Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc, claiming their village chief has threatened them with arrest over a petition accusing officials of illegally logging a community forest. Sven Vev, 40, said he and three other representatives of the ethnic Tumpoun href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/village-chief-threatens-over-logging-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two children were killed by the explosion of an unfired rifle shell in a rice field in Battambang province on Friday afternoon, a district police officer said. Captain Phong Sarin, district deputy police chief, said that Roeun Rith, 7, and Mann Marin, 7, “saw an unexploded href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exploding-bullet-kills-two-children/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s premier Hun Sen has urged Asean leaders to make a statement on Thailand’s ongoing political turmoil Sunday at a regional summit being hosted for the first time by Myanmar. Hun Sen proposed the statement at a morning meeting of Asean leaders. He is a close href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-urges-asean-to-issue-statement-on-thai-political-turmoil/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Event management firm, MyEvents International, is eyeing Cambodia as the next lucrative market after strengthening its foothold in India and the Middle East, group chief executive officer, Shahul Hameed Dawood said. “Cambodia is a growing market and we see a lots of potential there for an href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/myevents-international-plans-expansion-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Lao government said yesterday that it would have the controversial Don Sahong dam undergo a formal process of prior consultation – a decision that will probably delay the project further. “The government has already demonstrated that it is committed to developing the Don Sahong project href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-agrees-to-more-extensive-consultation-for-dam-on-border-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese and South Korean governments yesterday announced millions of dollars in aid to Cambodia for a scholarship program and a number of rural development projects. Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong and Japanese Ambassador Kumamaru Yuji signed for a $2.85 million grant yesterday to fund href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/south-korea-and-japan-provide-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a bid to highlight abuses in the workplace, an NGO today will officially launch a website and hotline, allowing people to post stories as citizen journalists. The Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) will hold a ceremony this morning promoting their new project, Voice of the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/citizen-led-media-gets-new-blog/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A newspaper editor and a suspected illegal logger have been arrested over the shooting of a senior forestry official in Mondolkiri province earlier this month, according to police. Pum Poeun, the 48-year-old editor-in-chief of Borei Angkor newspaper, was arrested in Phnom Penh on Sunday. Len Kamry, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/editor-logger-arrested-in-shooting-of-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnamese construction crew last month halted the extension of one of the country’s roads into a remote part of Mondolkiri province after complaints were lodged by Cambodian authorities, officials said on Thursday. “We are not 100 percent able to stop Vietnam building the road href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-suspends-road-construction-in-mondolkiri-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday signed to provide grant and loan agreements worth nearly 99 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for three development projects, the bank said in a press statement.​ The agreements cover a rural roads improvement project, a technical and vocational href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/adb-provides-nearly-99-mln-usd-to-cambodia-for-3-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha led a delegation from the CNRP over the weekend in a seminar organized by a pair of German think tanks that have been helping the party develop a coherent political platform. CNRP public affairs director Mu Sochua said href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-leaders-hammer-out-party-platform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Plans for a universal health care system will be included in the 10-year strategy to strengthen Cambodia’s social welfare, according to a government official, as a new report reveals almost three-quarters of Cambodians lack any legal health coverage. The study, released this week by the International href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-preps-new-health-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Six police officers in Tbong Khmum province who opened fire during a raid on an illegal cockfight that left a man dead were suspended from duty Wednesday, according to a provincial police official. Chhay Oeun, 25, was shot dead on November 25 after being hit in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-suspended-over-mans-death-during-cockfight-raid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Audit Authority (NAA), located on prime real estate on Phnom Penh’s Street 240, is in the midst of moving to a new location in Sen Sok district after   a property swap with a company owned by a military general, according to officials at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-audit-authority-moves-after-land-swap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday heard the case of a couple charged with defrauding the daughter of a high-ranking military official out of $2.5 million in a property deal. The plaintiff, Meas Sopheary, 35, the daughter of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Deputy Commander-in-Chief Meas href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-hears-fraud-case-brought-by-generals-daughter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On May 19, 2015, the European Union (EU) adopted a Joint Communication: The EU and ASEAN: a partnership with a strategic purpose. The communication calls for taking “trade relations with ASEAN to a different level and working towards an ambitious region-to-region free trade agreement (FTA) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/time-to-revisit-an-asean-eu-fta/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A son of casino firm NagaCorp’s billionaire senior CEO has been accused by unionists of snatching and throwing to the ground a phone belonging to a striking employee of the company’s NagaWorld casino, with video also showing the identified executive lobbing a traffic cone at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagacorp-chief-ceos-son-smashes-casino-strikers-phone-union-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Japan signed and exchanged notes concerning a yen loan project and a grant aid project during Japanese Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko’s official visit to Cambodia from July5-6, 2024. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-grants-cambodia-approximately-60m-in-aid-and-loans/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Green Trade, a state-owned, milled-rice exporter, had not been updated on a government-to-government rice deal with the Philippines despite recent media reports that claimed a deal was near. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-word-on-philippines-rice-deal-exporter-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A boycott of the Capitol Bus Company organised by former drivers and their supporters is picking up steam online after a brutal beatdown took place at a protest last week. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-capitol-boycott-drawing-increased-support-after-attack/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...