Real estate tycoon Sok Bun, charged with the brutal bashing of a former TV presenter in July, has applied to leave prison for medical treatment, claiming he is suffering from stress and high blood pressure, his lawyer said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sok-bun-seeks-release/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ratanakkiri provincial and O’Yadav district police forces seized 30 logs of mixed timber from a plantation in Pak Nhay commune’s Lom village on Sunday. Police suspect traders hid the logs at the plantation while they waited to transport them to be sold in Vietnam. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hunt-on-for-illegal-loggers-as-timber-found-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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The Ministry of Health on Monday said a Covid-19 patient has recovered and been discharged from the Khmer&ndash;Soviet Friendship Hospital. This brings the number of recovered patients to 130 out of the 141 patients in the Kingdom &ndash; or about 92 per cent. another eleven <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/covid-patient-discharged-from-hospital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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The salary for Cambodian civil servants has seen an average increase of 540 per cent compared to salaries in 2001, according to a report from the national news agency agence Kampuchea Presse last Thursday.   Yim Serey Vathanak, national project coordinator on trade unions for social <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/increase-in-civil-servants-salaries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ocean Garment yesterday refused to meet the sole demand of thousands of striking workers to have their manager, accused of sexual harassment, sacked. an inter-governmental ministerial committee met with union and employer representatives, but Bangladeshi-owned Ocean Garment &ndash; which supplies retail titan Gap &ndash; refused to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/harassed-workers-stick-to-their-guns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The independent Phnom Penh-based think tank asian Vision Institute on Monday called on the five inland aSEaN countries to consider setting up a regional rice-producing association to maintain food security in the region amid Covid-19. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/think-tank-pushes-acmecs-to-establish-rice-association/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has officially launched a mediation software tool to help with financial management information systems and tax data management. The purpose of introducing it is to modernise and automate revenue-sharing data between the tax data management and financial information. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-dept-launches-mediation-tool/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The United Nations is providing $1 million for a joint programme with the government to provide support to returning migrant workers in three provinces. Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday the six-month programme will be carried out in Banteay Meanchey, Battambang and Siem Reap provinces. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-gives-1-million-for-migrant-worker-support-programme/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) together with the Techo Startup Centre and relevant stakeholders yesterday launched an inception workshop to disseminate information about a rural challenge and to discuss expectations of its intended digital platform under the Sustainable assets for agriculture Markets, Business <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-works-on-digital-agriculture-challenge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to five new investment projects with a total investment capital of $58 million.​according to the council’s press release issued this morning, the newly approved projects are expected to create about 800 jobs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/five-more-investment-projects-worth-60-million-licensed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The importance of apps in Cambodia is becoming more and more prevalent. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) announced last week the news of them building a new distance education app in partnership with mobile <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-mobile-applications-expanding-in-all-directions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to three new investment projects with a total investment capital of $36.5 million. according to the council’s press release issued yesterday, the newly approved projects are expected to create some 615 jobs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-investment-projects-worth-36-5-million-approved-to-create-hundreds-of-jobs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ninety-two villagers have fallen ill in a mysterious outbreak in Poipet town, Banteay Meanchey provincial Department of Health director Le Chan Sangvat said on Tuesday. None of the cases are life-threatening, but 10 of the victims have been warded in hospital. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illness-strikes-92-in-poipet-leaves-10-hospitalised/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tbong Khmum provincial police plan to release 20 of 21 protestors on Wednesday, after they were detained for occupying land owned by a Chinese company in Dambe district’s Trapaing Pring commune. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-to-release-20-in-tbong-khmum-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Interior is warning citizens not to take part in social justice protests.​ It issued a press release on Monday saying members of the groups Khmer Thavrak and Mother Nature Movement had been carrying out activities not registered at the ministry, which is required <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-no-unlawful-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National Bank of Cambodia yesterday launched a book called “Building Inclusive Finance”. It traces the development of microfinance in Cambodia from its origins in rural development programmes in the early 1990s to the globalised industry it is today.​ The book was written by Ron Bevacqua, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/book-published-on-history-of-kingdoms-microfinance-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Pursat provincial authorities gave 21 families seven days to take down 43 houses and cottages after officials said they were illegally occupying land in a protected natural area of the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. The families were told they face legal action if they refuse to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pursat-families-ordered-to-vacate-illegal-homes-in-wildlife-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>