The ruling CPP recieved nearly twice as much television and radio airtime last year than any other political party, and access to the broadcast media continues to be constrained by bias toward Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party, an election-monitoring group said in its annual report. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/broadcast-bias-means-cpp-dominates-airtime/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 300 Kandal province villagers have filed a complaint with Sa’ang district officials over sand dredging along the Bassac river after riverbanks in their village collapsed, district governor Khim Chankiri said yesterday. Mr. Chankiri said, however, that the sand dredging operation along the Bassac <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/riverbank-collapse-prompts-dredging-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 200 factory workers and taxi drivers protested in Phnom Penh yesterday morning to demand that the government take action to curb the rising costs of food and fuel, and threatened larger demonstrations if it failed to actaccording to figures released by the National Institute <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rising-consumer-prices-draw-hunderds-to-protest-for-action/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The wet season had come and gone with almost no rain. Despite the best efforts of the farmers from Tralach commune, in Takeo province’s Traing district, widespread crop failures two years ago brought the community to the economic, and dietary, brinkThis week, farmers in Kratie <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/climate-change-considered-as-flooding-hits-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ha Noi&ndash;The Vietnamese Government would do its best to work with the Cambodian Government to raise bilateral ties to a more effective and fruitful level, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Ha Noi yesterday. Dung told the Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-dung-urges-expanded-co-operation-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 1.3 million InternAtionAl visitors Arrived in CAmbodiA in semester one in 2011 with An increAse of 13.4 percent if compAring to the sAme period lAst yeAr, Tourism Minister Announced At A seminAr this week. “It is expected thAt About 2.8 million tourists will pour <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/1-3-million-visitors-Arrive-in-fisrt-semester-for-2011/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

“Singapore will boost Singaporean companies to seek opportunities to invest in Cambodia, especially in the agro-industry,” H.E. Hor Namhong, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation, announced on Wednesday morning after bilateral talks with his Singaporean counterpart Excellency Mr. K. Shanmugam, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-urges-singapore-to-invest-rice-mills-and-agro-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

They thought the days of scenic sunsets ruined by the noise and pollution of dredgers on the Tatai River were over, but villagers and business owners in the popular tourism destination now say they were duped in a promise from ruling party Senator Ly Yong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sand-dredging-deja-vu/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 400 indigenous LAo villAgers prAyed And sAcrificed chickens to A powerful locAl spirit yesterdAy in Stung Treng province, seeking supernAturAl help in hAlting the plAnned construction of the Lower SesAn 2 DAm, villAgers And commune officiAls sAid yesterdAy. The hydropower projects, funded by VietnAm <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/prAyer-ceremony-held-in-Attempt-to-stop-dAm-construction/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

AcAdemics At the RoyAl University of LAw And Economics defended bAnning thesis topics for fourth-yeAr students, Arguing thAt subjects such As illegAl drug use And lAnd disputes Are written About too often At the school. In A Feb. 2 letter posted online And signed by the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAn-on-thesis-topics-needed-scholArs-sAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government has chosen representatives of two obscure NGOs to send to an annual meeting between civil society groups and regional leaders during next month’s asean summit in Phnom Penh, sparking an outcry among other non-governmental groups that say this will prevent critics from being <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-picks-ngos-for-asean-meet-10/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following the release of the Ministry of Environment’s annual report, eco-activists have urged it to crack down on influential oknhas who allegedly flouted the Kingdom’s environmental protection laws. a total of 278 cases of natural resource crimes were sent to Cambodian courts in the first <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-urged-to-pursue-corrupt-oknhas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The US Embassy yesterday hit back at unsubstantiated claims of a United States-backed conspiracy to topple the government disseminated by pro-government media outlet Fresh News, even as local news reported that the Interior Ministry would investigate the purported plot.​   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-denies-conspiracy-to-topple-cambodian-government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia last week asked the United States to increase investments in the Kingdom, claiming that working conditions here have improved dramatically in recent years. The appeal was made by Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak in a meeting on Friday with US ambassador Patrick Murphy. Mr Sorasak <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-companies-urged-to-invest-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) governor Chea Chanto said on Monday that the Kingdom’s economy has maintained robust growth with low and manageable inflation which paves a favourable path for the banking sector’s continuous development. Meanwhile, fintech is playing an important role in the financial <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strong-growth-projected-for-cambodias-banking-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government will ramp up the budget for provinces by more than $276 million next year to provide high quality and efficient services to the public, an increase of 32.28 percent from this year’s budget.​ Public Functions Minister Pich Bunthin yesterday said at a workshop <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-ramp-up-provincial-budgets-by-276-million-next-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

New EU ambassador to Cambodia Carmen Moreno met with National assembly president Heng Samrin and expressed her interest in helping Cambodia retain the “Everything But arms” (EBa) agreement. Moreno paid a courtesy call on Samrin at the National assembly on Tuesday on her first day <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-ambassador-expresses-hope-for-kingdom-retaining-eba-status/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s largest mobile phone company CamGSM Co. Ltd., which operates under the MobiTel brand name, has been accused by three other firms in the market of refusing to pay more than $1.5 million owed to them in interconnection fees. In a letter to Telecommunications Minister So Khun dated <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/telecom-firms-say-mobitel-owes-1-5m-in-connection-fees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mission to exAmine politicAl rights in CAmbodiA hAs been increAsingly overshAdowed by the Kingdom’s dire lAnd rights situAtion, the 2012 report from CAmbodiA’s UN speciAl rApporteur on the situAtion of humAn rights, published yesterdAy, shows. CAmbodiA’s rApporteur, SuryA Subedi, conducted two fAct-finding missions to CAmbodiA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAnd-rights-worry-un/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 60 fArmers met yesterdAy in Phnom Penh to rise their concerns About the lAw on the mAnAgement of fArmlAnd thAt is currently being drAfted by the Ministry of Agriculture, which critics sAy will legAlize lAnd grAbbing. The lAtest public version of the drAft lAw grAnts power <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fArmers-concerned-thAt-drAft-lAw-will-legAlize-lAnd-grAbs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>