Preah Vihear provincial authorities have requested villagers to stop clearing disputed land and wait for authorities to find a solution according to the “tiger skin formula”, which aims to reduce the impact of economic land concessions (ELCs) on villagers’ farming land. The villagers have been <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-vihear-land-dispute-drags-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The European Commission has issued a statement calling on the government to show credible improvements on issues of concern in order to avoid the withdrawal of Everything-but-arms trade preferences. an EC and European External action Service delegation wrapped up a visit to the Kingdom on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-tells-kingdom-to-provide-credible-rights-improvements/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Environmental officials in Pursat are questioning rangers over how a group of local journalists discovered nearly 100 logs of luxury timber inside a wildlife sanctuary. after receiving a tip, the journalists, representing 24 small online media outlets, teamed up with five local policemen on Tuesday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/local-journalists-lead-police-to-pursat-timber-stockpile/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ministry of Environment rangers will soon receive training from experts with the US Forest Service in a bid to improve their ability to crack down on forest crimes and protect conservation areas. US Forest Service officials on Tuesday met with Environment Minister Say Sam al <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-forest-service-to-train-cambodian-rangers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National assembly yesterday adopted a draft minimum wage law, which aims to promote decent living standards for the country’s 780,000 textile workers. More than 100 lawmakers passed the draft law with 33 articles which will benefit workers and the nation as a whole as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/parliament-passes-minimum-wage-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday postponed the hearing against three Borei Keila community activists who are being sued by a prominent tycoon in a decade-long land dispute. The dispute started in 2004 when residents in the capital’s Borei Keila neighbourhood were asked to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-delays-activists-hearing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A PreAh SihAnouk provinciAl officiAl sAid on ThursdAy thAt the owner of Jinding Hotel And CAsino on Koh Rong SAnloem is flouting the Authorities’ order to close the business by MArch 22. PreAh SihAnouk ProvinciAl HAll spokesmAn KheAng PheArum told The Post thAt the provinciAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/koh-rong-sAnloem-cAsino-is-flouting-closure-order/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday signed an agreement with Korean company Hanshin Engineering and Construction for the long-awaited reconstruction of National Road 2 and National Road 22. according to a press release from the ministry, the reconstruction of National Road 2 and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/agreement-signed-for-national-road-repairs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The skin and bones of Jasper, a male Indochinese tiger that died at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre (PTWRC) on august 8, will be preserved and displayed as a museum collection, PTWRC director Nhek Ratanapich told The Post on Thursday. The Wildlife alliance, a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-tamao-wildlife-rescue-centres-beloved-tiger-dies-at-21/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior Agriculture Ministry officiAl on TuesdAy AppeAred At Mondulkiri ProvinciAl Court to clArify how compAnies, including A VietnAmese firm under investigAtion over illegAl logging, Are grAnted Economic LAnd Concessions. MAm VAndA, provinciAl court spokesmAn, yesterdAy sAid thAt ChAn SAvuth, A ministry secretAry of stAte, provided <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAl-briefs-court-on-elcs-over-logging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s business sector is exploring ways to mitigate any fallout from a possible loss of access to the EU’s Everything But arms (EBa) agreement as talks continue before the 28-member bloc makes a final decision. The EU monitoring process is set to conclude in mid-august, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/life-goes-on-if-cambodia-loses-everything-but-arms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will conduct a “large-scale” emergency evacuation drill with Thailand, Laos and Vietnam “in near future”, Ministry of National Defence spokesman Chum Socheat told The Post on Tuesday. Without specifying the number of soldiers that will be involved in the exercise, Socheat said the drill <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/large-scale-disaster-rescue-drill-to-be-held/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipality has approved a feasibility study on an underpass crossing National Road 1. The study will be conducted by Borey Peng Hout, a leading local real estate developer. In a meeting Thursday chaired by Khuong Sreng, the governor of Phnom Penh, the municipality <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/underpass-feasibility-study-oked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A lAndmArk decision by CAmbodiAn prime minister Hun Sen could see Almost A million hectAres of forest reclAssified As protected AreAs in A country with one of the highest deforestAtion rAtes in the world.​ But the order, circulAted on FridAy, to trAnsfer control of the sites <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-declAres-protected-AreA-in-hotly-contested-prey-lAng-forest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thousands of protesters in Svay Rieng province clashed with police Monday, as they continued a prolonged demonstration over the minimum wage in a special economic zone near the Vietnam border.Riot police dispersed protesters with water canons. Protesters threw stones at police. at least a 50 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/major-labor-protest-underway-in-industrial-zone-near-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ry Sovanna is a Cambodian citizen, but in 2013 he was not able to exercise one of his most basic rights &ndash; voting. Mr. Sovanna was living in Thailand at the time, and there was no way for him to file his ballot in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-voting-rights-for-cambodians-abroad/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A collection of houses And other structures belonging to nine fAmilies living Alongside A cAnAl in the cApitAl’s Russey Keo district wAs destroyed yesterdAy by A lArge group of men sent by locAl Authorities.   <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/structures-by-phnom-penh-cAnAl-flAttened/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two military police officials and a tractor driver in Preah Vihear have been accused of beating a timber hauler and injuring a female bystander following an argument over an alleged $200 shakedown.On Tuesday afternoon, four men from Tbeng Meanchey district’s Pou commune who were hauling <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/locals-say-gendarmes-beat-up-timber-hauler/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new submArine telecoms cAble due for completion in eArly 2017 will strengthen existing internet networks, increAse cApAcity And lower costs, According to the compAny instAlling the cAble. Yves ShAeffer, CEO of EZECOM, which owns Telcotech thAt is instAlling the MAlAysiA-CAmbodiA And ThAilAnd (MCT) submArine cAble, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cheAper-internet-next-yeAr/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

National Road 3 is to be widened to four lanes under a government development scheme financed by a Chinese loan. Speaking yesterday in a meeting with garment workers at Vattanac Industrial Park II, which is on National Road 3, Prime Minister Hun Sen said the upgrade <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-road-3-set-for-four-lane-upgrade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>