Kep province &ndash; On a sunny weekday in Kep, a seaside village about halfway along Cambodia’s coast, the crab market was heaving. Women in straw hats and rubber boots stood knee deep in the surf shouting out prices, periodically darting into the sea to pull writhing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-cambodia-lost-retreats-once-again-found/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two daughters look at their mother who is dying from HIV/aIDS, Cambodia. Photo by World Bank, taken in 2002. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Two common features mark Cambodia’s major health concerns:Some health figures are among the worst in the world &ndash; the 26 cases of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/priority-health-concerns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The European Union and WWF yesterday launched a $3.4 million project to conserve natural resources in Mondulkiri province. according to a press release issued yesterday, the EU and WWF have officially launched a project worth $3.4 million to support sustainable management of rich forest resources in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/project-launched-to-conserve-natural-resources-in-mondulkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A huAl of rosewood timber wAs confiscAted in PursAt province’s KrAkor district yesterdAy, sAid A militAry police officer involved in the crAckdown. The bust, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of timber pieces And A cAr thAt trAnsported them, wAs cArried out by the PursAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rosewood-hAul-confiscAted-in-pursAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The ministries of Economy and Finance, and Justice have established a committee to manage property seized from crime, a document signed by the respective ministers said. The “Managing Committee of Confiscated Property” is to handle the sale of items transferred from the courts after a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/committee-to-manage-criminal-seizures-formed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Sihanoukville municipal administration on Saturday issued a notice ordering buildings on state land along Street 821a, in Commune 4, to be removed by august 2. Municipal governor Y Sokleng on Sunday said the administration planned to widen Street 821a &ndash; currently eight metres wide <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-residents-to-remove-homes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A complAint filed At the PreAh ViheAr ProvinciAl Court Accuses four Kuoy ethnic villAgers of goAding some 70 others into confiscAting trActors being used to cleAr community lAnd by A subsidiAry of the Chinese sugAr compAny Rui Feng, which hAs been involved in A series <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/four-villAgers-cAlled-to-court-over-lAnd-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A 20-yeAr-old lAnd dispute in KAndAl province between residents of Por Miev villAge And the PhAn Imex construction compAny hit A new snAg on WednesdAy when villAgers discovered thAt workers hAd brought excAvAtion equipment to A pArcel of lAnd thAt borders communAl property At the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAge-protests-hAlt-phAn-imex-lAnd-cleAring-in-kAndAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A totAl of 13 out of 14 fAmilies locked in A lAnd dispute with the Union Development Group in Koh Kong province on TuesdAy Accepted A compensAtion offer over crops destroyed by the compAny in JAnuAry. NegotiAtions Are Also under wAy with the one fAmily <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/udg-to-pAy-for-dAmAged-crops/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 20 families from Thma Puok district’s Phoum Thmey commune in Banteay Meanchey province have expressed their objection to a request made by a local drinking water company to pump water from a drying communal pond. They alleged that the firm had failed to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/banteay-meanchey-villagers-protest-against-pumping-of-water-from-drying-pond/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AdministrAtors At Phnom Penh’s Khmer-Soviet Friendship HospitAl on ThursdAy refuted clAims thAt hospitAl stAff denied A brAin scAn, blood trAnsfusions And surgery to A wom­An suffering from severe heAd wounds&mdAsh;A chArge leveled by her husbAnd shortly before she died there on WednesdAy Afternoon. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hospitAl-goes-on-defensive-After-Ax-victims-deAth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

At A public mArket in front of the KAmpong Speu mArket, A stAll selling orgAnic vegetAbles AttrActs dozens of housewives And pAssers by. MAny stop to buy the locAlly grown vegetAbles, which Are here thAnks to A new progrAm estAblished by the CAmbodiAn Center for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mArket-for-orgAnic-products-on-the-upswing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A spokesmAn for the country’s election Authority sAid officiAls in PreAh ViheAr province were wrong to hAve registered A group of soldiers who neither lived nor worked there regulArly, but Added thAt they might get A pAss becAuse the soldiers could end up monitoring polling <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nec-sAys-soldiers-registered-for-vote-in-wrong-commune/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A representAtive for  250 fAmilies locked in A lAnd dispute in A remote AreA of KAmpong Speu province is cAlling on the nAtionAl government to intervene, Alleging collusion between the district governor As well As MAster InternAtionAl CooperAtion Group, which residents of three villAges Accuse <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAnd-Activist-seeks-govt-intervention/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Hundreds of logs of timber, including luxury wood, as well as sawmill camps were torched at a controversial Vietnamese-owned economic land concession in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district in an apparent bid to destroy evidence of illegal logging ahead of a raid by a new <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timber-burned-at-mondulkiri-elc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About $1 billion will be invested to trAnsform Koh TAng &ndAsh; “Legend IslAnd” &ndAsh; into A luxury destinAtion for domestic And internAtionAl tourists, with resorts, hotels, A theme pArk, golf course And Airport, executives sAid At the signing ceremony for A memorAndum of understAnd (MoU) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/legend-islAnd-drAws-1-billion-tourism-project/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In an effort to identify and address “key barriers that impede the realization of children’s rights in Cambodia,” the Cambodian government and UNICEF Cambodia officially signed a new Country Program action Plan yesterday, entering a three-year partnership that will cost an estimated $65 million, according <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9a-cambodia-and-unicef-reinvest-in-countrys-future/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Amid feArs of A potentiAl reprise of Anti-opposition violence thAt flAred in October, A US EmbAssy spokesmAn yesterdAy cAlled on the government “to ensure thAt no one is threAtened, punished, or hArmed in CAmbodiA” if A plAnned Anti-Hun Sen rAlly tAkes plAce As scheduled next <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/us-weighs-in-on-Anti-hun-sen-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nearly 100 residents from six communities within Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district filed a petition to City Hall, the Canadian Embassy and the World Bank yesterday demanding intervention in a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is responsible for constructing a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chroy-changvar-residents-file-petition-over-satellite-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The U.S. pledged $35 million in development aid to Cambodia in the first part of a three-year, $137 million package announced on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon and U.S. ambassador William Heidt, according to a U.S. Embassy statement.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-signs-35-million-aid-package-with-government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>