The Government already issued a Decision to require the employers to increase the minimum wage for the factory workers to USD 100 per month, starting from February 2014, said a government official. Vong Savann, a senior official of the Labor Ministry added that the Decision was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-workers-to-receive-usd-100-per-month-from-february/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Considered the world’s most valuable fluid, fresh clean water is a commodity that can become a life-and-death issue. Lack of it can also contribute to a child’s absenteeism rate in Cambodia, says a newly released study report by Research Advisor Helen Risebro and Professor Paul Hunter href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-study-shows-school-attendance-rises-with-safe-water-drinking-child-hydration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A man and a teenage boy were killed by an anti-tank mine and a mortar shell in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday, according to police. In Battambang province, Chea Toum, 37, was seriously injured when the tractor he was walking behind set off a buried href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-killed-in-mine-mortar-shell-blasts-in-battambang-pailin/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district embroiled in a land dispute with a plantation owner are the latest evictees to take residence in Phnom Penh’s Samakki Raingsey pagoda. A spokesman for City Hall, which has made repeated efforts in recent months to prevent the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-seek-refuge-in-phnom-penh-pagoda-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 93,456 Cambodian high school students on Monday took the annual national high school graduation exams, which is a prerequisite for students to pursue their studies in a university level. “A total of 93,456 high school students are taking the exams at 154 centers with 3,779 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-high-school-students-start-exams-for-university-entrance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two suspects arrested during a deadly garment-worker demonstration in November appealed for bail at the Supreme Court yesterday. Vann Ny and Vann Norn have been detained since an intended march of striking SL Garment factory workers devolved into a riot on November 12, at which participants href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sl-protesters-appeal-for-bail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Union leaders planning a stay-at-home strike to demand a higher minimum wage for the country’s garment workers say they will press on with the strike after the Khmer New Year, despite the threat of arrest for anyone handing out leaflets promoting their plans. On Sunday, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-press-ahead-with-strike-plans-despite-arrest-threats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A journalist who filed a complaint with the Pursat Provincial Court alleging that a soldier threatened to kill him over an illegal logging report withdrew his complaint after the soldier was internally disciplined, court officials and military police said Monday. Sak Rom, a reporter with Kapit href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/reporter-drops-threat-complaint-court-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A villager representative in Ratanakkiri province was charged Thursday with unlawful interference in the discharge of public function after he led a group of neighbors to block a Chinese company’s bulldozer from clearing disputed land in Bakeo district on Sunday, a court official said. Morm Vanda, provincial deputy href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villager-charged-after-blocking-land-clearance-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian court on Tuesday afternoon released seven opposition party lawmakers-elect and one party activist on bail after the ruling and opposition parties reached a political agreement. “The eight politicians were released from Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison at 4:45 p.m. after questioning judge Keo Mony href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-court-frees-8-opposition-politicians-on-bail-after-political-deal-reached/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian unions have warned of possible strikes after a tripartite working group voted down their demand for a U.S. $40 increase in the monthly minimum wage for garment factory workers. Twenty-seven representatives of unions, factory owners and the government decided in a secret vote in Phnom href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-garment-unions-threaten-strike-after-wage-demand-is-voted-down/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese and local developer are in discussions with Phnom Penh’s City Hall to build a $3 billion, 500-metre-high twin tower project in the center of the city, making it the tallest building in the capital. The project will be a joint venture between Cambodian-owned Thai href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/twin-tower-skyscraper-proposed-for-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The international watchdog Frontline Defenders has called on Cambodian authorities to drop a defamation lawsuit against a prominent human rights worker. Ny Chakrya, head of legal assistance for the rights group Adhoc, is facing a suit filed by two court officials in Siem Reap province last href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-claims-suit-against-rights-worker-is-intimidation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of opponents to a controversial law to regulate NGOs met in a hotel in Phnom Penh Tuesday, as a campaign against the passage of the legislation continues. Zach Lampell, a legal advisor at the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law, told those gathered that he had href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/legal-expert-says-draft-law-could-inhibit-future-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 500 villagers involved in a land dispute with a private firm in Kratie province will protest outside the provincial court today to demand that a villager representative arrested Friday be released on bail. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/500-villagers-plan-protest-for-bail-hearing-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A senior scholar tasked with researching the borders said yesterday that Laos plans to file a lawsuit against Cambodia to the International Court of Justice over a border dispute in Stung Treng province. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/researcher-says-laos-planning-court-case-over-disputed-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As part of a deal signed between Cambodia and China, a group of officials from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has started a study on improving the modernisation of the local agricultural sector. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-experts-begin-study-on-agriculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A high-ranking Chinese official has vowed to boost ties with Cambodia to a new high, noting that the Kingdom has steady economic development during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/relations-with-china-to-continue-growing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Five Cambodian Muslims were killed outright and nine others injured in a collision between an oil tanker and a minibus on Friday morning in western Cambodia’s Pursat province, a local police chief said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oil-tanker-crashes-into-minibus-killing-5-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Roughly 30 villagers locked in a land dispute with Koh Kong Sugar protested at a construction site yesterday where they say the company was attempting to erect a concrete barrier on disputed land. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesters-put-sugar-firms-wall-on-hold/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...