For the past 11 months, Seng Nhel lived on a kibbutz in Israel, studying horticulture and working 45 hours a week on a farm growing fruits and vegetables for agro-industry giant Mehadrin. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/on-israeli-farms-cambodians-study-and-sweat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A prominent humAn rights AdvocAte sAys CAmbodiA continues to operAte in A repressive environment, with A government thAt fAils to respect locAl And internAtionAl stAndArds And lAws. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAs-rights-defenders-under-All-kinds-of-threAts-AdvocAte-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After closing down its tiny Phnom Penh embAssy in 2009, CAnAdA hAs opened A new diplomAtic office inside the British EmbAssy stAffed by A single CAnAdiAn officiAl, According to A stAtement releAsed FridAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAnAdA-to-open-diplomAtic-office-in-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An Environment Ministry rAnger, A MilitAry Police officer And An employee of A conservAtion orgAnisAtion hAve been killed in A shootout with other CAmbodiAn Authorities neAr Mondulkiri’s border with VietnAm. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/breAking-three-killed-while-on-forestry-pAtrol-in-mondulkiri/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A flooded section of A mAin street in Phnom Penh’s DAngkor district hAs been temporArily closed becAuse of flooding, According to A stAtement by Phnom Penh City HAll on WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/flooded-street-closed-in-cApitAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Kampot Pier Project &ndash; a $10 million effort to attract tourists by building a passenger pier &ndash; could harm communities due to insufficient consultation, a new NGO report and community representatives claim. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-warns-on-pier-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An oknhA Accused of overseeing A mAssive illegAl logging scheme in Mondulkiri hAs yet to AppeAr for A court summons issued more thAn A month Ago, According to the investigAting judge. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/timber-oknhA-misses-heAring/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

It’s supposedly not a budding new political party, but Kem Ley’s “Khmer for Khmer” network has all the trappings and rhetoric of a group building a base for an electoral run. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-political-network-heads-to-the-provinces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Human rights group adhoc has demanded the release of a couple and their 9-month-old child jailed amid a land dispute in Preah Vihear, calling their arrest a “grave human rights abuse”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jailed-familys-release-demanded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A trAveling sAlesmAn lost his leg to A lAndmine on MondAy After going hunting outside of A villAge with which he wAs unfAmiliAr in BAnteAy MeAnchey province’s ThmA Puok district, police sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAlesmAn-mAimed-by-mine-in-b-meAnchey/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In a sprawling villa down a quiet dirt road in Phnom Penh’s Chbar ampov district, four refugees have reached what not so long ago would have seemed like a inconceivable end destination. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nauru-refugees-settle-into-new-neighborhood/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than a month after he was brutally attacked on suspicion of being a sorcerer, a Ratanakkiri province cucumber farmer says he has been left disabled and in search of crucial medical funds. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sorcerer-left-disabled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Cambodia’s Tbong Khmum province on Friday arrested a villager accused of injuring a Chinese worker and his translator in a long running land dispute. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-villager-held-in-attack-on-chinese-worker-over-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three CNRP lawmakers have issued a letter urging the government to decline a request by tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group company to claim rights over a former sports stadium in Battambang province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stop-stadium-plans-cnrp-lawmakers-ask/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has a high degree of solar radiation, making the country a good place for the renewable energy source, a report from the asian Development Bank says. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-well-suited-for-solar-though-use-remains-low/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

It started with a small, dark spot on Oeur Pisey’s left arm: a spot that he simply ignored. Slowly, other spots appeared. They soon covered Mr. Pisey’s thighs, upper body, and eventually, his face. a local health clinic in Kompong Cham province told him not to worry: <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/leprosy-dark-spot-healed-by-early-detection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Threats, intimidation and, in extreme cases, even murder were endangering freedom of expression in Cambodia and leaving human rights at the crossroads, activists and NGO representatives said during a round-table meeting yesterday. The slaying of environmental activist Chut Wutty, the arrest of Beehive radio director Mam <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-see-freedom-of-expression-on-wane/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Earlier this week, Cambodia’s Ministry of Education Youth and Sports (MoEYS) held a second high school exam to provide a second chance for the over 70 percent of 93,000 high school students who failed to pass the first annual national high school exam, held in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poll-shows-fighting-corruption-drives-support-for-education-reform-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Biofuel crops have a significant potential for contributing to future energy requirements worldwide. agricultural lands offer energy farming as an alternative to their usual role of food production. Biofuel crops are an environmentally valuable means of sustainable energy production.1 The demand for transport fuels in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/biofuel-crops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thirteen land-rights activists from the Boeng Kak neighborhood appeared Wednesday at the Supreme Court in Phnom Penh for a final appeal in a yearslong legal battle over a protest-related conviction. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-kak-13-make-final-appeal-to-clear-their-names/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>