Chroy Changva district security guards Thursday stopped villagers from preventing a private company from pumping sand onto the wetlands behind their homes. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) is building a $3-billion real estate project, known as “Chroy Changva City, City of the Future,” on the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-protect-private-companys-machines/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mondulkiri villagers seized seven chainsaws on Tuesday from illegal loggers claiming to be selling timber to logging tycoon Try Pheap’s company. a group of ethnic Pnong villagers came across the three illegal loggers during a patrol of their community forest on Tuesday, according to Bil Vanthy, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chainsaws-snatched-in-mondulkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ratanakkiri’s prison director has been moved to a new post after 20 years on the job. In a ceremony held on Thursday, the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons officially replaced Ngin Nel, transferring him to the Ministry of Interior, where he will serve as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-jail-director-reposted/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A smAll set of CAmbodiAn fActories being monitored by the InternAtionAl LAbor OrgAnizAtion hAve showed some signs of improvement, According to A recent report. The ILO’s Better FActories initiAtive monitors 51 fAcilities. In A new report, the ILO sAys 30 of those fActories showed signs of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ilo-reports-improved-fActories-from-december-to-februAry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The work of fourth Cambodia-China Friendship Bridge has almost been completed after a 16-month construction, a contractor said Thursday. He Luesa, head of Shanghai Construction (Group) General Company’ s construction team, said the construction of a 855 meters by 13.5 meters Takhmao Bridge across Tonle Bassac <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/4th-cambodia-china-friendship-bridge-almost-completed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sharp has scored its first international order for its transparent PV panels with a 27.5kW deal in Cambodia. The Osaka-based electronics group will provide 290 of its Na-B095aa see-through panels, as well as inverters and balance of plant (BOP) services, for a cafe in a shopping <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sharp-seals-cambodia-pv-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Japanese government will offer more than $21 million in grant aid and loans to Cambodia when Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida visits later this month, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign affairs. according to the statement, Kishida will ink a number of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aid-aeon-on-agenda-for-japan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After striking for more thAn A week, employees At Phnom Penh’s Sun Well Shoes yesterdAy mArched to Por Sen Chey district hAll, demAnding their voices be heArd. Some 300 people mArched from their Veng Sreng BoulevArd fActory with A list of seven demAnds, including the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/on-the-mArch-dAys-long-strike-shifts-to-district-hq/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) says it has prepared a “briefing paper” ahead of a European Union meeting with Cambodia in Brussels next week. In a statement late Thursday, the Paris-based group said the paper “documents the deteriorating situation in Cambodia and make(s) recommendations <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-to-lobby-eu-for-urgent-action-against-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) is hoping to turn a select group of garment workers into muckrakers by offering a journalism program through the Voice of Democracy news outlet. Free of charge, the course will last until October and have a firm focus on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-to-file-stories-from-the-factory-floor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A BAttAmbAng bridge project isn’t to blAme for blocking A river And preventing wAter from reAching pArched rice fields, An AsiAn Development BAnk investigAtion concluded yesterdAy. BAvel district fArmers Accused the bAnk-funded construction project of choking the river since construction begAn in December, leAving their recently <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bridge-not-to-blAme-sAys-Adb/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Council of Ministers this week announced two new spans across the Mekong River in the vicinity of the capital, one connecting the Chroy Changvar peninsula to Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district and another connecting Phnom Penh’s Chbar ampov district with Kandal’s Lvea Em. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-mekong-bridges-slated-for-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sri Lanka’s Lanka Orix Leasing Company acquired a 60 percent stake in Thaneakea Phum Cambodia (TPC) a microfinance company in Cambodia, for 20.3 million US dollars, identifying the immense potential in emerging economies of the South East asian region the company said in a media <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lolc-group-acquires-60-pct-stake-in-cambodian-microfinance-company-for-usd-20-3-mn/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

KPMG Cambodia has bought out one of its local competitors in an effort to position itself as a leader in accounting, taxation and advisory services before aSEaN integration later this year. a statement issued Friday by KPMG states that the firm acquired Premier Consulting (Cambodia) Limited, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kpmg-buys-premier-consulting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Mines and Energy is in the early stages of developing a national oil company, a ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Meng Saktheara, who is also a secretary of state, said his ministry had been working with the Finance Ministry to assess the risks of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-considering-national-oil-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives of 163 families embroiled in a long-running land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district met with officials from the agriculture Ministry on Wednesday to ask why the ministry issued a letter last week requesting that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court hold off on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-attempts-to-explain-its-interference-in-sen-sok-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thousands of locals and migrant workers are engaged in illegal mining in Ratanakkiri province, a senior official with the Ministry of Mines and Energy said yesterday. Having returned on Tuesday from an official inspection tour of the province, Meng Saktheara, a secretary of state at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-site-of-informal-mining-boom-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Evictees at war with their former representative filed a complaint yesterday with the Ministry of Justice after the woman at the centre of the argument managed to put off a court hearing, allegedly going to the disputed site instead. Forty villagers went to the Justice <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-hearing-delayed-due-to-illness/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated government policy to increase wage to $160 a month for factory workers and at least $250 a month for civil servants by 2018. His comment was made during a meeting yesterday with around 3,000 factory workers at the Koh Pich <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-reiterates-policy-to-increase-wage-for-workers-civil-servants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The oldest public school in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, is in a small courtyard downtown. The Tuan Hoa school has a Chinese temple and Mandarin language classes for its 2,000 students. But in Phnom Penh, Chinese usage is still behind English. This is true although <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/students-in-cambodia-want-to-learn-english/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>