Economists and analysts on Thursday shrugged off the opposition CNRP’s threat to stage nationwide labor strikes, arguing that while such a move could lower profits for companies in the short term, it would not significantly deter foreign investors. Mr. Rainsy, who mentioned the possibility of strikes <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-play-down-impact-of-labor-strikes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An NGO’s plAn to build An “entire city” for the victims of A forced eviction hAs been bAcked by the Phnom Penh municipAl government, with preliminAry construction AlreAdy under wAy. The $2.2 to $2.5 million project, devised by the orgAnisAtion People for CAre And LeArning, is expected <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngo-plAns-to-build-mini-city/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Taiwanese food supplier Ve Wong, one of two sugar company owners locked in a long-running battle with villagers in Koh Kong’s Sre ambel district, has made an eyebrow-raising offer &ndash; to give the disputed land back. The company’s offer, posted to the non-profit Business and Human <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-twist-in-cambodian-sugar-firm-saga/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the protests of villagers and activists. Only Chinese companies are willing to tame the Tatay and other rivers of Koh Kong province, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-is-top-dam-builder-going-where-others-wont/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen pushed ahead with forming a new government on Tuesday and said he had rejected a demand from the main opposition party, which says it won July’s general election, to be given senior positions in parliament. Hun Sen told reporters that, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-hun-sen-pushes-on-with-forming-government-rejects-opposition-role/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The documentary “Even a Bird Needs a Nest,” which premiered Thursday night at Meta House in Phnom Penh, starts off strong: an interview of Prime Minister Hun Sen speaking about the country’s progress and development. “The period of Hun Sen is a period of searching for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-documentary-explores-the-societal-costs-of-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia suffers from severe annual flooding, and many people who can’t swim die every year as a result. an innovative solution to the generations-old problem may have been found, not by policy hacks or scientists, but by children. a group of 11-year-olds from Cambodia’s one-of-a-kind Liger <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/small-people-big-ideas-kids-win-award-for-flood-solution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In the predawn hours of May 6, a flatbed truck packed with lengths of illegally logged timber sped past a checkpoint in Ratanakkiri province, knocking aside a police car and racing off. Police later tracked down the truck to a house in Banlung City. In the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/how-cambodias-secretive-timber-auctions-are-fueling-the-illegal-logging-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior officiAl of the Posts And TelecommunicAtion Ministry wAs Arrested for corruption yesterdAy, According A locAl newspAper. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/senior-telecommunicAtion-officiAl-Arrested-for-corruption/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The cabinet has approved a plan for a Thai-Cambodia railway bridge to achieve Southern Economic Corridor connectivity. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cabinet-approves-the-thai-cambodia-railway-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Damage to Cambodia’s rice crop from widespread flooding earlier this year will likely cause economic growth to fall below 6 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which yesterday offered the lowest gross domestic product (GDP) prediction so far In a statement, the IMF chose <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imf-cuts-2011-growth-outlook-to-below-6/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Economy and Finance Minister Keat Chhon yesterday urged consumers to limit their gasoline consumption in the face of rising prices, saying the Cambodian government would not boost the hundreds of millions of dollars he claimed it already offered in fuel subsidies. Speaking at the Ministry of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdoms-consumers-told-to-save-gas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Poor education and a lack of skills are still major challenges for Cambodian women and a recent meeting in Phnom Penh with the Ministry of Women’s affairs and the United Nations Development Program set out to validate an action plan on women’s economic empowerment that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/meeting-sets-out-action-plan-for-womens-economic-empowerment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Widely different interpretations of the government’s land policy were voiced at a conference on Land Security and Housing Rights on Thursday in Phnom Penh, with civil servants defending mass relocations, while rural evictees spoke of being forced into poverty due to loss of their land. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-says-resettlement-sites-are-good-for-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Venerable Sann Leang, executive director of NGO Environmental More than 500 villagers held a march in eastern Cambodia Friday to protest a controversial dam project on the Mekong River in Laos they say is undergoing construction despite a pledge to halt progress while officials <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-protest-lao-dam-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodians for Resource Revenue Transparency (CRRT) wrote a letter to Ms. Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 7, 2012 to back up PWYP’s recommendations and to encourage the Commission to define the “Project” in relation to each lease, license <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-transparency-organization-applauds-us-rule-on-oil-gas-and-mining-payments-disclosure/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The village in Kratie province where a teenage girl was shot dead by government security forces on Wednesday remained completely sealed off to independent observers on Friday, drawing concerns from human rights workers that the government had imposed a state of martial law in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-access-to-kratie-village-after-killing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Just days ahead of Sunday’s commune elections, Prime Minister Hun Sen again broke his pledge to remain silent during his party’s campaign period and sought to ease the concerns of communities whose livelihoods have been threatened by land disputes. Speaking to villagers through a mobile telephone, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ahead-of-vote-hun-sen-breaks-silence-to-make-land-promises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Price levels picked up during the first half of 2012 but will likely cool down in the second half of the year due to changes in energy prices and major food related items. Therefore, the inflation rate has been upwardly adjusted by 30 basis points to 4.8 percent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prices-and-monetary-developments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Soldiers should not have been deployed in support of a warrant to arrest land dispute protesters in Kratie province in May&mdash;an operation that led to the killing of a 14-year-old girl by armed forces, a Japanese human rights group said in a new report. The report <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-says-dispatch-of-troops-against-protesters-unjustifiable/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>