National assembly President Heng Samrin’s native village is, as map lines go, technically inside of Vietnam, the head of Cambodia’s Royal academy said at a recent press conference. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/samrins-hometown-technically-in-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Gawon apparel factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao town has fired nearly 600 staff for breaching a court warrant ordering them to go back to work after months of protest. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-factory-fires-nearly-600/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia attracted the fixed asset investment of 333.4 million U.S. dollars from its aSEaN member states in 2017, according to a government’s report on Friday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-attracts-over-333-mln-usd-investment-from-asean-in-2017/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen said today that he is ready to have a summit with Sam Rainsy, the president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, to break the current political deadlock. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-says-he-is-ready-to-negotiate-with-sam-rainsy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Sbong Sarath will resign on april 17 to transition into a position on the provincial council of Prey Veng following this May’s council elections, he confirmed yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governor-to-resign-from-post/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni has appointed 24 royalist Funcinpec Party figures as advisors to government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to a royal decree released to the media on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-king-appoints-24-royalist-officials-as-advisors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities confirmed yesterday that they are creating a committee that will seek to help illegal Cambodian migrant workers expelled from Thailand land get back on their feet in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/committee-to-receive-thailand-deportees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign AffAirs Minister Hor NAmhong will embArk on An officiAl visit to ThAilAnd this month to Attend A ceremony At which ThAi officiAls will return 16 Ancient CAmbodiAn ArtefActs recovered from smugglers. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/minister-on-ArtefActs-mission/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Four Vietnamese nationals were jailed on kidnapping charges in Svay Rieng province on Saturday after allegedly detaining two of their countrymen over gambling debts in a casino in Bavet town.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vn-nationals-arrested-on-kidnapping-charge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page surpassed 1 million likes yesterday, earning him a spot in the country’s top 10 most-liked pages on Cambodia’s most popular social network. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-surpasses-1-million-likes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia ranked number one among the “World’s Friendliest Countries”, according to a reader poll conducted by London-based international website “Rough Guides”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-voted-worlds-friendliest-country-in-rough-guides-reader-poll/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following the departure of the former governor of the province, authorities reported a resurgence in land encroachment cases. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-encroachment-crime-reported-in-pursat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Health Ministry has issued advice to be careful about the Ebola virus disease after the World Health Organisation announced a renewed outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-gears-up-for-ebola-prevention/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With a new government set to be formed on Thursday, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday warned that lazy ministers would lose their positions if they continued to not do their jobs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prime-minister-says-lazy-officials-will-be-terminated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian soldiers stationed at Preah Vihear temple said relations with their Thai counterparts have remained friendly despite reports that a controversial replica temple built by the Thai military could be reopened. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/replica-temple-dispute-drags-on-but-soldiers-unfazed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Immigration Police raided a Phnom Penh construction site yesterday, detaining 65 out of 109 Vietnamese laborers who were found to be working illegally in Niroth commune, Chbar ampov district. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sixty-five-illegal-workers-arrested-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities At the Angkor Temple Complex in Siem ReAp province yesterdAy Announced the discovery of two stAtues dAting from the 10th century, uncovered during the digging of A wAter chAnnel. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Angkor-worksite-reveAls-2-stAtues/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Military police have issued their own warning to those illegally using military licence plates on their vehicles, doubling down on a similar directive issued by the Ministry of Interior last month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/crackdown-in-works-for-illegal-rcaf-plates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite the creation of a 200-hectare conservation area, fishing communities on south-east asia’s largest freshwater lake fear their way of life is slipping away. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/net-loss-fish-stocks-dwindle-in-cambodias-tonle-sap-lake/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Youth Party (CYP), a new coalition targeting the vote of Cambodia’s burgeoning under-30 population, became official this week after receiving its licence from the Ministry of Interior. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-youth-party-signed-into-being/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>