Thirteen women protesters from Boeung Kak lake were yesterday sentenced to two and a half years in prison after a three-hour trial that was widely condemned as illegal – and which prompted SRP lawmaker Mu Sochua to urge the international community to suspend aid to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-women-jailed-after-three-hour-trial/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new mobile dating and networking service called Chibi, designed to be used by even rural Cambodians, has made an agreement with Smart Mobile to enable anyone with a mobile phone to inexpensively meet and send messages to potential love interests. Australian David Wilkie and his href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mobile-dating-finds-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Korean investors are relocating labour-intensive businesses to countries such as Cambodia after Indonesia raised its minimum wage. A number of Korean investors had closed their Indonesian factories and relocated to other countries in the region because their requests for minimum-wage exemption had been refused, The Jakarta href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-from-korea-relocate-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers accused of incitement in a long-running land dispute with a company owned by the wife of a government minister did not show up for scheduled questioning yesterday at the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court, officials said. On September 17, KDC Development company, owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Minister of Industry, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-land-disputes-with-firm-dont-show-for-questioning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a rare intervention, the Thai Labor Ministry has stepped in to stop the exploitation of migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar at a seafood factory in the country’s south, correspondence obtained by the Post reveals. The ministry found the Phatthana Seafood factory, in Songkhla province, which employs href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-cracks-down-on-exploitative-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Royalist party Fun­cinpec has joined the opposition in calling for international involvement in an investigation into election irregularities. “I have issued a request to ask for the creation of an independent committee to investigate the irregularities,” Funcinpec secretary-general Nhek Bun Chhay said. While the party failed to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/funcinpec-joins-call-for-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The success Qatar’s Ooredoo had with being issued a mobile phone licence in Myanmar is an encouraging development for Middle East investors who are looking into the possibility of entering a venture or opening a business in Southeast Asia. Let’s take a look at Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-next-powerhouse-for-asean-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s main opposition party accused long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen of a ‘constitutional coup’ on Wednesday and said it could call a general strike as it steps up protests over its complaints of vote-rigging in July’s general election. “We condemn this National Assembly, this government href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opp-threatens-general-strike-after-constitutional-coup/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two monks living a remote pagoda in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district said yesterday that a shot had been fired at their living quarters last Tuesday in what they suspected was a threat motivated by their conservation efforts and participation in an opposition rally. Venerables Sam href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/threats-after-activism-monks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian-focused Geopacific Resources (ASX: GPR) has now released its 10 for 17 non-renounceable rights issue which will raise up to A$3.0 million at $0.05, and forms part of a larger funding package. In August GPR outlined a funding package which will include an equity placement of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/geopacific-resources-outlines-rights-issue-funds-to-advance-copper-project-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leaders were questioned in court Tuesday in connection with recent protests against strongman premier Hun Sen — a case they denounced as politically motivated. Prosecutors at Phnom Penh Municipal Court spent several hours grilling Sam Rainsy and his deputy Kem Sokha about unrest that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-opposition-leaders-questioned-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group of Cambodian-Americans plans to file a criminal complaint at the International Criminal Court against Prime Minister Hun Sen and senior officials, accusing them of human rights violations and obstructing justice for the victims of the Khmer Rouge. The complaint will be submitted to the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-group-plans-to-file-against-hun-sen-at-international-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has labeled the trial of two teenagers arrested during the lethal suppression of a garment sector strike in November 12 as “deeply flawed” and said that the pair should be spared prison sentences. In a statement Sunday, the rights organization claims that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hrw-says-trial-of-stung-meanchey-pair-flawed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

For 70-year-old Chan Shay, the choice between working through old age and a retirement in poverty is an obvious one. Shay, a cyclo taxi driver in Phnom Penh, said that while he dreams of retiring to his home in Takeo province, in reality he can see href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-elderly-receive-inadequate-support/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A prominent environmental activist has reached out to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment in a bid to have him oppose a timber trade deal set to be inked between the European Union and Vietnam. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activist-asks-un-to-review-eu-vietnam-timber-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A nearly $1.3 billion coal-fired power station project in Preah Sihanouk province is still in the research and development stage with a construction date still not set, a Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman told The Post. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-date-yet-to-be-set-for-1-3b-coal-fired-station/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group of villagers from a community forest inside Preah Vihear province’s Phnom Tnout Wildlife Sanctuary are collecting thumbprints to evict a family that has been protecting the forest from illegal logging and preventing poaching of endangered species. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-petition-to-evict-family-protecting-phnom-tnout-forest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Stung Hav district administration intervened in a land clearing operation on disputed land in Otres Commune on Saturday, seizing two vehicles as a warning to all parties to cease their activities until a final court verdict is reached. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vehicles-seized-as-authorities-intervene-in-land-clearing-op/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Pang and Siem Pang Khang Lech wildlife sanctuaries’ enforcement teams this month confiscated a total of three chainsaws, two homemade guns, a fish electrocution device and 608 snares, said a BirdLife International Cambodia Programme broadcast on Wednesday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wildlife-sanctuaries-confiscate-illegal-traps-educate-poachers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A member of the Supreme Consultation Forum told The Post on Thursday that he had questioned the Ministry of Mines and Energy over its position regarding a proposed project to develop a sizeable stretch of the Mekong River. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-asked-about-mekong-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...