Opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday said that up to a quarter of a million ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia could be granted full citizenship rights via the Nationality Law if his Cambodia National Rescue Party were to come to power. The CNRP president has sought in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-courts-vietnamese/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSa), Cambodia’s only listed company, made a net profit of 9.68 million US dollars in 2013, up 12.5 percent compared with 8.6 million US dollars in a year earlier, the firm ‘s audited financial statement showed Saturday. The statement said the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-only-listed-firm-reports-12-5-pct-surge-in-profit-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ANZ RoyAl BAnk And locAl microfinAnce institution HAtthA KAksekAr Limited (HKL) on MondAy entered into the first pArtnership of its kind in CAmbodiA in A bid to bring together clients from either side of the finAnciAl spectrum. Following the signing of A MemorAndum of UnderstAnding At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anz-mfi-pArtner-to-bridge-finAnciAl-sectors/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 80 workers protesting AgAinst A JApAnese fActory in Phnom Penh thAt produces cArdboArd boxes blocked the gAtes FridAy After mAnAgers refused to hold A meeting with employees. Workers burned tires in front of the HArtA PAckAging fActory, which they hAve been protesting AgAinst since FebruAry, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-block-gAtes-burn-tires-At-jApAnese-owned-box-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

PRIME Minister Tony Abbott is remAining coy About A potentiAl refugee resettlement deAl with CAmbodiA. ImmigrAtion Minister Scott Morrison met with CAmbodiA’s Interior Minister SAr Kheng on ThursdAy. Mr Morrison is the second minister to trAvel to Phnom Penh for tAlks with the CAmbodiAn government in the pAst <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pm-coy-on-cAmbodiA-refugee-deAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu Oil &amp; Gas is considering building a biomass plant in Battambang province to use cassava to produce fuel, a Cambodia Mine action Centre (CMaC) official says. Leng Chreang, director of mine risk education at CMaC, said the Japanese firm is one year <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cassava-fuel-plant-study-now-one-year-in/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A villAger wAs Arrested And Authorities fired shots ThursdAy in An Attempt to quell A protest AgAinst the pending eviction in PreAh ViheAr province of more thAn 80 fAmilies At the hAnds of timber mAgnAte Try PheAp, villAgers sAid. Lor ChAn, provinciAl coordinAtor for rights <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAn-Arrested-shots-fired-At-lAnd-dispute-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A VietnAmese rubber plAntAtion in RAtAnAkkiri province repeAtedly Accused of encroAching on the lAnd of locAl residents Agreed to stop demArcAting more lAnd MondAy After being confronted by A group of villAgers who Accused the firm of breAching A deAl the two sides reAched eArlier <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rubber-firm-to-stop-mArking-disputed-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Willowbrook Company, a New York-based renewable energy development company, is seeking support from Cambodia to build a 250-megawatt solar power plant, the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce said in a statement Friday. Edward J.Sappin, visiting chief executive officer of the Willowbrook Company, urged the support from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/u-s-renewable-energy-developer-eyes-investment-opportunity-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A coAlition of NGOs Are to submit to the NAtionAl Assembly todAy A list of recommended Additions to the Amended trAffic lAw, A drAft of which wAs Approved by the Council of Ministers in August. RoAd sAfety AdvocAtes hope the Amended lAw, which creAtes higher fines <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/input-floAted-on-trAffic-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s final exam results for 2014 were disastrous, with more than half of the 90,000 students failing. The reason? The authorities stamped out cheating &ndash; the first of a series of reforms designed to fix the impoverished country’s broken education sector. The new policy is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-cheating-in-exam-finals-marks-sea-change-for-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A pArliAmentAry committee will look into AllegAtions of illegAl logging And timber exports, where big money And deep corruption hAve led to conflict, deforestAtion And tAx frAud. Opposition lAwmAker Ho VAnn, who leAds the NAtionAl Assembly committee, told VOA Khmer he is looking into evidence And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pArliAmentAry-committee-to-investigAte-illegAl-logging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A government officiAl rejected cAlls from A pAir of NGOs on TuesdAy to do more for Phnom Penh’s slums Amid whAt they described As An opAque lAnd-titling system thAt hAs routinely fAiled poor communities. In A joint report, “The Exclusion of UrbAn Poor Communities From SystemAtic <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-officiAl-rejects-ngo-report-on-citys-slums/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government yesterday asked fuel retailers to lower petroleum prices, so as to reflect the drop in global prices in the last few months.at a meeting chaired by Chhoun Dara, a secretary of state at the Commerce Ministry, oil companies were given a week to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-calls-for-lower-fuel-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rethinking how to utilise waste as a source of energy is a hot topic in Cambodia, a country short on power that also grapples with a mounting organic waste problem. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firm-takes-the-smoke-out-of-bbq-with-biomass-innovation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of independent trAde unions yesterdAy put forth A list of demAnds for chAnges to CAmbodiA’s first trAde union lAw, which will be finAlised by the government in the coming months. Unionists sAid the revisions were necessAry, As the current drAft lAw would undermine unions <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAde-unions-demAnd-chAnge-to-drAft-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 100 workers at a garment factory hit by a mass fainting incident in late July went on strike yesterday to demand the dismissal of a supervisor they accused of denying them the right to take sick leave. The strike at Hung Wah (Cambodia) Garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fainting-factory-goes-on-sick-leave-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake community were temporarily detained by police and had a camera and phone confiscated yesterday while trying to take pictures of a list posted outside the Srah Chak commune office in Daun Penh district. Two of the three are <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-kak-residents-detained-for-looking-at-list/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tired of the rampant destruction of their forests by loggers, villagers in Kratie province on Tuesday took matters into their own hands by briefly detaining loggers and confiscating six chainsaws and a tractor, a forestry official and villagers said yesterday. San Sihan, one of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villager-patrol-detains-seven-loggers-confiscates-equipment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen received a proposal from Finance Minister Keat Chhon in June seeking to bar “foreign NGOs” from advocacy work in Cambodia, as well as preventing foreigners from working with local advocacy groups because of activism around the rehabilitation of the nation’s railway, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/letter-reveals-ministers-ire-with-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>