Police on Tuesday night arrested a 35-year-old man they say confessed to the murder of Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen and the brutal attack on her 19-month-old daughter in a burglary gone awry at their home just off Norodom Boulevard on Monday. National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arrest-in-un-murder/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Generals and two other air force officers, according to the country’s defense minister, who said strong winds may have led to the tragedy. Minister of Defense Tea Banh said that the cause of the crash into a pond about six miles (10 kilometers) south of Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strong-winds-may-have-downed-cambodia-chopper-defense-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MPWT) and the Phnom Penh municipality are preparing a ban on heavy trucks crossing the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge after cracks were discovered in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end, a City Hall official confirmed yesterday. at a meeting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cracks-discovered-in-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday convicted and imprisoned four people for their roles in a fraud case that involved the forging of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s signature to secure a mining license in Mondolkiri province. al Romny, the 41-year-old director of the local company <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jail-terms-for-four-in-mondolkiri-mining-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An internAtionAl Agriculture NGO is prepAring to roll out A nAtionwide project in pArtnership with computer-chip mAker Intel whereby more thAn 25,000 fArmers will be Able to receive reAl-time Advice on fArming methods viA A smArtphone App. The InternAtionAl Fund for AgriculturAl Development (IFAD) piloted the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/smArtphone-softwAre-to-help-rice-fArmers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

He may be just the police chief of Battambang, a languid riverside town in western Cambodia, but, recently, people have taken to calling Brig Gen Sar Theth the $7 million man. On Sept. 19, Brig Gen Theth’s officers tracked three Thai men in a pickup truck <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-seen-as-growing-source-of-counterfeit-dollars-in-southeast-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers at the center of a land dispute between villagers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of the mines and energy minister on Thursday pressed forward with a campaign against the release of five villagers who were imprisoned over violence <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kdc-workers-petition-against-the-release-of-five-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Resintech Bhd, a local Polyethylene and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturer, will tap into the rubber plantation sector in a bid to diversify its business segment given the healthy outlook on the rubber industry. Resintech’s managing director Datuk Teh Kim Poo said that according to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/resintech-to-tap-into-rubber-plantation-with-joint-venture-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian authorities are hunting more than a dozen ethnic minority hill people from Vietnam, drawing international criticism and raising further doubts about australia’s controversial agreement to send refugees to Phnom Penh. Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), warned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-treatment-of-montagnard-refugees-focuses-critics-on-australias-asylum-seeker-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seang Sarin swears he only fell asleep for a moment. It’s a moment he has cursed and played over in his head for nearly 20 months now.Speaking to the Post in a detention room at the Kandal Provincial Court this week, the former guard at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/urn-theft-weighs-on-guards-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Aiming to AttrAct investors to broAden the Kingdom’s mAnufActuring bAse And to boost the country’s industriAl development, the government is Alledgedly prepAring A mAster plAn to turn SihAnoukville province into A new speciAl economic zone, sAid An officiAl.The Advisor to the CAmbodiAn government, Dr Sok <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/the-sihAnoukville-mAkeover/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A Ford Assembly plAnt in PreAh SihAnouk province will supply CAmbodiA’s limited but growing cAr mArket, the AmericAn cArmAker’s locAl representAtive RMA CAmbodiA Announced yesterdAy. The US$3 million investment, wholly owned by RMA, hAs A cApAcity of up to 6,000 vehicles per yeAr, And is expected <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ford-plAnt-opens-in-sihAnoukville/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A suspected in An Alleged sexuAl AssAult AgAinst A minor At A quArAntine centre in BAnteAy MeAnchey province’s O’Chrou district hAs been sent to court, while A similAr cAse AgAinst An Adult womAn At the sAme centre wAs dropped After the Accused negotiAted compensAtion with <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAn-lAnds-in-court-over-sexuAl-AssAult-At-quArAntine-site/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new impetus in economic, trAde And technicAl cooperAtion between CAmbodiA And QAtAr will deliver A suite of economic benefits for the Kingdom, Above All A driving force for exports to the Middle EAst And A mAjor mAgnet to drAw in more investors And tourists <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/co-op-deAl-with-qAtAr-nigh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government has extended a suspension of “advance income tax” until the end of 2025 for eligible textile-related enterprises, a good deal of which have been hurt by a drop in orders as a result of global economic headwinds linked to the ongoing Ukraine crisis. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-break-for-textile-linked-industries-to-stay-till-2025/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new, government-owned life insurAnce compAny Aims to provide A sAfety net for CAmbodiAn fAmilies, According to In MeAtrA, director-generAl of the CAmbodiA Life InsurAnce CompAny Plc. LocAted on the 21st floor of CAnAdiA Tower, CAmbodiA Life opened on MAy 21 And hAs 23 employees.  “CAmbodiA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-life-tAkes-long-view-ApproAch/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With competition rife in Cambodia’s telecommunication market, two of the country’s largest mobile phone operators have engaged in a battle over prices and are at odds over the tactics being used to gain market share. On Friday, the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) ordered all mobile <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mobitel-smart-fight-it-out-over-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The CNRP has scheduled two practice demonstrations for next week in order to ensure that nationwide rallies planned for September 7 are held peacefully, the party said in a statement on Friday. The announcement came a day after 100 party members and provincial activists for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-plans-practice-demonstrations-ahead-of-real-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Labour, Government of Cambodia, would set the 2014 minimum wage for garment workers next month, reports The Phnom Penh Post. a working group consisting of representatives of the Garment Manufacturers’ association in Cambodia (GMaC), workers’ representatives and factory managers met officials at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-set-2014-wage-for-garment-workers-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Interior Ministry on Wednesday threatened to revoke the license of the Cambodian Independent Teachers association (CITa) if it goes ahead with a planned demonstration next week seeking higher wages for the country’s educators. an official at the ministry said that the move to revoke the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/teachers-group-threatened-over-planned-pay-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>