The Foreign AffAirs Ministry hAs issued A stAtement highlighting Foreign AffAirs Minister PrAk Sokhonn’s pArticipAtion during the 52nd AseAn Foreign Ministers Meeting in BAngkok lAst week. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Achievements-At-52nd-Amm-highlighted/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As the temperAture in Phnom Penh crested 39 degrees celcius on TuesdAy, A young British couple stepped into the Air-conditioned embrAce of Burger King.   <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/As-fAst-food-tAkes-hold-heAlth-feArs-grow/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Members of the newly-establishment the Beehive Social Democratic Party elected Mam Sonando, a prominent radio station director, to be the president of party. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mam-sonando-elected-as-the-president-of-his-newly-created-political-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A letter mArked “secret” hAs been sent by the ruling pArty to vArious groups telling them to support Prime Minister Hun Sen on the issue of demArcAting borders with VietnAm. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/secret-govt-letter-tells-groups-to-support-pm-on-mAps/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday insisted that this year’s Water Festival will go forward, in spite of the impacts on the Mekong River of a recent drought. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-says-water-festival-still-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Twenty-eight Cambodian nationals were arrested last week by Thai authorities for illegally crossing the border into Khlong Yai district, according to a Bangkok Post story on Saturday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nearly-30-cambodians-arrested-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The US’s incoming ambassador, William Heidt, made his first Cambodian appearance in public Friday, at a swearing in ceremony for Peace Corps volunteers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/incoming-ambassador-swears-in-64-peace-corps-volunteers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has asked King Norodom Sihamoni to officially retire 49 generals in the police force as it prepares to end a two-year hiring freeze this year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/old-generals-retiring-as-police-end-hiring-freeze/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local agro-industrial conglomerate Mong Reththy Group is negotiating a new partnership that would send large-volume shipments of Cambodian cassava products to Europe for the first time. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-market-could-tap-into-tapioca/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fishing communities around the Tonle Sap Lake have called on Laos to scrap a controversial Mekong hydropower project after the consultation period for the project ended this week. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fishing-communities-voice-concerns-over-laos-dam-as-consultation-ends/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Royal Government of Cambodia has spent approximately US$30 million a year on sub-national administrations in order to ensure their quality service provision, particularly on priority issues. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-invests-us30-million-on-sub-national-level-administrations-annually/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government has awarded Japanese-owned Toshiba Plant Systems &amp; Services Corporation (TPSC) the concession to construct a coal-fired power generation project in Preah Sihanouk province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/toshiba-to-build-power-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The increase in commercial dry-season rice cultivation in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap floodplain is threatening the survival of the critically endangered Bengal florican, a new study suggests. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/florican-population-faces-extinction-threat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nine eggs of the globally endangered white-winged duck have successfully hatched after a nest was found last month in Preah Vihear province’s Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hatchlings-bring-hope-for-endangered-ducks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The first group of Cambodian domestic workers will be sent to Malaysia next month following the recently lifted ban between the two nations, a Malaysian news outlet reported. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-domestic-workers-head-to-malaysia-in-june/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A high-level delegAtion of the VietnAm People’s Army is visiting CAmbodiA this week At the invitAtion of RoyAl CAmbodiAn Armed Forces CommAnder GenerAl Pol SAruon, VietnAm News Agency reported. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/high-level-vietnAmese-militAry-officiAls-visiting-cAmbodiA-this-week/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The International Organisation for Migration has told the Cambodian government it is willing to take part in the resettlement of refugees from Nauru if a number of conditions are met.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/iom-willing-to-help-with-refugee-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A former officiAl At the NAtionAl Aids Authority (NAA) Alleged this week thAt the orgAnizAtion fAlsified letters Authorizing missions to three different provinces so thAt frAudulent expenses could be clAimed. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/former-nAtionAl-Aids-Authority-officiAl-Alleges-corruption/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A NepAlese group of hAckers cAlling themselves “TeenAgeWorms” hAcked into the website of CAmbodiA’s Ministry of Tourism ThursdAy, chAnging the title of the site’s URL in Google seArch. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-of-tourism-website-hAcked-by-teenAgeworms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The head of a research team investigating the demarcation of Cambodia’s borders yesterday called for changes to the Kingdom’s constitution to avoid losing land to Vietnam. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/expert-warns-cpp-cnrp-maps-cede-territory-to-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>