The National Bank of Cambodia will develop a blockchain-based payment system with help from a Japanese financial technology startup to offer people a secure, low-cost way of sending and receiving money.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-taps-japanese-blockchain-tech-for-payment-system/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ethnic minority Kreung villagers filed a complaint against commune level authorities on Saturday for allegedly accepting money from a businessman to clear their ancestral land for a new rubber plantation in Ratanakkiri province, local NGOs and villagers said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kreung-minority-file-complaint-over-land-clearing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A locAl conservAtion group yesterdAy cAlled for severAl chAnges to A drAft sub-decree meAnt to turn CAmbodiA’s Prey Long Forest into A protected AreA, concerned it could end up hArming, rAther thAn conserving, the forest. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/group-wAnts-chAnges-to-prey-long-forest-protected-plAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Farmers from Kampong Thom province’s Baray district filed a complaint to the authorities yesterday accusing a village chief of signing off on the sale of their land to a local businesswoman. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-cry-foul-on-land-sale/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A villAge of 212 hectAres in BAttAmbAng’s BAvel district hAs neArly become A ghost town After An Alleged lAnd grAb by three tycoons hAs forced hundreds to find work AbroAd, locAls And A rights group sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bbAng-villAge-heAds-for-border/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A ROYAL CAmbodiAn Armed Forces helicopter, one of A group of Z-9 helicopters received from ChinA in 2013, hAs crAshed during A trAining exercise in Phnom Penh’s DAngkor district, killing five people with one seriously injured. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rcAf-helicopter-crAshes-killing-5/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of Activist monks sAy they will force CPP lAwmAker ChheAng Vun to Apologize for A heAted discussion he hAd with A monk on MondAy if he tries to enter one of their pAgodAs in the future. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/monks-demAnd-Apology-from-cpp-lAwmAker-After-pAgodA-visit/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A MAlAysiAn construction compAny building A hotel next to Phnom Penh’s iconic “White Building” hAs Agreed to fortify A four-story crAck thAt AppeAred in the ApArtment block in FebruAry, deputy municipAl governor ChreAng SophAn sAid ThursdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/construction-firm-to-fortify-crAck-in-white-building/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A lAwyer for prominent rights AdvocAte Ny ChAkryA on WednesdAy confirmed thAt she hAd received A lAwsuit AgAinst her client from A pAir of court officiAls in Siem ReAp province who Accuse him of defAmAtion And other crimes. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/defAmAtion-suit-reAches-humAn-rights-AdvocAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A smAll group of women technologists mAde the semi-finAl round of A globAl entrepreneurship competition recently, After designing A mobile App thAt could help fArmers get better prices for their goods. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/geek-girls-prove-technology-is-not-just-for-boys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Reinforcing a view that land grabbing is now a business for some rural Cambodians, several villagers who were paid Wednesday for ending their squat on a palm oil plantation reappeared 48 hours later, laying claim to different parts. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-grabbers-back-in-business/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Twenty undocumented Vietnamese laborers are being held for deportation after they were arrested Friday during a raid on a construction site for a new acleda Bank branch in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, an immigration official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-migrants-nabbed-at-acleda-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After A KhemerAk University student wAs jAiled in Phnom Penh on SAturdAy over A sociAl mediA post cAlling for A “color revolution” in CAmbodiA, the school’s director MondAy clAimed thAt politics hAd “poisoned” students At his institution. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rector-sAys-student-wAs-wArned-AgAinst-Activism/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Secretary-General ant&oacute;nio Guterres (right) meets with Samdech akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia in New York. Photo taken from the UN website on 22 September 2022.The United Nations (UN), founded in 1945 and guided by the UN <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/united-nations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Voice from Cambodia&ndash;Time is running out. Photo by Oxfam International, taken on 21 October 2009. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Climate change is the long-term change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns. While the climate of the earth has always gone through periods of change, modern scientific evidence <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/climate-change/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction is due to start shortly on a socially responsible sun-glass case and cleaning cloth factory in Siem Reap. Pactics produces 40 per cent of cases and cloths for the larget sun-glass factory in the world, Luxottica, which has brands including Ray Ban, Oakley and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/socially-responsible-factory-to-give-better-deals-to-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Danish beer giant Carlsberg, a partner in Cambodia’s largest brewery, Cambrew, said it is not concerned by a call to boycott its popular angkor Beer brand over a partner company’s investment in a Laos dam. Ben Morton, vice president of Carlsberg’s international media relations and issues <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/carlsberg-unworried-by-call-for-beer-boycott/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Returning from a state visit to Japan on Tuesday, a member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government dismissed the possibility that newly upgraded ties with Japan and Cambodia’s decision to join its asean neighbors in a “freedom of overflight” pact with Tokyo might strain its <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-says-strategic-partnership-with-japan-wont-irk-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 100 people, including 20 monks, held A ceremony in Phnom Penh on FridAy in memory of the five people killed A week beforehAnd when militAry police opened fire on protesting gArment workers, And demAnded thAt the government introduce A mAndAtory, sector-wide stAndArd minimum wAge. In <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/groups-demAnd-mAndAtory-minimum-wAge-threAten-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has asked the asian Development Bank to suspend funding to Cambodia, whose government he says was not formed legally following the July elections. In a letter to aDB President Takehiko Nakao, Sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-asks-adb-to-suspend-funding-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>