A company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem, with the backing of a mounting police force, pushed ahead Tuesday with walling off a swath of land in Kompong Chhnang province that has been at the center of a seven-year land href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/extra-forces-dispatched-as-kdc-walls-off-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Tourism will hold an emergency meeting with industry leaders and representatives in Phnom Penh today to look at what can be done to curb the loss of cross-border visitors resulting from unrest in neighbouring countries. Minister Thong Khon yesterday emphasised the need for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourism-campaign-to-counter-unrest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As illegal logging con­tinues to take a toll on the country’s woodlands, civil society groups yesterday called on the government to stay true to its commitment of providing an extra two million hectares of community forest by 2029. During a two-day conference in the capital, participants href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forest-promises-unfulfilled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

At least three Cambodians who have travelled to work as maids in Singapore since August last year as part of a pilot scheme have complained to worker welfare groups there about employer abuse and poor working conditions, including molestation and the slapping of a worker. In href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maids-abused-in-singapore/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Kompong Speu Provincial Court on Tuesday charged six union representatives with incitement over a protest near the Wing Star Shoes factory earlier that day, in a move unions say was unjustified and meant to intimidate. Court prosecutor Keo Sothea said all six were charged with href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-unionists-charged-with-incitement-after-roadblock/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

After a two-month investigation, police were confident enough to arrest and interrogate nine people on Saturday over an alleged kidney trafficking ring at the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital, including its director Ly Sovann, a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). But href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-say-mistake-made-kidney-transplants-legal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 Cambodia’s Appeal Court on Friday granted bail to three opposition youth activists, who were arrested early this month for alleged involvements in a violent protest last month, a defense lawyer confirmed. “Appeal Court’s Judge Seng Sivutha decided to release the trio on bail,”Chen Lida, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-court-frees-3-opposition-activists-on-bail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The auditor who submitted a report used to convict a husband and wife of embezzling tens of millions of dollars from a company owned by the wife of a tycoon senator admitted yesterday that the quality of his audit was “poor”. The report was used href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anco-report-flawed-auditor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

“I trust the Cambodian doctors with a simple problem. But if it’s a serious illness, and I need an operation or something, I don’t really trust them,” said Ly Molina, 31, a businesswoman from Phnom Penh. Ms. Molina spoke as she waited for a bus to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-health-care-cambodians-choose-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A BHP Billiton mining deal being investigated for alleged corruption was personally overseen by Cambodian strongman Hun Sen, diplomatic cables reveal. The miner’s aborted attempt to establish a bauxite mine in Cambodia, and its hospitality program for Chinese officials at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, are at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strongmans-hand-in-bhp-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An Australia-based firm that announced a plan to explore for gold in Ratanakkiri province insisted Monday that its Cambodian venture is still on track, despite allegations made in an Australian newspaper that it has garnered investment based on false information. Astra Resources, which has companies incorporated href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/astra-says-gold-exploration-project-still-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng yesterday called on authorities in each province and municipality to ease demonstrations in the capital by creating a site for non-violent protests ahead of a planned opposition rally on Saturday. In a two-page letter sent to provincial officials, Kheng – who href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/provinces-to-get-protest-sites/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week after she was released from prison pending a retrial on controversial criminal charges laid down last year, housing rights activist Yorm Bopha on Thursday led a march of about 500 people to deliver a petition calling on the government to end href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-kak-activists-protest-state-violence-against-women/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Credit Suisse, a financial services firm based in Switzerland, has been accused of aiding land grabbing in Cambodia by becoming a major shareholder in Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group. In a statement released today, Global Witness (GW), an NGO based in England, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/credit-suisses-hagl-holdings-drawing-fire/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Activists for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party in Siem Reap have found an unexploded grenade, near a site where opposition leaders were expected to hold a meeting Thursday. The rusty grenade was found less than 50 meters from where Rescue Party leaders Sam Rainsy href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grenade-found-near-opposition-rally-site-in-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An indigenous Bunong minority community in Mondolkiri province’s Keo Seima district on Wednesday filed a complaint claiming that authorities had destroyed their homes, but authorities allege that the villagers are living on land owned by a private company. Villagers claim that since November, 37 homes in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bunong-living-on-land-concession-evicted/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A local police official in Banteay Meanchey province allegedly ordered a villager to shoot a 16-year-old boy with an assault rifle during a crackdown on illegal fishing on Tuesday, a rights group said Friday. The boy, Eang Sok, who was hit by bullets in both feet, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-says-police-officer-ordered-boy-shot/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha used a radio interview on Wednesday night to clarify his stance on the talks last week between Prime Minister Hun Sen and CNRP President Sam Rainsy to end the post-election deadlock, in which a date for a new election was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kem-sokha-says-hun-sen-misrepresented-talks-with-sam-rainsy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A family locked in a longstanding land dispute with a powerful real estate tycoon claims company guards late on Sunday night once again attempted to burn down their Tuol Kok home. The alleged attempted arson is the latest in a slew of bizarre at­tacks on the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cobra-house-family-again-accuses-security-guards-of-arson/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Locally owned Singapore Banking Corp. (SBC) will rebrand itself Thursday as Cathay United Bank (Cambodia) Corp. Ltd., or CUBC, as part of a deal that finalizes the acquisition of SBC by Taiwanese financial corporation Cathay United Bank, according to a copy of a speech that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sbc-to-rebrand-following-taiwan-acquisition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...