A group of 12 ethnic minority villAgers in RAtAnAkkiri province hAve filed A complAint with the provinciAl court over whAt they clAim is collusion between other villAgers And locAl Authorities to illegAlly log luxury timber from 193 hectAres of lAnd inside A community forest. The Prov <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ethnic-minorities-file-illegAl-logging-complAint/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Three highly venomous cobras were thrown early Tuesday morning into the Phnom Penh home of a family locked in a dispute with a private company that wants to develop the family’s land in Tuol Kok district. Ly Sreang Kheng, 58, his wife Mok Siv Hong, 51, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cobras-thrown-into-land-dispute-familys-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Kompong Chhnang province on Tuesday said they were looking for three suspects in the murder of a local journalist on Friday night and may soon add more names to the list, but still had no motive for the attack. However, the provincial coordinator for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/killing-of-journalist-may-not-be-linked-to-illegal-fishing-reports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seven million young lobsters had been released into Cambodia’s rivers and Tonle Sap Lake this year in an effort to build the nation’s fish and shellfish stocks, officials said yesterday. Nao Thouk, general director of the Fisheries administration at the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said, about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wild-lobster-stocks-replenished/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A drAft AgriculturAl lAnd lAw threAtens to eliminAte property rights And effectively remove All limitAtions on the size of economic lAnd concessions, A coAlition of civil society groups sAid in A stAtement releAsed.The drAft of The LAw on the MAnAgement And Use of AgriculturAl LAnd, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/property-rights-threAtened-ngos-clAim/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Cabinet approved a Law on accounting and audits at a meeting Friday morning. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/law-on-accounting-and-audits-approved-by-cabinet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Over the past three days, the CNRP conducted one of the most significant campaigns of mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government in years. For three days, more than 20,000 people packed into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for daily appearances from opposition leaders Sam Rainsy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrps-next-challenge-how-to-compromise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In 2011, Oeun Phirun took out a $450 loan from the asian Development Bank, using half to buy a used motorbike and spending the rest on a small flock of ducks and chickens he hoped to raise. His family and about 1,000 others have been evicted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/evicted-railway-families-await-adbs-help/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A JApAn energy compAny yesterdAy sAid it plAnned to build A rice mill fuelled by rice husks in CAmbodiA’s TAkeo province. New Energy And IndustriAl Technology Development OrgAnizAtion yesterdAy signed A memorAndum of understAnding with the Kingdom’s Ministry of Industry, Mines And Energy (MIME) confirming cooperAtion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/renewAble-energy-to-power-tAkeo-milling-plAnt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A teenAger wAs one of 13 girls locked inside A recruitment compAny’s offices in the cApitAl lAst yeAr After being promised work As A mAid in MAlAysiA, she told the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court yesterdAy. The court yesterdAy tried three people over Alleged illegAl detention And humAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAid-brokers-on-the-stAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thousands of families along the Sekong river were evacuated last week after the collapse of a dam in Laos led to a deluge in the district. a member of the Kavet ethnic minority, Ms Doung and her family were among 15 other families in Santepheap <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-displaced-in-siem-pang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction ordered a committee on Tuesday to spend a week inspecting the legality and technical standards of all construction projects in Preah Sihanouk province. This follows the collapse of a seven-storey building in Sihanoukville on Saturday that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-orders-inspection-of-building-sites-in-preah-sihanouk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two men have been placed in pre-trial detention for “fishing using electric shock devices” in a Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin conservation zone in Kratie province. a 104kg, 1.98m male dolphin was found dead in the same preservation area on Sunday after its flipper became entangled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/men-nabbed-for-dolphin-zone-fishing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Plans appear to be in the works to develop a central stretch of prime riverfront real estate currently owned by a state-run enterprise into a sprawling commercial development, according to sources involved with the landowner, though key government officials professed to be in the dark <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/public-lot-on-riverside-eyed-for-major-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Foreign AffAirs Ministry yesterdAy sAid thAt CAmbodiA hAs been elected to become A non-permAnent member of the United NAtions Economic And SociAl Council for A durAtion of one yeAr.​ A ministry stAtement sAid thAt At the UN heAdquArters in New York on WednesdAy, 183 of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-eArns-un-economic-council-seAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Japanese-owned Hotel Okura Co. Ltd. on Monday reached an agreement with TEHO Development Cambodia Pte. Ltd. &ndash; a subsidiary of Singapore-listed TEHO International &ndash; to develop and manage a luxury hotel in Phnom Penh as the company as part of its expansion in aSEaN, a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-luxury-chain-to-open-hotel-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia needs a genuine “culture of dialogue” between its political parties to avert a descent into crisis, Monovithya Kem, the daughter of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha and a spokeswoman for the country’s opposition party, told The Diplomat Tuesday in an exclusive interview in Washington <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-needs-genuine-dialogue-to-avert-crisis-opposition-spokeswoman/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) rAises CAmbodiA’s profile As A member of one of the world’s lArgest trAde zones, investors Around the world Are considering CAmbodiA As A gAtewAy to the region And it should tAke AdvAntAge of this opportunity by diversifying its economic <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/time-to-outgrow-gArment-mAnufActuring-govt-Advisor-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Increasingly closer ties between Phnom Penh and Beijing are spurring a rise of Chinese investment into the Kingdom, with businesses from the world’s second-largest economy now taking a closer look at Cambodia’s agricultural sector, Chinese officials said during a press tour last week to the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-looking-closely-at-kingdoms-agriculture-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has submitted a proposal to the government for the setting up of a joint executive financial committee to ensure that the $27 million emergency loan to rice millers to purchase paddy rice from farmers, in a bid to prevent rice <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/crf-wants-to-track-rice-loans/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>