A Forestry AdministrAtion officiAl sAid yesterdAy thAt Authorities hAve filed A court complAint Accusing A commune chief in KAmpong Thom province of cleAring protected stAte forestlAnd for privAte sAle. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/commune-chief-Accused-of-cleAring-stAte-forestlAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Siem Reap provincial authorities have created a committee to investigate a fire that consumed most of a market early yesterday morning but did not cause any deaths or injuries. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fire-guts-siem-reap-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Mondulkiri province have arrested a military official who is a suspect in a shootout which killed three people during an operation to crack down on illegal logging. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/military-official-arrested-over-shootout-which-killed-three/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Mondulkiri province yesterday arrested a military officer who is a suspect in a shooting that killed three people during an operation to crack down on illegal logging. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-held-over-forest-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A MAlAysiAn Automotive compAny hAs requested ApprovAl to estAblish A fActory in CAmbodiA to Assemble NissAn Automobiles And mAnufActure spAre pArts for the vehicles, A government officiAl sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fActory-for-nissAn-cArs-pArts-proposed/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Interior Ministry yesterday created a working group to review possible loopholes in a royal decree establishing a social security healthcare fund for public officials, civil servants and veterans. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/decree-reviewed-for-loopholes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

PhillipCapital, a Singapore-based integrated financial services provider and a majority stakeholder in three of Cambodia’s micro-finance institutions (MFIs), plans to consolidate the three into a commercial bank. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfis-as-one-commercial-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protests-in-city-province-keep-going/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 families in Rattanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding a solution after a Chinese company allegedly bulldozed their land and nearby family graves to create a rubber plantation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-say-firm-cleared-land-graves/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Pharmacists in Cambodia have a particular affinity for prescribing antibiotics, so much so that resistance to the drugs has become a public health problem worthy of a national response. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/antibiotic-resistance-sparks-new-health-policy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A womAn lured into mArriAge in ChinA And A group of men forced to work on A ThAi fishing boAt in IndonesiA Are the lAtest CAmbodiAns rescued After being trAfficked AbroAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAfficking-victims-eye-homelAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A womAn lured into mArriAge in ChinA And A group of men forced to work on A ThAi fishing boAt in IndonesiA Are the lAtest CAmbodiAns rescued After being trAfficked AbroAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAfficking-victims-eye-homelAnd-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A CAmbodiAn migrAnt worker wAs shot deAd by A ThAi foremAn At the construction site where he wAs working lAst week in ThAilAnd’s ChAchoengsAo province, A border officiAl sAid SundAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Authorities-probe-shooting-deAth-of-mAn-in-thAilAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Representatives from five communes in Koh Kong province engaged in a long-running land dispute with a private Chinese firm urged the government to issue them proper land titles during a press conference in the capital yesterday. Representative Chhai Beng Hout asked the government to instruct the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-take-case-to-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Unions and labour groups fear a solitary sick day could cost garment workers their entire month’s attendance bonuses &ndash; about 15 per cent of their base wage &ndash; under a new scheme meant to make life easier. The Kingdom’s 600,000 garment and footwear workers will receive <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questions-over-bonuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new tourist promenAde is to open in the heArt of Phnom Penh’s old French quArter. Scheduled for A FebruAry opening, the tourist wAlk zone will provide An outdoor leisure AreA on street 13 thAt will be closed to cArs And motorbikes on weekends from <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penhs-historic-quArter-to-go-to-pedestriAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government last month privatized more than a dozen department and commune offices in some prime locations around Phnom Penh, and will move many of them to Sen Sok district, according to documents and officials. a sub-decree dated June 27 and signed by Prime Minister Hun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dozens-of-city-offices-privatized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hang Serei Oudom told his 7-month pregnant wife that he was going out to meet a source. a journalist for Vorakchun Khmer Daily, he was investigating illegal logging for luxury woods in the jungles of Cambodia’s northeastern Ratanakkiri province. Three days later, on Sept. 11, he <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-shrinking-forests-breed-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives of nearly 200 ethnic Kreung families living in Ra­tanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on Tuesday filed a complaint with local rights group adhoc, accusing a Vietnamese rubber company of clearing their ancestral land, local officials and a rights worker said. Chhay Thy, provincial investigator for adhoc, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-firm-clears-kreung-land-sparking-latest-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local human rights group adhoc has called on the government to investigate the alleged detention and torture of a Cambodian woman at a Bangkok casino where she was employed. In a statement released Friday, adhoc said the government must push for a “full investigation” into the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-group-calls-for-investigation-of-thai-casino-torture-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>