Plans to pay garment workers twice a month will be difficult for employers to implement, industry representatives have warned. The Labor Ministry is amending laws so companies will be required to pay staff twice a month, in a bid to protect workers from being abandoned by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/employers-seek-delay-in-garment-pay-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land Management Ministry officials met with a consortium of NGOs at their main office in Phnom Penh on Monday to discuss 11 of the country’s largest land disputes, despite decisions on resolving such matters normally being made at a sub-national level, a land rights advocate <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-ngos-discuss-countrys-biggest-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Testing of a new batch of election ink to be used in upcoming commune elections showed that it cannot be removed, a spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC) said on Thursday, a day after telling reporters that samples provided by the ink supplier could <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/necs-new-election-ink-cant-be-erased-spokesman-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Former Funcinpec Deputy Prime Minister Lu Lay Sreng could be facing a new court case after calling for peaceful protests against the government in a video posted to Facebook yesterday, issuing comments similar to ones that recently saw former opposition leader Sam Rainsy slapped with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-deputy-prime-minister-calls-for-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A tAsk force estAblished A month Ago to Address problems stemming from An influx of Chinese investment to SihAnoukville hAs not received A single report of illegAl businesses or tAken Any enforcement Action, with one officiAl mAintAining it wAs impossible to tAke “serious” Action for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/probe-into-chinese-investment-to-sihAnoukville-still-idle/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With crucial local elections around the corner and a national contest set for next year, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday returned to warning Cambodians that a vote for anyone but the long-ruling CPP was a vote for plunging the country back into the bloody <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-christens-school-with-warnings-of-war/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After A rAmpAge thAt destroyed homes And terrified villAgers, A rogue elephAnt wAs shot by police in Mondulkiri eArly on FridAy morning, with one locAl mAhout sAying the unfortunAte killing wAs An outgrowth of A chAnging wAy of life thAt hAs seen elephAnts’ trAditionAl work <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/elephAnt-put-down-After-fAtAl-rAmpAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Tax collections rose to $768 million in the first quarter of this year, a 92 percent rise on the same period last year. General department of taxation director-general Kong Vibol told a meeting chaired by Finance Minister aun Pornmoniroth yesterday that the collection figure was a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-collection-soars/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The minister of transport, who on Monday watched over the signing of a deal between two Chinese companies to build a 400-km railway, yesterday said the government has minimal knowledge of the project. Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek said, however, that he did not know <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-of-transport-says-he-knows-little-about-railway-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that the gradual increase in Japanese investment in Cambodia reflected a maturing of the domestic economy. His remarks came at a groundbreaking ceremony for a shopping mall being built by top Japanese retailer aeon Co Ltd. The $200 million mall <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-says-growing-japanese-investment-reflects-maturing-economy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian workers seeking to leave a seafood factory in Thailand following a lethal brawl with counterparts from Myanmar were given their passports and salaries on Monday, a representative said. Phon Jam said 800 Cambodian workers at the Siam International Food Co Ltd factory in Songkhla province <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-brawl-workers-can-go/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The World Bank has not yet reached a decision on whether to lift a ban on loans to Cambodia, a Bank official has said, contradicting local media reports that the international financing institution would resume loans suspended three years ago over allegations of violent land <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-decision-made-yet-on-cambodia-loans-world-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

fter rights group Licadho released a statement Thursday saying that more than 10,000 Cambodian families were newly affected last year by land disputes in the 13 provinces where it has monitors&mdash;a three-fold increase from 2013&mdash;a government spokesman on Friday slammed the NGO’s report as “baseless <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-spokesman-says-licadho-doctored-land-dispute-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) will provide nine poor rurAl provinces in CAmbodiA with yeAr-round Access to mArkets And sociAl services through A 118 million U.S. dollArs project to provide A sAfer, cost-effective rurAl roAd network, the bAnk sAid in A press stAtement on MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Adb-to-support-118m-rurAl-roAd-project-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A nine-month report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries (MAFF) shows thAt the number of illegAl logging crAckdowns increAsed 81 per cent &ndAsh; to 1,891 &ndAsh; compAred with the sAme period lAst yeAr, A spike one officiAl Attributed to A chAnge in smugglers’ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/logging-crAckdowns-up-81-pct-govt-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A yeAr After some 2,000 fAmilies filed A complAint with the InternAtionAl FinAnce CorporAtion (IFC) for finAncing rubber plAntAtions they Accuse of grAbbing their fArms And logging their sAcred forests, All sides hAve finAlly Agreed to A set of ground rules for negotiAtions And hope <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/plAntAtions-And-fAmilies-set-rules-for-ifc-mediAted-tAlks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Six Cambodian military police were placed in pretrial detention Friday, charged by the Prey Veng Provincial Court over a police pursuit in March in which a truck driver and his assistant were allegedly shot at, beaten and hog- tied after blowing through a pair of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/six-cambodian-military-police-detained-over-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn senior police officer confirmed WednesdAy thAt Chinese economic fugitive Sun Xin, 46, And A former cAshier of the Beijing municipAl bureAu of press, hAd worked in A fActory in west CAmbodiA’s KAmpong Speu province for six yeArs before being Arrested And sent bAck <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-economic-fugitive-Arrested-deported-After-hiding-in-cAmbodiA-for-6-yeArs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia is seeking to export its mangoes to South Korea, according to a senior official at the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Contacted yesterday, deputy MaFF director Hean Vanhorn said that a ministry representative would meet with a South Korean agriculture delegation today to discuss <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-search-of-export-market-for-mangoes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After About 200 workers protested in Phnom Penh on TuesdAy morning, A CPP lAwmAker sAid she trAveled to A Chinese-owned gArment fActory in KAndAl province to lobby mAnAgement to rehire seven workers, including six who sAy they were fired eArlier this month for tAking pArt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cpp-lAwmAker-visits-fActory-After-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>