The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Saturday announced that it would launch a mass protest on Oct. 23 in order to submit a petition to the United Nations. “a mass protest will be held on Oct.23 from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at the Freedom Park (in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-opposition-announces-to-stage-mass-protest-on-oct-23/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Water Resources impounded five barges in Kandal province on Saturday for flouting a government ban on sand dredging on the Mekong River, an official said Sunday. Chan Youttha, cabinet chief for Water Resources Minister Lim Kean Hor, said the minister personally led a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/barges-impounded-for-breaking-sand-dredging-ban-in-kandal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dozens of protesters called Monday for the release of Cambodian activists arrested during a bloody crackdown last month, as a prison official said several of the detainees were on hunger strike. The brief rally was held outside the Ministry of Justice and the appeals Court to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-activists-stage-hunger-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that the government would not allow the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party to use garment workers as “political hostages” in a strongly worded rebuke of what he painted as a conspiratorial relationship between the CNRP and a number of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-slams-cnrp-incitement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) released a statement on Friday expressing concern over three recent cases of reporters facing harassment while attempting to document illegal logging in Preah Vihear, Pursat and Kompong Cham provinces. Sorn Mongkul, a reporter for Kampuchea Thmey newspaper based in Preah <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/journalists-covering-logging-denounce-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About hAlf of the University of HeAlth Science’s clAss of 2014 risks not grAduAting this yeAr, hAving refused to register for A new compulsory finAl exAm. A 2007 sub-decree stAtes thAt A nAtionAl-level exAminAtion for medicAl students would be implemented from thAt AcAdemic yeAr onwArds. But <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/medicAl-students-govt-tussle-over-new-exAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The opposition may be readying a formal request that the United Nations and King Norodom Sihamoni play a role in future negotiations between the Cambodia National Rescue Party and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. On a trip to Takeo province on Saturday, CNRP deputy president Kem <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-looks-to-un-king/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A month After A cAll for civil servAnts to strike for higher pAy, Prime Minister Hun Sen on MondAy ordered government ministries to ensure thAt stAff Are pAid on time, And sAid thAt otherwise workers could Air their grievAnces in the press. The prime minister’s remArks, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/civil-servAnts-given-go-AheAd-to-denounce-lAx-bosses-in-mediA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The International Finance Corporation’s compliance ombudsman has officially accepted a complaint filed by ethnic minority families in Ratanakkiri province against the IFC for investing in rubber plantations accused of stealing land and clearing forests. In a letter sent to the families on Monday, the ombudsman deems <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ifc-accepts-complaint-over-ratanakkiri-rubber-plantations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Preah Vihear provincial governor Oum Mara has sent a letter to inform Interior Minister Sar Kheng that he is ordering an NGO to close its local offices, on the grounds that the organization is inciting villagers to destroy sugarcane farmed by a Chinese company. In the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-vihear-governor-to-close-ngo-office-for-inciting-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 13 VietnAmese nAtionAls were Apprehended by CAmbodiAn fishermen on SundAy night while illegAlly fishing off the coAst of KAmpot province And Are being held for repAtriAtion, According to A villAge representAtive And the provinciAl governor. NeAk Sen, A representAtive of A fishing community <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/illegAl-vietnAmese-fishermen-cAught-in-nighttime-operAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A wAterfAll hAs been blAsted less thAn two kilometres from the CAmbodiAn-LAo border, beginning work on Another unApproved hydroelectric dAm on the Mekong river, environmentAl group InternAtionAl Rivers clAimed yesterdAy. PiAnporn Deetes, the ThAilAnd cAmpAign coordinAtor for InternAtionAl Rivers, sAid she hAd leArned of the excAvAtion work, neAr <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAo-dAm-breAks-ground/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Lack of trust from investors has so far limited the growth potential of the growing number of Cambodian technology startups. Five-year old Khmerload, a Cambodian entertainment news website modeled after the american media giant Buzzfeed, has become one of the country’s first local tech startups <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-start-to-see-potential-returns-in-cambodian-startups/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The setting is familiar &ndash; a garment factory in Kandal province that supplies Levi’s and Gap &ndash; and so is the number of people involved, but a strike that has raged at Yung Wah Industrial II factory since Monday has a twist: it’s worker versus worker and union versus <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-skirmish-using-factory-as-battleground/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 13 February 2023, asian Network for Free Elections issued a statement condemning the shutdown of Voice of Democracy (VOD) in Cambodia.The asian Network for Free Elections (aNFREL) condemns the shutdown of the Voice of Democracy (VOD) in Cambodia today, a blatant attack on media <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/anfrel-condemns-the-shutdown-of-voice-of-democracy-vod-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 500 villagers involved in a land dispute with a private firm in Kratie province will protest outside the provincial court today to demand that a villager representative arrested Friday be released on bail. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/500-villagers-plan-protest-for-bail-hearing-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior scholAr tAsked with reseArching the borders sAid yesterdAy thAt LAos plAns to file A lAwsuit AgAinst CAmbodiA to the InternAtionAl Court of Justice over A border dispute in Stung Treng province. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/reseArcher-sAys-lAos-plAnning-court-cAse-over-disputed-border/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As pArt of A deAl signed between CAmbodiA And ChinA, A group of officiAls from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture hAs stArted A study on improving the modernisAtion of the locAl AgriculturAl sector. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-experts-begin-study-on-Agriculture/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A high-rAnking Chinese officiAl hAs vowed to boost ties with CAmbodiA to A new high, noting thAt the Kingdom hAs steAdy economic development during A meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/relAtions-with-chinA-to-continue-growing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Five Cambodian Muslims were killed outright and nine others injured in a collision between an oil tanker and a minibus on Friday morning in western Cambodia’s Pursat province, a local police chief said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oil-tanker-crashes-into-minibus-killing-5-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>