Phnom Penh Municipality has reached a deal with PPDEC, a previously little known company, to privatise the capital’s public lighting system, a city official said yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capital-taps-private-firm-to-manage-its-lighting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A baby was born at sea on Monday afternoon in Koh Kong province after a mother went in labor on a boat on her way to hospital. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-baby-makes-waves-on-way-to-hospital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The maker of a new tuk-tuk prototype retrofitted with a wheelchair ramp hopes to usher in a new era of wheelchair-friendly travel in Phnom Penh. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wheelchair-accessible-tuk-tuk-debuts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Four Cambodian garment workers were slightly injured on Tuesday after part of the floor in a garment factory collapsed into a pond built underneath, a local police chief confirmed. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-factory-floor-collapse-injures-4-in-cambodia-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Banteay Meanchey province on Saturday protested against a local military official’s plan to build a reservoir on their land, then sell the dirt at a profit. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-speak-up-as-reservoir-plan-digs-into-their-rice-fields/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A cabinet secretary for Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday refused to accept a petition from a Khmer Krom activist group because, he said, it was “not my job.” href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pms-cabinet-refuses-khmer-krom-petition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Laotian man was arrested in Stung Treng province on Tuesday after crossing into Cambodia with nearly a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine, a police official said Wednesday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laotian-meth-smuggler-arrested-in-stung-treng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Indigenous people in Mondolkiri province have joined together to form a new political party to give a voice to the country’s minority groups, a party official said Wednesday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-minorities-in-mondolkiri-band-together-in-new-political-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of Cambodians cross the border via illegal checkpoints into Thailand every year. Some end up working in slave-like conditions on illegal fishing trawlers. Others work in factories while getting paid under the table. It is often a last resort fraught with danger and uncertainty and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/task-of-obtaining-passport-is-adding-to-illegal-migration-problem/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday questioned two businessmen over allegations of fraud and using forged public documents, including claims they faked a signature from Prime Minister Hun Sen in a mining transaction, court and police officials said. Deputy prosecutor Var Sakada said Cambodian Al href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-questions-cambodian-chinese-businessmen-over-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Singaporean-owned garment factory whose workers have been on strike since early August is no longer producing clothes for American denim giant Levi Strauss, a brand representative and a factory worker said Monday. The workers of SL Garment Factory in Meanchey district—which still makes clothes for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/levi-strauss-pulls-out-from-embattled-sl-garment-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Friday publicly opened 12 official polling records from Siem Reap province, but seven of them had been either torn or improperly sealed, sparking fresh concerns from the opposition CNRP that they had been tampered with. The unsealed packages—known as “safety href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-concerns-as-nec-releases-more-unsealed-polling-records/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia should hold a referendum to decide whether the country calls a reelection or not after allegations of serious irregularities during July’s election that handed victory to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party, political analysts said. Kek Galabru, president of a renowned human rights group href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-should-hold-referendum-to-decide-on-reelection-political-analysts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall announced a new plan to improve living standards in the city’s poorest areas Tuesday on International Human Rights Day, while representatives for the urban poor continued to call on the municipality to issue longsought after land titles. Addressing a crowd of 600 at Olympic href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-announces-new-plan-to-raise-living-standards-of-poor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When an old building formerly owned by the state was demolished on the outskirts of Battambang City in February, for some, it was the last straw. The giant, freestanding colonial-era mansion with the round windows, the blue shutters and the cracking yellow paint had become one href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fight-to-save-bbang-heritage-finds-new-allies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A year after a massive military raid here that left a 14-year old girl dead and hundreds of families evicted, there remains little sign of the original land dispute that turned this rural village into a hotbed of agitation. But a new firm and a government-issued href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/troubled-village-embroiled-in-new-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

One year ago today, Hang Serei Odom, a journalist in Ratanakkiri province, received a fateful phone call. After telling his wife he was going to meet a military police officer, he bid her goodnight. He left his house in Banlung City at about 7 p.m. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-year-after-journalists-slaying-still-no-justice-in%e2%80%88sight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sao Sothy’s home is small and the furniture is sparse. There are no tables or chairs. In one room, there is a small bed, but her family of four sleeps on mats in the living room. Hanging on the otherwise bare walls is Ms. Sothy’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/low-salaries-stifle-education-reform-efforts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

“These are the best quality stones,” Lat Yun says with a grin. Nestled in his outstretched hand are three unassuming rocks. “I don’t know what they’re called, I just know they’re the best.” The gemstones of Ratanakkiri are a mineral called zircon, but in Cambodia, they href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gems-in-the-rough-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Stock market a good choice for long-term investors Stephen Hsu, a native of Taiwan, runs Phnom Penh Securities, one of a dozen underwriters licensed by the SECC to prepare companies for IPOs on the CSX and to engage as an intermediary with the public for trading href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exchanges-provide-windows-to-economies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...