Thousands of garment workers at one Phnom Penh factory, and about 100 more at another, protested Thursday over the new minimum wage set for the garment sector late last year, upset that those already earning higher salaries were overlooked. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senior-garment-workers-also-want-salary-raise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is likely to come under scrutiny as parties to the UN’s anti-landmine convention gather in Geneva this week, with a recent report saying the Kingdom is unlikely to hit its mine clearance targets, even under an already-extended deadline.The 14th meeting of states parties to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdoms-mine-targets-out-of-reach/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A yeAr from now, 23-yeAr-old Sum TiArA will grAduAte from the RoyAl University of LAw And Economics with A degree in lAw. At the moment, however, she needs to eArn A living And pAy for her studies by working in bArs And restAurAnts in Phnom Penh. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/grAduAtes-feAr-cAreer-jobs-woe/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s security regulator has slashed transaction fees on securities by half in its latest bid to stimulate interest in the Kingdom’s lacklustre stock exchange. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/securities-transaction-fees-reduced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The World Bank has approved  $93 million credit from the International Development association (IDa) for the Cambodia Land allocation for Social and Economic Development Project III (LaSED III). The project will help improve land tenure security and access to infrastructure and agricultural and social services <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poor-to-benefit-from-93-million-world-bank-approved-loan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has requested that Canada consider supporting a research project and review the current status of minefields as related to land use across the country to reduce the cost and time for demining. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/canada-called-to-chip-in-for-demining-work/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nine companies have put in bids for the rights to dredge the lengths of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers and sell the sand for export, Water Resources Ministry officials said yesterday, noting that the dredging would be beneficial in terms of deepening the waterways. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-opens-rivers-to-sand-dredging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A TAiwAnese womAn And five AssociAtes chArged with trAfficking CAmbodiAns to work in slAve-like conditions on fishing boAts off the coAst of AfricA hAd their cAse heArd by the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court on WednesdAy. Lin Yu Shin, the 54-yeAr-old owner of the now defunct GiAnt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tAiwAnese-firm-in-court-over-trAfficking-fishermen-to-AfricA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Chinese government on Thursday donated 203,000 U.S.dollars to the Chinese association in Cambodia to support schools offering Chinese language courses in Cambodia. Chinese ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo handed over the money to Duong Chhiv, the president of the Chinese association in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-donates-to-encourage-chinese-language-education-at-cambodian-schools/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A dAy After police in KAmpong Speu province Arrested six striking workers, the unexpected presence of About 100 militAry police officers At A gArment fActory in TAkeo province hAd some union Activists feAring the worst. Collective Union of Movement of Workers (CUMW) president PAv SinA yesterdAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-presence-hAs-strikers-on-edge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government has ordered ang &amp; associates Lawyer Co. Ltd., a company headed by well-known businessman Kith Meng, to cease logging in an area of Stung Treng province where a hydropower dam will be built. Sesan district governor Yeang Srey Sary said Thursday that a delegation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-suspends-logging-in-stung-treng-dam-concession/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More males are applying  for jobs online compared to females, highlighting a deep gender division in the country’s workforce, according to Everjobs Cambodia’s second quarter career report. “Over 68 percent of online applications came from male job seekers and only 32 percent from female applicants,” said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gender-imbalance-in-job-applications/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Laos has postponed construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam project on the Lower Mekong River, a spokesman for its Ministry of Foreign affairs was quoted saying on Wednesday. “No construction is going on. It’s discontinued, postponed,” Sithong Chitgnothin told Radio Free asia in Laos. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-postpones-construction-on-xayaburi-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC) in collaboration with relevant authorities has started investigating non-governmental organisations (NGOs), associations, companies and individuals that have illegal investment schemes to collect funds from the public, said a top official of the regulator. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/serc-begins-probe-into-illegal-investment-schemes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As more thAn 90,000 students Across the country sweAt over results thAt will rule them in or out of university, Prime Minister Hun Sen on MondAy Announced thAt those who fAiled the tightly monitored 2014 nAtionAl exAm would be given A second chAnce to pAss. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/students-who-fAiled-exAm-get-second-chAnce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Three rights monitors were called in for questioning by Mondulkiri provincial police after they filed an attempted murder lawsuit against a land concessionaire employee last week, claiming they were violently denied access to an area under investigation for forest crimes, adhoc said yesterday. adhoc provincial coordinator <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mondulkiri-police-question-adhoc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mike Weeks and Delayne Weeks of Canada had a dream five years ago: create a gold mine. Do it in a nation that has never produced gold commercially. Use the process to educate and enrich an impoverished population. The country is Cambodia. The mine is in northeast <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/canada-couple-bring-chinese-indians-into-cambodia-gold-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday questioned a university student who was arrested last month after he called for a “color revolution” in a Facebook post, his lawyer said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/student-questioned-over-facebook-comment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Total outstanding loans in the microfinance sector reached $815.47 million in the third quarter, a 25.8 percent rise compared to beginning of the year, according to data released yesterday by the Cambodia Microfinance association (CMa) Despite growth in the sector, microfinance institutions said nonperforming loans were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nonperforming-microloans-swell-due-to-floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AustrAliAn trAnsportAtion solutions provider Toll Holdings remAined silent yesterdAy on whether it would be pulling out of its 30-yeAr contrAct to operAte CAmbodiA’s rAilwAy system. In A report published on TuesdAy, the Sydney Morning HerAld cited “reliAble sources in CAmbodiA” As sAying thAt the compAny would <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/toll-group-mum-on-possible-rAil-project-exit/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>