The number of mobile telephone subscriptions reached nearly 20  million at the end of June, representing 135 percent of the total population, the telecoms minister said last week. The number of mobile subscriptions first topped Cambodia’s total population of 14.5 million people in November last year, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mobile-phone-subscriptions-near-20-million/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land conflicts, discrimination, corruption and inequality dominated discussions between citizens and lawmakers at forums across the country this year, according to the U.S.-based organization the National Democratic Institute (NDI). In its annual report, obtained yesterday, the NDI noted “significant consistencies in the concerns facing Cambodians across <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-issues-are-dominating-talks-between-citizens-lawmakers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land governance policies in asia, especially concessions made to private companies, are leaving the region’s poorest vulnerable to human rights abuses, experts say. “Land-grabbing by the rich and powerful continues,” Suson Bunsak, executive secretary of the Cambodian Human Rights action Committee, said at the recent asia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-rural-poor-lose-out-in-land-deals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday said it had dropped its investigation into the killing of environmental activist Chut Wutty, allegedly by a now-deceased military police officer in april. The court made the surprise announcement during the tril of Rann Boroth, who took the stand yesterday for the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-drops-investigation-into-killing-of-activist-chut-wutty/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After A two-yeAr hiAtus, the CAmBuild, CAmFood And CAmHotel exhibitions Are bAck At DiAmond IslAnd this week, stArting on WednesdAy And going through to FridAy. Andrew Siow, director of the KuAlA Lumpur-heAdquArtered AMB Exhibitions, sAys the three industry shows At the sAme time should AttrAct more <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAde-show-stArts-on-wednesdAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Free Trade Union expects thousands of workers from across the country to join FTU president Chea Mony in paying respects to the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk on Tuesday.   To make up for the lost day of work, workers will instead work on October <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strikes-put-on-pause-for-king-father/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seventy percent of all outbound parcels leaving Cambodia via the state-owned postal service contain local food products that are delivered to Cambodians living abroad, an official at Cambodia Post said yesterday. Ork Bora, general director of Cambodia Post, said that of the total 26,678 packages, not <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/majority-of-packages-sent-abroad-contain-local-delicacies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers applying for jobs at a fertilizer factory in Kandal province claim they were passed over in favour of applicants who were members of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). Prey Treng II village chief Hang Suon and two job applicants told the Post yesterday that Five <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fertilizer-factory-wont-hire-non-cpp-members-workers-claim/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is predicted to greet 4 million foreign visitors this year, an expected 12 percent rise year-on-year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Monday. “Last year, we received 3.58 million foreign tourists, up 24 percent year-on-year, and generated total revenue of about 2.2 billion U.S. dollars,” he <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-forecasts-4-mln-foreign-tourists-in-2013-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Military police in Preah Sihanouk province said yesterday that they impounded four trucks carrying retail goods worth about $1 million that a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian armed Forces had imported from Thailand without paying tax duty. The unpaid import duty amounted to about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/general-accused-of-smuggling-1m-in-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia would have to give two villages to Vietnam if it wanted to retain another two deemed the territory of the Kingdom’s eastern neighbour by the former French Indochina colonial administration, a government minister said yesterday. Last year, the Cambodian government announced it was speeding up <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-cede-two-villages-to-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 250 families ordered to leave their homes next to Phnom Penh International airport to make way for expansion plans yesterday with City Hall to fight the eviction. The 256 families living in three villages in Pur Senchey district’s Choam Chao commune are demanding compensation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-fight-evictions-near-intl-airport/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police and Phnom Penh municipality officials yesterday halted construction on a seven-story high-end apartment complex on Street 240 in Daun Penh district. Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Kep Chuktema was accompanied by police officials who entered the 240 apartment complex, which has been under construction for several <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-halt-construction-on-240-apartment-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three families were evicted and their houses torn down by authorities in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday after officials claimed that residents there were polluting a canal with rubbish. The authorities last week warned that families living inside 38 houses in Niroth commune were illegally occupying <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-evicted-from-canal-as-part-of-clean-up-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Trade between Cambodia and Thailand increased by about 40 per cent to US$3 billion in the first nine months of this year in comparison with the same period last year, according to figures provided by the Royal Embassy of Thailand in Cambodia. according to Nat Vimonchandra, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-with-thailand-increases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 140 Japanese investors arrived in Cambodia yesterday to meet with local government leaders and other stakeholders in an effort to boost economic cooperation between the two countries. according to the Japanese Embassy in Cambodia, the delegation arrived in the country yesterday afternoon, following a visit <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-delegation-seeks-business-options/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia imported almost 10 times as many used clothes as new ones in the first 11 months of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Some 79,217 tonnes of used garments worth $61.5 million were brought in during that period, compared <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/second-hand-first-in-imports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Bank of China is going to expand its business operations in Cambodia after it was launched here two years ago and seen rapid business growth, Zhu Shuming, visiting deputy governor of Bank of China, said Friday. Speaking at a meeting with Chea Chanto, governor of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bank-of-china-to-raise-business-operations-in-cambodia-deputy-governor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CONSTRUCTION is progressing on a $1.5 million baby-products factory that will be among the largest in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ). Combi (Cambodia), which owns the factory, announced the plans for its new facility in an online job listing yesterday. The five-hectare factory was scheduled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/combi-plans-1-5m-factory-for-baby-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Violence broke out twice yesterday at the Maru Chuen garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district &ndash; first, between police and strikers, and later, between strikers and employees who remained at work. In the morning, seven workers and one police officer were injured after police intervened <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-cop-injured-as-strike-turns-violent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>