Almost one in every 100 children in Cambodia is living in a residential care institution, a number far higher than previous estimates, according to a new report in the British Medical Journal. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-kids-in-care-than-thought-study/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A local Poipet union has called off a protest against what they characterised as overly expensive border passes used by day labourers entering Thailand after provincial officials introduced a new, cheaper permit. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-protest-after-thai-border-policy-changed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Commerce Ministry has threatened to take unspecified legal “measures” against anyone joining a protest against a sugarcane plantation who does not have a personal claim in the dispute.​   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-threatens-land-rights-protesters-with-legal-action/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Shareholders of Acleda Bank yesterday approved a plan to open an initial three branches in Burma, where a year of surprise political and economic reforms are raising expectations of a flood of foreign investment href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acleda-shareholders-ok-expansion-into-burma/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian delegation that arrived in Nauru on Tuesday for high-level meetings to progress a controversial refugee resettlement scheme has toured Australian-run detention centres on the island, according to a rights group. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-tour-nauru-fail-to-meet-refugees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Kampot town have filed a complaint against a businessman who has allegedly ordered the filling in of a pond dug during the French protectorate, which they rely on for their water supply. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-fight-to-save-pond-from-being-filled-in/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a rare show of discord inside the courts, a prosecutor at the Kandal Provincial Court on Tuesday lodged an appeal against verdicts handed down to two men involved in a kidnapping and murder. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prosecutor-disputes-verdict-in-murder-kidnapping-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Phnom Penh Municipal judge yesterday sentenced a former military officer to 10 years for drug trafficking and running an illicit lottery, while his niece received a one-year suspended sentence for her role. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rcaf-drug-suspect-gets-10-yrs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court’s decision and refused to release on bail Lay Huong, the alleged mastermind of a plot to kill a government minister’s wife. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/assasination-plot-under-investigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 26 local NGOs submitted a letter to King Norodom Sihamoni on Thursday calling on him to refuse to sign off on a controversial law regulating non-governmental groups in the country. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-ask-king-not-to-sign-ngo-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A soldier will face court Thursday after his pistol discharged during a scuffle with a group of police officers conducting traffic inspections along Russian Boulevard in Phnom Penh on Tuesday evening, police said Wednesday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/soldier-who-shot-at-police-in-phnom-penh-will-face-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Appeal Court has reduced the already shortened sentence of the 31-year-old son of a high-ranking official who killed three women in a car accident, ordering him to serve just two months in prison, a court official said Tuesday. Bun Rattanak, the son of municipal finance href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-months-prison-for-driver-who-killed-three/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun on Friday said the door was open for opposition party president Sam Rainsy to become a lawmaker during the government’s fifth mandate, even though his parliamentary immunity has not yet been restored and he was not a candidate in last month’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chheang-vun-says-rainsy-will-be-allowed-lawmaker-position/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh is one of the least-livable cities in the world, but has also seen relatively strong improvement in quality of life over the past five years, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual Global Livability Ranking released this month has found. The analysis of 140 cities, which href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom%e2%80%88penh-fares-poorly-in-livability-index/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the demonstration at Freedom Park, razor-wire barricades, blocked streets and clashes between citizens and police in the past two days, it appears that the camp-in and security presence in the city are merely a novelty for some tourists. On Monday afternoon, one couple, Australians John href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourists-in-phnom-penh-find-novelty-among-demonstrations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

German luxury car manufacturer Audi has expanded into Cambodia, joining the recent entry of higher-end automobile producers into a small but growing market. At a signing ceremony in Phnom Penh yesterday, Audi AG appointed Automotive Asia (Cambodia) Ltd as its official distributor in the country. The href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/audi-to-cruise-into-local-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s exports to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries reached $4.59 billion in the first seven months of this year, marking a significant 21% growth compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. The boost in exports href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-benefits-from-zero-tariffs-in-rcep-trade-deal-sees-surge-in-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Armed troops that were deployed last month to quell a land dispute protest outside the Kompong Speu Provincial Court were ordered to do so by a court prosecutor, a commander in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) said yesterday. On Feb. 9, a detachment of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commander-says-prosecutor-deployed-troops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

It has been just over a year since Vancouver-based Angkor Gold (ANK-V) went public with its stable of Cambodian exploration projects, and it is looking like the company’s early mover strategy in the developing Southeast Asian nation might be poised to pay off. To kick href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/angkor-gold-cashes-in-on-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government has slashed about 250,000 hectares of land from 79 economic land concessions (ELCs), forest concessions and wildlife protection concessions and will return it, replete with land titles, to “poor people”, January’s Royal Book says. The publication, issued on January 17 and obtained yesterday, says href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-government-takes-back-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...