The Cambodian Center for Human Rights says that a company with a controversial economic land concession in Koh Kong province banned the centre’s officers from photographing the area and ordered police to grab their cameras. Officers from CCHR traveled to Sre ambel district on December 14 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cameras-blocked-by-cops-cchr/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s inflation rate decelerated to 3 percent last year, down from 4.9 percent in a year earlier, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea Chanto said Saturday. “This is a remarkable drop and the 3-percent rate last year is low and controllable,” he said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-inflation-stands-at-3-pct-last-year-central-bank-governor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia will construct a Chinese-language website and post Chinese-language signs at local hotels to cater to the growing numbers of Chinese nationals visiting the country, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon announced yesterday. “We will create a website in the Chinese language and also have additional signs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-of-tourism-to-target-chinese-visitors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three days after it went out, power had yet to be restored to large parts of Siem Reap province yesterday, badly impacting local businesses in the popular tourist hub of Siem Reap City and seeing a rush of people to buy generators. The power failure followed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-power-cut-hurts-tourism-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land Management Minister Im Chum Lim awarded a community of ethnic minority Banong in Mondolkiri province a communal land tile to their ancestral land last week, only the eighth communal land title to be handed out since the 2001 Land Law made them available. The title <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eighth-communal-land-title-awarded-in-mondolkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Conservation officials have confiscated a truck containing 20 cubic metres of illegally cut, luxury-grade timber from an economic land concession owned by the firm TTY Corporation, a district official said yesterday. Kratie provincial officials seized the logs, along with two trucks and two cars on Monday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illegal-logs-found-in-tty-truck/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly a tonne of rosewood was uncovered in a raid yesterday in Kampong Speu in which the suspect successfully fled after injuring an officer, police officials said. “according to the quality assessment, I can say a rough value of that rosewood is $300,000,” he [Keo <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-seize-illegal-rosewood-suspect-escapes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 34-yeAr-old VietnAmese mAn wAs Arrested And put into pre-triAl detention on MondAy in RAtAnAkkiri province for Allegedly putting A veritAble menAgerie on the blAck mArket. Prom Nol, Forestry AdministrAtion chief officer with Wildlife AlliAnce’s Wildlife RApid Rescue TeAm, sAid yesterdAy thAt the rAid on the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/illegAl-wildlife-deAler-cAught-in-rescue-rAid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A potAto fArmer who uneArthed old bullets As he ploughed his field on FridAy in OddAr MeAnchey province discovered more thAn 500 pieces of unexploded ordnAnce, Anti-mine officiAls sAid yesterdAy. FArmer Hun Kren, 29, Alerted Authorities to the discovery in BAnteAy Ampil district, where CAmbodiAn Mine <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/huge-uxo-stAsh-found-by-fArmer/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived for an official three-day visit Sunday, during which he is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Hun Sen as well as inaugurate a new Vietnamese-funded hospital and attend a groundbreaking ceremony for a bridge linking the two countries. Tran <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-prime-minister-arrives-for-three-day-state-visit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 1,000 workers At one of AsiA’s lArgest gArment-processing fActories hAve joined more thAn 4,000 who begAn A strike lAst week, As union workers demAnded the compAny meet nine conditions, including severing ties with A shAreholder. Employees At the SL2 fActory of SL GArment Processing (CAmbodiA) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/strike-grows-As-Another-fActory-wAlks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Sok Sokan, son of Deputy Prime Minister Sok an, has been officially named deputy secretary general within the Council of Ministers &ndash; a rank equal to secretary of state &ndash; according to November’s Royal affairs publication released last month. Ek Tha, a spokesman for the Council <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sok-ans-son-joins-government-ranks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian police fired smoke bombs to disperse hundred protesters at the capital on Monday. Mam Sonando, owner of the opposition-aligned Beehive Radio station, defied a government ban on public gathering and led about 200 protesters to rally in front of the Ministry of Information against the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-police-fire-smoke-bombs-to-disperse-protesters-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Twelve representatives of 50 families in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district filed an appeal yesterday after being summonsed to court over a land dispute with a Malaysian company. The villagers gathered in adhoc’s office in Srayrong commune to draft and submit a letter requesting that their court <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-seek-court-hearing-delay/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Independent radio station owner Mam Sonando filed his latest request with the Information Ministry on Monday, requesting a TV license and a radio relay station to push his popular radio broadcasts farther into the provinces. Mr. Sonando, the owner of Beehive Radio and a longtime government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sonando-sends-latest-tv-license-radio-request/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five political parties have registered to take part in provincial and district elections in May, officials said Tuesday. The elections are approaching despite a deadlock in national politics between the ruling party and the opposition&mdash;which wants election reform and a recall national vote. Only members of local <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/political-parties-registered-for-upcoming-elections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei is to attend the inauguration of a tractor assembly in Cambodia next week, according to the Belarusian Telegraphic agency. “There are plans to discuss a wide range of issues of the bilateral agenda with the emphasis on the prospects of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/belarus-minister-to-inaugurate-tractor-plant-next-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in Mondulkiri decided to switch A sweAring-in ceremony for two newly elected Keo SeimA district councillors to A commune hAll After the opposition objected to it being held At the home of the district’s pro-ruling pArty governor, officiAls sAid. Khum KAn sAid he And A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cnrp-cAlls-for-public-sweAring-in/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Arrest, detention And even An upcoming triAl cAn’t swAy 68 Khmer Krom fAmilies fAced with eviction to give up A bitter lAnd dispute over A bird sAnctuAry in TAkeo province. After being chArged in April with illegAlly occupying stAte lAnd, three representAtives from SAngkum MeAnchey villAge <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/without-lAwyer-krom-villAgers-fAce-court-triAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An ongoing lAnd dispute mAy become more thAn just An embittered ordeAl for three Khmer Krom villAgers After officiAls requested yesterdAy thAt A TAkeo court levy them huge fines. According to representAtives from Borei ChoslAr district’s SAngkum MeAnchey villAge, they Are only fArming bArren lAnd thAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fines-cAlled-for-in-cAse-AgAinst-khmer-krom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>