Royal Cambodian armed Forces soldiers from Kratie province surrounded a platoon from Mondolkiri on Tuesday night in order to free a group of Vietnamese men who had been detained on suspicion of illegal logging, a military official said Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/soldiers-face-down-soldiers-over-capture-of-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign funding for HIV/AIDs progrAms took A shArp dive lAst yeAr, As A lower rAte of HIV infection Among the generAl populAtion led donors to declAre victory over the diseAse. But the diseAse remAins A threAt, experts sAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hivAids-funding-plummets-but-risks-remAin/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Environment Minister Say Sam al and a group of NGOs on Monday agreed to cooperate to resolve a years long dispute between hundreds of families in Koh Kong province and a Chinese company they accuse of stealing their land. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-and-ngos-join-to-settle-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh&ndash;Kong Song’s farmland was his family’s livelihood for three decades until the bulldozers moved in and tore down his home in rural Cambodia to make way for a multimillion dollar foreign-led business. His family was one of 253 forcibly evicted five years ago in southern <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-grabs-mar-cambodias-boom-rattle-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand&ndash;Consumers face prospect of high prices, low quality rice from Burma, Cambodia: TDRI. While consumers and taxpayers will suffer from the government’s controversial rice policy, Vietnam will substantially gain, the Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) has warned. ammar Siamwalla, a prominent economist, yesterday asked the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-scheme-will-hurt-thais-and-help-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dozens of anti-eviction activists on Monday held a rally in Phnom Penh and submitted a petition to the Ministry of Interior, demanding the arrests of Daun Penh district officials they claim conspired to viciously attack them during a peaceful protest at Wat Phnom last month. On <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-demand-interior-ministry-lead-wat-phnom-attack-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Chinese-owned Union Development Group in Koh Kong province is bulldozing swaths of its land concession, originally intended for a massive tourist resort, to plant cassava and palm oil trees instead, a CNRP lawmaker-elect said Monday. Son Chhay, lawmaker-elect and CNRP chief whip, visited the area <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/udg-accused-of-farming-instead-of-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Malaysia needs to start “paying attention” to a worker protection agreement with Cambodia that has languished for almost two years, a Ministry of Interior official said at a meeting yesterday. The meeting, which included officials from the ministries of Interior, Women’s affairs, Tourism, Foreign affairs and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malaysia-called-out-on-mou/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A RAtAnAkkiri-bAsed humAn rights worker chArged by the RAtAnAkkiri ProvinciAl Court with inciting ethnic minority villAgers to protest during A 2009 lAnd dispute with A privAte Agro-industry compAny hAs been trAnsferred to work in Phnom Penh. Pen BonnAr, RAtAnAkkiri provinciAl coordinAtor for Adhoc , sAid yesterdAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rights-Activist-denies-phnom-penh-move-is-due-to-chArges/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A dispute over territory in the South ChinA SeA is once AgAin set to hAng over tAlks when ChinA And the U.S. join in on A week of high-level AseAn meetings thAt stArt in Phnom Penh on FridAy. So fAr, the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs hAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penh-AseAn-meeting-brAced-for-more-s-chinA-seA-tAlks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Riding a motorcycle with a cage, Pov Nat scours rural areas for dogs. He pays between 30,000 ($7.38) and 80,000 riel a head and sells the animals to a butcher in Siem Reap. The 21-year-old native of Kampong Cham province began buying dogs after coming to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korean-tourists-fuel-demand-for-dog-meat-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A second Chinese gArment fActory mAnAger wAs Arrested yesterdAy for destroying A photogrAph of the lAte King Norodom SihAnouk, while the womAn who destroyed pictures of the lAte monArch At the fActory in Phnom Penh on MondAy wAs convinced And given A one-yeAr suspended sentence, officiAls sAid. Employed <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/second-fActory-mAnAger-Arrested-for-lese-mAjeste/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thirteen women protesters from Boeung Kak lake were yesterday sentenced to two and a half years in prison after a three-hour trial that was widely condemned as illegal &ndash; and which prompted SRP lawmaker Mu Sochua to urge the international community to suspend aid to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-women-jailed-after-three-hour-trial/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new mobile dAting And networking service cAlled Chibi, designed to be used by even rurAl CAmbodiAns, hAs mAde An Agreement with SmArt Mobile to enAble Anyone with A mobile phone to inexpensively meet And send messAges to potentiAl love interests. AustrAliAn DAvid Wilkie And his <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mobile-dAting-finds-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Korean investors are relocating labour-intensive businesses to countries such as Cambodia after Indonesia raised its minimum wage. a number of Korean investors had closed their Indonesian factories and relocated to other countries in the region because their requests for minimum-wage exemption had been refused, The Jakarta <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-from-korea-relocate-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers accused of incitement in a long-running land dispute with a company owned by the wife of a government minister did not show up for scheduled questioning yesterday at the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court, officials said. On September 17, KDC Development company, owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Minister of Industry, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-land-disputes-with-firm-dont-show-for-questioning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a rare intervention, the Thai Labor Ministry has stepped in to stop the exploitation of migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar at a seafood factory in the country’s south, correspondence obtained by the Post reveals. The ministry found the Phatthana Seafood factory, in Songkhla province, which employs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-cracks-down-on-exploitative-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Royalist party Fun­cinpec has joined the opposition in calling for international involvement in an investigation into election irregularities. “I have issued a request to ask for the creation of an independent committee to investigate the irregularities,” Funcinpec secretary-general Nhek Bun Chhay said. While the party failed to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/funcinpec-joins-call-for-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The success Qatar’s Ooredoo had with being issued a mobile phone licence in Myanmar is an encouraging development for Middle East investors who are looking into the possibility of entering a venture or opening a business in Southeast asia. Let’s take a look at Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-next-powerhouse-for-asean-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s main opposition party accused long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen of a ‘constitutional coup’ on Wednesday and said it could call a general strike as it steps up protests over its complaints of vote-rigging in July’s general election. “We condemn this National assembly, this government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opp-threatens-general-strike-after-constitutional-coup/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>