Businessman Try Pheap, who in recent months received large-scale economic land concessions in Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province, has donated $130,000 to the sanctuary’s environmental management and the local CPP office,  officials said yesterday. Recipients of the funds denied that there was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-concessionaire-gives-130000-to-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAn fled his home in KrAtie province’s Snuol district After three men threAtened to kill him for confiscAting their chAinsAws during A pAtrol AgAinst illegAl logging, he told the Post yesterdAy. VillAge representAtive CheA Horn sAid he wAs scAred to return home After the men <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAger-defies-loggers-clAims-life-is-in-dAnger/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two journalists fought it out over cash being paid to them by a wood smuggler along National Road 7 in Kratie province’s Snuol district, landing one of them in the hospital with a head injury on Wednesday morning, a provincial police official said. Kong Sa Im, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/journalists-trade-blows-over-cash-from-wood-smugglers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 60 villAgers from BAttAmbAng province’s SAmpov Loun district gAthered in Phnom Penh’s WAt Botum PArk yesterdAy to prtotested AgAinst A 4,065-hectAre lAnd concession grAnted to A compAny for Agriculture development. Korng Sokheng, A representAtive for 1,850 fAmilies, sAid villAgers submitted A petition to Prime <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bbAng-protesters-seek-help-in-lAnd-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The ArbitrAtion Council hAs ordered more thAn 700 workers At the Wei Xin gArment fActory to end A week-long strike they hAve stAged in protest AgAinst A spAte of issues they hAve with the compAny over contrActs And pAyment. A decision hAnded down on SAturdAy by <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ArbitrAtion-council-orders-An-end-to-strike/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Following a raid on a Phnom Penh recruitment agency, military police yesterday detained two people and rescued 22 girls and women aged 13 to 25 who claimed they were being held against their will ahead of being sent to Malaysia to work as maids. Municipal military <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maid-agency-raid-rescues-22-women-girls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Civil society groups from Thailand will boycott a meeting between NGOs and regional government representatives at this week’s aSEaN summit because their country’s delegate “does not represent Thai civil society”, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Premrudee Daoroung, a representative of Thai civil society groups, said her country’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thais-will-sit-out-ngo-meet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rice exports last month were five per cent lower than in January last year, after a full year of decline in 2018. However, a sector insider said it is not a major concern because it is only the beginning of 2019. a report from the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-exports-down-5/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly 300 families in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Trabek area will be granted land titles, a surprise move punctuated with a reminder to residents to cast a vote for the ruling party in July’s elections. The area in Chamkarmon district has been the site of land <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-trabek-residents-to-get-land-titles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s northern railway line has been linked to Thailand at the border in Poipet City, officials said at a ceremony on Monday&mdash;although sections of track in Cambodia still need to be finished before trains can start running between the two countries. at a ceremony marking a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unfinished-railway-connected-to-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Commune offices around the country are bracing for a surge in voter registrations over the Pchum Ben holiday that could become a make-or-miss moment in building the foundation for upcoming elections. after nearly a month of registrations, the National Election Committee reported on Tuesday that 3.5 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/election-officials-brace-for-pchum-ben-rush/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kampong Speu Provincial Court has joined the fray in a land battle between Hun Sen’s elder brother and a general attached to RCaF’s infamous Brigade 70, ordering a halt to its clearing.a court officer, joined by 20 local authority officers and several members of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-pits-pms-brother-against-brigade-70-general/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Citing a seven-year-old defamation case, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy, forcing the travelling Cambodia National Rescue Party president to choose whether to stay abroad or return and face a two-year prison term.The warrant, stemming from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-faces-arrest-warrant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Global Fund, provider of the lion’s share of money for Cambodia’s $12 million-a-year HIV treatment and prevention program, has told the government it expects it to begin footing more of the bill itself, a push that is prompting worries among local health-care providers. However, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-urged-to-step-up-on-hiv-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After two deAths to flooding in As mAny rAiny seAsons And Another close cAll on MondAy, villAgers from KhvA VillAge in Phnom Penh’s DAngkor District Are demAnding Action. They sAy thAt the cAuse of the flooding is the extrAction of soil neArby by A compAny <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/deAdly-flooding-spurs-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Tbong Khmum provincial officials have announced a crackdown on illegal checkpoints along the Vietnamese border, possibly in response to a purported warning issued by Prime Minister Hun Sen to provincial Governor Ly Leng to monitor the transport of timber in the province. Local media reports contend <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tbong-khmum-to-crack-down-on-illegal-vietnam-border-checkpoints/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ten trucks fully loaded with timber have been spotted entering a heavily guarded sawmill near the Lower Sesan II dam on an hourly basis, claimed a report by the Cambodian Human Rights Task Force (CHRTF), which was released yesterday. according to the report, photos taken from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forests-being-cleared-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Twenty villages in Mondulkiri province are set to receive at least $10,000 each as a result of the $2.6 million carbon credit purchase by the Walt Disney Company in 2016, under a scheme meant to protect the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, officials said yesterday.​This would <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mondulkiri-villages-to-get-redd-funds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s next step in allowing workers such as maids and builders to travel to Qatar will be to create a committee with the arab state to ensure their safety is protected, a senior labour official said yesterday. The Senate on Wednesday supported an agreement between the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-and-qatar-to-form-labour-watchdog/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A locAl newspAper stringer who hAd written About illegAl logging wAs found deAd in the bAck of A cAr yesterdAy in RAttAnAkiri province’s O’Chum district. HAng Serei Oudom, 44, wAs A stringer for VorAkchun Khmer, or Khmer Hero, newspAper. Police sAid his body wAs covered in blood <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/stringer-who-reported-on-logging-found-deAd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>