Kampong Chhnang provincial Governor Chhour Chandoeun yesterday dismissed rumours that the government is giving land concessions to Vietnamese people from a floating village on Tonle Sap lake. He said that the provincial authorities are in the process of resettling Cambodians and Vietnamese from the floating <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampong-chhnang-governor-denies-vietnamese-land-rumours/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction of a new airport that will serve Phnom Penh is on track and could be completed as early as 2023, the developer said. Pung Kheav Se, chairman of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), the company behind the project, said they are now building <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-of-new-phnom-penh-airport-on-schedule/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An innovAtive digitAl plAtform for the government is being developed to promote the sustAinAble production And consumption of chArcoAl. It’s the work of the United NAtions Development ProgrAmme (UNDP), which pArtnered with the Group for Environment, RenewAble Energies And SolidArity (Geres), the RegionAl Community Forestry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/digitAl-plAtform-for-sustAinAble-chArcoAl-production-in-the-works/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Global brands Levi’s and Gap had continued slashing orders at the Tai Yang and Camwell factories in Kandal province, costing the company that owns them about US$6 million, its manager claimed yesterday. Tai Yang Enterprises manager Wu Minghuor said the brands had reduced their orders from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/incitement-charge-for-chhun/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

To make sure Cambodia is ready for potential devastating floods, government officials have created an emergency preparedness plan that includes storing 16,000 tons of milled rice and putting 3,500 armed forces on reserve. [Nhim Vanda, first vice president in charge of the National Committee for Disaster Management <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/country-is-prepared-for-heavy-rains-disaster-committee-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As BurmA loosens its grip on the mediA, CAmbodiA hAs begun to rAnk high Among the countries repressing internet And telephone freedom in the nAme of nAtionAl security, sAfety And sociAl order. It is still not compArAble to ChinA or VietnAm, but CAmbodiA is moving <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-steps-up-internet-surveillAnce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday charged a man with clearing state-owned forestland after he was arrested on Monday along with 13 other villagers, according to provincial prosecutor Ben Sarath. Heoun Sokha was arrested in Kraya commune’s Santuk district after he was found by police clearing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/man-charged-with-clearing-state-forestland/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

India is financing the construction of a US$70 million transmission line to bring electricity from hydroelectric projects in Laos to Cambodia, according to Indian Chamber of Commerce President Debasish Pattnaik. Speaking yesterday after the official launch of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (ICC), Pattnaik <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/70-from-india-for-power/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Members of Bunong ethnic minority forest group in Kratie province who accused local police of barring their community patrols in search of illegal logging were told by a Forestry administration official yesterday that they had no authority to operate. Mr. [Peit] Kun Pedor [head of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indigenous-forest-protection-group-again-told-to-disband/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

BarCamp Phnom Penh, a technology conference at the University of Puthisastra, promises to attract industry professionals from aSEaN countries, the US, Germany and other countries around the world later this month, Be Chantra, lead organiser of the conference, says. Be Chantra says BarCamp Phnom Penh is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/innovation-and-inspiration-are-the-basis-of-barcamp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police investigating the murder of a journalist whose battered body was discovered in Ratanakkiri province on Tuesday have unearthed key clues to who may have carried out the killing, an official said yesterday. Hang Serei Odom, 42-who had written exposes on the involvement of powerful people in forest <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/slain-journalists-mobile-phone-yields-clues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of families in Banteay Meanchey province were evacuated from their homes yesterday due to severe flooding, with authorities warning that more than 1,000 additional families may have to be rescued if torrential rains continue as expected over the course of next week. The rains that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/floods-force-evacuations-in-northeast/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 400 families in Banteay Meanchey province have now been evacuated from their homes due to heavy flooding in towns and villages along the Thai border, provincial officials said yesterday. about 100 families were evacuated from Poipet City &ndash; the worst-hit area &ndash; yesterday alone, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-evacuated-but-floodwaters-abating/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Negotiations between the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) and unions over a landmark agreement aimed at reducing strike action will be held on October 3, representatives said yesterday. The original agreement on improving industrial relations in the garment sector was signed in October 2010 by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/negotiations-planned-to-improve-relations-in-garment-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia lacks the resources for implementing intellectual property rights, while relevant officers lack skills to monitor the import of counterfeit products, according to an official. Var Roth San, Head of the Secretariat of National Committee for Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR) and Director of  the Department of  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/awareness-training-on-fake-goods-for-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The director-general of Tele­com Cambodia, one of the country’s most highly regarded state-owned enterprises and a candidate for listing on the stock exchange, has left his post amid an investigation into corruption allegations, the minister of posts and telecommunications said on Thursday. Despite the staff’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/staff-protest-corruption-at-telecom-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An estimAted 600 people who sAy their livelihoods hAve been Affected by illegAl logging And deforestAtion Across the country Are scheduled to gAther in Koh Kong province on FridAy At the site where environmentAl Activist Chut Wutty wAs shot deAd on April 26. The group will <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/memoriAl-to-be-held-in-koh-kong-for-slAin-forestry-Activist/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Poipet City authorities have given dozens of families living along a section of railway slated for renovation 10 days to move or face forcible eviction. Poipet City Deputy Governor an Vanak said that the eviction notice was sent Monday to about 40 families, only eight of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-rail-project-heralded-by-eviction-notices-in-poipet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The homes of 137 families in Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district have been demolished since Tuesday, when more than 60 police, military forces and forestry officials began evicting families from land claimed by Touch Hiv, an agricultural company, local officials and villagers said yesterday. “We <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/homes-destroyed-one-arrested-amid-land-grab/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 150 businesses and associations from around the world gathered on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich yesterday for the launch of the country’s annual food and hospitality exhibition. Two events, the International Food, Drinks and Wine Show and the Cambodian International Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Industry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/businesses-look-for-opportunities-in-tourism-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>