More than 100 people in Kratie province staged a peaceful protest on Sunday after excavators mobilized by a South Korean timber firm tried to clear and demarcate concession land, a commune official said yesterday. The company, Think Biotech, was granted 34,000 hectares of land on May <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-protest-puts-brakes-on-land-demarcation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three union members were beaten by a gang of men during a protest outside a factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district on Friday, the Coalition of Cambodian apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCaWDU) said. CCaWDU members Nei Buthoeurn, Chim Khheang and Chan Poeu, were beaten by a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-members-beaten-during-factory-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Direct daily flights between Phnom Penh and Singapore started yesterday with the first Tiger airways flight departing at 8:30am and landing in Singapore at 11:30am, kicking off a seven-days-a-week low-cost service. The company is offering a special price of US$38 one-way from Phnom Penh to Singapore <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tiger-airways-launches-daily-service-to-singapore/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thai police investigating allegations of myriad labor violations at a seafood factory employing hundreds of Cambodian migrant workers have given the facility a clean bill of health. a report last week by a Cambodian NGO, the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), based on interviews with workers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-seafood-factory-receives-glowing-review-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The state-owned Telecom Cambodia reported a 5 percent decline in revenues in the first half of this year due to tough competition in the country’s telecommunication industry, company director general Lao Saroeun said Friday. During the January-June period this year, the firm earned a gross revenue <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-state-owned-telecom-firm-sees-5-revenue-drop-in-h1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite touting its Cambodian venture on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE), a British registered mining firm’s plan to extract gold in Ratanakkiri province stalled and the firm may face legal action over a failed deal to obtain an exploration license. astra Resources Plc. has also gone <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firms-go-to-arbitration-over-failed-gold-mining-license-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A VietnAmese rubber compAny in RAtAnAkkiri province’s O’YAdAw district yesterdAy Agreed to pAy $4,000 in compensAtion to An ethnic JArAi community whose trAditionAl grAveyArd wAs bulldozed by the firm lAst week, locAl officiAls sAid. During A meeting At the PAknhAi commune police stAtion, representAtives of the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/firm-compensAtes-jArAi-After-ruining-grAves/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A representAtive of clothing brAnd H&Amp;M sAid yesterdAy thAt there wAs no conclusive evidence proving thAt stAff from their supplier fActory in KAndAl province hAd committed violence AgAinst A union representAtive on WednesdAy. Nhem SAmphose, A representAtive for the Free TrAde Union At New Archid GArment <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hm-finds-no-evidence-of-violence-At-supplier-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Four unidentified men were arrested yesterday for allegedly killing an endangered and pregnant gaur &ndash; a species of wild bovine &ndash; in a protected wildlife reserve in Mondulkiri province, provincial officials said. after villagers discovered the carcass on Wednesday, provincial authorities along with conservationists in charge <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/killing-of-endangered-gaur-prompts-arrests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Municipal Police this morning released a union leader they scooped off the street yesterday evening for allegedly leading a protest despite a ban on public demonstrations. Sok Chhun Oeung, acting president of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy association (IDEa), left the police station <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-released/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A representAtive for villAgers living in RAtAnAkkiri’s O’Chum district who sAy thAt buyers from A locAl compAny fAiled to uphold A 2007 lAnd deAl hAs been chArged And temporArily detAined by locAl Authorities for Allegedly destroying privAte property. HAing Noeur, 50, wAs detAined on SAturdAy After <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAger-rep-held-over-burning-firms-timber/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government could save nearly $100 million between now and 2020 if it passes the draft traffic law and enforces mandatory helmet usage as soon as possible, a road safety group said Wednesday. Madeleine Carr, an advocacy and strategic planning advisor with the asia Injury Prevention <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/helmet-use-means-huge-savings-study-finds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The leader of Cambodia’s largest independent garment union is due to appear in court this afternoon for a third round of pretrial questioning over a case stemming from a strike that ended more than six months ago. Coalition of Cambodian apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CaWDU) president <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-to-face-another-day-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Microfinance deposits are on the rise, a positive trend that the industry says is moving the country towards a reduced dependency on foreign funding and that will eventually lead to greater control over interest rates. The seven microfinance institutions licensed to take deposits collected $209 million <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/big-strides-for-savings-in-mfis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

New research on the cultural causes of and solutions to violence against women was presented in Phnom Penh on Friday in a bid to help those interested in ending violence understand what fuels it, specifically in a Cambodian context. The research is 25 years in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-research-presented-to-help-locals-understand-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A South KoreAn compAny on MondAy completed A $100,000 energy-efficient street light initiAtive in PursAt province, And sAid it will now invest $100 million to construct A fActory to mAnufActure the lights, officiAls sAid. The GlobAl DigitAl MediA Group Co. Ltd. instAlled 200 light-emitting diode (LED) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/compAny-lAunches-energy-efficient-light-progrAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Electoral Reform alliance, a group of election monitors and NGOs, put its support behind the opposition CNRP’s demands for a two-thirds majority vote for selecting members of the National Election Committee (NEC) at a workshop Tuesday in Phnom Penh. The process for selecting members of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-back-two-thirds-vote-for-nec%e2%80%88selections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rival factions in the increasingly bitter dispute over land in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood filed lawsuits against each other at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday over a clash late last month. The two sides, in what once was a unified front against the neighborhood’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/b-kak-factions-file-competing-lawsuits-over-clash/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rejected a request from two former members of the Coalition of Cambodian apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCaWDU) to have the union’s president be forced to step down as he is investigated for embezzlement. Former CCaWDU officials Oum Visal and Roeun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/request-rejected-to-have-union-head-step-down/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy launched another effort to mobilize support behind the opposition’s demand for a fresh election, by holding opinion poll via his Facebook page. The opinion poll is regarded as another effort of the opposition leader Sam Rainsy in order to mobilize the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-launches-facebook-opinion-poll-over-new-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>