An estimAted 3,000 gArment workers from vArious fActories rAllied At the cApitAl’s Freedom PArk on WednesdAy to protest AgAinst the low wAge hike for 2014. The strike wAs led by pro-opposition trAde unions. It hAppened A dAy After the government decided to rAise A monthly minimum <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-pro-oppositions-trAde-unions-rAlly-AgAinst-low-wAge-hike-for-2014/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Police have yet to identify any suspects in a pair of vicious robbery-shootings in Phnom Penh late last month that left an american expatriate and a Japanese tourist hospitalized with gunshot wounds, police said Monday. at about 7 p.m. on September 27, american construction consultant Maurice <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-investigation-into-robbery-shootings-yields-no-suspects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forty-two families from Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on Sunday held a demonstration to protest their pending eviction in favor of a Chinese company that plans to establish a sugarcane plantation on the land the families have occupied for almost three years. Local authorities have told <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-protest-eviction-by-chinese-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s opposition leader called Wednesday for a halt to land concessions granted by the government to foreign companies in the country’s vast Prey Lang Forest, calling for greater protection of one of Southeast asia’s last remaining lowland evergreen woodlands. Cambodia National Rescue Party President Sam <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-opposition-leader-urges-halt-to-forest-land-concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new locAl Airline is Applying to fly in CAmbodiA, According to AviAtion officiAls, At A time when the mArket is monopolised by nAtionAl flAg cArrier CAmbodiA Angkor Air And A hAndful of cArriers offering chArtered routes. RoyAl Spirit Airlines lAst FridAy met with the StAte <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-locAl-cArrier-to-lAunch-flights/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday accused the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party of hypocrisy, claiming that although the CNRP has pushed garment workers to strike for no less than a $160 minimum wage, party leaders pay their own bodyguards, drivers and cooks half that. Opposition leader <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/only-paying-lip-service/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Early this month, in what looks like a failed attempt to save its reputation, australia‘s aNZ Bank severed its ties with Phnom Penh Sugar, a company accused of a range of human rights abuses linked to its plantations in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia. The move <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anz-bank-accused-of-abandoning-farmers-after-splitting-with-sugar-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Every week, dozens of diabetics gather at a home in the Boeng Kak lake neighborhood to have their weight, blood sugar levels and blood pressure checked. They are among 12,000 impoverished people across the country taking part in the NGO MoPoTsyo’s peer support program, which allows <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/life-saving-diabetes-program-in-limbo-as-state-funds%e2%80%88fall-through/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A development firm owned by CPP SenAtor LAo Meng Khin And Accused of illegAlly evicting thousAnds of fAmilies from centrAl Phnom Penh recently sold A smAll piece of its project AreA for $14.9 million to A compAny with ties to one of Prime Minister Hun <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hun-sens-sister-tied-to-compAny-in-boeng-kAk-lAnd-sAle/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 7,000 workers protested in front of the Wing StAr Shoes Co. Ltd. fActory in Kompong Speu province on MondAy, demAnding thAt the compAny rAise their bonuses by $5 And properly enforce A number of lAbor lAws, A union officiAl sAid. The strike comes ten months <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-demAnd-bonus-increAse-lAbor-lAws/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

When 200 villagers from Kratie province walked into Samakki Raingsey pagoda seeking safety and shelter early this month, they weren’t the first to do so. The villagers, whose homes in Snuol district had been torched by authorities just days earlier, were walking a well-trodden path&mdash;a path <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-pagoda-offers-haven-for-the-marginalized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The private sector and industry professionals were engaged yesterday in the first consultation with the asian Development Bank (aDB) and the government in an effort to understand the factors affecting Cambodia’s economy, and ultimately determined that human capital, infrastructure, innovation and regulatory issues as the key areas <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/adb-maps-kingdoms-needs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Putting a new spin on a traditional art form isn’t a simple thing to achieve, but for niche fashion enterprise artisan Designers (aND) an ambitious new branding campaign is seeing Cambodian handicrafts pushed in a new direction. Opening eight months ago on the tourist-friendly street 240, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-spin-on-an-old-traditionartisan-designers-and/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ANZ RoyAl BAnk chief executive DAmiAn Bell hAs resigned from the post he held for not much more thAn A month, A compAny spokeswomAn confirmed yesterdAy. He resigned “severAl weeks Ago”, Libby Armstrong, A Hong Kong-bAsed ANZ spokeswomAn, sAid by phone. No explAnAtion wAs offered for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/exit-of-Anz-royAl-ceo-unexplAined/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two Cambodians were repatriated yesterday after being rescued from a fishing vessel at a port in Senegal on Friday, thanks to collaborative intervention by the International Organization for Migration and Senegalese authorities. Toy Koeun, 29, from Pursat province, and Som Pich, 20, from Kampot province, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/men-rescued-from-fishing-boat-slavery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Improved fiscal management and preparation for a decline in foreign aid would help increase Cambodia’s credit rating, according to a quarterly credit opinion from Moody’s Investor Service, which maintained a stable outlook for the country. Reduced exposure to crisis and stagnation in Western economies, continued foreign <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/moodys-offers-update-on-kingdoms-credit-outlook/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three families have lodged complaints against China National Heavy Machinery Co after a storm at the company’s hydropower dam project in Koh Kong province on September 10 swept away a group of workers, leaving two dead and five missing, rights group adhoc said yesterday. Neang Boratino, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-file-complaint-over-missing-dam-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A RAtAnAkkiri ProvinciAl Court prosecutor yesterdAy summoned An ethnic minority JArAi mAn in O’YAdAv district to explAin to the court his AllegAtions thAt locAl Authorities hAd threAtened to kill him for exposing A lAnd-sAle corruption rAcket. RomAs ChhvAng, 45, filed A complAint to the court At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jArAi-mAn-gets-dAy-in-court/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An 18-yeAr-old BAttAmbAng womAn who wAs working As A mAid in MAlAysiA hAs become the lAtest in A string of domestic workers to die there this yeAr, And the second to die in less thAn A month, SRP lAwmAker Mu SochuA And the womAn’s fAmily <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Another-cAmbodiAn-mAid-dies-in-mAlAysiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A regionAl meeting on disAster risk reduction And climAte chAnge wrApped up yesterdAy with officiAls pointing to the recent flooding As A reAson to tAke immediAte Action to prepAre for disAsters. “We must not sleep or wAit for donors to tAke Action,” Ross SovAnn, deputy secretAry-generAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/recent-floods-underscore-need-for-Action/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>