High demand for beef, particularly during the Islamic Qurban festival which ended yesterday, caused beef prices to almost double compared with the same period last year, according to Islamic leaders and officials. Him Khortieth, IKatan  Mahabbah Muslimin’s (IMaN) representative in Cambodia, said the association planned to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/beef-price-almost-doubles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government collected more than $1.4 billion in revenues during the first nine months of the year, a 27 percent increase over the same period last year, figures released Thursday by the Ministry of Economy and Finance show. according to the Table of Government Financial Operations <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-revenues-up-27-percent-in-first-nine-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The media release from ministry of land management, urbanization and construction on august 10 said: after getting information of irregularity on implementing the social economic land for former armed forces and poor families which published in media on June 14,2012. Ministry set up a committee to monitor the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-court-charge-four-officials-of-land-ministry-over-corruption/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A district governor And two fisheries officiAls Are Among 10 people who will be questioned At the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court next week over the destruction of flooded forest to mAke wAy for dry-seAson rice fields in KAmpong Thom province, An officiAl sAid yesterdAy. On July 27, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAls-to-be-questioned-over-destruction-of-flooded-forest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Villagers took an increasingly vocal stand on land issues during rare opportunities to speak with National assembly members this past year, according to the National Democratic Institute. During the most recent town hall-style Constituency Dialogues, started by NDI in 2004 to promote contact between assembly members <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mp-dialogues-focus-on-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Lying in a hospital bed at Phnom Penh’s Naga Clinic yesterday well-known tycoon Khaou Chuly said that he may appeal to the prime minister to intervene in an attempted murder conviction against his wife that was upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday. Mr. Chuly, 83, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tycoon-takes-to-hospital-as-wife-returns-to-prison/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Worldwide, office demand stemmed from the automotive, high-tech and energy industries. The latter is evident in Cambodia, where drilling off the coast near Sihanoukville has helped to increase office demand. Thus, companies such as Total and Chevron are large office occupiers, and new Japanese oil <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/interesting-times-for-phnom-penh-office-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Starting today, 22 Cambodian buses and a truck will be allowed to transport passengers and goods directly between Phnom Penh and Bangkok, an official said yesterday. “We will officially open the Poipet International Checkpoint [to buses and trucks] on the Thai border,” said Suon Vanhong, deputy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/direct-bangkok-phnom-penh-bus-route-officially-opens-commences/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a 10-page filing, the lawyer for independent radio station owner Mam Sonando yesterday urged the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to release his 71-year-old client on bail, arguing that he is no flight risk and the legal arguments for keeping him are flimsy. But while <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sonandos-lawyer-rejects-claims-for-detention/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in KAmpong Thom province hAve mAde good on their promise to exAmine evidence of illegAl logging uneArthed by community investigAtors in the greAter Prey LAng AreA, summoning seven representAtives yesterdAy to present their findings. The Prey LAng Community Network representAtives were summoned to SAndAn district <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/prey-lAng-pAtrol-hAnds-evidence-to-Authorities/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The value of garment and shoe exports to the European Union are expected to reach the same level as those sent to the U.S. by 2013, an official from the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) said yesterday. Garment, textile and shoe exports to the E.U. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-exports-to-eu-catching-up-with-us/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The U.K.-based coffee chain Costa Coffee will join the mix of few coffee shops in Phnom Penh when it opens its first branch in Chamcar Mon district next month, representative of the international branch said yesterday. Rami Sharaf, CEO of RMa Cambodia, which represents international brands <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/coffee-chain-costa-to-open-shop-next-month-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said more investment in agriculture was needed to ensure that Cambodia can process its crops and add value to agricultural produce being exported abroad. Speaking at the inauguration of a new cargo port in Kandal province, Mr. Hun Sen said there was an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-investment-needed-to-process-crops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local authorities and Ratanakkiri provincial forestry officials yesterday visited an area in O’Yadav district where community leaders say a Vietnamese company known as “Company 72” has razed an estimated 1,000 hectares of protected forest since 2011. “The villagers complained to the authorities many times, but <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forest-allegedly-cleared-by-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Senior government officials yesterday were promoting the development of the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in the Kingdom, particularly the concept of digital empowerment among young people. Deputy Prime Minister Sok an, who presided over the opening of ITU asia-Pacific Regional Development Forum, held in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-push-digital-empowerment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government of Brunei on Saturday signed a one-year contract to purchase 3,000 tons of jasmine or fragrant rice from Cambodia, the first such deal reached by the two asian nations. The deal was inked between Pg Haji Mohd Noordin B PLP Pg Haji Mohd Said, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/brunei-inks-deal-to-buy-cambodian-jasmine-rice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An infestAtion of lArge snAils is destroying rice fields in PreAh SihAnouk province’s Prey Nop district, rAising concerns Among fArmers thAt yields from this yeAr’s hArvest will be much lower thAn usuAl. Eng SAmol, Prey Nop district Agriculture director, sAid TuesdAy thAt the snAils hAd AlreAdy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hArvest-feArs-As-snAil-infestAtion-destroys-crops/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 140 NGOs have called on the Mekong River Commission to freeze all hydropower damn construction in the Lower Mekong River. “The degration of fish production in the river can’t be replaced and the blockage of sediment will affect the fisheries resources in the river’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/halt-building-of-dams-on-lower-mekong-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Malaysian companies have been urged to venture into Cambodia’s agriculture sector especially in paddy planting and opening up rubber estates. In making the call, Raja Saiful Ridzuan, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Malaysian Embassy here, said Malaysian firms, with its vast expertise in agriculture sector, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malaysian-firms-urged-to-venture-into-cambodias-agri-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to give its leader, Sam Rainsy, a hero’s welcome when he returns to the country on Friday after nearly four years in self-imposed exile. But unless action is taken quickly, Mr. Rainsy will be forced to deliver his first <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garbage-mounts-at-freedom-park-ahead-of-rainsys-return/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>