In a 10-page filing, the lawyer for independent radio station owner Mam Sonando yesterday urged the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to release his 71-year-old client on bail, arguing that he is no flight risk and the legal arguments for keeping him are flimsy. But while <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sonandos-lawyer-rejects-claims-for-detention/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Human rights activist Ny Chakrya has received a subpoena to give evidence at Phnom Penh Municipal Court in the latest development in a defamation case against him that has been heavily criticised by international observers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/subpoena-calls-adhoc-activist-for-questioning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has officially launched its new strategy for the cassava industry, which aims to position Cambodia as a reliable supplier of cassava-based products to the global market, according to a high-ranking government official. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-strategy-for-cassava-industry-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Although costs cAn be high for borrowing And it cAn be difficult to pAy regulArly every month, the trend of borrowing from bAnks by CAmbodiAn people to buy property is still steAdily increAsing, According to experts. Keuk NArin, vice president of AsiA ReAl EstAte CAmbodiA, sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rise-of-housing-loAns/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia has granted operating licenses to 2,424 new companies in the first seven months of 2014, up 44 percent compared with 1,688 firms over the same period last year, according to the latest report of the Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-44-rise-in-new-company-registrations-in-7-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As hundreds of protesters rAllied outside the SenAte FridAy morning, 44 ruling pArty senAtors voiced their support for the controversiAl NGO lAw before Approving it unAnimously And sending it on to the ConstitutionAl Council. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cpp-senAtors-Approve-ngo-lAw-As-hundreds-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Opponents of the controversial draft law on associations and NGOs (LaNGO) hope that the Constitutional Council can succeed where protests and vote boycotts have failed. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-call-for-review-of-lango-by-constitutional-council/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The president of the Free Trade Union yesterday sent a letter to the Ministry of Labour’s inspection department to monitor working conditions at M&amp;V factories in Kampong Chhnang province, alleging excessive overtime is causing workers to faint. “They have to work both in day and night <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-president-calls-for-inspectors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three reporters and a publisher were arrested in two separate cases of attempted extortion in Stung Treng and Kratie provinces on Sunday after stopping vehicles suspected of carrying illegally logged timber, according to local authorities. Mom Mon, 54, and Kim Noeun, 28, reporters for the Sangkum Khmer and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/journalists-publisher-arrested-over-alleged-timber-extortion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s business community welcomed the news yesterday that the county’s longest-ever parliamentary deadlock had come to an end &ndash; a resolution investors say will help ease fears of political instability. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday struck a deal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deadlock-end-lifts-business-spirits/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An increAsing number of CAmbodiAns see themselves fAring worse, A GAllup polls suggests. In A globAl survey releAsed eArlier this month, the US-bAsed firm rAnked CAmbodiA neAr the very bottom in terms of life sAtisfAction, And it found thAt 34 percent of surveyed CAmbodiAns consider themselves <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/increAsingly-cAmbodiAns-sAy-they-Are-suffering-poll/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Labor is preparing to enact regulations that would provide some amount of monetary relief to workers left in the lurch by factory owners who flee the country. The widespread practice has led to a number of months-long protests as more and more factory <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fleeing-factory-owners-to-pay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/?post_type=tablepress_table&p=161834 ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday was optimistic about the country’s steadily growing trade with Vietnam and foresaw that the bilateral trade volume would definitely reach $5 billion by 2015. The two-way trade volume was valued at $3.5 billion last year, up 25 percent year-on-year. Speaking <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-vietnam-trade-bound-to-hit-5-bln-usd-in-2015-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A teAchers’ union hAs Accused educAtion officiAls in OddAr MeAnchey province’s Anlong Veng district of steAling 21 million riel, or About $5,200, thAt hAd been slAted As overtime pAyments for primAry school teAchers. In A letter sent to the EducAtion Ministry on MondAy, the CAmbodiA Independent <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAls-Accused-of-embezzling-teAchers-sAlAries/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Education Ministry plans to spend nearly $5 million on the national high school exam this year. Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said yesterday that the ministry spent about $4.8 million preparing for the national exam every year.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-sets-down-exam-rules/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior government officiAl hAs urged All internAtionAl And locAl pArtners to chip in for demining projects And work together so thAt CAmbodiA Achieves its mine-free stAtus by 2025. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cmAA-urges-stAkeholders-to-redouble-efforts-for-mine-free-2025/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government has approved a second phase of a pilot project in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey provinces that will this time see professional caregivers rather than volunteers visit the homes of the elderly to assist with domestic work, hygiene needs and general companionship. “Families are the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/help-for-the-elderly-extended/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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