The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday arrested two reporters and a construction worker in Kampot City for their alleged role in extorting a deputy provincial governor, officials and a colleague of one of the suspects said Sunday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-arrests-reporters-and-construction-worker/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 workers from a Phnom Penh footwear factory got an early start on Tuesday on a cross-union campaign for a $177 minimum wage, set to start today, protesting in front of their factory over internal workplace grievances. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-start-wage-battle-a-day-early/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Defense Minister Tea Banh on Saturday said he would add some 700 additional soldiers to the ranks of the military’s Phnom Penh-based Brigade 70 next year so the unit can better help local military police quell protests. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tea-banh-says-more-soldiers-are-headed-for-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) and the opposition CNRP on Sunday called on the National Election Committee (NEC) to suspend its annual update of the voter list until the new bipartisan election committee is created. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-comfrel-call-for-delay-to-new-voter-list/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP walked out of a meeting of the Phnom Penh City Council in protest on Thursday after their CPP counterparts refused to delay a vote on replacing one of the seven members of the city’s procurement committee. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp%e2%80%88boycotts-vote-on-city-procurement-panel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Nine critically endangered Mekong Irrawaddy dolphins, were born this year, but two of them died, the World Wildlife Fund has said. In a statement issued on Friday, the WWF said the population continues to be threatened by illegal fishing and hydropower dams. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/irrawaddy-dolphin-numbers-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Much of the country could face flooding due to heavy rainfall until Wednesday, the Water Resources and Meteorology Ministry has warned. According to a ministry announcement yesterday, the country will be affected by a low pressure system that will cause heavy rainfall nationwide. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/warning-for-week-of-heavy-rain-and-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a three-year $5.24 billion “public investment program”—a package of several hundred projects from 2015 to 2017 designed to help the government reach its goal of 7 percent annual growth or better. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-passes-5-24b-investment-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide nine poor rural provinces in Cambodia with year-round access to markets and social services through a 118 million U.S. dollars project to provide a safer, cost-effective rural road network, the bank said in a press statement on Monday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/adb-to-support-118m-rural-road-project-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Talks between officials in Preah Vihear province and local villagers whose land is in the way of a proposed domestic airport hit some turbulence on Tuesday, as homeowners bristled over the various forms of compensation being offered. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plan-for-airport-faces-resistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Kampuchea Krom activists are planning yet another round of demonstrations to protest remarks made by a Vietnamese embassy spokesman in June, demanding Prime Minister Hun Sen cut diplomatic ties with Vietnam until a public apology is issued. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-krom-vow-more-protests-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A lead economist working with the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has said that Cambodia needs to rethink its economic model, which is heavily based on export-driven growth, as it prepares to shed least developed country (LDC) status, a transition that is expected to take place by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/economic-changes-needed-says-adb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-corruption czar Om Yentieng on Wednesday applauded high school teachers for overseeing the nation’s cleanest-ever national exam earlier this month, but warned that jail time awaited anyone who is found to be corrupt at the second round of exams in October. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-chief-applauds-teachers-threatens-jail-time-at-2nd-exam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Secret storage depots for illegal timber hidden in the forest in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district were discovered by ethnic minority villagers on Friday, prompting a rights worker to suggest local officials were involved in the illicit trade. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/log-stash-discovered/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition deputy leader and parliamentary first vice president Kem Sokha promised on Saturday to use his party’s status in parliament to summons and vote out long-serving corrupt government ministers with the help of the ruling party. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kem-sokha-wants-to-boot-out-old-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday unveiled a five-year Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation project in Cambodia, which is estimated to cost 16 million U.S. dollars, according to a press statement from the U.S. Embassy to Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-launches-16-mln-usd-nutrition-sanitation-project-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Xin Changxing, vice minister of the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, met here Monday with Ith Samheng, Cambodian minister of labor and vocational training, to discuss ways to further enhance relations and cooperation in labor sector between the two countries. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-human-resources-vice-minister-visits-cambodia-to-strengthen-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 officials from some 20 economies in Asia and the Pacific are meeting with donor institution representatives in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province in a bid to strengthen public financial management systems for climate change adaptation projects, said a news statement on Monday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asia-pacific-officials-discuss-climate-change-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission from Washington, D.C., headed by Sonali Jain-Chandra, visited Cambodia from July 6 to July 20, 2016 to conduct the annual Article IV staff discussions.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imf-staff-completes-2016-article-iv-mission-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Governor has unveiled five new bus lines to launch over the next two months in a bid to improve transport for garment workers. The move came after Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the workers would be allowed to ride on public buses free href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9f%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9a%e1%9e%90%e1%9e%99%e1%9e%93%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%8f%e1%9e%80%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%9a%e1%9e%bb%e1%9e%84%e1%9e%90%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9e%b8%e1%9e%85%e1%9f%86%e1%9e%93/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...