-half years, since March 2016, to push for a hearing. The court dared not schedule a hearing until several <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-summons-issued-to-mother-nature-founder/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampot provincial governor Cheav Tay created an unauthorised investment scheme last week. But the plan has been dismisssed as a “baseless fantasy”.​ He set up a firm called Kampot Capital Development, which plans to raise $50 million from individual investors to develop a high-speed rail and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-rail-scheme-dismissed-as-fantasy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new study hAs reveAled thAt the lAst breeding populAtion of leopArds in CAmbodiA is At immediAte risk of extinction After declining A stAggering 72 percent over A five-yeAr period. The populAtion represents the lAst remAining leopArds in All of eAstern IndochinA &ndAsh; A region thAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/few-leopArds-in-cAmbodiA-report/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 5,000 workers from across seven factories in Svay Rieng province protested yesterday, demanding a doubling of the current minimum wage, a provincial labor official said yesterday. The country’s minimum wage sits at $61, and is supplemented by a $5 health benefit and a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-of-workers-protest-for-increase-of-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 50 per cent stunting rAte Among CAmbodiAn children contributed to lower-skilled lAbour And slower economic development for the Kingdom, A senior government economist sAid yesterdAy At A workshop on food security. Stunted growth As A result of mAlnutrition led to ineffective leArning Among children And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAlnutrition-Affecting-cAmbodiAs-development/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A 5-yeAr-old girl from TAkeo province And A 2-yeAr-old girl from KAmpot province &ndAsh; who hAs AlreAdy died &ndAsh; mArk the 19th And 20th confirmed cAses of AviAn influenzA this yeAr, A hospitAl spokesmAn sAid. The Ministry of HeAlth is expected to issue A stAtement <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/two-more-h5n1-cAses-confirmed/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Twelve families locked in a land dispute in Kampot province blocked a construction company on Wednesday from dumping earth onto fields they maintain are theirs, villagers and a rights worker said Thursday. The villagers say the company began encroaching on their land in 2011, when they <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-claim-intimidation-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A BAttAmbAng womAn And teen were both struck And killed by lightning in two different districts on MondAy, police sAid yesterdAy. A 28-yeAr-old womAn from RokAk Kiri district wAs tAken to the commune hospitAl After she wAs killed by A lightning strike, According to Keo Vichet, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lightning-kills-two-in-bbAng/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Talks between officials in Preah Vihear province and local villagers whose land is in the way of a proposed domestic airport hit some turbulence on Tuesday, as homeowners bristled over the various forms of compensation being offered. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plan-for-airport-faces-resistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two opposing camps of unions representing a large share of the country’s roughly 700,000 garment workers handed in petitions this week to the U.S. Embassy and others asking for their support on a controversial draft union law during a visit to the country from a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposing-unions-compete-for-international-support-on-draft-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives for 77 families involved in a land dispute with a company that plans to build a dry port and industrial area in Kratie province petitioned the Interior Ministry and the National assembly in Phnom Penh on Monday against a court order for them to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-file-petition-over-land-dispute-with-dry-port-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A locAl journAlist told court And police officiAls in Siem ReAp City this week thAt he received A phone cAll on MondAy from A mAn who threAtened to cut his throAt in retAliAtion for An Article he wrote About A group of Alleged drug deAlers, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/reporter-files-complAints-over-deAth-threAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-rejects-video-photo-evidence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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ប្រភព: ប្រកាស​រួម​លេខ​ ១៤៥១​ សហ​វ​ ប្រក​ស្តី​ពី​ការ​ផ្តល់​សេវា​សាធារណៈ​ និង​ការ​ពិន័យ​អន្តរការណ៍​ជា​ប្រាក់​ដោយ​ក្រសួង​រ៉ែ​ និង​ថាមពល <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/?post_type=tablepress_table&p=184732 ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ប្រភព: ក្រប​ខណ្ឌ​ជំនួយ​អភិវឌ្ឍន៍​របស់​អង្គការសហប្រជាជាតិ​ (UNDAF) ២០១៩– ២០២៣។ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/?post_type=tAblepress_tAble&p=177386 ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Local conglomerate Sokimex Group plans to construct a 15-story hotel as well as a supermarket and high-end shops on a more than 15,000-square-meter plot of land behind Phnom Penh’s Wat Ounalom, the firm’s founder, Sok Kong, said Thursday. Mr. Kong said his company had applied for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sokimex-group-plans-15-story-hotel-near-royal-palace/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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