The Ministry of Environment issued a statement on Monday on preventing forest fires in natural protected areas and biodiversity conservation corridors. The statement, which cited a government directive on water preservation from last Thursday, said Cambodian weather is set to be heavily influenced by the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/el-nino-fire-warning-issued/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday denied that the government intends to allow private development around a lake in Ratanakkiri province, which is important to a biologically diverse ecosystem. The denial was sparked by an article published in the Rasmei Kampuchea Daily on Monday that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-denies-development-plans-for-lake-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A women’s entrepreneurship centre opened its doors in Phnom Penh on FridAy, providing A plAtform for CAmbodiAn women to Access the tools And resources needed to stArt or grow A sustAinAble business.The WECREATE CAmbodiA Center supports femAle entrepreneurs by connecting them to A network of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/centre-Aims-to-bolster-women-entrepreneurship/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Open Development Cambodia has published two profile pages of Oil and Gas Blocks and Natural Protected areas. Please click here to access profile page of Oil and Gas Blocks.Please click here to access profile page of Natural Protected areas. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-publishes-oil-and-gas-blocks-and-natural-protected-areas-profile-pages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, is accusing the ruling party of carrying out a constitutional coup after a local court issued an arrest warrant for him and a parliamentary committee stripped him of his seat. In a message published on Facebook, the politician said the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-leader-accuses-hun-sen-of-constitutional-coup/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Vietnamese military has begun training Cambodia police in cryptography and encryption techniques as part of a national plan to protect “state secrets”.Em Sam an, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Interior, signed a new agreement between the ministry’s cryptography department and the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-gives-kingdom-encryption-lessons/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two garment workers were injured yesterday during a factory protest in Kandal province when they clashed with 50 police and military police, a union representative said. about 4,000 garment workers of Tai Yang Enterprises in ang Snuol district held a protest to demand their severance payments <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/4000-garment-workers-protest-over-severance-pay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s energy sector acquired a new product yesterday with the introduction of solar powered lights from energy company Total, advancing it toward a longer term solution to meeting the population’s energy needs. an industry player described the products as a nice bridge toward seeing Cambodia supplied with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-solar-powered-lights-for-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kompong Thom provincial authorities have denied a request by the SRP to hold a peaceful demonstration to draw attention to severe power outages that have plagued the province for almost two months. Men Sothavarin, SRP senator for Kompong Thom province, said that his party had received <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-protest-of-power-outages-delayed-by-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Real wages for Cambodia’s semi-skilled construction workers fell during the past five years, according to a recent report from market research firm BDLINK Cambodia. a 36 per cent increase in the Kingdom’s consumer price index during the period put semi-skilled workers’ real wages last year <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/semi-skilled-builders-see-wages-drop-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia recorded 41,850 malaria cases in 2013, down 40 percent from 69,550 cases a year earlier, a health official said Sunday. The disease killed 12 people last year, down 74 percent from 46 deaths a year earlier, Char Meng Chuor, director of the National Center for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-malaria-cases-down-40-pct-in-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The European Union has launched a call for proposals under the EU thematic programme “Non-State actors (NSa) and Local authorities (La) in Development” for a total of 2.9 Million euros (over 3.9 million USD) in grants to strengthen civil society and to enhance the participation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-grant-us3-9-million-to-enhance-the-capacity-of-local-authorities-and-the-independence-of-the-media-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japan sent a team of expert to Cambodia to identify the needs for the election reforms, according to a press statement released by the Japanese Embassy in Phnom Penh today. The Japanese Embassy said that a study team was dispatched by the Government of Japan to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-sends-experts-to-help-cambodia-with-election-reforms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s parliament endorsed opposition leader Sam Rainsy as a lawmaker on Monday as part of a deal with long-term rival Prime Minister Hun Sen that both leaders hailed as an end to a year-long political crisis. Cambodia has been without an effective parliament since Sam Rainsy’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-opposition-leader-sam-rainsy-endorsed-by-parliament-ends-year-long-stalemate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have filed a complaint with rights group adhoc, claiming their village chief has threatened them with arrest over a petition accusing officials of illegally logging a community forest. Sven Vev, 40, said he and three other representatives of the ethnic Tumpoun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/village-chief-threatens-over-logging-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two children were killed by the explosion of an unfired rifle shell in a rice field in Battambang province on Friday afternoon, a district police officer said. Captain Phong Sarin, district deputy police chief, said that Roeun Rith, 7, and Mann Marin, 7, “saw an unexploded <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exploding-bullet-kills-two-children/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s premier Hun Sen has urged asean leaders to make a statement on Thailand’s ongoing political turmoil Sunday at a regional summit being hosted for the first time by Myanmar. Hun Sen proposed the statement at a morning meeting of asean leaders. He is a close <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-urges-asean-to-issue-statement-on-thai-political-turmoil/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Event management firm, MyEvents International, is eyeing Cambodia as the next lucrative market after strengthening its foothold in India and the Middle East, group chief executive officer, Shahul Hameed Dawood said. “Cambodia is a growing market and we see a lots of potential there for an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/myevents-international-plans-expansion-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Lao government said yesterday that it would have the controversial Don Sahong dam undergo a formal process of prior consultation &ndash; a decision that will probably delay the project further. “The government has already demonstrated that it is committed to developing the Don Sahong project <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-agrees-to-more-extensive-consultation-for-dam-on-border-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Japanese and South Korean governments yesterday announced millions of dollars in aid to Cambodia for a scholarship program and a number of rural development projects. Minister of Foreign affairs Hor Namhong and Japanese ambassador Kumamaru Yuji signed for a $2.85 million grant yesterday to fund <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/south-korea-and-japan-provide-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>