More than 30 percent of tourism-related businesses have resumed operations after closing or suspending work since March this year because of COVID-19, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Tourism. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boost-to-tourism-related-business/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Environment has sent a team to investigate land disputes at two locations covering over 100ha. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-clearing-accusations-from-2008-under-scrutiny/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A $3.5 million gArment fActory will be built in BosstAney VillAge, KAheng Commune, SAmrong Thong District, KAmpong Speu, creAting some 700 jobs for locAl people. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cdc-Approves-new-gArment-fActory-project-in-kAmpong-speu/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has sent a message to the extremist groups not to do politics depending on somebody else. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/do-not-do-politics-depending-on-somebody-else-says-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition figure Sam Rainsy formally called for a boycott of this year’s national election in the name of the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party on Saturday, though some former senior party leaders challenged his authority to speak on behalf of the opposition. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-announces-official-election-boycott/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday rejected the idea that “foreign hands” or assistance secured a resolution to Cambodia’s civil war in the early 1990s, warning historians to refrain from claiming the international community was responsible for peace-building in the country. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-peace-brought-by-khmers-not-foreign-hands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mongkul Borey district authorities in Banteay Meanchey province told The Post on Monday that more than 2,300 hectares of paddy fields have been completely destroyed due to flooding, while a further 2,200 hectares face damage in the coming days if heavy rain continues. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/floods-destroy-over-2300-hectares-of-paddy-fields/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Facing threats of retaliation if Prime Minister Hun Sen is met by protests during his first official visit to the U.S. next week, the opposition CNRP said on Monday that it would seek a meeting with government officials this week over security concerns. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/facing-threats-over-protests-in-us-cnrp-seeks-help/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Next year’s commune council elections will be held on June 4, according to a decision signed on Tuesday by Prime Minister Hun Sen, marking the first nationwide ballot since the 2013 election that led to the reform of the National Election Committee (NEC). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commune-elections-set-for-june-4-next-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vendors along O’Chheuteal Beach yesterday protested against a new Preah Sihanouk provincial project that requires them to build new stalls &ndash; set back from their current ones &ndash; before the Sea Festival starts on December 17, in order to expand the beach area for tourists. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-beach-vendors-protest-new-relocation-notice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s eldest son, Hun Manet, announced on Sunday that he would not be attending a Khmer New Year parade he was invited to in Long Beach, California, in the face of vocal opposition from some of the community’s Cambodian-americans. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-manet-pulls-out-of-us-parade-amid-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As the opposition mArked the 41st AnniversAry of the fAll of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, one of its senior officiAls yesterdAy lAshed out At the imprisonment of A CNRP lAwmAker for criticising the government’s hAndling of the VietnAmese border issue. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/former-srp-president-slAms-Arrest-of-um-sAm-An/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The agency tasked with investigating abuse by Malaysia’s security forces said that claims of fatal abuse against foreign maids&mdash;including Cambodians&mdash;at a detention center were untrue, though it said the center where the abuse allegedly occurred was in urgent need of attention. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malaysia-abuse-claims-drive-agency-to-call-for-urgent-fixes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed angkor Wat Temple reached 43.3 million U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2015, up 0.24 percent year-on-year, according to a news statement on Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-angkor-wat-earns-over-43-mln-usd-from-ticket-sales-in-9-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 300 families in Kompong Speu province this week signed a deal with Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh Sugar Company aimed at ending their long-running land dispute, though several of the families have yet to agree on compensation.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-in-land-dispute-with-sugar-firm-reach-500-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An inspection At the Sino GreAt WAll InternAtionAl Engineering’s building site in Phnom Penh yesterdAy found neArly 200 Chinese workers without work permits, According to An immigrAtion officiAl, though A spokesmAn for the project’s developer sAid the employees’ pAperwork wAs in the pipeline. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/neArly-200-chinese-construction-workers-detAined-in-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Close to 300 workers at Kampong Speu province’s Grandis Timber Limited, a teak nursery, have sought the aid of an agricultural union after they were asked to stop coming to work last week after management said they did not have enough work for them. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-laid-off-at-kampong-speu-teak-farm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The cracks in Mam Sonando’s recently revived Beehive Social Democratic Party are widening, with a lawsuit against the party president, alleging he embezzled funds, slated to be filed at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court today on behalf of the party’s own leadership. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/party-leaders-sue-sonando/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party passed the government’s $4.3 billion budget for 2016 unopposed yesterday as Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers followed through on a pledge to sit out the National assembly session if concerns for their members’ safety were not addressed. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/assembly-passes-budget-as-cnrp-boycotts-vote/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

State-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSa), one of three companies listed on the stock exchange, will pay out more than $3 million in dividends for 2015 on april 18, a 50 percent increase on 2014, reflecting its improved performance, company officials said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/water-authority-announces-3-mil-dividend/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>