In what appears to be an ongoing reorganisation of City Hall, a long-time financial director will step into the shoes of an outgoing deputy administrative director today. Bun Serey, Phnom Penh’s ex-finance director, will officially replace Tev Kim Piseth as deputy director of administration, said Koeut <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-halls-shuffling-of-officials-continues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Taking part in daily demonstrations outside the shuttered factory where she once worked is beginning to weigh on Bou Narith and her co-workers. Government officials this morning will sit down with representatives of employees and a representative from USa Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory, which, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-workers-patience-wearing-thin/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A subsidiAry of the BAnk for Investment And Development of Viet NAm (BIDV) opened its seventh brAnch in MeAn Chey District, Phnom Penh, on SundAy. The new brAnch is Also expected to meet locAl demAnd And boost the development of trAde And investment ties between <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bidv-to-open-in-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As gArment union groups resume their strike todAy, thousAnds of workers plAn on returning to work, lArgely citing finAnciAl necessity rAther thAn ideologicAl disAgreement with the unions. The Ministry of LAbour on MondAy ordered union leAders to ceAse A nAtionwide strike thAt begAn nine dAys Ago, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-quietly-trickle-bAck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The number of foreign and local tourists who spent time in Cambodia’s coastal destinations increased in 2013, according to provincial officials in Preah Sihanouk, Kampot, Kep and Koh Kong provinces. Foreign visits swelled to 302,325, a 42 per cent rise compared with the same period <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-coastal-visits-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Royal Cambodian armed Forces (RCaF) on Friday voiced its support for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government as anti-government protests have intensified in recent weeks. “The RCaF vows to support the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Sen in the fifth term government,”the Ministry of Defense <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-army-voices-backing-for-govt-as-protests-escalate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of Police and Military Police cracked down on protesters, led by Mam Sonando, the director of Beehive Radio Station, at the Ministry of Information. a reporter of the Cambodia Herald, who is at the scene, reported that several protesters were injured in the crackdown. and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/update-mam-sonandos-protest-dispersed-several-protesters-injured/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Lawmakers-elect from the Cambodia National Rescue Party are scheduled today to visit families in Koh Kong province affected by a long-running land dispute with Union Development Group, just weeks after the company destroyed dozens of homes there. Rights groups say that Chinese-owned Union Development has burned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-to-gauge-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia needs to build qualified and competent human capital to prepare for competition when the aSEaN Economic Community becomes a reality at the end of 2015, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday. “The Cambodian government will focus its attention on strengthening education quality and technical vocational <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-needs-to-build-human-capital-for-asean-community-2015-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hydropower developers in southern Laos have fired back at the World Wildlife Fund after the conservation group issued two disparaging reports in as many weeks on the Don Sahong dam project. WWF released a brief on February 19 alleging that construction of the 260-megawatt damcould result <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dam-developers-hit-back/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The head of the Post and Telecommunications Ministry’s inspection department was arrested Friday and questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday for allegedly having stolen about $100,000 from the ministry over several years, according to Minister Prak Sokhon. He said Chem Sangva was reported <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/telecom-official-accused-of-stealing-100000/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Savings levels at Cambodia’s microfinance institutions (MFIs) have recovered well since the widespread withdrawal that followed last July’s disputed national election, with more than $90 million deposited in the first quarter of this year. The amount of deposits in MFI accounts fell from $378 million in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deposits-rally-after-election-outflows/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said that radio journalist Lay Samean, who was badly beaten by district security guards on May 2 while covering a planned opposition rally, may have provoked the violence by calling the guards “yuon’s dogs”, among other insults. The minister added, however, that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/reporter-witnesses-tell-different-stories/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National assembly spokesman Chheang Vun on Friday defended Cambodia’s decision to reject four human rights proposals and merely take note of another 38 during the adoption of its second universal periodic review report in Geneva on Thursday. In all, Cambodia accepted 163 of the 205 recommendations <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawmaker-defends-rejection-of-human-rights-proposals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng said Monday that Thai border officials may be letting Cambodian migrant workers back into Thailand with incomplete paperwork, opening them up to the same risks both countries have been trying to avoid since a mass exodus of Cambodian workers over <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-warns-of-poor-checks-at-thai-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

District security guards, often used to break up demonstrations and beat protesters, were mobilized Tuesday to help clean up the city as hundreds of Phnom Penh’s trash collectors continued their strike over pay and working conditions. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said 60 Cintri trucks returned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-brings-in-security-guards-to-collect-trash/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three rights monitors were called in for questioning by Mondulkiri provincial police after they filed an attempted murder lawsuit against a land concessionaire employee last week, claiming they were violently denied access to an area under investigation for forest crimes, adhoc said yesterday. adhoc provincial coordinator <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mondulkiri-police-question-adhoc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A drAft US lAw thAt would require the World BAnk to regulArly report to congress About the condition of fAmilies displAced or still living in the Boeung KAk lAke AreA wAs Approved WednesdAy by the House of RepresentAtives. The bill includes lAnguAge thAt specificAlly requires the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/us-house-pAsses-b-kAk-bill/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong would meet with his Laotian counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith next week to explore possibilities to further boost bilateral ties, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign affairs said Friday. The two top diplomats would co-chair the 12th meeting of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-laotian-fms-to-meet-next-week-on-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government collected USD 66. 4 million from taxation in January, up 14.5% from the same period last year, according to a statement released by the Taxation department. In 2014, tax revenue has been going up in all sectors of which financial service 27.6%, import-export <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governments-tax-collection-up-to-usd66-millions-in-january/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>