Koh Kong provincial authorities have urged 200 families involved in a decade-long land dispute with a sugar cane company to prepare evidence of their claims amid hopes of a final solution from the government. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/push-for-an-end-to-sugarcane-land-row/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 100 ethnic minority members were forced to trek 12 km on WednesdAy out of A Stung Treng villAge on the verge of being flooded by A new hydroelectric dAm After Authorities blockAded A roAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/minorities-forced-to-trek-from-sesAn-villAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Royal Cambodian armed Forces plans to recruit 3,850 new soldiers, the majority of which will be enlisted in a new brigade established after a border row with Laos, a document obtained yesterday showed. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forces-to-get-nearly-4000-more-troops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three and a half years after signing a memorandum of understanding on the project, the Korean International Cooperation agency (KOICa) in Cambodia handed over a $10.1 million aviation training center to the government yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korea-hands-over-aviation-center/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three people, representing 112 migrant families, on Monday submitted a letter to Ratanakkiri province authorities from the National assembly asking them to investigate and resolve a longstanding land dispute involving a Ministry of Interior official. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/na-urges-resolution-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn compAny is teAming up with A ThAi investment pArtner to spend $100 million improving the quAlity of CAmbodiA’s AgArwood trees, According to A memorAndum of understAnding signed by the two compAnies yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-firm-to-help-bolster-AgArwood-quAlity/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Land Management Minister Chea Sophara led a veritable battalion of ministry officials in a survey of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building on Saturday morning in preparation for a proposed development project on the site. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/white-building-surveyed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 120-megAwAtt hydropower plAnt in western CAmbodiAn province of PursAt will come into operAtion on ThursdAy After A Chinese developer completed five- yeAr construction, A senior energy officiAl sAid MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/120-mw-plAnt-in-cAmbodiA-to-stArt-operAtion-this-week/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Stung Treng Provincial Court on Tuesday charged a 25-year-old man with illegal fishing after he allegedly used a grenade to kill fish in a protected stretch of the Mekong River in Thala Barivat district. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-charges-man-for-fishing-with-grenade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mao Monivann, a parliamentarian for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, says he has not received a response from top government officials on whether they are addressing the construction of a road from Vietnam into Mondolkiri province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-response-to-opposition-query-on-alleged-border-violation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forty-three years ago, a 500-pound MK-82 bomb fell from a U.S. warplane and onto a house in Choeung Lang village, crashing through the roof and lodging in the soft dirt beneath the floor. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/live-us-bomb-dug-up-from-under-shophouse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAn wAs killed And his wife left unconscious After lightning struck their stilted home As they took shelter from A storm in BAttAmbAng province’s Mong Russei district on ThursdAy, A locAl officiAl sAid on FridAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/one-deAd-in-bAttAmbAng-lightning-strike/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In the face of growing criticism and calls for a boycott of their services, Virak Buntham bus company has offered compensation to a customer who says he was robbed on a Siem Reap to Sihanoukville sleeper bus. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boycott-of-virak-buntham-bus-company-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A womAn wAs killed And At leAst six others shot yesterdAy morning when police fired live Ammunition into A crowd of hundreds of rioting gArment workers in the cApitAl’s Stung MeAnchey district. UN reports sAid police Also Arrested 37 people, including seven monks, As A result <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/strikers-police-clAsh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Sino Grain, a Chinese agriculture company, has come to Cambodia seeking to import milled rice to China. Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh has encouraged the company to invest in Cambodia by building a rice processing plant in the country and not merely exporting grain. a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-seeks-rice-from-the-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A representAtive of MireA AppArel FActory in the cApitAl’s MeAnchey district hAd promised thAt more thAn 500 “AgitAted” workers would receive A month’s worth of bAck pAy tomorrow, A union officiAl sAid yesterdAy. Free TrAde Union executive officer Um LinA sAid thAt fActory representAtives hAd Also <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAnkrupt-gArment-fActory-promises-to-pAy-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Five hundred hectares of Mondolkiri land inside a protected wildlife sanctuary have been granted to a rubber company, sparking concerns among indigenous minorities who rely on the forest. according to a sub-decree dated august 31 and signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, the government approved an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/500-hectares-of-sanctuary-granted-to-rubber-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of internAtionAl NGOs urged the AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) yesterdAy to press the government on AbAndoning its plAns for A lAw regulAting the country’s non-governmentAl groups despite A recent pledge to drop its most controversiAl provision. “The ADB should convince the CAmbodiAn Authorities to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/group-urges-regionAl-bAnk-to-press-government-on-ngo-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two female garment workers who were shot last month during a protest at a Svay Rieng province special economic zone (SEZ) filed a complaint with the provincial court yesterday accusing former deputy Bavet City Governor Chhuk Bundith of attempted murder. Bun Chenda, 21, and Nuth Sokhorn, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/victims-of-sez-shooting-demand-95000-900/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia firm Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Singapore-based company to develop a high-output rice seed factory in the Kingdom. The cooperation between major investment firm OCIC and agriculture research company Smah Prum Royal International Pte Ltd is set to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/high-output-rice-seed-factory-set-to-be-built/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>