A year after some 2,000 families filed a complaint with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for financing rubber plantations they accuse of grabbing their farms and logging their sacred forests, all sides have finally agreed to a set of ground rules for negotiations and hope href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plantations-and-families-set-rules-for-ifc-mediated-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Six Cambodian military police were placed in pretrial detention Friday, charged by the Prey Veng Provincial Court over a police pursuit in March in which a truck driver and his assistant were allegedly shot at, beaten and hog- tied after blowing through a pair of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-cambodian-military-police-detained-over-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian senior police officer confirmed Wednesday that Chinese economic fugitive Sun Xin, 46, and a former cashier of the Beijing municipal bureau of press, had worked in a factory in west Cambodia’s Kampong Speu province for six years before being arrested and sent back href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-economic-fugitive-arrested-deported-after-hiding-in-cambodia-for-6-years/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is seeking to export its mangoes to South Korea, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Contacted yesterday, deputy MAFF director Hean Vanhorn said that a ministry representative would meet with a South Korean agriculture delegation today to discuss href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-search-of-export-market-for-mangoes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

After about 200 workers protested in Phnom Penh on Tuesday morning, a CPP lawmaker said she traveled to a Chinese-owned garment factory in Kandal province to lobby management to rehire seven workers, including six who say they were fired earlier this month for taking part href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-lawmaker-visits-factory-after-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Mondulkiri villagers say a local road has been blocked by a private landowner, but they are not sure who is behind the development and a commune chief says he is unaware of the dispute. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mondulkiri-road-blocked-by-private-development-residents-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia could see less preferential economic treatment by Europe in coming years, as it graduates as a more developed country, the EU’s ambassador to Cambodia says. In an interview with VOA Khmer in Phnom Penh, Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain said Cambodia currently enjoys tariff exemptions under a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/development-could-mean-loss-of-eu-trade-preference-ambassador-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The deaths of at least two Cambodian workers and injuries sustained by 10 colleagues at a shoe factory southwest of Phnom Penh once more shine a light on conditions in the global garment manufacturing industry. Thursday’s accident at the Wing Star Shoe factory in the Cambodian href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-factory-deaths-shine-spotlight-on-conditions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A financial review by USAID, the U.S. government’s development arm, into local health NGO Reproductive and Child Health Alliance (RACHA) has found financial mismanagement coupled with a lack of transparency and oversight within the organization that may point to evidence of fraudulent activity. Well-known for its href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/usaid-review-of-health-ngo-finds-litany-of-irregularities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Friday confirmed that the deployment of armored personnel carriers (APCs) to Phnom Penh from the Thai-Cambodian border is part of a concerted security operation in response to the opposition’s plans to hold protests against the outcome of the July 28 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-says-armored-vehicles-sent-to-maintain-security/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

SIEM REAP CITY – Opposition leader Sam Rainsy was greeted Tuesday by 15,000 supporters and a small dust storm at the CNRP’s first post-election rally in Siem Reap, where he once again called on Prime Minister Hun Sen to stand down. Arriving on a scheduled flight href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-siem-reap-rainsy-again-calls-for-hun-sen-to-step-down/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has summoned for questioning three villagers accused of torching in May a shed on disputed land granted to the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem. The case is another example of courts resurrecting longstanding land disputes that had gone href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/courts-resurrect-land-disputes-after-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-minorities-file-illegal-logging-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cobras-thrown-into-land-dispute-familys-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/killing-of-journalist-may-not-be-linked-to-illegal-fishing-reports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/property-rights-threatened-ngos-claim/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrps-next-challenge-how-to-compromise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/evicted-railway-families-await-adbs-help/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/renewable-energy-to-power-takeo-milling-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...