A group of activist monks say they will force CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun to apologize for a heated discussion he had with a monk on Monday if he tries to enter one of their pagodas in the future. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monks-demand-apology-from-cpp-lawmaker-after-pagoda-visit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Malaysian construction company building a hotel next to Phnom Penh’s iconic “White Building” has agreed to fortify a four-story crack that appeared in the apartment block in February, deputy municipal governor Chreang Sophan said Thursday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-firm-to-fortify-crack-in-white-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A lawyer for prominent rights advocate Ny Chakrya on Wednesday confirmed that she had received a lawsuit against her client from a pair of court officials in Siem Reap province who accuse him of defamation and other crimes. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/defamation-suit-reaches-human-rights-advocate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A small group of women technologists made the semi-final round of a global entrepreneurship competition recently, after designing a mobile app that could help farmers get better prices for their goods. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/geek-girls-prove-technology-is-not-just-for-boys/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Reinforcing a view that land grabbing is now a business for some rural Cambodians, several villagers who were paid Wednesday for ending their squat on a palm oil plantation reappeared 48 hours later, laying claim to different parts. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-grabbers-back-in-business/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty undocumented Vietnamese laborers are being held for deportation after they were arrested Friday during a raid on a construction site for a new Acleda Bank branch in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, an immigration official said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-migrants-nabbed-at-acleda-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

After a Khemerak University student was jailed in Phnom Penh on Saturday over a social media post calling for a “color revolution” in Cambodia, the school’s director Monday claimed that politics had “poisoned” students at his institution. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rector-says-student-was-warned-against-activism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When a 100-metre-long section of a Phnom Penh garment factory crumpled in on itself like a cheap pup tent, Sen Sok district officials promised an investigation. The results of that investigation, which was to have taken place more than a year ago, in March 2012, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/standards-building-up-safety-fears/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Anger over the violent attack on peaceful protesters at Wat Phnom on Sunday night simmered at the site Monday morning, with the same demonstrators returning to confront their alleged attackers and detaining a police official they accused of spying. Shortly before 11 p.m. on Sunday night, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bruised-but-not-beaten-protesters-return-to-wat-phnom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling party has reportedly won in national elections Sunday, but it appears to have lost a significant number of seats in parliament. According to preliminary election figures released by Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, the Cambodian People’s Party won 68 of 123 National Assembly seats. That’s a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-preliminary-results-ruling-party-seats-diminished-in-election-win/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Construction is due to start shortly on a socially responsible sun-glass case and cleaning cloth factory in Siem Reap. Pactics produces 40 per cent of cases and cloths for the larget sun-glass factory in the world, Luxottica, which has brands including Ray Ban, Oakley and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/socially-responsible-factory-to-give-better-deals-to-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Danish beer giant Carlsberg, a partner in Cambodia’s largest brewery, Cambrew, said it is not concerned by a call to boycott its popular Angkor Beer brand over a partner company’s investment in a Laos dam. Ben Morton, vice president of Carlsberg’s international media relations and issues href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/carlsberg-unworried-by-call-for-beer-boycott/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Returning from a state visit to Japan on Tuesday, a member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government dismissed the possibility that newly upgraded ties with Japan and Cambodia’s decision to join its Asean neighbors in a “freedom of overflight” pact with Tokyo might strain its href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-says-strategic-partnership-with-japan-wont-irk-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 people, including 20 monks, held a ceremony in Phnom Penh on Friday in memory of the five people killed a week beforehand when military police opened fire on protesting garment workers, and demanded that the government introduce a mandatory, sector-wide standard minimum wage. In href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/groups-demand-mandatory-minimum-wage-threaten-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has asked the Asian Development Bank to suspend funding to Cambodia, whose government he says was not formed legally following the July elections. In a letter to ADB President Takehiko Nakao, Sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-asks-adb-to-suspend-funding-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Defendants in a mass trial of 25 men and teenagers accused of joining a string of violent garment worker protests continued to profess their innocence during the second day of hearings at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday. Twenty-three of the men were arrested in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-protest-trial-defendants-deny-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Russian businessmen Nikolai Doroshenko and Sergei Polonsky are locked in a legal dispute over Sihanoukville’s Victory Beach following Mr. Polonsky’s release from prison last month, according to copies of court documents obtained Monday. The Preah Sihanouk provincial court has temporarily prevented Mr. Doroshenko from transferring the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-temporarily-halts-lease-transfer-for-victory-beach/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is nearing a deal that would open a pipeline of workers to Saudi Arabia, a country where Southeast Asian migrants have in the past been abused and even executed for crimes that include “sorcery”. Following a meeting in Hanoi last week with Saudi Ambassador Salah href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deal-would-send-workers-to-saudi-arabia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling CPP agreed in principle to two of seven proposals put forth by the opposition CNRP on Monday during the first meeting of a joint electoral reform commission. Emerging from a four-and-a-half hour meeting at the Senate, leaders of the CPP and CNRP working groups href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/slow-start-for-joint-electoral-reform-commission/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A host of protesters rallied at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday to demand that it intervene to resolve a land dispute involving a company and hundreds of families in Koh Kong province. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesters-rally-at-ministry-over-koh-kong-land-fracas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...