Farmers in Kompong Chhnang province locked in a land dispute with a local businesswoman are waiting for the government to make a decision on who owns the property after student volunteers measured the area earlier this month as part of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nationwide <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/decision-pending-in-dispute-between-villagers-businesswoman/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nagaworld casino has fired more than 400 workers who have spent about 10 days striking to demand a wage increase, union leaders, workers and a leaked internal memo have revealed. a list of names, obtained by the Post yesterday, was emailed to management and senior staff <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagaworld-strikers-fired-en-masse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy has called on the country’s king to step in to resolve a political crisis over recent disputed polls as time runs out for legal challenges before officials announce final election results this weekend. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president made <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opposition-leader-asks-king-to-intervene-in-election-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three families involved in a land dispute with a private company filed a complaint Monday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court accusing the company’s owner, businessman Khun Sear, of waging an ongoing campaign of intimidation as he tries to force the families from their homes <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-families-submit-complaint-over-snake-attack/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In areas where electoral irregularities were the most pronounced during July’s national election, the ruling CPP saw a significant increase in its share of votes compared to that of the opposition CNRP, according to a report compiled by a coalition of human rights NGOs known <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-shows-election-irregularities-favored-cpp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Solar-powered tuk-tuks could be rolling off the assembly lines in Phnom Penh as early as March next year, allowing local tuk-tuk drivers a cost-effective and greener alternative to using petrol, according to the company manufacturing the vehicle. Star 8, the australia-based alternative energy firm behind the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/solartuk-coming-in-march/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

H&amp;M has pledged to pay a living wage to 850,000 textile workers after expressing frustration over a lack of action by governments to address working conditions in asian factories in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster. The world’s second-biggest clothing retailer said it would support <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hm-pledges-living-wage-for-textile-workers-in-bangladesh-and-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local and international organizations on Tuesday marked International Day of Persons With Disabilities by calling on the government to extend its efforts to employ more disabled people beyond Phnom Penh’s environs. a sub-decree attached to the government’s Disability Law, enacted in July 2009, states that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/organizations-push-for-employment-of-disabled-persons-in-provinces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Since 2011, an estimated 3,000 resin trees have been illegally razed by rogue loggers and a land concessionaire operating in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom district, villagers claimed yesterday. Resin trees are a vital source of income for the Phnong ethnic community in Sokdom commune, according to Thleuk <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/way-of-life-vanishing-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Finding out why women’s voices are not being listened to is imperative to increasing the proportion of female political representation in Cambodia, a meeting heard yesterday. The Committee to Promote Women in Politics (CPWP) &ndash; which is made up of 12 organisations &ndash; hosted discussions in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/number-of-women-in-politics-back-in-focus/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Royal Palace has released a statement demanding that King and Queen Mother’s names be left out of politics and asked people not to “exploit” their names for political ends, state media claimed Thursday. “The Royal Secretariat of Her Majesty Queen-Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk has issued <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/leave-king-out-of-politics-royal-cabinet-demands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s poverty rate fell dramatically between 2004 and 2011 &ndash; from more than 50 per cent to roughly 20 &ndash; but those gains are so precarious that a slight economic shock could send millions plunging back below the poverty line, according to a World Bank <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poverty-gains-precarious/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has provided examples of “best practices” in the fight against human trafficking for a forthcoming asean convention against the trafficking of people, experts said Friday at the close of a two-day conference in Phnom Penh on irregular migration and human trafficking. The asean region is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-offers-best-practices-against-trafficking/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 170 families in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district submitted a petition to City Hall on Monday complaining about wealthy businessman Khun Sear’s decision to build a wall in the middle of a road in their neighborhood. The road in Chak angre Leu commune is under <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-petition-city-hall-over-wall-built-in-road/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After being presented with stAtistics showing A more thAn 100 per cent rise in petty crime AgAinst foreigners, Minister of Interior SAr Kheng yesterdAy cAlled on police officiAls to look into whAt’s cAusing the problem. NicolAs BAudouin, A spokesmAn for the French EmbAssy, confirmed thAt A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAg-snAtchings-jump-eu/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Most tuk-tuk drivers have to continuously vie with each other to attract tourists’ attention, but Oung Hour gets it without even trying. as he stands on the sidewalk near the riverside, groups of tourists point at his bright mustard-yellow tuk-tuk, its smooth fiberglass body shaped like <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-futuristic-tuk-tuks-arrive-on-the-streets-of-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 garment and shoe factory workers fainted in two separate incidents Thursday, the first reported factory faintings of the year, according to local officials. Eighty-two garment workers fainted at the Crystal Martin factory in Kandal province after inhaling fumes from leaking battery acid, a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-100-garment-workers-in-two-factories-faint-en-masse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When the 2007 Traffic Law was passed, it required that the myriad private vehicles on the road bearing Royal Cambodian armed Forces (RCaF) number plates be removed and switched with civilian plates within one year. But more than six years after this deadline, the sight of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rcaf-plates-still-widely-used-despite-ban/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Muon Sokmean, a 29-year-old garment worker, scrambled off Veng Sreng Street on January 3 with military police in violent pursuit, brandishing their batons. What had been a militant protest for a $160 minimum wage in the garment sector&mdash;with many protesters lobbing rocks and crude Molotov cocktails <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/five-months-on-witnesses-recall-muon-sokmeans-beating/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann on Thursday moved to clarify his position on the armed forces after the Defense Ministry accused him of “looking down” on the government and the work of the army. In a lengthy written statement issued Thursday, Mr. Sovann spoke in glowing terms <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-spokesman-says-he-advocated-for-higher-troop-wages/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>