Roxy Casino in Cambodia has made a “modest profit” since its soft opening on May 26, parent company Cell aquaculture Ltd said in a filing to the australian Securities Exchange. It did not provide figures. The profit was attributed to its sports betting activities during FIFa World Cup 2014 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/roxy-casino-made-modest-profit-since-soft-opening/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

suspend protests against Vietnam over a territorial dispute as Phnom Penh expressed “regret” to Hanoi over the burning of a Vietnamese flag during the demonstrations last week. Horn Nam Hong met at his office with the head of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, Thach Setha, who agreed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-orders-halt-to-anti-vietnamese-protests-after-flag-burning-incident/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Wildlife experts fear for the health of a migratory vulture from Central asia after it was captured by villagers in Kampot province’s Teuk Chhou district and taken to a notorious private zoo. The Himalayan vulture, also known as the Himalayan griffon, which rarely visits Cambodia, was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/experts-say-let-bird-fly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a new report, U.K. environmental rights group Global Witness places Cambodian timber magnate Try Pheap at the heart of a vast illegal logging operation driving the country’s rarest tree species to the brink of extinction with the collusion of government and military officials. “The Cost <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timber-trader-try-pheap-linked-to-logging-racket/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian people used banks less than any other country in the asia-Pacific region last year in percentage terms of using financial services, recent data from the World Bank showed. The report, released this month, also pointed to high growth in the percentage of borrowers, which insiders <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-shun-banks-world-bank-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Charges against outspoken adhoc head of monitoring Chan Soveth are baseless, politically motivated and threaten to undermine human rights work in Cambodia, a coalition of NGOs said yesterday. Soveth, who has been summonsed to court on august 24 over the vague charge of assisting “specific perpetrators”, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-give-support-to-summonsed-worker/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The former director of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, who was ousted last week amid allegations of serious corruption, gave a luxury SUV to his son&mdash;a local police official&mdash;after it was confiscated from a suspected drug trafficker, the National Police said in a statement Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ousted-court-director-gave-seized-suv-to-policeman-son/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two pro-CNRP U.S. lawmakers called on newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to take a hard-line stance with the Cambodian government ahead of upcoming elections, in a letter signed on Thursday.alan Lowenthal, a Democrat representing Long Beach, California, home to the largest Cambodian <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-lawmakers-urge-new-administration-to-ensure-fair-elections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ratanakkiri provincial environment officers plan to inspect a lake after a fishing community accused a Vietnamese company of dumping bananas and plastic waste in it, poisoning the fish. The authorities said the company had removed all its waste, but the recent reports have led to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vn-firm-implicated-in-lake-poisoning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than enough vacant plots exist within Boeung Kak lake’s 12.44-hectare concession area to house those denied land permits, a new NGO report says. Sahmakum Teang Tnaut claims to have found “a viable and practical” solution for households excluded from the unmarked land the prime minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/viable-boeung-kak-option-floated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prior to the pandemic, a confluence of economic factors had led to very high levels of international and domestic immigration among working age adults, resulting in a much of a generation of young children being left in the care of relatives, particularly grandmothers, according to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grandmas-raise-kids-for-working-parents/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The General Department of Domestic Trade of the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) is in the process of forming a new multilateral task-force to expedite the establishment of a cassava federation in Cambodia after a delay in implementing the national cassava strategy for a few years <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-task-force-to-form-cassava-federation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Ministry of Justice officiAl sAid thAt A CommerciAl Court could be estAblished And put into Action As soon As 2024. Addressing the FebruAry 2 “AmChAm Business LAw ConclAve: CriticAl UpdAtes ThAt You Need to Know for 2023” in Phnom Penh, justice ministry secretAry of stAte <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/commerciAl-court-could-function-As-eArly-As-2024-justice-ministry-officiAls/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has signed a new agreement with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to establish a public-private partnership (PPP) for a logistics complex in Preah Sihanouk province to assist Cambodia in meeting its goal of becoming a new regional logistics <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deal-to-deliver-cambodias-new-logistics-complex-promote-regional-connectivity-and-integration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One of Cambodia’s leading data centre services providers inked a key partnership deal with a Singapore company to empower the Kingdom’s digital economy. Daun Penh Data Center (DPDC) and a2000 signed an MoU in the presence of Choup Somart, Secretary of State, Ministry of Rural <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdoms-digital-sector-witnesses-promising-partnership/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 170 villagers in Kampot province have become sick after being sprayed with herbicides by a company last week. The land granted World Tristar Entertainment Co, a subsidiary of So Nguon company, in a concession was revoked by the government in april but was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firm-accused-of-poisoning-villagers-on-revoked-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In an effort to increase Khmer film production the Ministry of Culture and Fine arts is going to build a state-run cinema next to the Chaktomuk Conference Hall. Recently Westec Media opened a cinema, the first offering 3D movies in Cambodia, at City Mall in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/culture-ministry-plans-to-build-new-cinema/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampuchea angkor Express and Virak Buntham Express Travel, two bus companies that share a fleet of busses and operate services running between Siem Reap, Cambodia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam have both been involved in bus crashes recently. a number of passengers were injured <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bus-companys-partner-involved-in-similar-crash/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dragon Capital, a Vietnam-based private equity firm, has announced that it is planning to launch a fund in Cambodia next year, the second such fund to be announced by a Vietnamese company this year. The firm’s CEO, Dominic Scriven, said that the initial fund would close <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-equity-fund-to-open-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampong Thom province Villagers patrolling Prey Lang forest on motorbikes yesterday defended their decision to burn more than 360 cubic metres of timber, tear down 10 huts used by “illegal loggers” and confiscate a chainsaw, a villager representative said. “all the villagers who provide evidence about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-arm-with-fire-photos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>