More than 400 workers from a Chinese-owned window factory in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town returned to work yesterday following two weeks of protests that saw strikers pelt their own factory with rocks. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strike-ends-at-bavet-window-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 1,000 people locked in A lAnd dispute with Heng Development CompAny in KAndAl province’s KAndAl Stung district yesterdAy descended upon the Boeng KyAng Commune HAll demAnding compensAtion for their loss of lAnd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thousAnds-demAnd-compensAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A prominent Anti-corruption Activist yesterdAy urged the government to properly Address corruption in the Kingdom. On TuesdAy, TrAnspArency InternAtionAl rAnked the Kingdom 161 out of 180 countries surveyed in its AnnuAl Corruption Perception Index. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activist-urges-government-to-bAttle-All-levels-of-corruption/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian Secretary of State Neang Phat will lead a delegation to Thailand this morning for the 11th General Border Committee (GBC) meeting, according to an announcement from the Defense Ministry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-thai-border-to-be-discussed-in-bangkok/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Siem Reap’s angkor Sangkranti festival this year was a big success with foreign tourist arrivals up almost nine percent to 29,500 over the four-day holiday from last year, the provincial tourism department said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourist-numbers-in-siem-reap-up-9-percent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Friday urged Cambodians living in South Korea to attend CNRP events being held in Seoul this weekend, despite a warning from the Cambodian ambassador on Thurs­­day that people should stay away. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-urges-migrants-in-korea-to-attend-events/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia National Rescue Party leaders yesterday vowed to boycott the National assembly unless their members’ safety can be guaranteed following the bashing of two opposition lawmakers outside parliament during a pro-CPP rally last week. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-to-boycott-national-assembly-over-lack-of-safety/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, currently in self-imposed exile in France, has said he remains confident that his Cambodia National Rescue Party will win a majority of seats in parliament at the 2018 general election. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-will-take-2018-majority-rainsy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Wednesday that the country would resume holding a three-day Water Festival this year after canceling the annual festivity four times in the past five years.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/water-festival-boat-races-to-return-in-2016%e2%80%88hun-sen/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Beijing-based PowerChina Resources Limited (PCR), a shareholder of Sinohydro Kamchay Hydroelectric Project Co. Ltd, which developed the Kamchay hydroelectric dam in Kampot, expressed its interest in building electricity transmission lines in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-firm-now-eyes-power-lines/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AGRO-IndustriAl conglomerAte Mong Reththy Group inAugurAted its first feed mill on FridAy, with the fActory’s production line Aimed foremost At supplying the group’s industriAl pig-reAring operAtion, A compAny executive sAid yesterdAy.​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pigs-cAll-first-dibs-on-feed/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Sihanoukville autonomous Port (PaS) launched a book building process yesterday to determine what price to offer in an initial public offering (IPO), before it is listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange late next month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-gets-ready-for-listing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Pepper production inched up to close to 12,000 tonnes last year with cultivation on 6,124 hectares, but unstable prices have led to calls for geographic indicator (GI) certificates for a range of peppers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pepper-farmers-seek-new-gi-listings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Svay Rieng province on Saturday shut down a training session for 16 observers registered to monitor this Sunday’s commune elections, saying it had not been sanctioned by authorities, according to an organizer. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/svay-rieng-police-halt-training-session-for-election-observers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that the retirement age for civil servants is still 60 after confusion spread following a government notice that it plans to extend the retirement age to 65 for teachers.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-clarifies-retirement-age/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Labour officials sent off 14 maids to Hong Kong yesterday in celebration of a pilot program that hopes to funnel up to 1,000 maids to the asian financial hub despite concerns from rights groups. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maids-depart-for-hong-kong-as-part-of-new-program/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian microfinance institution (MFI) Chamroeun Microfinance Plc is negotiating with Japanese firm Renet Japan Group to sell a 90 percent stake in the MFI to the Japanese used goods dealer, according to Nikkei asian Review. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-firm-eyes-stake-in-local-mfi-chamroeun/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The U.S. has told Cambodia to continue accepting Cambodian citizens deported from the U.S., despite repeated requests to renegotiate a repatriation agreement between the two countries, Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-wants-deportations-to-continue-foreign-minister-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After clAiming for weeks thAt A controversiAl pArty slogAn wAs not ActuAlly officiAl, the opposition CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty decided to remove the phrAse from its officiAl pArty plAtform yesterdAy in An Attempt At “reconciliAtion”. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cnrp-drops-contentious-slogAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia is moving closer to its goal of eliminating malaria deaths by 2015, with the number of fatal cases declining from 93 in 2011 to 12 last year, data from a new World Health Organisation report show. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malaria-is-down-not-out-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>