Cambodia’s Ministry of Defence has demanded an apology from Thai media outlets for reports linking Defence Minister Tea Banh to a recent case of alleged cross-border arms smuggling by a Thai air force officer, one which has also ensnared an official from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-scolds-thai-outlets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen hit back yesterday at suggestions that he would consider postponing this year’s elections, saying they will go on as scheduled “no matter what happens” &ndash; an apparent effort to clarify his remarks in a speech the day before that an election <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-seeks-to-clarify-remarks-pledging-that-election-will-take-place-no-matter-what/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Banteay Meanchey police have arrested three men, including a deminer from the Cambodian Mine action Centre (CMaC), for their alleged involvement in selling three mortars seized last week by Thai authorities, who, in a separate raid in Thailand near the country’s border with Myanmar, detained <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-nabbed-for-weapons-smuggling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has decided to rebuild the Chbar ampov market roof following an appeal from vendors in the wake of a blazing inferno last week that destroyed many of their stalls. Last Thursday night, an electrical fault sparked a fire at the market, located in Chbar <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-rebuild-market-roof/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday threatened to overturn reforms to the country’s National Election Committee (NEC) if the opposition refuses to accept his nomination of the head of a local election watchdog as a ninth, “neutral” member to the electoral body, based on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-hun-sen-says-no-electoral-body-reform-lacking-nominee-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Justice Ministry yesterday announced the launch of a six-month campaign to resolve a backlog of nearly 40,000 court cases across the country.  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/clearing-court-backlogs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

“If there had not been this project, we would have still been living in hardship, using kerosene-burning lamps or batteries,” Souy For, a 51-year-old father of two, said of a new power station in the country. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-lower-sesan-ii-hydropower-station-provides-bright-future-for-relocated-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chhay RithiSen, Minister of Rural Development, on May 6, 2024, chaired a meeting to conduct a review​ on water supply. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/the-ministry-of-rural-development-has-begun-to-review-data-on-rural-water-supply/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The march of a thousand villagers in Ratanakkiri province’s Lum­phat district, planned for yesterday, was cancelled after provincial authorities promised to help settle their long-running land dispute. adhoc coordinator in Ratanakkiri Pen Bunnar said the provincial governor had appealed to villagers in a meeting over the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/march-called-off-as-governor-listens-8/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Grassroots Democratic Party has created a 125-point policy document outlining its priorities were it to be elected to office in the July national elections. The fledgling party has said that it will contest the elections, though any further deterioration in the country’s current political <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grassroots-party-lays-out-policy-platform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the first dAy of the WAter FestivAl rolled over Phnom Penh, the city wAs quiet.The riverside streets, once filled with teeming crowds from the provinces, were spArsely populAted. If not for the workers setting up fireworks tubes on A repurposed river bArge, there would <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/wAter-festivAl-At-low-ebb/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A JApAnese firm, Gomi Recycle 110, plAns to invest in A fActory in SvAy Rieng province to recycle plAstic wAste into finished products for locAl mArkets. Yusuke OkumurA, director of Gomi, met with CAmbodiA’s Minister of Environment SAy SAmAl on TuesdAy seeking support from the government <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/plAstic-wAste-to-be-put-to-good-use/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government is in a seemingly never-ending PR battle to prove its independence from Vietnam, but that battle took a turn for the worse yesterday when opposition members told government officials that local residents in Svay Rieng province were renting land to Vietnamese farmers, an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-vietnamese-renting-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn University student, who wAs Arrested by provinciAl police in Siem ReAp After he threAtened to kill Deputy Prime Minister SAr Kheng on sociAl mediA, hAs confessed to the plot to throw A grenAde At the government officiAl during the school’s grAduAtion ceremony, the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-police-Arrest-student-for-fAcebook-threAt-to-blow-up-deputy-pm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

ROSEBUD audiologist Fallon arnold is about to head off on a two-week volunteer placement for all Ears Cambodia, based in the capital, Phnom Penh.The organisation offers a range of hearing health services to those afflicted with hearing loss or ear-health problems, such as infections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/old-hearing-aids-add-to-quality-of-life/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With official tallies from Sunday’s commune elections slowed by internet hiccups, both major political parties provided similar results but different stories on Monday on which had won a vote that drew a record 7 million Cambodians to the polls&mdash;300,000 more than had been previously reported <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-count-ticks-upward-parties-spin-competing-narratives/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn People’s PArty (CPP) senior officiAl hAs AppeAled to opposition leAders to let their lAwmAkers to fight with the CPP lAwmAkers who Are wAiting in the NAtionAl Assembly. The opposition leAders recently reAffirmed the CNRP’s position thAt they would not join the NAtionAl Assembly <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/opposition-chAllenged-to-fight-in-the-pArliAment-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights said that it would deliver Tuesday a giant photo petition to the Ministry of Justice as part of its annual Campaign to End Impunity. a statement on Monday said that CCHR has collected 263 photos of people holding signs that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cchr-delivers-petition-to-justice-minister-calling-for-an-end-to-impunity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two large European companies working in the construction sector have announced plans to expand their distribution networks in Cambodia, according to a joint agreement signed last week. Together with the Thai subsidiary of French building-materials giant Saint-Gobain, the France-based electrical installation multinational Schneider Electric signed a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-firms-move-into-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn officiAl in chArge of the country’s borders denounced An opposition lAwmAker who Accused him of lying About A mAp of the SoutheAst AsiAn nAtion he found in the U.S. LibrAry of Congress, Amid ongoing debAte over the chArts thAt the government uses to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/disputes-continue-over-cAmbodiAn-governments-officiAl-mAp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>