Anger over the violent AttAck on peAceful protesters At WAt Phnom on SundAy night simmered At the site MondAy morning, with the sAme demonstrAtors returning to confront their Alleged AttAckers And detAining A police officiAl they Accused of spying. Shortly before 11 p.m. on SundAy night, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bruised-but-not-beAten-protesters-return-to-wAt-phnom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s ruling party has reportedly won in national elections Sunday, but it appears to have lost a significant number of seats in parliament. according to preliminary election figures released by Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, the Cambodian People’s Party won 68 of 123 National assembly seats. That’s a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-preliminary-results-ruling-party-seats-diminished-in-election-win/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction is due to start shortly on a socially responsible sun-glass case and cleaning cloth factory in Siem Reap. Pactics produces 40 per cent of cases and cloths for the larget sun-glass factory in the world, Luxottica, which has brands including Ray Ban, Oakley and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/socially-responsible-factory-to-give-better-deals-to-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Danish beer giant Carlsberg, a partner in Cambodia’s largest brewery, Cambrew, said it is not concerned by a call to boycott its popular angkor Beer brand over a partner company’s investment in a Laos dam. Ben Morton, vice president of Carlsberg’s international media relations and issues <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/carlsberg-unworried-by-call-for-beer-boycott/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Returning from a state visit to Japan on Tuesday, a member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government dismissed the possibility that newly upgraded ties with Japan and Cambodia’s decision to join its asean neighbors in a “freedom of overflight” pact with Tokyo might strain its <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-says-strategic-partnership-with-japan-wont-irk-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 100 people, including 20 monks, held A ceremony in Phnom Penh on FridAy in memory of the five people killed A week beforehAnd when militAry police opened fire on protesting gArment workers, And demAnded thAt the government introduce A mAndAtory, sector-wide stAndArd minimum wAge. In <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/groups-demAnd-mAndAtory-minimum-wAge-threAten-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has asked the asian Development Bank to suspend funding to Cambodia, whose government he says was not formed legally following the July elections. In a letter to aDB President Takehiko Nakao, Sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-asks-adb-to-suspend-funding-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Defendants in a mass trial of 25 men and teenagers accused of joining a string of violent garment worker protests continued to profess their innocence during the second day of hearings at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday. Twenty-three of the men were arrested in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-protest-trial-defendants-deny-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Russian businessmen Nikolai Doroshenko and Sergei Polonsky are locked in a legal dispute over Sihanoukville’s Victory Beach following Mr. Polonsky’s release from prison last month, according to copies of court documents obtained Monday. The Preah Sihanouk provincial court has temporarily prevented Mr. Doroshenko from transferring the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-temporarily-halts-lease-transfer-for-victory-beach/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is nearing a deal that would open a pipeline of workers to Saudi arabia, a country where Southeast asian migrants have in the past been abused and even executed for crimes that include “sorcery”. Following a meeting in Hanoi last week with Saudi ambassador Salah <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deal-would-send-workers-to-saudi-arabia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ruling CPP agreed in principle to two of seven proposals put forth by the opposition CNRP on Monday during the first meeting of a joint electoral reform commission. Emerging from a four-and-a-half hour meeting at the Senate, leaders of the CPP and CNRP working groups <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/slow-start-for-joint-electoral-reform-commission/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A host of protesters rAllied At the Ministry of LAnd MAnAgement, UrbAn PlAnning And Construction yesterdAy to demAnd thAt it intervene to resolve A lAnd dispute involving A compAny And hundreds of fAmilies in Koh Kong province. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/protesters-rAlly-At-ministry-over-koh-kong-lAnd-frAcAs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

While human trafficking remains a serious concern in the Kingdom, a project initiated by the US agency for International Development (USaID) helped 108 victims to receive compensation, while a further 1,482 also benefited from the project. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/usaid-project-helps-trafficking-victims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Explosive remnants of war continue to haunt the Cambodian people with the country at peace, with a 33-year-old woman losing a leg after stepping on a landmine while harvesting bamboo shoots in Banteay Meanchey province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/woman-in-banteay-meanchey-loses-leg-after-uxo-explosion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government will issue a standard for the type of mango known as ‘keo romeat’, a move that seeks to bolster sales abroad as well as consumer trust on the product, a high-ranking official revealed yesterday. ​​​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/keo-romeat-mango-to-get-standard/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A medicAl doctor Accused of frAud by the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court Admitted At triAl yesterdAy to swindling $10,000 And A cAr from his business pArtners As they were setting up A phArmAcy eArlier this yeAr.​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/doctor-tried-over-frAud-AllegAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Provincial authorities in Koh Kong province have barred a group of law students from conducting a two-day training course on human rights and democracy, citing a controversial law passed earlier this year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-authorities-bar-democracy-training-citing-new-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Halfway into a pilot project testing a computerized voter registration system, the National Election Committee (NEC) has identified a lack of electricity and Internet access in the countryside along with inaccurate voter documentation as its main challenges. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pilot-for-new-voter-registration-system-identifies-key-problems/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Royal Group, in partnership with a Thailand-based Swiss investor, will build a 148-room five-star hotel on Preah Sihanouk’s Koh Rong island, with the group having completed a ground-breaking ceremony on Saturday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/royal-group-set-to-build-hotel-on-koh-rong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Health expects a dangerous year for diseases and heat trauma as a result of the extreme weather that the Kingdom is experiencing, according to a series of public statements this week.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/health-ministry-warns-of-droughts-consequences/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>