A Sydney-listed company has pulled out of a share purchase deal to acquire the Roxy Casino in Bavet City, citing slack company procedures that suggest the casino “is not currently ready for public company life,” a filing to the stock exchange says. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/australian-firm-pulls-out-of-roxy-casino-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A weekslong strike by more than 2,000 workers from a Phnom Penh factory that supplies global fashion brand H&M ended Wednesday after unions scaled down their original demands and backed down over a condition that workers receive their full salaries for the strike period, representatives href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-talks-workers-return-to-jobs-at-mv-garment-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A month after the first four refugees arrived in Cambodia under a controversial resettlement scheme the government signed with Australia last year, immigration officers on the South Pacific island of Nauru are ratcheting up efforts to convince more refugees to join them, according to a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/australia-pushing-to-send-more-refugees-group/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A vehicle transporting 18 cubic metres of illegally logged timber was stopped on Saturday night by the Wildlife Alliance’s Wildlife Rapid Response Team (WRRT) in Kampong Speu province and is believed to belong to a military officer currently involved in a prior lawsuit over contraband href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/soldier-was-trading-timber/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Former colonial ruler France has agreed to lend a set of maps to Cambodia following a request from Prime Minister Hun Sen and amid a dispute over the demarcation of the Southeast Asian nation’s border with neighboring Vietnam, officials said Tuesday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/france-to-lend-maps-to-cambodia-amid-dispute-over-vietnam-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a strongly worded defence of the proposed trade union law, employer association CAMFEBA released a position paper yesterday claiming the law would curb instances of illegal strikes and a proliferation of minority unions, which it says is needed to harmonise the country’s troubled industrial href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/too-many-unions-owners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Federation of Associations of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FASMEC) is now pushing for the establishment of a special economic zone (SEZ) for small and medium sized enterprises and is currently discussing such a move with the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smes-seek-own-sez/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Land Ministry official said development of Boeng Tamok in northern Phnom Penh was a higher priority than the water body’s preservation, adding that only a lake like the Tonle Sap was worth preserving. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeng-tamoks-development-outweighs-preservation-of-lake-says-land-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A leopard appears healthy and strong as it paces the walls of its cage with a confident swagger and muffled growl that hints at its ferocity. It’s a welcome sight at Kampot province’s much-maligned Teuk Chhou zoo, which less than one year ago was struggling to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/zoo-fighting-back-from-brink/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As Cambodia’s busy tourism season approaches, domestic and regional airlines are scrambling to offer Siem Reap routes in a bid to capitalise on the growing number of visitors to the Angkor Wat gateway. In the past several months, players have entered the fray at a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-scramble-to-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The verdict issued Wednesday by the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court dropping the charges against a military police officer and his wife who were allegedly involved in the murder of an investigative journalist is a travesty of justice and a sign of impunity in the country, rights href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-groups-condemn-verdict-of-murdered-journalist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan has summoned a student from the country’s top state journalism school for a meeting at his office after she used a post on her Facebook page to question the sense of a guest lecture he delivered last week. Mr. Siphan href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-spokesman-summons-student-over-facebook-post/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When 29-year-old store manager Srey Mom sent her mother in Takeo province some money to pay young people to help with the rice planting, her mother told her it was no use – the young people had abandoned the village to seek their fortunes in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/youths-heed-citys-siren-call/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An unnamed Chinese investor will put nearly US$400 million into a 300-megawatt coal-powered plant in Kampot province, officials said yesterday. The plant, slated for a November groundbreaking, will provide power for the Kampot Special Economic Zone, the nearby Prey Nob oil refinery in Preah Sihanouk province href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-to-back-kampot-power-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two land dispute protesters disappeared yesterday after being stopped by the police and detained while driving from Kratie province to Phnom Penh with a large group who intended to stage a protest in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house. About 200 villagers from Snuol district href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-protesters-go-missing-en-route-to-rally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Banteay Ampil district, Oddar Meanchey province – The families of Beng commune have new neighbors: a battalion of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers building a military base inside one of 13 pockets across the province aiming to be the first forest-based carbon trading scheme href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/redd-forests-endangered-by-loggers-soldiers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than a week after the World Bank blacklisted a Canadian construction firm over bribes allegedly paid in Cambodia and Bangladesh, it was still unclear Thursday whether the government, or the national anticorruption body, are investigating the allegations. SNC-Lavalin Inc. was banned from World Bank contracts href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-information-on-world-bank-bribery-allegations-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia’s southeastern province of Kampong Speu is nothing short of picturesque. But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region’s natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sugar-playing-catch-up-with-spice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Gold prices in Phnom Penh have plummeted by almost a quarter in the past six months as international prices dropped, sparking a rush on buying gold locally, traders said Tuesday. Gold was selling at $1,540 per damlung (26.67 damlung is equal to 1 kg of gold) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/demand-for-gold-rises-as-world-price-falls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The minimum wage for garment factory workers can only be raised if international clothing brands sourcing from Cambodia pay more for their products, a Ministry of Labor official said Tuesday. Khieu Savuth, chief of the Ministry of Labor’s labor conflict commission, laid down the challenge a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-ministry-says-brands-hold-key-to-wages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...