About 100 ethnic minority members were forced to trek 12 km on WednesdAy out of A Stung Treng villAge on the verge of being flooded by A new hydroelectric dAm After Authorities blockAded A roAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/minorities-forced-to-trek-from-sesAn-villAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Royal Cambodian armed Forces plans to recruit 3,850 new soldiers, the majority of which will be enlisted in a new brigade established after a border row with Laos, a document obtained yesterday showed. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forces-to-get-nearly-4000-more-troops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three and a half years after signing a memorandum of understanding on the project, the Korean International Cooperation agency (KOICa) in Cambodia handed over a $10.1 million aviation training center to the government yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korea-hands-over-aviation-center/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three people, representing 112 migrant families, on Monday submitted a letter to Ratanakkiri province authorities from the National assembly asking them to investigate and resolve a longstanding land dispute involving a Ministry of Interior official. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/na-urges-resolution-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn compAny is teAming up with A ThAi investment pArtner to spend $100 million improving the quAlity of CAmbodiA’s AgArwood trees, According to A memorAndum of understAnding signed by the two compAnies yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-firm-to-help-bolster-AgArwood-quAlity/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Land Management Minister Chea Sophara led a veritable battalion of ministry officials in a survey of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building on Saturday morning in preparation for a proposed development project on the site. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/white-building-surveyed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 120-megAwAtt hydropower plAnt in western CAmbodiAn province of PursAt will come into operAtion on ThursdAy After A Chinese developer completed five- yeAr construction, A senior energy officiAl sAid MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/120-mw-plAnt-in-cAmbodiA-to-stArt-operAtion-this-week/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Stung Treng Provincial Court on Tuesday charged a 25-year-old man with illegal fishing after he allegedly used a grenade to kill fish in a protected stretch of the Mekong River in Thala Barivat district. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-charges-man-for-fishing-with-grenade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mao Monivann, a parliamentarian for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, says he has not received a response from top government officials on whether they are addressing the construction of a road from Vietnam into Mondolkiri province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-response-to-opposition-query-on-alleged-border-violation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forty-three years ago, a 500-pound MK-82 bomb fell from a U.S. warplane and onto a house in Choeung Lang village, crashing through the roof and lodging in the soft dirt beneath the floor. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/live-us-bomb-dug-up-from-under-shophouse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAn wAs killed And his wife left unconscious After lightning struck their stilted home As they took shelter from A storm in BAttAmbAng province’s Mong Russei district on ThursdAy, A locAl officiAl sAid on FridAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/one-deAd-in-bAttAmbAng-lightning-strike/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In the face of growing criticism and calls for a boycott of their services, Virak Buntham bus company has offered compensation to a customer who says he was robbed on a Siem Reap to Sihanoukville sleeper bus. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boycott-of-virak-buntham-bus-company-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) represents the executive wing of government. It is responsible for implementing laws and directing general affairs of the state in accordance with policy programs and state planning approved by parliament (the National assembly and Senate). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/executive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has a large number of United Nations agencies, international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engaged in humanitarian, rehabilitation, and development initiatives as well as disaster risk reduction and disaster management.Under the Law on Disaster Management (2015), article 32, if the National Committee for Disaster <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/non-governmental-preparedness-and-response-agencies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A womAn wAs killed And At leAst six others shot yesterdAy morning when police fired live Ammunition into A crowd of hundreds of rioting gArment workers in the cApitAl’s Stung MeAnchey district. UN reports sAid police Also Arrested 37 people, including seven monks, As A result <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/strikers-police-clAsh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s forests have seen a significant reduction of total forest and dense forest cover in recent years, the growth of plantations, particularly rubber, and an ongoing problem with illegal logging. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/forests-and-forestry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sino Grain, a Chinese agriculture company, has come to Cambodia seeking to import milled rice to China. Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh has encouraged the company to invest in Cambodia by building a rice processing plant in the country and not merely exporting grain. a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-seeks-rice-from-the-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A representAtive of MireA AppArel FActory in the cApitAl’s MeAnchey district hAd promised thAt more thAn 500 “AgitAted” workers would receive A month’s worth of bAck pAy tomorrow, A union officiAl sAid yesterdAy. Free TrAde Union executive officer Um LinA sAid thAt fActory representAtives hAd Also <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAnkrupt-gArment-fActory-promises-to-pAy-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Five hundred hectares of Mondolkiri land inside a protected wildlife sanctuary have been granted to a rubber company, sparking concerns among indigenous minorities who rely on the forest. according to a sub-decree dated august 31 and signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, the government approved an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/500-hectares-of-sanctuary-granted-to-rubber-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of internAtionAl NGOs urged the AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) yesterdAy to press the government on AbAndoning its plAns for A lAw regulAting the country’s non-governmentAl groups despite A recent pledge to drop its most controversiAl provision. “The ADB should convince the CAmbodiAn Authorities to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/group-urges-regionAl-bAnk-to-press-government-on-ngo-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>