The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will stage mass rallies in capital Phnom Penh and tourist city of Siem Reap on Dec. 10 to celebrate the International Human Rights Day, a party spokesman said Thursday. “We plan to mobilize 20,000 people in Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-opposition-to-mark-international-human-rights-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Union representatives who claim they were beaten to within an inch of their lives yesterday after they handed out pro-union leaflets in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district have vowed to take legal action. The 10 union members, who represent four different unions &ndash; the Union <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-reps-claim-factory-beatdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two of the leading microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia said yesterday that they have identified a relatively small fraction of borrowers who were affected by flooding and would provide relief on their repayment schedules if necessary. The comments come after both Prime Minister Hun Sen and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mfis-downplay-debts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new open-Air mAll sporting high-end luxury shops And restAurAnts in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district is the lAtest expAnsion of the suburbAn neighborhood, though widespreAd commerciAlizAtion of the AreA could still tAke yeArs, property executives sAid MondAy. The mAll, cAlled TK Avenue, opened FridAy At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-tuol-kok-mAll-to-Add-to-districts-growth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Phnom Penh municipality and the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) on Sunday donated money and food rations to 176 families from Borei Keila&mdash;where thousands of people have been violently evicted from their homes in recent years after the land was sold to a private company. Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/red-cross-gives-aid-to-borei-keila-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and the U.S. have signed an extension to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that imposes strict import restrictions on artifacts dating from the Bronze age to the end of the angkor Empire. Hab Touch, director-general for tangible heritage at the Ministry of Culture and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-us-extend-artifacts-trade-agreement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 sand-pumping systems and 40 boats have been impounded by the Kandal provincial Department of Water Resources and Meteorology in order to prevent riverbank collapse as water levels continue to rise. Chun Penglong, the provincial department director, told the Post yesterday that navy police and the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boats-seized-in-dredging-crackdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As floodwAters begin to recede, the extent of the humAnitAriAn crisis And infrAstructurAl dAmAge is slowly being reveAled, And in mAny plAces the situAtion is potentiAlly worse thAn it wAs following the de­vAstAting floods in 2011, According to the NAtionAl Com­mit­tee for Dis­As­ter MAnAgement (NCDM). Keo Vy, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/deAth-toll-rises-even-As-floodwAters-recede/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The German government on Wednesday signed up to provide 64 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for two-year projects in health, rural development, governance reform, and education. according to a press release after the signing ceremony, 27 million U.S. dollars would be allocated to health, 26.5 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/germany-provides-64-mln-usd-to-cambodia-for-development-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Capitalising on booming travel from Vietnam and China, the domestic aviation sector has enjoyed 18 per cent passenger growth for the second year running, according to a new report, which describes Cambodia as having one of the fastest-growing markets in Southeast asia. The report, by the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-aviation-sector-rapidly-growing-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on government bodies, local authorities, international organisations and the private sector to dial back Cambodia’s widespread theft of copyrighted works, like film and music, and encouraged the creation of more original, home-grown cultural works. Copying other countries’ cultural output &ndash; <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-decries-copyright-theft/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has no intention of withdrawing its signature from the International Labour Organization’s freedom of association convention, despite calls for it to reconsider its position, a Ministry of Labour spokesman said yesterday. “I don’t think we will withdraw. The prime minister [Hun Sen] has already <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ilo-convention-still-debated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) threatened Tuesday to call off talks aimed at breaking an eight-month political deadlock with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party, accusing it of using the negotiations to cling on to power. CNRP chief Sam Rainsy said his party <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-opposition-party-threatens-to-call-off-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thirty tons of chemicals seized by police on Wednesday were used to make counterfeit soap, officials confirmed Thursday, refusing to release the name of the Chinese national arrested in connection with the raid. The liquid and solid chemicals were stored in blue vats, bottles and sacks <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chemicals-used-for-soap-not-drugs-police-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Xu Qiliang, visiting vice- chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, on Thursday visited a group of 10 Chinese doctors working at the Preah Ketomelea Hospital, known as the Military Hospital, in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Xu was accompanied by Chay Saing Yun, secretary <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/xu-qiliang-visits-chinese-doctors-working-in-cambodian-military-hospital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Relevant organizations have been actively cooperating with the government in providing transportation service for illegal migrant workers to return to their home after they were sent back by the junta in Thailand. The temporary estimation for the aid so far amounts to nearly 200,000$. The government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-urges-ngos-to-support-migrant-workers-from-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the Indian government set to inject five million tonnes of rice in to its domestic market, Cambodia’s rice producers fear that any spillover into the global rice trade may impact local exports. David Van, acting secretary-general of a newly established Cambodia Rice Federation, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indias-rice-dump-may-impact-local-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia duty-free rice exports to the European Union have this week come under fresh attack from producers in Italy, who say the beneficial treatment is restricting the potential of Italian rice exports. an Italian agriculture collective of farmers, which includes representatives from the Italian association of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/italy-millers-slam-unfair-eba/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Erosion along the banks of the Mekong River in Kompong Cham province’s Srei Santhor district has caused 16 families to move their homes and is threatening hundreds more, officials warned Sunday. Koh andet commune chief Yan Yet said at least 16 homes have been dismantled since <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-threatened-by-erosion-of-mekong-banks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Friday that the country needed to prepare more measures to curb the spread of H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which broke out the worst last year and this year. “We have done a lot to control the spread of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-needs-more-actions-to-curb-bird-flu-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>