The Chinese-owned Union Development Group in Koh Kong province is bulldozing swaths of its land concession, originally intended for a massive tourist resort, to plant cassava and palm oil trees instead, a CNRP lawmaker-elect said Monday. Son Chhay, lawmaker-elect and CNRP chief whip, visited the area <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/udg-accused-of-farming-instead-of-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bird eye view of a local market in Phnom Penh. Photo by Roberto Trombetta, taken on 8 May 2015. Photo licensed under Creative Commons attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 GenericThe development and administration of Cambodia’s urban areas has struggled to keep pace with urban population growth. For example, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/urban-administration-and-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Malaysia needs to start “paying attention” to a worker protection agreement with Cambodia that has languished for almost two years, a Ministry of Interior official said at a meeting yesterday. The meeting, which included officials from the ministries of Interior, Women’s affairs, Tourism, Foreign affairs and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malaysia-called-out-on-mou/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A RAtAnAkkiri-bAsed humAn rights worker chArged by the RAtAnAkkiri ProvinciAl Court with inciting ethnic minority villAgers to protest during A 2009 lAnd dispute with A privAte Agro-industry compAny hAs been trAnsferred to work in Phnom Penh. Pen BonnAr, RAtAnAkkiri provinciAl coordinAtor for Adhoc , sAid yesterdAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rights-Activist-denies-phnom-penh-move-is-due-to-chArges/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A dispute over territory in the South ChinA SeA is once AgAin set to hAng over tAlks when ChinA And the U.S. join in on A week of high-level AseAn meetings thAt stArt in Phnom Penh on FridAy. So fAr, the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs hAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penh-AseAn-meeting-brAced-for-more-s-chinA-seA-tAlks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Riding a motorcycle with a cage, Pov Nat scours rural areas for dogs. He pays between 30,000 ($7.38) and 80,000 riel a head and sells the animals to a butcher in Siem Reap. The 21-year-old native of Kampong Cham province began buying dogs after coming to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korean-tourists-fuel-demand-for-dog-meat-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A second Chinese gArment fActory mAnAger wAs Arrested yesterdAy for destroying A photogrAph of the lAte King Norodom SihAnouk, while the womAn who destroyed pictures of the lAte monArch At the fActory in Phnom Penh on MondAy wAs convinced And given A one-yeAr suspended sentence, officiAls sAid. Employed <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/second-fActory-mAnAger-Arrested-for-lese-mAjeste/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thirteen women protesters from Boeung Kak lake were yesterday sentenced to two and a half years in prison after a three-hour trial that was widely condemned as illegal &ndash; and which prompted SRP lawmaker Mu Sochua to urge the international community to suspend aid to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-women-jailed-after-three-hour-trial/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new mobile dAting And networking service cAlled Chibi, designed to be used by even rurAl CAmbodiAns, hAs mAde An Agreement with SmArt Mobile to enAble Anyone with A mobile phone to inexpensively meet And send messAges to potentiAl love interests. AustrAliAn DAvid Wilkie And his <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mobile-dAting-finds-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Korean investors are relocating labour-intensive businesses to countries such as Cambodia after Indonesia raised its minimum wage. a number of Korean investors had closed their Indonesian factories and relocated to other countries in the region because their requests for minimum-wage exemption had been refused, The Jakarta <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-from-korea-relocate-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers accused of incitement in a long-running land dispute with a company owned by the wife of a government minister did not show up for scheduled questioning yesterday at the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court, officials said. On September 17, KDC Development company, owned by Chea Kheng, the wife of Minister of Industry, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-land-disputes-with-firm-dont-show-for-questioning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a rare intervention, the Thai Labor Ministry has stepped in to stop the exploitation of migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar at a seafood factory in the country’s south, correspondence obtained by the Post reveals. The ministry found the Phatthana Seafood factory, in Songkhla province, which employs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-cracks-down-on-exploitative-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Royalist party Fun­cinpec has joined the opposition in calling for international involvement in an investigation into election irregularities. “I have issued a request to ask for the creation of an independent committee to investigate the irregularities,” Funcinpec secretary-general Nhek Bun Chhay said. While the party failed to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/funcinpec-joins-call-for-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The success Qatar’s Ooredoo had with being issued a mobile phone licence in Myanmar is an encouraging development for Middle East investors who are looking into the possibility of entering a venture or opening a business in Southeast asia. Let’s take a look at Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-next-powerhouse-for-asean-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s main opposition party accused long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen of a ‘constitutional coup’ on Wednesday and said it could call a general strike as it steps up protests over its complaints of vote-rigging in July’s general election. “We condemn this National assembly, this government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opp-threatens-general-strike-after-constitutional-coup/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two monks living a remote pagoda in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district said yesterday that a shot had been fired at their living quarters last Tuesday in what they suspected was a threat motivated by their conservation efforts and participation in an opposition rally. Venerables Sam <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/threats-after-activism-monks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian-focused Geopacific Resources (aSX: GPR) has now released its 10 for 17 non-renounceable rights issue which will raise up to a$3.0 million at $0.05, and forms part of a larger funding package. In august GPR outlined a funding package which will include an equity placement of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/geopacific-resources-outlines-rights-issue-funds-to-advance-copper-project-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s opposition leaders were questioned in court Tuesday in connection with recent protests against strongman premier Hun Sen &mdash; a case they denounced as politically motivated. Prosecutors at Phnom Penh Municipal Court spent several hours grilling Sam Rainsy and his deputy Kem Sokha about unrest that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-opposition-leaders-questioned-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After reporting 26 humAn H5N1 AviAn influenzA cAses in 2013, by fAr the most of Any country, the Kingdom of CAmbodiA hAs Announced their first cAse of the lethAl bird flu on 2014, According to A Ministry of HeAlth press releAse Feb. 4.   The cAse is A 5-yeAr-old <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/h5n1-AviAn-influenzA-first-humAn-cAse-reported-in-cAmbodiA-in-2014/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of CAmbodiAn-AmericAns plAns to file A criminAl complAint At the InternAtionAl CriminAl Court AgAinst Prime Minister Hun Sen And senior officiAls, Accusing them of humAn rights violAtions And obstructing justice for the victims of the Khmer Rouge. The complAint will be submitted to the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/us-group-plAns-to-file-AgAinst-hun-sen-At-internAtionAl-court/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>