About 500 fAmilies from three communes in Siem ReAp province’s Chi KrAeng district Are seeking the prime minister’s intervention in A dispute with A rubber compAny over 1,000 hectAres of lAnd. Siem ReAp provinciAl governor ChAn SophAl sAid on WednesdAy thAt CAmbodiAn People’s PArty lAwmAker SeAng <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fAmilies-Ask-pm-to-help-end-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thai information technology firm Infobahn Co. Ltd. has filed a lawsuit against telecommunications conglomerate Thaicom Public Company Ltd. for breaching an agreement made last year to sell 41.14 percent of its shares, a deal that also includes a 51 percent stake in the Cambodian mobile <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/it-firm-sues-thaicom-over-mfone-ownership/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Half of the of the 600 Cambodian workers at Siam International Food Co. Ltd.’s factory in Thailand are planning to return home following a mass brawl in which two workers were killed last week, a factory employee said yesterday. a Cambodian and a Burmese worker died <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/staff-to-come-home-after-thai-factory-brawl/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday told the newly appointed Thai ambassador Touchayoot Pakdi that border checkpoints between the two countries need to remain open in order to promote trade and tourism and combat border crimes. Mr. Hun Sens remarks to Mr Pakdi came during a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/keep-checkpoints-open-hun-sen-tells-thai-envoy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Pirated computer software accounted for about $50 million in losses to the Cambodian economy every year, an industry expert said yesterday. according to Pily Wong, president of the ICT Business association, about 95 per cent of the computer software used in Cambodia is counterfeit, crippling the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pirated-computer-software-cost-cambodia-50m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia airlines, a majority-owned Cambodian company, and San Miguel Corp., the Philippines’ most diversified conglomerate, on Tuesday signed a joint venture agreement to set up a Cambodia-based airline &ndash; Cambodia airlines &ndash; to service domestic and regional flights. The agreement was inked between Cambodian tycoon Kith <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-phl-conglomerate-sign-deal-to-establish-new-airline/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

EZECOM and Telekom Malaysia has [sic] signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tuesday to install a submerged cable system called the Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand Cable System (MCT). a statement reported that Cambodia’s leading Internet service Telcotech Ltd &mdash; a part of Ezecom &mdash; will sign the MOU with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-msia-sign-80-mln-agreement-for-telecom-improvement-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the number of cars on Cambodia’s roads growing at a consistent pace, high-end automotive distributors are jockeying for a foothold in the market, but they are not the only ones who stand to benefit from Cambodia’s splurge on cars. Working on the sidelines, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/covering-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Okhna Try Pheap’s ballooning empire of exclusive natural resource licences and concessions has been expanded even further with the granting of a special economic zone (SEZ) in Ratanakkiri province. The May 27 issue of the Royal Gazette reveals Pheap was granted a 136-hectare SEZ in O’Yadav <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sez-adds-to-tycoons-growing-portfolio/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom imported 412,190 tonnes of petroleum in the first quarter of 2013, compared with 471,000 tonnes in the same period the previous year, a decline of 12 per cent, according to the Ministry of Commerce. a private sector representative said the drop does not mean <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-petroleum-imports-decrease/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The end of export restrictions in Thailand and a lowering of economic growth forecasts out of top rubber importers China, the United States and Germany have caused natural rubber prices around asia − and in Cambodia’s local industry − to fall from a two-month high. Future <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-feels-drop-in-asian-rubber-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) began collecting thumbprints from voters nationwide in order to present to King Norodom Sihamoni, requesting he not attend the first session of parliament, according to a source. a CNRP senior official on Thursday said that his party held a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-collects-thumbprints-urging-king-not-attend-first-session/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Several tour guide associations in Siem Reap received a prepared statement from the Provincial Department of Tourism asking them to sign and thumbprint a note of acceptance of the election results released by the National Election Committee on Monday. at least half a dozen of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tour-guides-urged-to-give-election-ok/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three officials from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district were charged on September 10 for threatening and intimidating a villager after he filed a lawsuit related to the corrupt sale of community land in 2011, according to a letter obtained by the Post yesterday. Romas Svang, 47, of Yatung commune, received <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/intimidation-charges-levelled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An NGO is working to free two CAmbodiAn women forced into mArriAge in ChinA, A representAtive of the orgAnisAtion sAid yesterdAy. Huy PichsovAnn, progrAm officer At the Community LegAl EducAtion Center (CLEC), sAid thAt the two women, Aged 22 And 27, were enticed from their KAmpong <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/signed-up-for-work-forced-into-mArriAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Slapping Khmer song lyrics over international hits or ripping off the creative content of foreign-produced music videos is a practice in the Kingdom that must end within one year, Ministry of Culture and Fine arts officials said at a conference in the capital yesterday. a crackdown <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rip-offs-strike-wrong-chord/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 200 ethnic Kuoy minority villagers in Preah Vihear’s Chheb district blocked tractors belonging to a Chinese company from bulldozing their rice crops yesterday, the same day that district authorities received a letter from the Interior Ministry instructing them to broker an agreement between villagers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kuoy-villagers-block-firms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dozens of villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district are facing eviction after the National Cadastral Commission announced last week that a number of areas in Tuol Sangke commune are earmarked for future redevelopment. The commission’s plans for new projects, including a road widening, were posted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-phnom-penh-residents-facing-possible-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Friends of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, who went missing under mysterious circumstances in February and was found dead in Siem Reap province last week, expressed anger Wednesday at the Cambodian police’s apparent unwillingness to investigate the 58-year-old’s death. Two-and-a-half months after the journalist vanished after going <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/friends-of-dave-walker-concerned-over-lack-of-investigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ruled in favour of a mining tycoon and convicted a Chinese-Cambodian widow of defaming the oknha during an embittered land dispute. Sok Neang Gek, 46, an interpreter at a garment factory in the capital, was fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-rules-in-tycoons-favour/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>