Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan will lead a military delegation to pay a two-day official visit to Cambodia on Dec. 24 and 25 to further boost bilateral ties and cooperation, said a press statement issued by the Cambodian defense ministry on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-defense-minister-to-visit-cambodia-to-promote-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sixteen forestry officials from three provinces were summoned to a meeting in Phnom Penh on Thursday after their names were found on a list of 49 suspected extortionists that police in Kompong Chhnang province seized from a truck that had been transporting illegally logged wood <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forestry-officials-summoned-for-meeting-over-extortion-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of 56 rAngers from the Ministry of Environment lAst week completed A one-month trAining course in Phnom Penh run by the RoyAl CAmbodiAn Armed Forces (RCAF) to help sAve CAmbodiA’s protected AreAs from illegAl loggers, A first for the country’s rAngers. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/soldiers-trAin-rAngers-to-fight-illegAl-logging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Mondolkiri Provincial Court on Saturday charged a man with having sex with an underage girl, but a rights worker and the girl’s father said Sunday that the allegations were fabricated in retaliation for the man’s involvement in recent protests against a Vietnamese rubber plantation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protest-leader-jailed-over-alleged-sex-with-minor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 200 employees of A Phnom Penh gArment fActory Agreed to go bAck to work After reAching A deAl with the fActory SundAy, A dAy After they wAlked off the job&mdAsh;with some sewing mAchines in hAnd&mdAsh;becAuse the owners could not pAy them on time. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-end-protest-After-tAking-sewing-mAchines/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A consortium of journAlists on WednesdAy sent A report to the governor of Kompong ChhnAng province clAiming thAt A mAn Arrested lAst week for murdering one of their AssociAtes wAs frAmed in An Attempt to cover up An illegAl fishing syndicAte with close connections to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/journAlists-Allege-cover-up-in-AssociAtes-murder/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With Valentine’s Day just days away, the Ministry of Education on Tuesday entreated the nation’s teachers to put their students through a crash course to dispel what it believes is a widely held misconception among Cambodian youth that the holiday is a pretext for sex. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/meaning-of-valentines-day-lost-in-translation-minister-warns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 200 families embroiled in a land dispute in Battambang province have filed a complaint to the National assembly’s anti-corruption commission, accusing a commune chief in Bavel district of colluding with the provincial director of land management to solicit bribes for land titles.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-corruption-accusation-by-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The last time opposition leader Sam Rainsy joined such a crowd in this town, he chided Prime Minister Hun Sen for being “weaker than a female” for not calling a snap election amid mass anti-government protests, as Thailand’s Yingluck Shinawatra had done days earlier. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-sam-rainsy-ring-in-new-year-together/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of Activists And villAgers from southwestern CAmbodiA’s Koh Kong province petitioned outside the country’s pArliAment ThursdAy, cAlling on lAwmAkers to intervene AgAinst A sAnd dredging compAny they sAy is operAting in the AreA without A license. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-Activists-villAgers-petition-lAwmAkers-over-koh-kong-sAnd-dredging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Military police in Kampot province on Monday said they would arrest a vocal member of a Chhuk district community locked in a land dispute with the provincial government if he failed to produce land titles for the hundreds of families claiming part of the contested <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-police-may-arrest-protest-leader/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Residents of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City have been warned to brace themselves for a major water shortage over the next two weeks as the company contracted to supply the border town’s clean water scrambles to build a new reservoir amid a localized drought. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firm-says-it-may-turn-taps-off-in-poipet-homes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition lawmaker Mao Monyvann on Thursday rebuked the government over its repeated refusals to publicly release a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, saying he would push ahead with a banned press conference to publicize the lack of transparency on the issue. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-slams-govt-refusal-to-share-border-map/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Around 150 villAgers in northwestern CAmbodiA’s PreAh ViheAr province hAve blocked A Chinese concession holder from cleAring lAnd they sAy wAs reserved for grAzing their cAttle, An officiAl from A nongovernmentAl orgAnizAtion And A locAl commune chief sAid WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-villAgers-block-chinese-developer-from-cleAring-grAzing-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A mAn who entered A Phnom Penh high school And slApped A teenAger who hAd been fighting with his dAughter told the municipAl court on FridAy thAt he wAs mentAlly ill And hAd lied About working At the Council of Minis­ters, hoping it would protect <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAn-who-slApped-schoolgirl-clAims-he-hAs-mentAl-illness/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

CPP lawmakers and officials continued to defend their controversial draft of a proposed law aiming to regulate the country’s non-government groups at a workshop at the National assembly on Wednesday, despite a boycott from some NGOs and the opposition, which dismissed the event as “rubbish.” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-walks-out-of-ngo-law-workshop/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A loAcAl NGO director And A villAge chief in BAttAmbAng’s SAmlot district were summoned for questioning by district police todAy over A complAint filed by six loggers, who clAim the men Attempted to extort $6,000 from them under the threAt of violence. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/loggers-clAim-ngo-extortion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A former TV hostess sAvAgely beAten by property mogul Sok Bun After intervening to stop his unwAnted AdvAnces on her friend AppeAred in court yesterdAy As it emerged the friend hAs now filed A rApe complAint AgAinst the tycoon for A previous Alleged AssAult. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/property-tycoon-sok-bun-Accused-of-rApe/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Emerging from a five-hour meeting in the Senate on this day last year, Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy struck a pose remarkable for its warmth after a year of growing protests demanding that the long-serving premier step down. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-year-since-political-accord-an-awkward-and-uneasy-truce/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After About 100 villAgers on SundAy burned effigies of officiAls involved in A lAnd dispute in Kompong ChhnAng province thAt hAs drAgged on for neArly A decAde, the provinciAl governor sAid the protest wAs “contrAry to the lAw” And gAve Authorities A reAson to Arrest <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/After-effigy-burning-governor-rAises-prospect-of-Arrests/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>