The Constitutional Council of Cambodia on Tuesday upheld the decision by the National Election Committee (NEC) to reject four complaints from the opposition CNRP of election irregularities during the July 28 poll. The Constitutional Council sent four separate letters to CNRP representatives Nou Chamroeun and Ruos <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/constitutional-council-upholds-rejection-of-election-complaints/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Flooding spread over the weekend as storms hit the country meaning Siem Reap, Battambang and Pailin have all been added to the list of provinces affected by high waters. In Siem Reap province, Nuon Krisna, director of the provincial department of water resources and meteorology, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/high-floodwaters-spread-to-siem-reap-battambang-and-pailin/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh City Hall’s plans to undertake the largest redrawing of the city’s administrative boundaries in decades, by creating five new districts before May’s district and city-level council elections, is likely an effort to gerrymander voting constituencies, a senior opposition party member said Monday. Municipal government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penhs-5-new-districts-create-fears-of-gerrymandering/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh municipal government will today issue announcements to two property developers ordering them to partially demolish buildings near the Royal Palace in order to reduce their height to comply with the original planning agreements, an official said. The two buildings&mdash;one owned by Vattanac Properties <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shorten-buildings-or-we-will-city-hall-tells-two-developers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

US and Cambodian governments have presented a united front calling for the country’s agriculture industry to diversify, modernise and commercialise. US ambassador William E Todd and the Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council for agricultural and Rural Development Yim Chhay Ly led an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-weigh-up-us-technology/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 90% of tourists visiting Cambodia will end up at Siem Reap’s world heritage site angkor Wat, despite efforts to open other areas of the country to tourism. Officials attending the asean Tourism Forum admitted that efforts to convince tour operators to include trips to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-tourism-anchored-to-angkor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The single-party National assembly sat for the second day of its third plenary session Wednesday, discussing two of eight chapters of the draft law on the Organization and Functioning of the Courts. The CPP-only parliament&mdash;minus 55 boycotting opposition CNRP lawmakers-elect&mdash;convened to discuss the first of three <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-lawmakers-lash-out-at-critics-of-one-party-assembly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 2018 bribery convictions of five current and former staffers of human rights group adhoc, concluding the appeal process in a criminal case that critics have said failed to substantiate the charges. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/supreme-court-upholds-2018-adhoc-5-bribery-convictions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government official Dy Panha received 30.79 hectares of land in northeastern Mondulkiri province cut from forest cover in a September sub-decree released publicly earlier this year.  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prime-ministers-relative-receives-30-hectares-of-mondulkiri-forest-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

China has emerged as the world’s biggest importer of Cambodian milled rice, now accounting for more than half the market share &ndash; versus just 3% a decade ago &ndash; and is expected to further strengthen its dominance going forward. Insiders point out that traders who <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-emerges-as-biggest-importer-of-cambodias-agri-products/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Child labor and debt bondage continue in Cambodia’s brick factories, according to a report published Monday by the human rights group Licadho. The organization also found garment waste from international brands such as Reebok, Old Navy and adidas fueling kilns in brick factories. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-licadho-finds-child-labor-debt-bondage-in-cambodias-brick-factories/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

 Cambodia withdrew from the two-decade-old Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle (CLV-DTa), a regional cooperation initiative that had faced protests and online criticism just months earlier. The decision comes after the government arrested nearly 100 would-be protestors, including minors. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/from-confrontation-to-concession-cambodias-withdrawal-signals-complex-relationship-with-the-clv-dta/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Though authorities have called on residents to move to higher ground, those in some of the worst flooded areas of Cambodia said yesterday that they had neither the means nor the ability to do so. Instead, they said, they will remain in their rapidly flooding <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/heads-above-water/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

growing behind his party’s call for an independent probe into claims of fraud and other irregularities in the country’s recent elections. Speaking in Washington following his visit to Europe, Sam Rainsy said that governments and parliamentarians in the European Union, the United States and several other <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/international-support-growing-for-cambodian-polls-probe-sam-rainsy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The price of durian from Thailand has risen sharply this year, leading to shrinking profits for fruit vendors in Phnom Penh as demand from China for the spiky, pungent fruit grows more robust. On Sihanouk Boulevard, fruit vendor Heng Sovanna said that since March, the price <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vendors-hit-as-price-of-thai-durian-imports-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

This year’s subdued Water Festival festivities in the capital, where traditional boat races were cancelled, has resulted in a bump in tourism in the provinces as Cambodians use the three-day holiday to visit their families, enjoy cultural activities and lounge on beaches.“It was unusually quiet <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-festival-any-water-will-do/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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 Nine Boeng Tamok lake residents face charges of “intentional acts of violence and obstruction of public officials” and were placed under court supervision following a February 21 warrant issued by the Phnom Penh Municipal court. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nine-boeng-tamok-residents-placed-under-court-supervision-face-additional-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kandal village residents protested on Thursday against the filling in of land near their homes at the $1.5 billion airport development project, with a company official saying they were only filling the homes of three people who had agreed to leave the site. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kandal-residents-protest-new-land-filling-near-airport-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

 Three Bunong indigenous family members were arrested by Mondulkiri provincial police on Sunday over a land dispute in Chamkar Te Village, Spean Thmor Commune. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-arrested-3-bunong-over-land-dispute-in-mondulkiri-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>