The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on Monday rejecting the land dispute claims of 197 families in Koh Kong province’s Sre ambel district. a ministry press release dated Monday said a related land dispute involving 987 families over sugar <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-claims-of-197-families-rejected/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representative of 26 families involved in a long-standing land dispute with a Chinese-owned company in Koh Kong province gathered at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh on Thursday to deliver their petition seeking its intervention. The villagers said they had lost trust in state institutions <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-villagers-seek-us-intervention-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Mondulkiri provinciAl prosecutor questioned Lor RAksmey, An under-secretAry of stAte At the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest And Fisheries on WednesdAy over his Alleged involvement in illegAlly grAnting economic lAnd concessions (ELCs) covering 9,741hA to A privAte compAny. ProvinciAl court spokesmAn MeAs Bros told The <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-officiAl-questioned-over-suspected-illegAl-elcs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government has planned a national budget of more than $7.66 billion for 2020, which will be divided by sectors across 39 ministries and institutions. a press release issued by the Council of Ministers on Friday following a plenary meeting said the government expects the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-budget-for-next-year-set-at-7-66-billion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior environment officer for the United NAtions Environment ProgrAmme (UNEP) on MondAy urged the Ministry of Environment to prepAre A wAste mAnAgement system for plAstics And to strive for cleAn Air in the country, pArticulArly in Phnom Penh. Erik Solheim, the executive director of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/un-officiAl-urges-government-to-reduce-use-of-plAstic/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) has received the prestigious 2019 Energy Globe award, a group representative said on Monday. The awards are known as “Nature’s Nobel Prize”. Ek Sovanna, a PLCN representative in Kratie province, told The Post on Monday that PLCN had won <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prey-lang-group-receives-award/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Sunday charged four out of six villagers over the clearing of land in Stung Hav district, a rights worker said yesterday. Cheap Sotheary, adhoc’s provincial coordinator, said military police officers arrested six people who were on disputed land owned by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-villagers-charged-while-two-freed-in-land-clearing-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Industry Ministry is investigating a corruption case in Koh Kong province following a complaint filed by civil servants against their superior. according to the complaint sent to Industry Minister Cham Prasidh last week by five civil servants with the provincial industry department, 18 families <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-servants-file-complaint-over-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Gideon Group, a US-based global finance firm, yesterday announced its intention to invest $488 million in a 135-megawatt solar plant in Kandal province. In a statement issued yesterday, Gideon Group president and CEO Salman Khan said the Kandal solar project is being developed by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/biggest-solar-project-yet-gets-half-billion-in-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Environment Ministry on Thursday launched the Phnom Penh Sustainable City Plan 2018-2030 aimed at turning the capital into a clean and environmentally friendly city. The launching ceremony was presided over by Eang Sophalleth, a secretary of state on behalf of Say Samal, Environment Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-ministry-launches-green-growth-plan-for-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampot provincial police sent two councillors to court on Thursday for forging public documents to claim a villager’s land in Chhouk district. Provincial police chief Mao Chanmathurith said the unidentified officials, one of whom was a Chhouk district councillor and the other a Taken commune <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-councillors-sent-to-court-for-forging-land-title/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced a new phase of the Public Financial Management Reform Program, a donor-assisted initiative established in 2004 to bolster the country’s ability to soundly manage its budget. In a speech at the launch event, he touted the government’s progress <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lack-of-transparency-hinders-budget-progress/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In an effort to address speech and communication disorders, which affect about one in 25 people countrywide, Unicef Cam­bo­dia awarded the organization OIC: The Cambodia Project a $42,000 grant on Wednesday to provide informal speech therapy training to Cambodians. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-gets-unicef-aid-for-speech-therapy-training/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Confederation Development association (CCDa), a well-known tuk-tuk and moto-taxi association, plans to lodge complaints against local rights group Licadho next week over a statement the NGO co-signed with 33 other civil society groups regarding the association’s involvement in a Saturday protest at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tuk-tuk-association-to-lodge-complaint-against-licadho/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Though all countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) had signed a cross-border trade agreement (CBTa) 14 years ago to enhance the sub-region’s economic connectivity, the CBTa, however, is yet to be ratified in individual Mekong nations for its full implementation. This was revealed last <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gms-cross-border-pact-on-hold/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Singaporean developer behind The Bay, a $500 million mixed-use real estate project on the capital’s Chroy Changvar peninsula, has announced it is putting the residential phase of the project on hold due to unfavourable market conditions &ndash; a move that could herald the first <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/developer-puts-condo-project-the-bay-on-hold-as-supply-glut-looms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flooding-from-dam-washes-out-homes-rice-fields-in-southern-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 workers from Japanese-owned quality control firm Kuwahara, whose office is located in the Cambodiana Hotel, gathered in a park across the street from the hotel yesterday morning to boycott their employer and demand they institute a litany of conditions that were born <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-at-japanese-company-launch-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand will have to pay 950 baht (about $27) to receive a travel card or Overseas Cambodian Worker Card (OCWC), the Labor Ministry announced yesterday. From September 26, workers will be able to apply for the documents, under a bilateral agreement signed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fee-to-legally-work-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sroeun, 43, a former rice farmer from Kandal province, said he was sure there had never been any accidents at his construction site.​ “Small things happen. Scratches on our hands,” he said, declining to give his full name as a supervisor stood nearby during a break <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amid-building-boom-safety-left-dangling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>