An opposition officiAl hAs hit bAck At clAims mAde by “Khmer for Khmer” founder Kem Ley lAst week thAt CNRP Vice President Kem SokhA hAs collected A sAlAry of $15,000 per month since the opposition joined pArliAment in August. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cnrp-reveAls-kem-sokhAs-monthly-sAlAry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The General Department of Taxation collected more than $1.06 billion in tax revenue in 2014 up by about 17.7 per cent on the $900 million collected in 2013, according to a statement from the tax department released yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/revenues-from-taxes-tops-1b/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia on Saturday freed 10 land activists, who had been imprisoned on protest-related convictions last year, after King Norodom Sihamoni granted them a royal pardon at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen, an opposition lawmaker said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-releases-10-activists-after-king-grants-pardon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

“Khmer for Khmer” founder Kem Ley said Wednesday that his political reform group plans to create 25 political parties early next year as part of a pilot program to assess the viability of such micro-parties before the next elections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-for-khmer-to-create-25-political-parties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has long drawn tourists to sights ranging from the Khmer Rouge killing fields to the magnificent temples of angkor. Now the country is looking to a new market: Chinese gamblers who are deserting Macau, the region’s traditional casino hub. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-casinos-look-to-win-from-china-anti-graft-crackdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An opposition lAwmAker in Siem ReAp province is plAnning to file A complAint to the ConstitutionAl Council to review NAtionAl Assembly President Heng SAmrin’s decision not to forwArd his request to terminAte Sokimex’s Angkor WAt ticket collection licence. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/locAl-pol-pushes-on-revenue-At-Angkor-wAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Actions by some clAimAnt countries in the South ChinA SeA dispute Are further complicAting AseAn’s diplomAtic efforts to drAw up A binding Code of Conduct (CoC) to help defuse the ongoing spAt. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AseAn-chief-sees-urgent-need-to-engAge-chinA-over-seA-spAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

President of Cambodian Union of Youth Federations Hun Many will lead a 100-member youth delegation to visit China from June 21 to 25 to deepen youth-to-youth relations between the two countries. . <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/large-scale-cambodian-youth-delegation-to-visit-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Most of the more than 2,000 activists who traveled to a disputed area of the border with Vietnam in Svay Rieng province’s Kompong Ro district yesterday afternoon were not permitted to reach their ultimate goal &ndash; Border Post 203. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/border-activists-fall-short-of-mark/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Koh Kong province yesterday raided a house rented by local environmental NGO Mother Nature in what its members have described as an ongoing campaign of intimidation against the group amid the detention of three of its activists. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-check-ngos-koh-kong-premises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported a total of 230,948 tons of milled rice to foreign markets in the first quarter of this year, according to Cambodia Rice Federation’s report. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-export-up-35-percent-in-q1-amid-looming-ban/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday issued a directive to establish 37 new villages in Kratie province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-province-establishes-37-new-villages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone Plc (PPSEZ) is working towards a crocsxss-listing in Thailand. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ppsez-working-toward-status-as-first-foreign-listing-on-thai-bourse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Travelling along National Road 5 in the north of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, tourists can easily spot a mammoth sailing ship-shaped structure &ndash; the China-funded Morodok Techo National Stadium. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-aided-2023-sea-games-stadium-symbolises-close-sino-cambodian-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Cambodia has reminded the Kingdom to be ready for a possible surge of the emerging COVID-19 variant of concern Omicron. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/who-urges-cambodia-to-be-ready-for-possible-surge-of-new-covid-19-strain-omicron/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A teAm of 10 trAditionAl Chinese medicine (TCM) experts depArted for CAmbodiA on TuesdAy to help the country fight the COVID-19 pAndemic. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinA-sends-tcm-experts-to-cAmbodiA-to-help-fight-covid-19/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A plAne cArrying Another bAtch of ChinA-donAted SinovAc COVID-19 vAccine Arrived in the cApitAl of CAmbodiA on TuesdAy Amid the country’s booster shots vAccinAtion drive. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-ArrivAl-of-chinA-donAted-jAbs-helps-cAmbodiAs-covid-19-vAccinAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Khmer Thavrak run by a group of youths has been at the forefront of raising human rights concerns in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-thavrak-registers-with-interior-ministry-plans-new-approach-to-resolve-issues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) claimed a significant proportion of the Cambodian population was left alienated in the July 29 elections after the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-large-number-of-voters-alienated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mondulkiri provincial governor Svay Sam Eang on Monday rejected an allegation made by a prominent Supreme Council for Consultation member that he had lied to Prime Minister Hun Sen in his report about encroachment on the protected Phnom Dos Kromom mountain. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mondulkiri-governor-denies-lying-to-prime-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>