More than 3,100 families have now been evacuated from their homes as flooding spreads in Banteay Meanchey province, the deputy head of the National Committee for Disaster Managment (NCDM) said yesterday. about 3,000 of those families have been evacuated from Poipet City alone, and another 148 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-of-families-evacuated-due-to-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Gun violence and fatal traffic accidents are hurting the government’s efforts to boost tourism, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday, urging local authorities to take action-even against the powerful. Mr. Hun Sen also said the government has earmarked sites for two new international airports to cater to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-says-shootings-traffic-accidents-threaten-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 60 people yesterday rallied at the National assembly, the UN Human Rights Office, the Danish Embassy and the German Embassy as part of a petition campaign to seek the release of two jailed women from the Boeung Kak and Borei Keila communities. Villagers and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/borei-keila-boeung-kak-march-on-embassies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s land-titling scheme announced in June originally included a directive for granting collective property titles to indigenous communities, but this part of the program was scrapped weeks later as it was deemed too costly and time-consuming, documents obtained yesterday show. For “indigenous <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-land-program-dropped-communal-titles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Activists Are welcoming Prime Minister Hun Sen’s public vow to prevent logging And rosewood trAfficking, but they Also sAy it’s too little too lAte to hAve Any serious impAct on protecting CAmbodiA’s AlreAdy decimAted forests. In A speech on FridAy At the Ministry of Interior, Hun <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pms-logging-decree-too-lAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Some 300 villagers from the andong Trabaek community in Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district will accompany two representatives who have been summonsed to the provincial court Tuesday to clarify allegations of illegal logging that villagers say were fabricated by Forestry administration officials in order <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-summonsed-in-illegal-logging-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Property experts say foreign companies are coming to invest in Cambodia’s property sector, as they see the growth and potential of the Kingdom. Sung Bonna, director of Bonna Realty Group, said that the number of foreign companies in the sector has grown, and most are from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-investment-in-cambodias-property-rises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following six straight days of protests by hundreds of staff at NagaWorld Casino, casino management yesterday agreed to reinstate four senior workers and said they would consider increasing the entire staff’s minimum wage. Between 500 and 1,000 workers had been demonstrating over what they said were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagaworld-workers-reinstated-after-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Senior representatives for Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and aSEaN met here Tuesday and issued a joint statement highlighting their agreement to forge stronger mutual investment, trade, transport and scientific cooperation links. The joint statement was released at the conclusion of the 6th annual Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam (CLMV) Summit, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-countries-agree-to-greater-economic-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The price increase for Phnom Penh Water Supply authority shares maxed out after an hour of trading yesterday morning, the second day of operations on the Cambodia Securities Exchange. PPWSa closed up 4.84 per cent yesterday at 9,750 riel (US$2.44), climbing from 9,300 the day before, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ppwsa-up-again-with-retail-buyers-moving-in/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Phnom Penh yesterday afternoon began rounding up homeless people as part of the city’s preparations for next month’s asean Foreign Ministers Meeting, officials said. “We collect them because we don’t want them to affect foreign tourists as we prepare for the arrival of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-rounds-up-homeless-before-asean-meeting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As A delegAtion of US business owners prepAres to trAvel to CAmbodiA with US SecretAry of StAte HillAry Clinton, AnAlysts sAy they will be tough to court, given CAmbodiA’s lAck of lAw enforcement. “Investors don’t bring guns, they don’t bring bodyguArds&mdAsh;they bring money to invest,” sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/As-cAmbodiA-courts-us-business-old-problems-remAin/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In the first six months of the year, 26 Cambodians have been shot dead by the Thai military while illegally logging along the border, nearly double the number killed in all of 2011. “according to the Cambodian-Thai Relations Bureau documents for the semester, there were 26 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-6-months-26-shot-dead-on-border-while-illegally-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 16,000 hectares of rice paddies are currently being affected by drought across the country, officials said yesterday. “There wasn’t enough rain for the rice this year, ” said Nhep Srorn, director of Takeo province’s agriculture department. Pich Sokhin, governor of Oddar Meanchey province, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/countrywide-drought-is-damaging-rice-paddies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following a ceremony to honor late King Father Norodom Sihanouk on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich, more than 2,000 additional student volunteers were deployed yesterday morning by the Ministry of Land Management to measure plots of land in 19 provinces, officials said. Mr. Chhun Lim [Land Management Minister] said that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-thousand-more-students-to-measure-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AlliAnce of Rice Producers Exporters of CAmbodiA (ARPEC) will releAse US$2 million After December 15th to its members in nine provinces so they cAn buy pAddy rice before the hArvest seAson ends And stocks been depleted. He sAid the pAy out is being drAwn from <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AlliAnce-to-disburse-2-million-to-buy-pAddy-rice-help-exports/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s total exports to the United States increased by 0.2 per cent over the first 10 months of the year, a year-on-year analysis from the US Department of Commerce showed. The data showed exports to the US totalled $2.296 billion between January and October this <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exports-to-us-rise-by-0-2-per-cent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Energy supplies will be more secure once territorial disputes between Thailand and Cambodia are resolved, Department of Mineral Fuels director-general Songpob Polchan said on Friday. Mr Songpob said that the sooner Thailand and Cambodia are able to work out their differences, the sooner they can exploit <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/energy-security-linked-to-firm-borders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After yeArs of poor yields, the cricket fArmers of Kompong Thom province hAve more thAn tripled their AverAge cAtch compAred with the sAme time lAst yeAr due to eArly rAins, An Agriculture officiAl sAid yesterdAy. Ou BunsophoAn, director of the Kompong Thom provinciAl Agriculture depArtment, sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/in-kompong-thom-province-cricket-yield-skyrocketing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Borei Keila families have slept under staircases near piles of rubbish since they were forced from their homes on January 3, but they are hopeful of compensation following an unexpected visit from city officials last week. Representative Chum Ngan, 39, said village, commune and Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/borei-keila-evictees-given-hope/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>