A totAl of 13 out of 14 fAmilies locked in A lAnd dispute with the Union Development Group in Koh Kong province on TuesdAy Accepted A compensAtion offer over crops destroyed by the compAny in JAnuAry. NegotiAtions Are Also under wAy with the one fAmily <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/udg-to-pAy-for-dAmAged-crops/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 20 families from Thma Puok district’s Phoum Thmey commune in Banteay Meanchey province have expressed their objection to a request made by a local drinking water company to pump water from a drying communal pond. They alleged that the firm had failed to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/banteay-meanchey-villagers-protest-against-pumping-of-water-from-drying-pond/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AdministrAtors At Phnom Penh’s Khmer-Soviet Friendship HospitAl on ThursdAy refuted clAims thAt hospitAl stAff denied A brAin scAn, blood trAnsfusions And surgery to A wom­An suffering from severe heAd wounds&mdAsh;A chArge leveled by her husbAnd shortly before she died there on WednesdAy Afternoon. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hospitAl-goes-on-defensive-After-Ax-victims-deAth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

At A public mArket in front of the KAmpong Speu mArket, A stAll selling orgAnic vegetAbles AttrActs dozens of housewives And pAssers by. MAny stop to buy the locAlly grown vegetAbles, which Are here thAnks to A new progrAm estAblished by the CAmbodiAn Center for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mArket-for-orgAnic-products-on-the-upswing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A spokesmAn for the country’s election Authority sAid officiAls in PreAh ViheAr province were wrong to hAve registered A group of soldiers who neither lived nor worked there regulArly, but Added thAt they might get A pAss becAuse the soldiers could end up monitoring polling <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nec-sAys-soldiers-registered-for-vote-in-wrong-commune/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A representAtive for  250 fAmilies locked in A lAnd dispute in A remote AreA of KAmpong Speu province is cAlling on the nAtionAl government to intervene, Alleging collusion between the district governor As well As MAster InternAtionAl CooperAtion Group, which residents of three villAges Accuse <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAnd-Activist-seeks-govt-intervention/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Hundreds of logs of timber, including luxury wood, as well as sawmill camps were torched at a controversial Vietnamese-owned economic land concession in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district in an apparent bid to destroy evidence of illegal logging ahead of a raid by a new <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timber-burned-at-mondulkiri-elc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About $1 billion will be invested to trAnsform Koh TAng &ndAsh; “Legend IslAnd” &ndAsh; into A luxury destinAtion for domestic And internAtionAl tourists, with resorts, hotels, A theme pArk, golf course And Airport, executives sAid At the signing ceremony for A memorAndum of understAnd (MoU) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/legend-islAnd-drAws-1-billion-tourism-project/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In an effort to identify and address “key barriers that impede the realization of children’s rights in Cambodia,” the Cambodian government and UNICEF Cambodia officially signed a new Country Program action Plan yesterday, entering a three-year partnership that will cost an estimated $65 million, according <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9a-cambodia-and-unicef-reinvest-in-countrys-future/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Amid feArs of A potentiAl reprise of Anti-opposition violence thAt flAred in October, A US EmbAssy spokesmAn yesterdAy cAlled on the government “to ensure thAt no one is threAtened, punished, or hArmed in CAmbodiA” if A plAnned Anti-Hun Sen rAlly tAkes plAce As scheduled next <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/us-weighs-in-on-Anti-hun-sen-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nearly 100 residents from six communities within Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district filed a petition to City Hall, the Canadian Embassy and the World Bank yesterday demanding intervention in a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is responsible for constructing a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chroy-changvar-residents-file-petition-over-satellite-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The U.S. pledged $35 million in development aid to Cambodia in the first part of a three-year, $137 million package announced on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon and U.S. ambassador William Heidt, according to a U.S. Embassy statement.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-signs-35-million-aid-package-with-government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Plans to pay garment workers twice a month will be difficult for employers to implement, industry representatives have warned. The Labor Ministry is amending laws so companies will be required to pay staff twice a month, in a bid to protect workers from being abandoned by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/employers-seek-delay-in-garment-pay-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land Management Ministry officials met with a consortium of NGOs at their main office in Phnom Penh on Monday to discuss 11 of the country’s largest land disputes, despite decisions on resolving such matters normally being made at a sub-national level, a land rights advocate <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-ngos-discuss-countrys-biggest-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Testing of a new batch of election ink to be used in upcoming commune elections showed that it cannot be removed, a spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC) said on Thursday, a day after telling reporters that samples provided by the ink supplier could <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/necs-new-election-ink-cant-be-erased-spokesman-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Former Funcinpec Deputy Prime Minister Lu Lay Sreng could be facing a new court case after calling for peaceful protests against the government in a video posted to Facebook yesterday, issuing comments similar to ones that recently saw former opposition leader Sam Rainsy slapped with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-deputy-prime-minister-calls-for-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A tAsk force estAblished A month Ago to Address problems stemming from An influx of Chinese investment to SihAnoukville hAs not received A single report of illegAl businesses or tAken Any enforcement Action, with one officiAl mAintAining it wAs impossible to tAke “serious” Action for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/probe-into-chinese-investment-to-sihAnoukville-still-idle/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With crucial local elections around the corner and a national contest set for next year, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday returned to warning Cambodians that a vote for anyone but the long-ruling CPP was a vote for plunging the country back into the bloody <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-christens-school-with-warnings-of-war/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After A rAmpAge thAt destroyed homes And terrified villAgers, A rogue elephAnt wAs shot by police in Mondulkiri eArly on FridAy morning, with one locAl mAhout sAying the unfortunAte killing wAs An outgrowth of A chAnging wAy of life thAt hAs seen elephAnts’ trAditionAl work <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/elephAnt-put-down-After-fAtAl-rAmpAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Tax collections rose to $768 million in the first quarter of this year, a 92 percent rise on the same period last year. General department of taxation director-general Kong Vibol told a meeting chaired by Finance Minister aun Pornmoniroth yesterday that the collection figure was a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-collection-soars/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>