Almost $1 million in compensAtion remAins to be pAid out And A perpetrAtor hAs yet to see jAil time over A KAmpong ChAm scAm thAt ensnAred 180 fAmilies, the Supreme Court heArd on MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/victims-press-for-compensAtion-imprisonment-over-million-dollAr-rurAl-scAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Siem Reap Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced Cambodian lawyer Mao Tan Eam to two-and-a-half years in prison for purchasing child prostitution, but he will not spend a single day in jail after the court suspended the entire custodial sentence, an official said. Deputy provincial prosecutor <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawyer-who-paid-for-sex-with-boy-avoids-jail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives for garment sector employers and employees will vote on Wednesday for their respective final proposals for the new minimum wage next year.​ Two weeks ago, members of the tripartite minimum wage negotiations began a series of meetings to discuss their various salary proposals. The Garment Manufacturers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-wage-vote-set-for-tomorrow/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

VimpelCom, the parent company of local mobile operator Beeline, is looking to sell the majority share of its Cambodian assets and has entered into negations with a possible buyer, according to a document obtained yesterday. “VimpelCom intends to dispose its entire indirect 90.0 percent stake in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/beeline-in-negotiations-with-potential-buyer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A protest by more thAn 100 of 300 Prestige GArment Co gArment workers in front of their fActory in KAndAl province’s KAndAl Stung district’s Tbeng commune, the result of their representAtive being dismissed, entered its second dAy on TuesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/kAndAl-rAlly-enters-second-dAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

At A diAlogue yesterdAy with pArliAment members, youth representAtives cAlled for more electorAl trAnspArency And for pArticipAtory roles in government. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/youth-seek-voices-in-government/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A senior officiAl At the Commerce Ministry And the secretAry-generAl of the GArment MAnufActurers AssociAtion in CAmbodiA (GMAC) were both silent yesterdAy regArding A letter sent to the ministry by gArment buyers on FridAy, urging the government to intensify its investigAtion of lAst month’s triple <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-gArment-sector-silent-over-letter-urging-sez-probe/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The price of meat will be higher during Khmer New Year, with prices rising between 2,000 riel and 3,000 riel ($0.50 and $0.75) per kilogram, according to vendors. Som Sreymom, a pork vendor at Kandal market, said the price of pork would hit as much as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vendors-food-prices-rise-before-khmer-new-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Growing demand abroad for Kampot pepper has resulted in production levels for the commodity increasing by 22 percent to 22 tons during this year’s harvest, officials said yesterday. Nguon Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper association, said that the amount of farmland used to cultivate pepper <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-pepper-demand-sees-production-increase/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

High electricity prices, low wages, limited irrigation and modest rice and crop prices were among the top concerns raised by government officials at a workshop in Phnom Penh on Monday to help the World Bank decide how to spend its money on the country over <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-hears-local-officials-woes-for-pending-3-year-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Global coffee-chain giant Starbucks will enter its 12th asian market next month when it opens an outlet in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. RMa Cambodia CEO Rami Sharaf said the expansion into Vietnam did not automatically mean Starbucks would enter Cambodia. “I don’t think there is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/starbucks-to-open-its-first-outlet-in-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Environment is gearing up to introduce bamboo processing sites in two additional community protected regions, a move designed to enhance the livelihoods of local communities. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-oral-wildlife-sanctuary-set-to-house-new-bamboo-processing-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Investors in Cambodia, tied with Yemen as the world’s 164th-cleanest country for doing business, face risks in a planned stock market because of ineffective financial and legal systems, the country’s exiled opposition leader said. “among the little dragons of Southeast asia, Cambodia is the least encouraging,” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asias-newest-stock-market-is-risk-to-investors-sam-rainsy-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government said yesterday that a gold mine in Kompong Cham province that has damaged about 1 square km of land with chemical waste would cost at least $4 million to clean up. Speaking at a workshop in Phnom Penh on revenue transparency, Sim Sisokhaly, director <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/damages-from-mine-to-cost-at-least-4m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Labor activists at the bi-annual Buyers Forum in Phnom Penh on Thursday said that short-term contracts in Cambodia’s garment industry were fueling the high number of strikes affecting the industry. “Most of [the disputes] are over dismissals or dismissals of union leaders and the reason why <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-blame-short-contracts-for-strikes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forty-eight Cambodians will graduate today from what is being heralded as the Kingdom’s first speech-therapy training program. The graduates have been trained to fill a void in speech- and language-therapy services for an estimated 536,000 people in Cambodia affected by communication and swallowing disorders, according to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/speech-therapists-to-help-fill-void/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

“The CPP encourages all companies, owners of factories to give workers and their staff, particularly those registered to vote in the commune elections, appropriate time off so that they may have a chance to cast their votes,” a letter from the ruling party says. The CPP <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-asks-employers-to-give-workers-day-off-to-vote/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Environmental activists submitted a petition to the Ministry of Environment on august 23 requesting the ministry to designate Koh Kong Krao as a marine national park after the government granted rights to  Ly Yong Phat’s Koh Kong SEZ. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environmental-activists-petition-the-ministry-of-environment-to-designate-koh-kong-krao-as-a-marine-national-park/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) continues to go from strength to strength, with the average trading value growing nearly five-fold from 2018 to 2019 to surpass $157,000, the latest report from the market regulator shows.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/regulator-touts-achievements-of-local-stock-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers at two different factories in Phnom Penh suffered mass fainting spells yesterday according to the Ministry of Labor and the factory officials. a Puma owned shoe factory 49 workers fainted and at the Hung Way garment factory another 64 workers fainted. The Puma factory <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mass-faintings-continue-at-two-factories/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>