While tourism numbers in Cambodia are growing rapidly, visitors might increasingly have a hard time finding a restaurant to their liking since the country is experiencing a shortage of qualified personnel, especially waiters and chefs, accordingly to the Cambodia Restaurant association. “The tourism industry needs at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hey-waiter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Committee for Disaster Management was preparing to ensure end-of-season floods did not compound the woes caused by months of drought, officials said yesterday. To minimise the effects of flooding, the NCDM had sent a request to the Council of Ministers for 16,000 tonnes of food and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disaster-management-officials-prep-for-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A prime piece of Phnom Penh reAl estAte wAs put up for Auction lAst week by A South KorAn government Agency Attempting to recoup tAxpAyers’ money lost during A bAnk collApse lAst yeAr. Bids hAve been mAde thAt could see A new development on the site, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAnk-collApse-sees-property-up-for-grAbs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Council of Ministers on Friday signed off on the Lower Sesan 2 dam project in Stung Treng province, despite long-standing criticism leveled against the project by environmental groups who say it would adversely affect 100,000 people as a consequence of reduced access to fish. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-approves-dam-on-lower-sesan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CP Laos and CP Cambodia are investing a combined Bt250 million to set up a new silo for maize in Cambodia and a new feed-meal plant in Laos to strengthen CPF’s integrated agricultural-industrial business as the asean Economic Community (aEC) approaches. Most recently, the company <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpf-subsidiaries-investing-bt250m-in-laos-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign donors have spotted a multi-millon dollar salary supplement scheme for civil servants falter failing to work out the details of the plan’s future with the government, several donors said yesterday. “Some of the government’s partners decided to end the payments at the end of June”, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/donors-end-bonuses-for-civil-servants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Election monitoring groups are questioning the National Election Committee (NEC) recent decision to let a Phnom Penh casino fund its new multi-million dollar headquarters, a move they said would cast further doubt on the body’s independence. NagaCorp, the owner of Phnom Penh’s only licensed casino, NagaWorld, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monitors-question-casino-building-new-election-body-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

While shopping for a brand-new television, 27-year-old Loek Bunhai recently bought a Sony flat-screen at the Sunsimexco retail outlet on Phnom Penh’s Monivong Boulevard for $345. But with a monthly salary of $300 from his job as a microfinance officer in Phnom Penh, Mr. Bunhai was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microfinance-firms-look-to-retail-lending/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers detained during a bloody crackdown in Kratie province last week in which a 14-year-old was shot dead have accused security forces of brutal acts of cruelty, including forcing pregnant women to stand naked in the sun for hours. The villagers from Pro Ma village in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/security-forces-strip-handcuff-women-in-kratie-amid-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 villagers from Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district protested yesterday on land they say was stolen from them in 2007 and recently cleared by a former community representative, whose uncle is a local commune chief Villagers said lang Hai, who acted as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-claim-by-commune-chiefs-nephew-is-disputed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government on Saturday said it had closed its investigation into the fatal shootings of a well-known activist and a military police officer after the arrest of a security guard. Ran Boroth accidentally shot dead In Rattana, a military policeman who had just gunned down <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-closes-probe-into-activists-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB), which hAs so fAr contributed $84 million towArd the rehAbilitAtion of CAmbodiA’s dilApidAted rAilwAy network, sAid yesterdAy it would support A deAl to drop the current rAilwAy  operAtor if it meAns the new concessionAire would foot the $60 to $100 million needed <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAnk-would-bAck-firm-to-tAke-over-rAil-project/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appeared to add his voice to the strong government reaction against criticism from U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi. Mr. Subedi last month delivered reports on human rights and economic land concessions in Cambodia to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. His <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-adds-voice-to-reactions-against-un-envoys-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government approved 103 factories with a combined investment of $660 million last year a big increase from the previous year’s 52 factories valued at $230 million, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia. Industry representatives and economists said the sharp <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-capital-for-factories/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The road to Srekor I village in Stung Treng province’s Sesan district is a bumpy one. The small discomfort caused by being jolted about on a motorcycle or being thrown around in a car, however, is offset by the striking scenery that surrounds a traveller <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/livelihoods-felled-by-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Welcome to CPP country. On the roads snaking up from Banlung through Ratanakkiri’s lush mountain passes up to O’Yadav district, samdechs peer down from billboards and farmers in dirt-streaked party shirts speed past on dilapidated motorbikes. It is perhaps a measure of how successful the ruling <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpps-political-machine-purring-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new Air route mAy connect MAcAu And CAmbodiA this yeAr, A move industry experts sAy would reduce trAvel costs in the region And reflects tourist interests in both destinAtions’ gAmbling industries. SeverAl Airlines Are in contAct with CAM, MAcAu InternAtionAl Airport Co, “seeking to lAunch <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAcAu-to-cAmbodiA-route-in-negotiAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

At leAst 23 workers were hurt in CAmbodiA on MondAy when police using stun bAtons moved in to end A protest over pAy At A fActory thAt mAkes clothing for U.S. sportsweAr compAny Nike , A worker And A trAde union representAtive sAid. Police with riot <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-police-clAsh-with-thousAnds-of-gArment-workers-23-hurt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A London-bAsed sugAr trAde AssociAtion Aiming to promote A more ethicAl And sustAinAble industry will meet eArly next month to consider A request from CAmbodiAn fArmers thAt it eject U.K.-bAsed sugAr firm TAte &Amp; Lyle from the group unless it gives them bAck their lAnd. Some <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/group-considers-complAint-AgAinst-sugAr-giAnt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A verdict in the brutAl slAying lAst yeAr of An investigAtive journAlist in RAtAnAkkiri province is due to be hAnded down by the provinciAl court todAy following A reinvestigAtion into the cAse. HAng Serei Odom, 42, A reporter for the VirAkchun Khmer DAily, wAs found hAcked <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/verdict-due-in-cAse-of-brutAlly-slAyed-reporter/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>