More than a tonne of rosewood and the plateless car carrying it were seized in Oddar Meanchey province yesterday after authorities received a report about a Vietnamese woman and her workers trying to set the vehicle on fire. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trader-sought-truck-with-illegal-wood-impounded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police officers, gendarmes and Forestry administration officials yesterday discovered a large cache of valuable, illegally felled wood &ndash; which locals say was destined for Vietnam &ndash; after raiding a house in Stung Treng province linked to a prominent timber trader. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oknha-linked-to-timber-bust/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 400 pieces of luxury thnong wood suspected to be felled by a local community were seized by authorities in Pursat province’s Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary on Thursday following a tip-off from a local reporter. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/loggers-busted-in-phnom-samkos-wildlife-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s foreign affairs minister and his Laotian counterpart will hold a two-day meeting in Phnom Penh this week to draft a letter to France requesting detailed maps to resolve a border dispute that flared up last month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-laos-to-seek-french-help-on-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

International fund transfers to Cambodia through acleda Bank, which claims to handle a quarter of all inbound fund transfers to the country, decreased slightly last year as a result of lower rice prices, a bank executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/decline-in-transfers-linked-to-rice-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh will begin measuring the homes of hundreds of families seeking land titles to stave off potential eviction by a massive real-estate project filling in a pair of lakes, a municipal government spokesman said on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-to-measure-land-of-lake-families-fearing-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Koh Kong environmentAl officiAl yesterdAy sAid A compAny with A sAnd-wAshing fAcility in An AreA where the Ministry of Mines And Energy lAst month bAnned sAnd dredging would be Allowed to keep And operAte its fAcility. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAnd-fAcility-Allowed-to-operAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Move over, Cintri &ndash; there’s a new garbage collector in town. For the first time in a dozen years, Sihanoukville has a new waste management company, and it has already started collecting trash ahead of the Pchum Ben holiday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-firm-takes-over-for-cintri-to-tackle-trash-in-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A river bird thAt wAs once A common sight Along the Mekong River is now down to A populAtion of just 50 to 60 individuAls due to humAn interference And dAm construction, conservAtionists And Environment Ministry officiAls sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nest-plAn-must-expAnd-to-protect-rAre-river-bird-sAy-environmentAl-groups/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Radio broadcaster and former Beehive Party President Mam Sonando was served a summons last week by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to appear as a witness in relation to a “treason” case filed against former opposition President Kem Sokha. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ex-beehive-leader-sonando-called-in-kem-sokha-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The prime minister lashed out at journalists and analysts today for questioning the current government’s reform record, a seeming reference to a Post article from December about a speech in which he touted his administration’s progress. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-lashes-out-at-journos-analysts-over-comments-on-reform-record/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Economy Reinforced association has submitted a letter to Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities asking permission to hold a massive demonstration for four days to demand a reduction in the price of crossing the Thai border. ​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vendors-to-protest-for-border-fee-reductions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment workers from Phnom Penh’s Lim Line factory will resume work today after reaching an agreement with the factory following 11 days of protest that culminated in a violent strike Friday, a union and a factory representative said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-staff-resume-work-after-deal-is-struck/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s construction sector attracted a total investment of US$342 million in the first three months of 2012, a 5-percent increase from US$324 million from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investment-in-cambodias-construction-sector-up-5-per-cent-in-q1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is planning to send a second consignment of 40 tons of milled rice to China as a part of the approval process for rice exports to China. In april, China had rejected a sample consignment of about 48 tons <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-plans-to-send-second-test-consignment-of-rice-to-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese conglomerate Hitachi on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with three major companies to conduct a feasibility study on the potential development of a new special economic zone (SEZ) in Kandal province, said the CEO of one of the signatories. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hitachi-looks-to-set-up-sez-in-kandal-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Members of a community in Preah Vihear province chased down a group of illegal loggers and briefly detained one of them yesterday, less than a week after the community accused the local wildlife sanctuary director of destroying their patrol station. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/station-razed-fight-goes-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of university students from Phnom Penh opposed to A proposed hydropower dAm in Koh Kong province entered the project’s construction site on SundAy for A 10-dAy study Aiming to highlight the AreA’s AlternAtive potentiAl for ecotourism. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Areng-mApped-in-hope-ecotourism-cAn-sAve-vAlley-from-dAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 150 ethnic Kuoy in PreAh ViheAr province on TuesdAy prevented police And A court prosecutor from tAking bAck A pAir of bulldozers the villAgers seized lAst yeAr from A Chinese-owned plAntAtion they Accuse of encroAching on their fArms. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-prevent-police-from-tAking-bAck-seized-bulldozers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Only one child remained hospitalized Wednesday after a group of about 800 people fell ill from food poisoning caused by tainted sandwiches served at a World Vision event in Siem Reap province on Saturday, a spokesman for the NGO said.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-child-still-in-hospital-due-to-tainted-sandwiches/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>