China has set a yearend deadline for Cambodia to submit a list of all Cambodian rice exporters so that Chinese inspectors can evaluate whether they can fully meet food safety laws in a market Cambodian exporters are hoping to increase exports to, according to an href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-exporters-face-greater-scrutiny-from-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Transport Minister Sun Chanthol has vowed to reinvigorate a long-dormant project to connect the Kingdom’s sole operating railway line to the capital’s biggest industrial park – a move that would boost rail traffic ahead of the completion of a rail link to northwestern Cambodia and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/industrial-rail-project-gathers-steam-with-government-push/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The chief of the Banteay Meanchey provincial prison has denied allegations of inmate torture, amid calls from a local rights official for an investigation. Prison director Oung Siphan, through a clarification letter issued on Monday, challenged a foreign radio broadcast that alleged provincial prison officials tortured href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prison-director-denies-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 30-month sentence for land activist Tep Vanny on charges relating to a 2013 protest outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house that turned violent, leaving the Boeung Kak resident to serve out more than a year of her remaining href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tep-vannys-sentence-upheld-at-supreme-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A representative of villagers in a land dispute in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district was arrested on Wednesday for alleged property damage. Sat Bora, 34, has been representing 122 families in Anlong Veng commune, who have been locked in a land dispute with authorities for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-activist-arrested/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities questioned a Borei Keila resident on Tuesday for her role in a protest outside the home of developer Suy Sophan, who filed a complaint against her earlier in March. Borei Keila resident Phork Sophin said that she may be charged with defamation and the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/resident-from-borei-keila-questioned-on-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A high-profile investigation into corruption charges levelled against Mondulkiri police officials for colluding with Vietnamese timber traders has been transferred from the provincial court to Phnom Penh due to a lethargic investigation by local police, many of whom are involved in the case, a court href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/logging-probe-moved-to-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay yesterday submitted a letter to National Assembly President Heng Samrin to forward to Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem requesting more information on sand-dredging operations and a sand-processing facility in Koh Kong province, following a​​ recent ban on exports from href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-mp-seeks-clarity-on-sand-dredging-ban/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Khmer National United Party (KNUP) leader and former General Nhek Bun Chhay was arrested in Phnom Penh yesterday in relation to a 2007 drug bust in Kampong Speu province – a dramatic acceleration in a fall from grace that began with an alleged flirtation with href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nhek-bun-chhay-arrested/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Clashes between villagers protesting a land dispute and security officers erupted in gunfire yesterday in Kratie province, with a rights official initially reporting six killed, and villagers at the scene confirming at least two dead – while authorities provided a starkly different account, saying that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-villagers-claim-at-least-two-shot-dead-by-officials-while-authorities-deny-fatalities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A mission trip to Cambodia earlier this year opened Roger Pickett’s eyes to the need to boost the Cambodian home furnishings industry. Now Pickett, president of MurMaid Mattress here, is hoping to help a nonprofit group open a mattress factory in that country and give Cambodians href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/executive-hopes-to-help-open-mattress-plant-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Friday afternoon issued a statement to reject a news report that the country had given approval to China’s Taiwan to open a trade center in its territory. According to the statement posted on its website, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-denies-allowing-chinas-taiwan-to-open-representative-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Soft-drinks giant PepsiCo has pledged to take a “zero-tolerance” approach to land grabs by its sugar suppliers. In a statement posted on the company’s website on Tuesday, it said the move came in response to a campaign by Oxfam, which targeted Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pepsi-to-buy-only-clean-sugar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Despite failing in its latest attempt to win the Philippine government’s bid to import rice, Cambodia will once again throw its hat into the ring when the offer is reissued, industry representatives said yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-set-to-take-second-go-at-rice-bid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday arrested two reporters and a construction worker in Kampot City for their alleged role in extorting a deputy provincial governor, officials and a colleague of one of the suspects said Sunday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-arrests-reporters-and-construction-worker/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The deputy prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has laid provisional charges against a military general arrested in Takeo province on Thursday, according to a senior military police official, in a high-profile case linked to corruption claims that led to the sacking this week href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-lays-provisional-charges-against-general/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has invited the patriarch of a family locked in a land dispute with real estate tycoon Khun Sear to “clarify” his complaint against four officials he claims conspired to sell his home in Boeng Kak I commune without his consent, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cobra-clan-dad-asked-to-clarify-complaint-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has invited the patriarch of a family locked in a land dispute with real estate tycoon Khun Sear to “clarify” his complaint against four officials he claims conspired to sell his home in Boeng Kak I commune without his consent, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cobra-clan-dad-asked-to-clarify-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The parents of a man who died at the Svay Rieng provincial referral hospital of wounds sustained in a motorbike crash say their son might have survived if doctors had not been absent from work celebrating Chinese New Year, and are planning to file a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/patient-death-blamed-on-doctors-holiday-leave/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Globally, an estimated 2.5 billion people don’t have a bank account, but many own a cellphone, fuelling a race to turn these phones into bank books for the ‘unbanked’ to store cash, manage their accounts, make purchases and send and receive money – part of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-the-unbanked-mobile-money-still-has-some-way-to-go/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...