A working group within Phnom Penh City HAll is continuing its effort to help get compensAtion to Borei KeilA fAmilies who hAve yet to Accept the government’s offer, According to A FAcebook post from Governor PA SocheAtevong, who led A discussion with community members on <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/governor-promises-solution-for-remAining-borei-keilA-fAmilies/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A leAding IndiAn conservAtionist And tiger expert is wArning thAt A multimillion-dollAr scheme to reintroduce the big cAt to CAmbodiA will be A “trAgic fAilure” thAt could cost lives, And thAt its AdvocAtes will come to rue the Attempt.    <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/expert-sAys-tiger-reintroduction-plAn-sure-to-fAil/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Beginning on May 1, traffic police will ramp up enforcement of the new Traffic Law after a month and a half delay, according to a police statement yesterday. Police officials said enough drivers throughout the country now understood the law, paving the way for stricter <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/full-traffic-law-to-be-enforced-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With a $148 million injection of capital through a Share Purchase agreement, National Bank of Canada (NBC) now holds a 90 percent stake in aBa Bank, according to aBa and NBC executives, who ensured that the agreement will not alter aBa Bank’s strategy but enhance <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aba-bank-gets-capital-boost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Indigenous villagers in eastern Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province have filed a complaint in local court against military officers and a land speculator who forcibly confiscated more than 80 hectares (198 acres) of their land, an official from a rights group said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-ninority-villagers-in-eastern-cambodia-file-court-case-over-land-grab/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Most years the rice fields outside Battambang are an unbroken sea of electric green, but this year they look more like a patchwork quilt. Some paddies are a healthy green, but others are a sickly yellow, while others are little more than empty, muddy fields <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/with-little-support-farmers-at-the-mercy-of-the-weather/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A yeAr-long crAckdown on illegAl immigrAtion equAted to A threefold increAse in deportAtions in the first 11 months of 2015, with 4,312 foreigners sent home versus just 1,307 in the sAme period lAst yeAr, According to A DepArtment of ImmigrAtion report obtAined yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/deportAtion-figures-triple/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An officiAl At the Ministry of Mines And Energy hAs confirmed thAt A Chinese compAny is Applying for A license to extrAct gold from A 100-hectAre plot in Mondolkiri province, but insisted thAt the project would only go forwArd with the consent of locAl, smAll-scAle <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-sAys-chinese-gold-mine-in-mondolkiri-needs-locAl-consent/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The European Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution accusing the Cambodian government of laying politically motivated charges against the opposition and calling for aid cuts if its respect for human rights fails to improve&mdash;a loud echo of a resolution it passed just six months ago. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amid-turmoil-eu-calls-for-review-of-aid-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two rare gaurs, a mother and calf, have died after being found trapped in a snare in the Cardamom Mountains’ Samlot Protected area, according to the sanctuary’s chief and an official from the Maddox Jolie-Pitt (MJP) Foundation, a wildlife NGO founded by angelina Jolie. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-trapped-gaurs-die-in-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new pAper from the InternAtionAl CriminAl Court lAying out A shift in focus to crimes linked to environmentAl destruction And the unlAwful dispossession of lAnd hAs rekindled the debAte over whether the court will lAunch An investigAtion into A cAse highlighting lAnd-grAbbing in CAmbodiA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/icc-move-fuels-debAte-on-cAmbodiAn-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A CAmbodiAn subsidiAry of ThAi electronics mAnufActuring services compAny SVI Plc is moving closer to commencing construction on A fActory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh thAt will mAnufActure electronics equipment for export to the US And Europe, A compAny representAtive sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/svi-to-lAy-groundwork-on-electronics-plAnt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A proposed power trAnsmission line to be constructed At the edge of the Tonle SAp FloodplAin Protected LAndscApe As eArly As next yeAr will pose A new threAt to A criticAlly endAngered bird species known As the BengAl FloricAn, According to the Wildlife ConservAtion Society <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/power-line-project-threAtens-highly-endAngered-bird-org/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The trend of Cambodian workers flocking to Thailand can have a devastating ripple effect on children living on the margins in the border town of Poipet, where they face a litany of risks such as drug use, sexual abuse and physical violence, according to a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poipet-children-face-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thai police have arrested a fourth suspect in the weapons smuggling case linked to a Cambodian immigration officer, according to Thai media, while a senior Cambodian Defence Ministry official said yesterday that any suggestions that the weapons came from Cambodia’s military arsenal had been ruled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fourth-held-in-thailand-weapons-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials from the Preah Vihear provincial Land Management Department and Rovieng district yesterday inspected a piece of land at the centre of a dispute between gold mining company Delcom and 56 families following a petition the families filed last month at the Ministry of Land <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-dispute-mine-land-in-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With 10 days remaining until a government-imposed deadline for the U.N.’s human rights office to either sign a new agreement to operate in the country or close down, there is no sign that the two sides have come any closer to reaching a deal. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/clock-ticking-for-uns-rights-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Malaysian-owned power infrastructure provider Pestech (Cambodia) Ltd has been awarded a contract to build a 230-kilovolt transmission line valued at $100 million to connect Koh Kong province’s Stung Tatai hydropower dam to Phnom Penh, according to a filing on the Malaysian stock exchange. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pestech-awarded-100m-transmission-line-contract/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sihanoukville autonomous Port (PaS), which operates the Kingdom’s only deepsea port, reported a modest increase in container traffic during the first six months of the year, compared to a year earlier, a trend its director said should result in higher profits for the listed company. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-port-rides-wave-of-increasing-container-traffic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Oil giant Chevron has been ordered by a U.S. district court judge to turn over a wide range of documents and information it may possess relating to the murder of political analyst Kem Ley at a Phnom Penh Caltex gas station in July last year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chevron-subpoenaed-over-kem-ley-murder-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>