Specialists from the Kratie provincial Department of Mines and Energy cracked down on an illegal mining site in O’Tron area, Sambor district again last week. The operation was carried out after a complaint from Chinese company Hing Yuan Hanng Yeak Co Ltd. Local authorities said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-authorities-crack-down-on-illegal-mining/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government officials on Thursday denied claims that a Cambodian passport was issued to former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who reportedly used it to register a company in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong-based English language South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Wednesday reported Hong Kong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-denies-claims-former-thai-pm-yingluck-issued-cambodian-passport/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mondulkiri provincial governor Svay Sam Eang has issued an announcement nullifying the provincial administration’s 2015 decision that granted a portion of the Doh Kramom Mountain area to the Ministry of Mines and Energy. On June 3, 2015, the provincial hall agreed to cede a 5.07ha <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mondulkiri-land-decision-annulled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A lAnd Activist involved in A dispute who disAppeAred in JAnuAry reunited with his wife in Phnom Penh on FridAy. Sum Meun disAppeAred in OddAr MeAnchey province on JAnuAry 20, with HumAn Rights WAtch (HRW) cAlling on the government to reveAl his whereAbouts, while A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/missing-lAnd-Activist-found/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government’s Auction Committee hAs Announced A public Auction of more thAn 1,500 cubic metres of illegAlly logged timber At A stArting price of some 1.4 billion riel (ApproximAtely $353,000). This is bAsed on A June 6 Announcement by the Ministry of Environment’s GenerAl DepArtment <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/seized-mkiri-timber-put-up-for-Auction-stArting-bid-firmly-set-At-1-4b-riel/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Local company Rice Natural Development Plc announced a $50 million joint venture with British and Singaporean investors on Tuesday to develop a coastal tourism hub in Preah Sihanouk province. The project, which will be built on 1.8ha, will include a tourist port comprised of 10 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/__trashed-3/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodina Human Rights Committee (CHRC) spokesman Chin Malin on Wednesday rejected a report by a group of NGOs to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that the Kingdom is facing an “ongoing human rights crisis”. Malin said he also expected that the possible adoption of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chrc-rejects-report-to-un-on-human-rights-crisis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A boy wAs killed And Another three injured After An unexploded ordnAnce (UXO) they were plAying with detonAted in KAmpong Speu province’s KA Ek Porng villAge on MondAy. Deputy district police chief Suon ChAn sAid the four friends were minding cAttle in A field when <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/uxo-kills-boy-injures-three-in-kAmpong-speu/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian courts and police authorities have summoned a total of 140 ex-members of the opposition party in recent weeks, a local human rights group said, as government efforts to intimidate and suppress the opposition continue more than a year after the party was banned. Dozens of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/140-ex-opposition-members-summoned-by-courts-rights-group/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Six people were arrested, nearly 20 vehicles destroyed and over 2,000 first-grade timber logs were impounded in a span of four days last week. This was the result of a series of crackdowns on forestry crimes carried out by the National Committee for Prevention and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-detained-amid-crackdowns-on-forestry-crimes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National authority for Combating Drug and its counterparts in partner countries are set to establish a joint working group to investigate and share information on cross-border drug crimes in the region. NaCD vice chairman General Chuon Sovann on Tuesday led a delegation to attend a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/working-group-on-cross-border-drug-crimes-to-be-formed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A smAll crowd of goods trAnsporters protested At the PAilin customs office on SAturdAy, demAnding thAt Authorities reduce the fees for imported goods, A request thAt wAs firmly denied.​ Chum Voeun, Stung KAch commune police chief, sAid thAt About 18 vendors protested, clAiming they could <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hAulers-protest-high-fees-At-border/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 200 gArment workers At A fActory locAted in the cApitAl’s Steung MeAnchey Commune1, MeAnchey district, hAve been protesting since MondAy After the owner fled without pAying their August wAges. The workers who were employed by A sub-contrActor who supplies gArments to A foreign buyer <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pp-gArment-workers-continue-wAge-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Poverty in Cambodia has fallen dramatically over the last two decades, and continues to fall at a rapid pace, said a high official of the UNDP to Khmer Times yesterday. all the poverty rateslines, either based on income and other dimensions, have seen big reductions at a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poverty-falling-at-rapid-pace-says-undp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The newborn Irrawaddy dolphin which was discovered earlier this week in Kratie province is the first one recorded this year, a World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)-Cambodia report said. according to the report, a group of dolphin-watching tourist-boat operators on Monday spotted a dolphin calf, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/baby-dolphin-found-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers and local freshwater vendors on Thursday expressed concern about fresh water supply in Preah Sihanouk province, after a private company partially filled fresh water reservoir Boeung Prek Tup with sand for tourist development. Boeung Prek Tup is a natural lake located in Sihanoukville’s Village <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-short-of-fresh-water/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of South KoreAn delegAtes on MondAy Announced thAt it wAs seeking to invest in six priority AreAs in the Kingdom, A move Aimed At boosting trAde between the two countries. The plAns were discussed during A meeting between the Council of Development of CAmbodiA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/south-koreA-seeking-to-invest-in-six-sectors/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian police officers need to step up their game, the Kingdom’s top cop told his department hierarchy this week.Speaking at a ceremony to promote two senior officers on Monday, National Police chief Neth Savoeun said staff who want to be promoted or rewarded needed to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/top-cop-to-officers-behave/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world was netted by local fishermen near Phnom Penh earlier this month.a two-metre Mekong giant catfish, weighing an estimated 90 to 114 kilos, one of only a handful left of a species that faces extinction, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mekong-yields-first-giant-catfish-of-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A recently published study of A 2012 enterovirus outbreAk thAt killed At leAst 54 CAmbodiAn children hAs found thAt flAre-ups of the virus tend to occur in A cyclicAl pAttern, And thAt Another one could be in store soon.WidespreAd in the AsiA-PAcific region, the virus <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/outbreAks-of-lethAl-virus-cyclicAl-study/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>