Ratanakkiri police and forestry administration officials yesterday raided a house and seized a large pile of various types of timber in O’Yadav district’s Pork Nhai commune. District police chief Mao Sann said the seizure was made during a crackdown on illegal logging in the area. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stock-of-timber-seized-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition figure Sam Rainsy has been invited to speak at the General assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva, according to a former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker. a government delegation is also set to attend the meeting, a National assembly press release <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-government-group-set-to-clash-at-ipu-geneva-meet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The provincial government on Tuesday ordered the creation of a forum in a bid to find a resolution in the 10-year land dispute between 12 ethnic minority communities in Ratanakkiri province and Vietnamese agribusiness giant Hoang anh Gia Lai (HaGL) over 20 ancestral “spirit mountains”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-land-row-forum-created/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Heng Sok, who represented 50 families in a land dispute with Oknha Ly Yong Phat was sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined two million riel ($500) by the Koh Kong Provincial Court on Tuesday, on a charge of “using violence on a property <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/leader-in-koh-kong-land-dispute-is-jailed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 2,000 workers at King Maker Footwear Co continued protesting for a fourth day on Wednesday, as they demanded that 50 per cent of their salary be paid, after their jobs were suspended by the factory for a month due to a lack of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/footwear-protests-continue-into-fourth-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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The Cambodian government has agreed to a request from the Thai Labor Ministry to temporarily block migrant workers from traveling to Thailand for the next four months as it conducts a census into migrants in the country, according to a statement released on Thursday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governments-halt-migration-to-thailand-for-four-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian authorities will not pursue inquiries into the shooting death of a man killed during anti-government protests two years ago, a government spokesman said today as a Cambodian rights group slammed the Southeast asian nation’s “dangerous path” away from democracy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-will-not-investigate-protest-shooting-death-government-spokesman-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian land concessions granted to companies last year affected nearly 80,000 people, displacing many of them and increasing poverty, the NGO Forum on Cambodia says in a new report. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-land-concessions-deepen-poverty-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian exports saw a nearly 20 per cent increase for the first half of the year, as garment shipments to the European Union led the way in making up for a decrease in exports to the United States, according to a new Ministry of Commerce <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exports-up-20-in-h1-on-europe-purchases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday to receive a grant worth more than $150 million, the majority of which will go toward the construction of a massive sports and entertainment complex in Phnom Penh, a sen­ior official <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-meets-chinas-xi-receives-150m-grant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Unionists, factory representatives and Labor Ministry officials on Thursday failed to find a solution for about 1,600 employees of a garment factory in Takeo province who were fired for striking last month, and the case will be passed along to the arbitration Council, a ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/takeo-factory-dispute-negotiations-prove-fruitless/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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The government has broadly adopted a policy to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) teaching in a bid to turn around the Kingdom’s dismal pass rates for the subjects in the 12th grade national examinations, according to a government official.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-policy-to-boost-stem-learning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Royal Railways, the company that holds a 30-year concession to operate the Kingdom’s railway network, is conducting a feasibility study on establishing a commuter rail service to run between the capital’s airport and its central district, the company’s chief executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commuter-rail-link-from-city-to-airport-considered/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has announced a new action plan to deal with the drug problem in Trapaing Chhouk, a slum in the capital’s Sen Sok district that has been an open market for drug use and distribution for over a decade.    <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-five-point-plan-to-tackle-drug-slum/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian officials and Japanese airline all Nippon airways discussed on Friday the possibility of starting a direct flight between the Kingdom and Japan next year, in a bid to facilitate the increase in bilateral business and investment transactions, according to a State Secretariat of Civil <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/all-nippon-airways-mulls-direct-flight-to-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s military police said yesterday that they have sealed the Vietnam border against wood transport following a major crackdown on two tycoons’ logging warehouses on Sunday. Local observers and experts, however, suggested the actions were little more than a hiccup for a long-tolerated illicit trade. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-border-sealed-against-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Consular officials yesterday were working to repatriate a Cambodian maid fleeing what she described as unfair working conditions in Saudi arabia, even as Cambodia’s minister of labour was en route to seal a long-awaited deal to open a pipeline of workers to the Gulf nation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maid-to-return-from-saudi-arabia-as-deal-nears/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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