A popular chief monk who was found dead on Monday at his pagoda in Kompong Speu province committed suicide after becoming overburdened by debt from a road construction project he had undertaken, a police official and senior monk said Thursday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chief-monk-commits-suicide-over-road-construction-debt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian NGO director who on Saturday took about 40 of his primary- and high-school students on a trip to a disputed border area in Svay Rieng province was beaten by Vietnamese civilians and imprisoned overnight, officials said Sunday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-director-arrested-by-vietnamese-authorities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A coalition of Cambodian nongovernmental organizations will stage a peaceful protest on Monday outside parliament in the capital Phnom Penh to oppose proposed legislation that they say will restrict their activities, an official with a prominent domestic rights groups said. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-civil-society-groups-to-stage-mass-protest-against-ngo-draft-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-three families in a village in Pursat province currently embroiled in a land dispute with a company owned by tycoon Try Pheap have claimed that authorities are putting pressure on locals in an attempt to quash the issue. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-fear-eviction-in-dispute-with-try-pheap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has rebuked the United Nations after a UN office released a statement admonishing recent political developments in the Kingdom, while an opposition lawmaker is making a last-minute attempt to stop one of those developments from becoming law. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-slams-interfering-un/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-corruption Unit (ACU) sent a letter to a lawmaker from the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Real Khemrin, over the accusation that he embezzled from a recent trip to visit Cambodia-Vietnam border.​ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-asks-an-opposition-lawmaker-to-give-answer-over-an-alleged-corruption-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian court on Sunday charged opposition senator Hong Sok Hour with three counts of crimes and ordered to place him in a pre-trial detention, according to court officials and a defense lawyer. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-court-charges-opposition-senator-with-3-counts-of-crimes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Over 100 members of the Prov ethnic community in Ratanakkiri province have filed a complaint with a local rights group claiming to have been defrauded for tens of thousands of dollars by a broker for an international investment firm. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-accuse-firm-of-taking-some-60000/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a plan to increase the amount of borrowing from foreign countries by as much as 33 percent over the next three years, in a bid to counter a decrease in grants and concessional loans. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-approves-plan-to-increase-foreign-borrowing-over-3-years/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new ruling-party commune chief in Koh Kong province has refused to accept a petition from village residents asking for a resolution to their dispute against Senator Ly Yong Phat. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-koh-kong-commune-chief-says-cannot-help-sugarcane-disputants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

AN HOUR’S drive south of Phnom Penh, deep in rural Cambodia, Chrek Heang is doing the rounds of his rapidly expanding poultry and fisheries business. Just four years ago he was living, like most of his countrymen, in a small wooden hut with a tin href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-bank-that-likes-to-say-less-cambodias-greatest-commercial-success-story-is-not-over-yet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile firm CooTel, a subsidiary of a large Chinese tele­communications corporation, is making plans to enter Cambodia’s oversaturated mobile phone market, officials said. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications granted CooTel’s parent company, Xinwei (Cambodia) Telecom Co. Ltd., an operating license in August 2011 and the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-joins-crowded-telecom-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In late 2009, two months after graduating with a degree in economics, Heng Piseth found a job as a credit officer with a microfinance institution in Kampong Thom province. The story reflects a larger trend confronting young Cambodians entering the financial sector’s job market. While href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/promotions-few-in-financial-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Inside a shop in a restored building on the corner of Sothearos Boulevard and Street 266, nearly 10 Cambodians wearing the same uniform are walking around and cleaning tables. By the end of this year, Brown Coffee will have a total of eight branches in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-brands-standing-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian provincial court today dropped charges against a military police officer and his wife accused of murdering a reporter investigating the country’s illegal timber trade, drawing protests from the journalist’s wife and from human rights and environmental advocacy groups. Hang Serei Oudom, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-court-acquits-two-in-slaying-of-journalist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday heard the case of two port workers and a military police officer charged with stealing more than 8,000 articles of clothing from a shipping container while it was being driven to the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port. The three suspects—Sorn href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-hears-garment-heist%e2%80%88case-involving-port-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodia People’s Party (CPP) on Monday rejected an opposition proposal to revamp the country’s electoral body as they met for a third round of talks aimed at breaking a seven-month political deadlock following disputed polls. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s Cambodia National href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-ruling-opposition-parties-at-odds-over-electoral-body-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Video footage of Daun Penh district deputy governor Sok Penh Vuth bashing a defenceless man with a bullhorn on Monday has sparked outrage and demands for his ouster, but his boss told the Post yesterday that people shouldn’t be too hasty to judge, suggesting the footage may href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/video-cant-be-trusted-district-gov/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sonatra Securities a designated broker has launched its operations in Cambodia ahead of the launch of the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX). As one of the four companies licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia, Sonatra will be able to buy and sell shares href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/broker-opens-ahead-of-csx-launch-date/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Returning to the negotiating table is once again a possibility for the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority now that they have a stronger legal team. Due to the appointment of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic advisor to Cambodia, Thailand put the 2001 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oil-dispute-cnpa-ready-to-discuss-claims-area/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...