A distinctive new wolf snAke species discovered in CAmbodiA hAs been nAmed in honour of Zoos VictoriA, recognising their support provided to FAunA &Amp; FlorA InternAtionAl’s (FFI) studies in the CArdAmom MountAins over the lAst few yeArs. The wolf snAke is the lAtest species to be <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-wolf-snAke-discovered-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Police and court officials on Wednesday searched the home of villager Oum Sophy, who has been outspoken opponent of the well-connected KDC company as it has tried to push her and dozens of her neighbors off their land in Kompong Chhnang province. The raid came after <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-raid-villagers-home-in-kdc-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Drug-resistant malaria is now widespread in Southeast asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control malaria, a new study warned Wednesday. an analysis of blood samples from 1,241 malaria patients in 10 countries across asia and africa found resistance to the world’s most effective anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/drug-resistant-malaria-widespread-in-southeast-asia-study/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Foreign AffAirs Ministry on FridAy defended the CAmbodiAn EmbAssy And consulAtes in ChinA, which hAve been Accused of ignoring femAle citizens in peril there, And sAid it hAs mAde efforts to cut off the flow off women being sold into brothels or forced mArriAges. In <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-sAys-it-is-mAking-efforts-to-stop-Abuse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Amid A dour Assessment of the current geopoliticAl lAndscApe, Prime Minister Hun Sen on MondAy wArned thAt only bAd things follow when long-ruling strongmen Are overthrown. In the leAd-up to lAst yeAr’s nAtionAl elections, which Mr. Hun Sen’s ruling CPP officiAlly won Amid reports of widespreAd <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/prime-minister-gives-grAduAtes-clAss-in-geopolitics-101/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Senior Cambodian officials on Tuesday vowed to further enhance cultural and people-to-people relations between Cambodia and China for the benefits of the two countries and peoples. “Cambodia supports all activities to broaden cultural ties with China,” Cambodian Minister of Culture and Fine arts Phoeurng Sackona said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-officials-pledge-to-further-promote-cultural-people-to-people-ties-with-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Municipal officials on Tuesday announced a new initiative to help rehabilitate Phnom Penh’s drug addicts by offering discreet treatment services at local health centers. The initiative will encourage commune-level officials to visit known drug addicts in their community and tell them about the treatment options available at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-community-based-drug-program-to-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) last week made its long awaited move from the 25th floor of Phnom Penh’s Canadia Tower to its new home in a $4-million French colonial-era building on Street 106. The CSX officially moved into the two-story building on September 8, according <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/csx-moves-from-canadia-tower-to-new-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and China’s Yunnan province signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here on Monday on media cooperation and exchanges. The deal was inked by Buth Bovuth, chief of the Cambodian Information Ministry’s General Department of Information and Broadcasting, and Wu Jingbo, deputy chief of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China’s Yunnan Provincial Committee, with the presence of Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith and Ge Guangzhi, deputy director of Department No. 6 of the Information Office of China’s State Council. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-chinas-yunnan-province-ink-deal-on-information-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday sang the praises of Cambodia’s first gold medallist in 44 years &ndash; suggesting Sorn Seavmey’s achievement was the “only thing Cambodia can brag about” &ndash; as the Kingdom’s Olympic Committee warned of bogus Facebook accounts in her name soliciting money. after <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-pm-brags-scammers-try-to-strike-gold/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the murder convictions of former Phnom Penh Municipal Police chief Heng Pov and three others in the case of the 2003 killing of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamoni. Defendants Pov, Ly Rasy, Hang Vutha and Prum Sophearith have been <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/heng-povs-conviction-affirmed-by-high-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition CNRP lawmaker Pol Ham on Monday said he will visit the site of a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong province on Monday with colleagues from his parliamentary commission before they quiz government officials about the controversial project later this month. If built, the 108-megawatt <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-lawmaker-to-visit-site-of-proposed-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police on Friday warned labour union leader Pav Sina that if he continues to lead protests &ndash; thereby violating the rules of a court order &ndash; he will be arrested. The Collective Union of Movement of Workers leader was called to the Choam Chao commune police <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/authorities-warn-union-leader/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has seized more than 50,000 hectares of economic land concessions from a number of powerful companies across the Kingdom, putting the areas under the control of the Ministry of Environment, according to sub-decrees signed last week. One decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/companies-stripped-of-elcs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian police said Wednesday they were scouring remote northeastern jungles for a group of Vietnamese Montagnards who crossed the border in an apparent attempt to seek asylum. Rights groups say 13 of the hill tribe people, including one woman, fled persecution in Vietnam late last month <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-police-scour-jungle-for-vietnamese-montagnards-refugees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a shake-up of Phnom Penh’s police force, the chief of the city’s anti-drug trafficking office was promoted to deputy municipal police chief in charge of intervention while the deputy police chief of Chbar ampov district was made the new Meanchey district police chief. “Mr. Born <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-promotions-in-shake-up-of-phnom-penh-police-force/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opposition CNRP plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in Phnom Penh on January 22, 2004. CNRP public affairs director <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-to-screen-banned-film-on-slain-union-leader-chea-vichea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP President Sam Rainsy on Friday told supporters that the opposition party was responsible for recent government efforts to lower gasoline and electricity costs and said he would work to keep alive the new “culture of dialogue” with the CPP, despite Prime Minister Hun Sen calling <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-takes-credit-for-falling-energy-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment workers in Myanmar protesting over pay and factory conditions threatened to continue strikes Tuesday unless their demands are met and authorities release two of their representatives detained earlier this month. as many as 200,000 people work in garment factories in Myanmar, according to the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/myanmar-garment-workers-threaten-further-strikes-if-demands-are-not-met/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nobel Peace laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai was barely of school age in 2001 when Kamal ahmad came up with the idea of establishing a tertiary institution for women in asia. The university hosts about 600 students from 15 countries, compared with 120 in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-asian-university-for-women-readies-students-for-leadership-roles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>