Chinese firms have proposed a new hydroelectric power project on Koh Kong’s Tatay river. Chint Group and Sinomach-HE recently asked the Ministry of Mines and Energy for permission to begin a feasibility study on a project to build a 150-megawatt hydropower dam on the Tatay river, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firms-propose-150-mw-hydropower-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in a land dispute with companies producing sugar in Koh Kong province gathered again at the Land Ministry yesterday afternoon, demanding the ministry resolve their land disputes as soon as possible. More than 70 people from Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts are facing difficulties href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-protesters-return-to-land-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A task force made up of Preah Vihear provincial and district officials is set to begin a five-day investigation today into a slew of sawmills thought to be illegally milling and transporting timber from the protected Preah Roka forest after villagers and NGOs accused local href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-vihear-sets-up-timber-trafficking-probe-panel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Fears of theft are on the rise among market vendors in a tourist district in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, the gateway to the world-renowned Angkor archeological site. Vendors at a market in Puok district said they had lost a lot of money following a slew of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-theft-fears-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Four Cambodian women working at a garment factory in Dongguan, China returned home yesterday after a nine-month ordeal during which they found themselves sick, overworked and trapped without passports in a foreign country. Yin Sophy, 27, Sok Kunthea, 25, Non Sopheap, 21, and Yin Sophea, 20, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-factory-ordeal-over-for-khmer-quartet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipality issued a statement yesterday accusing the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions of violating their agreement when a garment workers’ protest on July 11 turned violent. Some 20 garment factory workers from the Tai Yang factory had marched to submit a petition to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/municipality-blames-trade-union-for-violent-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As the ASEAN summit turns Phnom Penh into a buzz of diplomatic activity, the chance to send a well-timed message has not been lost on the local community. Fifteen representatives of the evicted families of Borei Keila yesterday filed a petition asking US Secretary of State href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/borei-keila-evictees-turn-to-clinton/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A local Pursat province journalist filed a lawsuit yesterday against a group of wood traders who he alleges beat him up on Tuesday. According to [Krouch] Non [Santre commune police chief], Nhok Yern, a reporter for Prum Bayon newspaper, and another journalist confronted men trafficking wood by cart. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/journalist-claims-he-was-beaten/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Twelve representatives of 50 families in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district are seeking aid from a rights group after being summonsed to court last week over a land dispute with a Malaysian company. The villagers gathered in Adhoc’s provincial office in Srayong commune yesterday to draft and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/intervention-sought-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Amid the continued arrest of activists who have defied a ban on public gatherings, a group of unions and associations yesterday revealed plans for a large demonstration in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Sunday. About 10,000 people are expected to attend the rally, according to a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/large-protest-planned-for-sunday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Civil servants have again pushed the government to introduce a long-awaited insurance plan for government workers injured on the job. In a June 10 letter to Minister of Social Affairs Vong Sauth, the Cambodian Independent Civil Servants Association (CICA) calls for a National Social Security Fund href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-servants-call-for-comp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A public forum will be held next month to find a solution to the Borei Keila housing crisis, city officials said yesterday. During a meeting with about 50 representatives of the community, Nhem Chanthary, deputy director of City Hall’s poor community development office, said Governor Pa href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/borei-keila-solution-talks-set/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is managing here today the recovery of missing ancient heritage objects that might be in a cache of relics confiscated from a Thai general arrested for various offenses. About a thousand objects of different types were taken a month ago from the high officer in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-manages-the-recovery-of-its-heritage-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian health officials are investigating an alarmingly high rate of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in a remote village. At least 82 people have tested positive for HIV in Rokar, Battambang province, which has a population of 2,000 people. Officials said they suspected a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-investigates-villages-high-hiv-rate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new union has been founded pledging to offer members a post-retirement pension with a novel twist – it will be funded by sponsorship from private companies. The head of the new Workers Retirement Fund of Cambodia Union president, Sidney Sok Ke, claims to have spent href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unique-pension-plan-pushed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

NagaCorp, a gaming and entertainment hotel complex operator in Cambodia, has raised HK$1.21 billion ($156 million) from a top-up placement, after fixing the price at the bottom of the indicative range. The deal was launched at around 6pm yesterday in Hong Kong time, and the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagacorp-raises-156-million-from-top-up-placement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Social Affairs on Friday established four sub-committees tasked with finding a new minimum wage for the country’s 300,000-plus garment factory workers, Minister Ith Sam Heng said on Friday. “The sub-committees have a limited time of five weeks for research before they have to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-consider-new-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A call for the Cambodian government to lift its controversial ban on public assembly is among 34 such recommendations it has chosen to defer in the wake of last week’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights situation. The UN on Saturday released a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mixed-message-to-un/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia Prak Sokhonn had separate bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Gambia and Brazil to exchange views on promoting bilateral relations, in New York City, USA on Sept. 22, on the sidelines of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-discusses-cooperation-promotion-with-gambia-and-brazil/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Companies and organizations from six countries along the Mekong River have established a business alliance, with a view to build a platform for cross-border e-commerce. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-alliance-eyes-cross-border-e-commerce-along-mekong-river/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...