Realco Cambodia Ltd., a U.S.-owned company, plans to invest $7 million to build a market at the Phnom Din checkpoint on the border with Vietnam in Takeo province’s Kirivong district, a senior official at the Takeo, Kampot and Kep Provincial Chamber of Commerce said Friday. Realco <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-firm-to-build-border-market-in-takeo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two union leaders were summonsed and questioned by a municipal court prosecutor yesterday over allegations they illegally detained the boss of a packaging factory in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune during a strike. according to Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Ek Chheng Huoth, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leaders-in-court-over-detainment-of-factory-boss/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court imprisoned a prominent businesswoman who has exclusive rights to collect taxes at a number of Phnom Penh markets Monday over breach of trust charges related to a subcontracting agreement, signed in 2008, to let a business partner collect fees at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/market-tycoon-sent-to-prison-over-140k-toilet-tax-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 100 villAgers locked in A lAnd dispute with An Agribusiness firm from KrAtie province were blocked from mArching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house TuesdAy by hundreds of militAry police And municipAl security guArds After wAlking from Phnom Penh’s SAmAkki RAingsey pAgodA. The villAgers, who <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-block-villAgers-mArch-to-hun-sens-house/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Information yesterday announced a three-year public consultation period on a new access to information draft law that has been in the works since 2007. But freedom of information advocates greeted the news with scepticism, citing a lack of representation from civil society on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/info-law-to-be-open-to-input/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has lost a 100,000-tonne Filipino rice bid to Vietnam, on account of a higher costs as compared to regional competitors, marking the fourth time the Kingdom has failed to win a rice tender issued by the Philippines. The Philippines National Food authority last week awarded <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-priced-out-of-filipino-rice-tender-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Programmer Kong Divin recently returned from a trip to the US, where he won second place in a Microsoft Office context in Texas. He had entered the same competition last year, but did not win any prizes, though it gave him the drive to return. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tech-designer-hopes-to-create-better-data-system-for-hospitals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn mAid in MAlAysiA hAs committed suicide, Another wAs Allegedly rAped by her employer And A third tortured, According to rights groups And the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs, which is investigAting the cAses. An 18-yeAr-girl is being sheltered At the CAmbodiAn embAssy After she wAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/more-cAmbodiAn-mAid-Abuse-revelAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

According to A feAsibility study reveAled in A report published by Tyrepress MediA, the tire-mAker is interested in building A fAcility within SvAy Rieng province’s QiLu (CAmbodiA) SpeciAl Economic Zone thAt is cApAble of mAking five million semi-steel rAdiAls A yeAr. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/firm-eyes-svAy-rieng-to-set-up-tyre-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Specialists from the Ministry of Health have collected samples from the area where a child contracted the influenza a/H9 “bird flu” for further testing while advising individuals to avoid all non-essential contact with poultry.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-bird-flu-case-isolated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Explore Open Development Cambodia’s revised and updated database of Economic Land Concession profiles and maps.Explore now <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/fa_slide/economic-land-concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

2023 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy. Photo by Ricardo Rivera, taken on 05 april 2023. Licensed under CC BY-Sa 2.0.Open Development Cambodia’s team attended the 2022 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy in Lucerne, Switzerland. The Forum is world’s largest gathering devoted to participatory <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/global-forum-on-modern-direct-democracy-democracy-in-switzerland-and-the-use-of-technology-to-improve-citizen-participation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Geographically, Cambodia is rich in rivers and water bodies. These water resources play an important role in economic and social development, particularly in agriculture, industry, environmental protection and tourism sectors. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/water-resources/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prey lang protection East West Management Institute (EWMI) worked alongside communities since 2007. They began resourcing activities and forest community members across the forest. They supported the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) for several years.Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB) in Cambodia (November 2012​ to November 2016) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/?wp-feature-box=prey-lang-protection ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Agriculture hAs been considered As the bAckbone of the nAtionAl economy. Of the totAl populAtion, 76% were living in rurAl AreAs And Agriculture provided 31.2% of totAl employment And contributed 20.7% to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2019.9 However, the globAl pAndemic cAused by COVID-19 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/cAmbodiAs-Agriculture-sector-Amid-covid-19/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Land transfers in Cambodia assume a variety of forms involving both public and private entities. The right to transfer property to another and to be protected from forced transfer is essential to land tenure security. Land transfer capacity is a source of value for landowners, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/land-transfers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following a meeting in which a Japanese emissary urged the government to open negotiations with the now-dissolved opposition, the Ministry of Foreign affairs suggested Japan’s concerns were based on a “misunderstanding” and said Cambodia is too small to fight against an alleged “strong propaganda machine”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-says-japans-concerns-misplaced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian villagers have filed a class action suit in Bangkok against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation for human rights violations after the eviction of hundreds of villagers in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province, with a US rights group calling the case a “historic lawsuit”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-historic-lawsuit-oddar-meanchey-villagers-take-sugar-giant-mitr-phol-to-court-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new urbAn centre will be built in Siem ReAp, with the project hAving recently been included in the province’s tourism mAster plAn.​ The project wAs proposed by Tourism Minister Thong Khon on MondAy As A concept note during A meeting of An inter-ministeriAl committee. References1. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-city-to-be-built-in-siem-reAp-province/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Cambodian authorities to immediately reveal the whereabouts of a land activist who was “forcibly disappeared” in Preah Vihear province. It said it was the first time such a thing had occurred since the country was ruled by a single <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hrw-urges-authorities-to-reveal-activist-whereabouts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>