The long awaited first security listing on the Cambodian Securities Exchange became a reality on February 23 with the Security Exchange Commission of Cambodia’s “in principle” approval of Phnom Penh Water Supply authority’s (PPWSa) “disclosure document for public issuance of equity securities”. This is effectively a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/7498/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Less than a week after Prime Minister Hun Sen called for land to be returned to villagers embroiled in land disputes, a Pursat province villager has been summonsed by the court in a scenario many see as all too common in these disputes. Kuch Veng, a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fear-accompanies-summons-over-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Peering out over the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh from a sixteenth-storey private balcony at the new Bellevue apartments, one could watch for hours as cranes swing back in forth over all the new developments on the west side of the water. “Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capital-ideas-for-developers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn migrAnt worker hAs Alleged thAt he And dozens of fellow migrAnts were Arrested, beAten, stripped nAked And shAved bAld by ThAi police, who then extorted money from them just becAuse they did not hAve the correct locAtion on their working visAs. The AllegAtion is <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-worker-Alleges-thAi-police-of-humiliAting-treAtment-Abuse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A bribery investigAtion by the World BAnk hAs discovered misconduct by A mAjor CAnAdiAn construction firm thAt wAs AwArded A $5 million contrAct to help expAnd Access to electricity in rurAl CAmbodiA, the bAnk sAid. In December 2009, SNC-LAvAlin Announced thAt it hAs been AwArded <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/world-bAnk-blocks-firm-After-cAmbodiA-project-probe/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nineteen NagaWorld casino employees were detained Tuesday afternoon as police attempted to break up a protest of more than 500 workers who had picketed in front of the casino for the past six days, demanding the company increase their salaries.  The workers had been striking non-violently <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-detain-protesting-nagaworld-staff/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Civil society groups and the opposition on Wednesday called on the military to issue a statement repudiating claims made by the owner of a popular radio station that the military would remove the opposition from office if it wins Sunday’s national election. The calls came after <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rcaf-asked-to-reassure-public-after-coup-warnings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A VietnAmese rubber tycoon hAs rejected AccusAtions by GlobAl Witness, A group thAt cAmpAigns on resource issues, thAt it wAs involved in A lAnd grAbbing crisis in SoutheAst AsiA. DoAn Nguyen Duc, the chAirmAn of HoAng Anh GiA LAi (HAGL) Group, told VietnAmese mediA the informAtion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/vietnAm-rubber-tycoon-rejects-lAnd-grAbbing-AccusAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s highest court on Friday ordered the country’s electoral body to release secured ballot information from more than a dozen polling stations to investigate claims by the opposition of irregularities in last month’s disputed elections. Constitutional Council of Cambodia President Ek Sam Ol issued an urgent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-top-court-orders-release-of-ballot-records/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a first step toward clearing villagers from land intended for a planned Koh Kong provincial hydroelectric dam, a Chinese development firm has blocked a road leading to plots where villagers have continued to harvest rice. Officials from Tianjin Union Development Group, which was awarded a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-plots-blocked-at-dam-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will submit a human rights report to the U.N. today for a universal periodic review (UPR), the second time it is participating in the process, according to the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit. Under the UPR process established in 2006, the Human <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-submit-human-rights-report-to-un/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In an apparent bid to reassure jittery visitors watching the country’s political scene, the Cambodia association of Travel agents (CaTa) said in a statement yesterday that post-election tensions would not harm tourists. addressing its members &ndash; tour operators and travel agencies &ndash; as well as national <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/travel-group-calms-visitors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday defended that his newly-formed government was ” legitimate” since the nation’s King Norodom Sihamoni had given endorsement. “This government is a legitimate government, which was born from the election and was endorsed by the king,” the premier said during <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-newly-formed-govt-legitimate-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Justice yesterday held the first of what it said would be regular forums soliciting the input of civil society on judicial reforms, and promised a new measure that it maintained would streamline the courts’ workflow. Citing widespread frustration among citizens, Justice Minister ang <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/justice-ministry-to-keep-track-of-courts-case-lists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A week After one mAn wAs shot deAd And severAl others injured during A stAndoff between the Armed forces And protesters, An investigAtion into who wAs responsible is no closer to conclusion, An Interior Ministry spokesmAn sAid SundAy. Security experts lAst week sAid the Armed <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/investigAtion-into-mAn-shot-deAd-during-protest-yields-nothing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Vietnam Dairy Products Joint-Stock Co., the nation’s largest dairy producer, is building a milk factory in Cambodia as it plans a global expansion to more than double annual revenue to $3 billion by 2017. The company known as Vinamilk is opening a plant in the capital <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vinamilk-sees-revenue-doubling-in-overseas-expansion-push/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia ranked 137 out of 189 countries in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 report released Tuesday, the first drop in at least two years that shows conducting business in the country is becoming more difficult. The report ranks countries in 10 categories, including starting a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/doing-business-in-cambodia-becoming-more-difficult/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Now about six months old, Hope is still a little clumsy when climbing trees. Hope’s sidekick, named “173,” follows her around as if they were inseparable twins. Together, they swing in a hammock, bathe in a pool and, sometimes, climb up the metal bars of their <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/saved-from-the-soup-rescued-sun-bears-thrive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kompong Speu Provincial Court has summoned for trial a married couple accused of encroaching on land excised from a plantation belonging to CPP Senator and businessman Ly Yong Phat, and has issued more than two dozen other summonses and arrest warrants in the past <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-picks-up-land-dispute-involving-senator/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Through a canopy of palm leaves, sunlight falls onto 1,000 four-month-old pepper plants, each one climbing about two feet up a wooden pole in the ground. “We will be ready to harvest pepper from here in about 18 to 20 months,” says one of Kep <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-pepper-takes-off/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>