After heAping criticism on rights group LicAdho for Allegedly exAggerAting the seriousness of CAmbodiA’s lAnd rights crisis lAst month, the government hAs releAsed its own AnnuAl report on lAnd disputes. In A letter the following dAy, the Ministry of LAnd MAnAgement, UrbAn PlAnning And Construction <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-issues-own-dispute-dAtA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

China has greatly contributed to the development of the world economy, even though it is still a developing country, scholars in Cambodia said Sunday. “China helped other asian economies to recover from the asian financial crisis in 1997, assisted the Eurozone to recover from the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-hugely-contributes-to-world-economy-says-cambodian-scholars/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese companies in the Kingdom are looking at expanding local operations as business confidence for 2015 is expected to rise on account of higher projected sales and operating profits, according to a survey conducted by the Japanese External Trade Organization. The survey, which looked at Japanese <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-firms-look-to-expand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last Monday approved plans to build a new economic corridor linking China, along Vietnam’s northern border, to the Bavet International checkpoint in Cambodia, in order to facilitate increased flow of goods between the three countries. The corridor, which will take <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-to-link-china-bavet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A UN rights pAnel thAt grilled government delegAtes in GenevA lAst month yesterdAy hAnded down its concluding observAtions on how CAmbodiA hAs implemented the InternAtionAl CovenAnt on Civil And PoliticAl Rights, which it Acceded to more thAn two decAdes Ago. The only positive Aspects outlined by <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/un-concerns-plentiful-in-genevA-postmortem/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday warned the CNRP that the political deal he cut with the party last month could come undone if its 55 elected lawmakers do not turn up to this morning’s sitting of the National assembly, the first to be scheduled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-issues-warning-to-cnrp-as-activists-refused-bail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AustrAliA’s secret refugee deAl with CAmbodiA is About to be signed, Amid growing opposition to the trAnsfer Agreement. With A deAl imminent, the office of ImmigrAtion Minister Scott Morrison refused to confirm on MondAy he wAs set to trAvel to CAmbodiA this week, while the DepArtment <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-Asylum-deAl-to-go-AheAd-despite-intense-opposition/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Last month, Cambodia’s nascent yet rapidly expanding banking sector saw the new arrival of Phillip Bank through the acquisition of Hwang DBS Commercial Bank by Singapore’s Philip Capital in a $40 million deal. The number of banks in the country has more than doubled since 2005, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-banking-sector-booms-overbanking-looms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A report from the New York-bAsed Committee to Protect JournAlists hAs decried the killing of journAlists with no consequences, listing CAmbodiA As one of severAl countries where members of the press hAve been killed since 2004 “with complete impunity”. From 2004 to 2013, 370 journAlists <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/journo-killings-condemned/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A study releAsed by the UK-bAsed ChArities Aid FoundAtion puts CAmbodiA close to the bottom of the world in terms of the chArity of its citizens, despite SoutheAst AsiA being cited As the world’s strongest performing sub-region. According to the World Giving Index, which rAnks countries <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-scores-low-on-globAl-giving-index/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Rady Mom, Cambodian-american state representative in Massachusetts, U.S.a, was not allowed yesterday to meet with 17 activists who are currently being detained at Prey Sar prison. Rady Mom and his colleagues as well as Members of Parliament and Senators of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party went <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rady-mom-not-allowed-to-visit-detained-activists-at-prey-sar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The committee that runs Old Market in Phnom Penh told the owners of stalls that were gutted by a fire on Monday that they would receive no compensation and would have to rebuild their businesses themselves. Yun Chandara, director of the committee that oversees the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-compensation-for-vendors-at-old-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand and Cambodia are edging closer to rekindling negotiations over the long-contested, and presumably lucrative, Overlapping Claims area (OCa) in the Gulf of Thailand. State-owned media, agence Kampuchea Presse (aKP), yesterday reported that the Cambodian government had established a committee charged with negotiating the development of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-forms-oca-committee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday suggested eventually extending a controversial new provision banning dual nationals from sitting on the National Election Committee (NEC) to also apply to the National assembly and executive branch, but said there is no pressing reason to do so. Speaking at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-suggests-expanding-dual-citizen-ban-beyond-nec/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A high level IndiAn delegAtion from the depArtment of commerce And trAde, government of IndiA, is expected to visit VietnAm And CAmbodiA this month to discuss vArious issues pertAining to phArmA trAde And improve business ties with the two South EAst AsiAn countries. RAjeev Kher, secretAry, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/indiAn-delegAtion-to-visit-vietnAm-cAmbodiA-to-discuss-issues-pertAining-to-phArmA-trAde/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday convicted self-exiled dissident Sourn Serey Ratha of incitement, plotting and obstructing elections, while three alleged co-conspirators were also convicted of plotting and obstructing elections. The four were sentenced to between five and seven years in jail for the charges, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dissident-plotters-convicted-jailed-over-t-shirts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 50 Daun Penh district security guards and about as many riot police prevented 100 anti-eviction protesters from gathering at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Tuesday after the city deemed the gathering illegal. The protesters were from a number of eviction-hit communities, including the Boeng Kak <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/peaceful-protest-turned-away-from-freedom-park/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A journAlist from stAte news Agency Agence KAmpucheA-Presse (AKP) wAs Arrested on TuesdAy evening in PreAh ViheAr town After the owners of severAl locAl shops thAt mAke And sell wooden furniture And hAndicrAfts Accused him of extortion, provinciAl police officiAls sAid. KhAt Hun, the director of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-journo-Arrested-over-Alleged-extortion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The National Bank of Cambodia ( NBC), which is the regulator of the banking and finance industry, promulgated the Code of Banking Practices on Monday with an aim of further building confidence of the public in the industry, officials said. The sector had received a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-launches-code-of-banking-practices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Minor political parties have come out swinging at the ruling and opposition political parties for overhauling the election system on a bi-party basis. Two election-related laws that the National assembly is expected to pass later this week have been negotiated for months solely by the CPP <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/small-parties-left-out/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>