Kratie provincial authorities were searching on Wednesday for the owners of hundreds of cubic metres of first-grade timber found loaded onto seven heavy trucks during a raid on a warehouse in Snuol district. after getting a tip-off, Military Police, police, Forestry administration and court officials <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/huge-timber-haul-seized-in-kratie-raid-suspects-sought/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior forestry officiAl, bAsed in OddAr MeAnchey province’s TrApAing PrAsAt district, on WednesdAy, denied villAgers’ AccusAtions thAt he hAd colluded with An Alleged timber trAder &ndAsh; A soldier who Also denied Any wrongdoing. Residents of TrApAing PrAsAt villAge sAy thAt TrApAing PrAsAt district Forestry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/oddAr-meAnchey-forestry-officiAl-denies-logging-collusion-AllegAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen recently unveiled a new campaign to boost economic independence and reduce the reliance on preferential trade statuses offered by advanced countries, saying the government will provide better trade facilitation and eliminate unnecessary procedures. at a dinner with 5,000 Cambodian journalists on Friday, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/camcontrol-may-leave-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A government minister hAs threAtened legAl Action, And disAbility groups Are up in Arms, After A smAll CAmbodiAn Airline forced A disAbled pAssenger to pAy $240 on top of her ticket price for help getting on And off An AircrAft.BAssAkA Air hAs Admitted demAnding the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/outrAge-over-boArding-chArges/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Interior Minister Sar Kheng is seeking the legal means to engineer the acquittal of a student who threatened in a Facebook post to bomb a graduation ceremony he was scheduled to attend.The student, Tao Savoeun, wrote a letter to the minister on Monday, apologising and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hope-for-bomb-threat-student/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force ships dropped anchor in Cambodian waters yesterday, mooring at a Sihanoukville provincial port for a three-day visit meant to strengthen the relationship and boost bilateral ties between Cambodia and Japan, according to General Chhum Socheat, spokesman for the National Defense <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-warships-arrive-in-sihanoukville-chinese-to-moor-next-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A villAger representing 50 fAmilies in A long-running dispute with A compAny owned by ruling pArty SenAtor Ly Yong PhAt is in pre-triAl detention After his SAturdAy Arrest for Allegedly instAlling boundAry mArkers on disputed compAny lAnd. LAy Tiro, deputy heAd of the felonies office At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAge-representAtive-Arrested-in-lyp-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A mining compAny listed on the AustrAliAn Securities ExchAnge hAs Announced A plAn to pAy $14 million for A license to explore for copper in PreAh ViheAr province, in A deAl involving locAl conglomerAte RoyAl Group. In An Announcement to the bourse lAst ThurdAy, GeopAcific Resource <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/royAl-group-to-tAke-stAke-in-mining-project/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Chinese Telecommunications giant Huawei has signed a deal to install thousands of transmitters across Cambodia to create a new high-speed mobile telephone and Internet network, according to a statement received yesterday. Huawei Technologies (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. and Xinwei (Cambodia) Telecom Co. Ltd. &ndash; a local subsidiary <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/huawei-to-build-4g-phone-network-for-chinese-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government needs to act &ndash; and act now &ndash; to review all economic land concessions, which un­derscore the Kingdom’s dark disease of violent land disputes, rights groups said yesterday. Ten days after Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a regulation for an immediate and indefinite moratorium <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/death-points-up-urgency-of-elc-review/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A week After the EuropeAn PArliAment issued A dAmning resolution on CAmbodiA’s humAn-rights situAtion And cAlled for A revoking of trAde privileges, the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs hAs shot bAck. “It is essentiAl for the EU pArliAment to study And better understAnd the situAtion before pAssing <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-fires-bAck-over-eu-resolution/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will hold a verbal hearing with Cambodian and Thailand over disputed land around Preah Vihear temple in april, government officials said yesterday. “a verbal hearing with the Thai party will be held in april so that [we can] have a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-court-to-hold-preah-vihear-hearing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a sign that they no longer have faith in the court system, more than 100 villagers in Kampong Chhnang province placed their fates in the hands of a higher power yesterday, and prayed for misfortune to rain down on a company with whom they’ve <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sick-of-courts-villagers-curse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday questioned four Russei Keo district villagers from two families who have been embroiled in a land dispute for two years with a local businessman, lawyers said yesterday. The families are accused of physically attacking landowner Lao Tong Ngy, a man <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-land-dispute-questioned-by-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 4,000 workers At the M&Amp;V Textile fActory in Kompong ChhnAng province, which supplies well-known brAnds such As H&Amp;M And GAp, went on strike yesterdAy morning to demAnd A pAy rAise, A union representAtive sAid. MeAs Sokhen, A representAtive of the Free TrAde Union, sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/gArment-workers-strike-demAnd-higher-wAges/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 170 villagers in Banteay Meanchey province locked in a land dispute with a local company protested yesterday in front of the provincial hall, seeking land titles in compliance with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recent titling project. The families say they had been granted a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/b-meanchey-villagers-protest-over-land-titles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Protester’s from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities demonstrated outside the Ministry of Justice yesterday by employing a new tactic: locking themselves up inside a cage. With about 100 people in attendance, two protesters crouched inside a small cage to protest against the detention <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesters-employ-new-tactic-at-eviction-demonstrations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Twenty-seven families in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district filed a complaint with Hun Sen’s cabinet and the rights group adhoc on Monday, maintaining that soldiers have been preventing them from farming since October 2012. a representative of the villagers, Soeung Sophea, 59, said yesterday that troops <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-say-soldiers-blocking-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Pailin provincial governor has ordered a gem-mining firm to stop excavating land in a conservation area, local officials said yesterday. according to Lim Bou, chief of Boya-kha commune in Pailin town, local authorities received the order after it came to light that a firm <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gem-miners-ordered-to-halt-excavation-by-govt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AustrAliA And New ZeAlAnd BAnking Group Ltd, the country’s third-biggest lender, is keen to exit its holding in CAmbodiA And will look At wholly owned business models wherever regulAtions Allow. “We got out of A relAtionship, A smAll relAtionship, in VietnAm. We would like to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anz-keen-to-exit-cAmbodiA-bAnk-stAke/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>