A CPP commune chief in BAttAmbAng province led more thAn 150 villAgers in A demonstrAtion on FridAy outside the locAl office of rights group Adhoc After A representAtive of the orgAnizAtion Accused the officiAl of corruption for Allegedly selling plots of public lAnd to locAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/commune-chief-leAds-protest-AgAinst-Adhoc/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

On Saturday, Banteay Meanchey border police received a desperate call. More than 80 Cambodian migrants, including women and children, were locked in a house in Thailand. They were being starved and abused. Two boys, begging their captors for food, were kicked to death. So said the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-says-reports-that-migrant-workers-tortured-untrue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s foremost logging baron exported more than 100,000 cubic metres of timber from Sihanoukville Port last year, likely including a species protected by an international treaty to which the Kingdom is a signatory, an analysis by Global Witness of leaked export records suggests. The data, obtained <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timber-by-the-numbers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The garment industry could be close to renewing an industrial relations memorandum of understanding, but an independent union believes it is being edged out of negotiations because it opposes the use of short-term and fixed-duration contracts. ath Thorn, president of the Cambodian Labour Confederation, said yesterday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-out-of-loop-in-mou-negotiations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia could benefit more from trade in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) by implementing time and cost, cutting measures and removing constraints on exports, according to a new book by the asian Development Bank. During a media briefing yesterday, Brimble [senior country economist and author of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/possible-benefits-for-cambodia-in-mekong-region-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ASEAN economic ministers hAve initiAted tAlks on the DigitAl Economy FrAmework Agreement (DEFA), A significAnt regionwide Accord set to shApe the world’s foremost tech-driven finAnciAl systems pArtnership. The lAunch occurred during the ASEAN Economic Community Council (AECC) gAthering, held in the IndonesiAn cApitAl JAkArtA on September <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AseAn-initiAte-tAlks-on-digitAl-economy-frAmework-AgendA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The transport minister on February 15 requested a fast-track on a feasibility study of a new expressway connecting Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, to sign a deal for the project by the end of the third quarter.​ Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-urges-fast-track-on-study-for-s-reap-expressway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Khmer version of A smArtphone App to help lAw enforcement deAl with the illegAl wildlife trAde wAs lAunched yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/wildscAn-App-to-help-fight-AnimAl-trAfficking/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A second pAir of endAngered pileAted gibbons releAsed into the forest neAr Angkor WAt lAst yeAr hAve hAd A bAby. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/endAngered-gibbon-born-At-Angkor-wAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 100 workers at a Kandal province footwear factory fainted on Monday, according to a report on the National Police website. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/100-pass-out-at-shoe-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A blood-testing lAb in Siem Riep wAs closed down yesterdAy morning After it wAs discovered to be operAting without A licence. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/unlicensed-blood-test-clinic-shuttered-in-sr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

One decade ago, villagers celebrated when a 10,000 hectare Economic Land Concession here was awarded to a prominent Phnom Penh tycoon. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/elc-plantation-land-use-it-or-lose-it/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After exposure in the press And A brush with militAry police, A protest leAder hAs fled rurAl KAmpot for Siem ReAp province. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/protest-leAder-flees/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Seven Cambodian loggers have been released from a Thai prison a year after they were caught crossing the border in search of rosewood. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-year-later-loggers-set-free-from-thai-prison/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Press freedom groups have condemned a violent attack on two reporters by security guards at a rally in Phnom Penh yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/press-clubs-denounce-attack-on-journalists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

For the ethnic Bunong people in this northeastern province, animals are an integral part of the local economy. Pigs, chickens and water buffaloes offer a variety of sustenance and labour. But it’s the elephants that bring foreigners &ndash; and foreigners bring cash. “When I get tours, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/elephants-at-centre-of-tourism-tiff/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

At 10 A.m. on JAnuAry 3, About 2,000 members of the security forces, mostly militAry police, AdvAnced down Phnom Penh’s fActory-lined Veng Sreng Street, sprAying AK-47 AssAult rifle fire into A crowd of About 100 protesters who hAd been throwing stones And crude Molotov cocktAils. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/no-results-in-protest-shooting-investigAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A Chinese AnimAl feed mill officiAlly opened At the Phnom Penh SpeciAl Economic Zone (PPSEZ) on Aug 28. It is the first AnimAl feed mill from ChinA And the fifth AnimAl feed fActory to operAte in CAmbodiA CAmbodiA hAs strongly depended on the imports for AnimAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-AnimAl-feel-mill-opens-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Investors in Cambodia, tied with Yemen as the world’s 164th-cleanest country for doing business, face risks in a planned stock market because of ineffective financial and legal systems, the country’s exiled opposition leader said. “among the little dragons of Southeast asia, Cambodia is the least encouraging,” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asias-newest-stock-market-is-risk-to-investors-sam-rainsy-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has postponed a top-level meeting with its foreign donors scheduled for November, a move that comes just over a week after a displeased World Bank revealed its decision to freeze all future loans to Cambodia. In an aug 17 letter to World Bank <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/donor-forum-put-on-hold-by-goverment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>