About 200 villAgers, who hAve been embroiled in A long-running lAnd dispute with the well-connected Agro-business PheApimex over A 316,000-hectAre economic lAnd concession in PursAt province, stAged A protest yesterdAy AgAinst the compAny’s continued efforts to cleAr their fArmlAnd. The protests cAme just three dAys After <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/locAls-protest-pheApimex-lAnd-cleArAnce-deny-role-in-murder/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The reopening of a 48-kilometre rail line between Poipet and Serey Sophorn in Banteay Meanchey province this month was a milestone in the long-delayed plan to restore passenger and commercial train service along the Northern Line that connects Poipet to the capital. But it is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poipet-real-estate-market-full-steam-ahead/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Grassroots Democratic Party yesterday submitted a petition to National assembly President Heng Samrin to seek clarification from the government over the partial reclamation of Boeng Tamouk lake. In 2016, the government issued a sub-decree designating the 3,239-hectare Boeng Tamouk lake in Phnom Penh as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gdp-files-petition-over-boeng-tamouk-lake-reclamation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A feAsibility study on the construction of A new Airport in the Kingdom will be lAunched lAter this yeAr, According to A Ministry of Tourism spokesmAn on MondAy. The plAn wAs Approved lAst week in A meeting held by the Ministry of Economy And FinAnce <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-Airport-study-set-for-2019/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A United NAtions delegAtion yesterdAy met with the government to review A report on sustAinAble development And rAise three points regArding sociAl protection initiAtives in the Kingdom. According to the UN, A government delegAtion is expected to Attend A series of meetings with the Economic <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/government-reviews-report-AheAd-of-un-meeting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Inspired by their affection for the environment, a desire to have a clean and beautiful city, and wanting to send a message to people to stop littering, a group of some two dozen volunteer youths have taken to picking up trash day and night from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/youths-band-together-to-clean-filthy-boeung-trabek-canal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen addressed a group of Cambodian expatriates in New York on Thursday, calling for an end to politically divisive rhetoric and assuring them that he was speaking as a government leader who represented all Cambodians, not as a party politician.However, he also <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-new-york-hun-sen-laments-slurs-slams-cnrp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

True to its New Years resolution to enforce stricter traffic laws, the government pulled over a total of almost 25,000 drivers in the three days after the law came into effect. Though many drivers were sent off with a warning rather than a fine, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/day-of-reckoning-for-bad-drivers-as-new-traffic-law-comes-into-effect/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government released a summary of the country’s industrial sector over the past five years, showing a marked increase in growth across a wide variety of indicators. The report, released by the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) last week, lacks specific data but shows a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/industrial-sector-grows-but-still-reliant-on-garment-factories/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Agriculture Ministry will soon Adopt A nAtionAl stAndArd for orgAnic vegetAble production to creAte product consistency And A single yArdstick for fArmers to work towArd, According to officiAls.A logo thAt will mArk the products As government-Approved orgAnics hAs been designed, And A drAft lAw <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/government-to-endorse-nAtionAl-orgAnic-produce-stAndArd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 100 people in Kratie province staged a peaceful protest on Sunday after excavators mobilized by a South Korean timber firm tried to clear and demarcate concession land, a commune official said yesterday. The company, Think Biotech, was granted 34,000 hectares of land on May <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-protest-puts-brakes-on-land-demarcation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three union members were beaten by a gang of men during a protest outside a factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district on Friday, the Coalition of Cambodian apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCaWDU) said. CCaWDU members Nei Buthoeurn, Chim Khheang and Chan Poeu, were beaten by a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-members-beaten-during-factory-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Direct daily flights between Phnom Penh and Singapore started yesterday with the first Tiger airways flight departing at 8:30am and landing in Singapore at 11:30am, kicking off a seven-days-a-week low-cost service. The company is offering a special price of US$38 one-way from Phnom Penh to Singapore <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tiger-airways-launches-daily-service-to-singapore/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thai police investigating allegations of myriad labor violations at a seafood factory employing hundreds of Cambodian migrant workers have given the facility a clean bill of health. a report last week by a Cambodian NGO, the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), based on interviews with workers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-seafood-factory-receives-glowing-review-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The state-owned Telecom Cambodia reported a 5 percent decline in revenues in the first half of this year due to tough competition in the country’s telecommunication industry, company director general Lao Saroeun said Friday. During the January-June period this year, the firm earned a gross revenue <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-state-owned-telecom-firm-sees-5-revenue-drop-in-h1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite touting its Cambodian venture on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE), a British registered mining firm’s plan to extract gold in Ratanakkiri province stalled and the firm may face legal action over a failed deal to obtain an exploration license. astra Resources Plc. has also gone <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firms-go-to-arbitration-over-failed-gold-mining-license-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A VietnAmese rubber compAny in RAtAnAkkiri province’s O’YAdAw district yesterdAy Agreed to pAy $4,000 in compensAtion to An ethnic JArAi community whose trAditionAl grAveyArd wAs bulldozed by the firm lAst week, locAl officiAls sAid. During A meeting At the PAknhAi commune police stAtion, representAtives of the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/firm-compensAtes-jArAi-After-ruining-grAves/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A representAtive of clothing brAnd H&Amp;M sAid yesterdAy thAt there wAs no conclusive evidence proving thAt stAff from their supplier fActory in KAndAl province hAd committed violence AgAinst A union representAtive on WednesdAy. Nhem SAmphose, A representAtive for the Free TrAde Union At New Archid GArment <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hm-finds-no-evidence-of-violence-At-supplier-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Four unidentified men were arrested yesterday for allegedly killing an endangered and pregnant gaur &ndash; a species of wild bovine &ndash; in a protected wildlife reserve in Mondulkiri province, provincial officials said. after villagers discovered the carcass on Wednesday, provincial authorities along with conservationists in charge <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/killing-of-endangered-gaur-prompts-arrests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Municipal Police this morning released a union leader they scooped off the street yesterday evening for allegedly leading a protest despite a ban on public demonstrations. Sok Chhun Oeung, acting president of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy association (IDEa), left the police station <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-released/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>