Families have fallen into poverty and children have dropped out of school due to deficiencies in the asian Development Bank’s rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railway system, according to a complaint filed to the bank’s compliance review department. according to David Pred, managing associate for NGO Inclusive Development International, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/railway-compliance-complaint-sent-to-adb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese ambassador Kuroki Masafumi met with human rights workers on Friday to discuss land rights in Cambodia, particularly implementation of the law and the use of force in evictions, two of the participants at the meeting said. adhoc President Thun Saray, Licadho President Pung Chhiv Kek and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-rights-talks-held-with-japanese-envoy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni began a 3-day state visit to Vietnam starting on Monday at the invitation of Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang, local media reported. The visit, the fourth made by Cambodian king since he came to the throne in 2004, will likely elevate further <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-king-visits-vietnam-to-cement-bilateral-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment factory workers who set tyres ablaze during a strike on Friday claimed yesterday they were burned when police pushed them into their own fire. Snguon Vannary was one of several workers who said his feet had been burned when police broke up the strike at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tae-young-strikers-claim-police-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Time is running out to rid the proposed ASEAN HumAn Rights DeclArAtion of clAuses thAt would restrict peoples’ rights rAther thAn protect And enhAnce them, civil society groups sAid yesterdAy. NAy VAndA, deputy heAd of the monitoring section of rights group Adhoc, sAid civil society groups needed more <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/window-closing-on-Ahrd-ngos/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The family hotpot-style restaurant Master Suki Soup has opened its ninth restaurant in Cambodia, on Sothearos Boulevard adjacent to Hun Sen Park, with the newly relocated German Fresh Beer brew pub and German menu upstairs. The soft opening took place on Thursday night as Master Suki <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ninth-master-suki-soup-opens-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Less than two weeks after being released from prison, the 13 women convicted in May for protesting evictions at Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community staged their first public action yesterday. The women, joined by about as many neighbors, submitted petitions to the australian, French, U.K. and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/released-boeng-kak-women-back-to-old-ways/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five women from the Boeng Kak lake community met with the U.S. ambassador-at-large for women’s affairs on Saturday in Siem Reap City, asking the U.S. to intervene in their case and put pressure on the Cambodian government to stop violence against women. Meeting on the sidelines <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-kak-women-meet-us-ambassador-for-womens-affairs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Demand for low-quality white rice from african buyers has forced Thai exporters to purchase additional stocks from Cambodia and Vietnam to meet orders because domestic rice is in short supply due to government buying scheme, traders said on Wednesday. The price of 25 per cent broken grade Thai <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asia-rice-thai-exporters-seek-vietnamese-cambodian-rice-to-meet-deals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has gained the investments of 178 million U.S. dollars from its aSEaN member states in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia said this week. From January to June this year, the country granted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-invests-178-million-in-cambodia-for-the-first-semester-of-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 60 monks will march across Pailin province next week in an effort to educate migrant workers on ways to protect themselves from being infected by malaria, health workers and officials said yesterday. Migrant workers are particularly at risk for malaria because they often sleep <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monks-to-school-migrant-workers-on-malaria/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Unions and the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) are unlikely to walk out of their final minimum wage meeting today with an agreed-upon increase for workers, industry insiders said yesterday. Both parties have reaffirmed their respective positions: GMaC secretary-general Ken Loo said yesterday that “nothing’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sides-dig-in-over-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance H.E. Keat Chhon announced that Cambodia would be free from the Official Development assistance (ODa) by 2030. Speaking to the U.S. ambassador to Cambodia H.E. William E. Todd in a discussion at the ministry yesterday, H.E. Keat <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-be-free-from-oda-in-2030/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The area under Viet Nam Rubber Group’s cultivation in Laos and Cambodia totals 100,000 ha, including 27,000 ha under the group’s seven rubber projects in Laos. By the end of 2012, VRG had 21 rubber projects in Cambodia, including 19 rubber tree plantations and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-in-brief-272-cambodia-laos-rubber/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police arrested five activists from labour-rights group Clean Clothes Campaign yesterday outside the E Garment factory in Kandal province. Neuv Sakhan, deputy director of the Kandal provincial immigration police, told the Post four women and one man, from Norway, Belgium, England and austria, had been taken <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-activists-detained/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Group Lease has decided to raise the capital of its wholly owned Singaporean subsidiary Group Lease Holdings to serve as the main funding source for its Cambodian motorcycle leasing operations after six months of satisfactory trial operations there. Cambodia, which is managed by Group Lease’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-lease-boosts-singapore-unit-to-fund-cambodia-operation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Department of Foreign Trade plans to set up a “rice trade zone” project in the East to process Cambodian rice for export to other countries. Tikhumporn Natvaratat, deputy director-general of the department, said his organisation plans to implement the project in Chanthaburi, Trat, Sa Kaeo <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-trade-zone-to-be-set-up-in-east/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities hAve demolished the homes of 25 fAmilies living on the site of An obsolete Airfield in PreAh ViheAr province’s ChoAm KsAn district, A rights group And the fAmilies sAid SundAy. The fAmilies were ordered to move off the lAnd on WednesdAy, with the district governor <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/preAh-viheAr-Authorities-destroy-Airfield-homes/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

British minister for trade and investment Lord Green would visit Cambodia next Monday in order to boost bilateral trade and investment ties, according to a media statement from the British Embassy to Cambodia on Wednesday. Mark Gooding, British ambassador to Cambodia, said trade between UK <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/british-trade-minister-to-visit-cambodia-next-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia observed the Forest Day on Tuesday, urging people to plant trees in order to ensure the sustainability of forest and environment. The celebration was presided over by King Norodom Sihamoni and attended by Prime Minister Hun Sen and senior officials of the government, the parliament, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-marks-forest-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>