Cambodia’s political rivals are set to hold crisis talks as crowds massed for a second day to protest a disputed election, following violence that left one demonstrator dead and several wounded. Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy were due to meet at 9am <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-rivals-to-meet-after-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has scored a late political victory in his whirlwind two-week tour to Europe and the United States to try and ramp up international pressure on the newly formed Cambodian government ahead of his return Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a prominent Republican Party senator, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-senator-wants-military-aid-tied-to-election-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two teenagers and a couple in their twenties were injured in a roller coaster accident on Sunday at Chamkar Pring amusement park in Sen Sok district, police said Monday. Keo Sothout, district police chief, said that a bolt on the ride came loose and sent two <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-injured-in-roller-coaster-accident/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Amid strict reforms to guArd AgAinst rAmpAnt cheAting on the high-stAkes nAtionAl exAm, educAtion officiAls yesterdAy showed surprising leniency towArds underperforming grAde 12 students. In A notice releAsed yesterdAy, the Ministry of EducAtion instructed upper secondAry schools to hold re-exAminAtions for grAde 12 students who fAiled <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/protest-leAds-to-second-chAnce-on-nAtl-exAms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Members of the European Union’s parliament are calling for the Cambodian government to conduct an investigation into allegations of fraud in July’s election. a resolution passed by EU parliamentarians last week follows a violent crackdown on labor and opposition protests that have posed a challenge to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-parliament-calls-for-investigation-of-julys-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A union leAder Among 21 workers And Activists Arrested in JAnuAry demonstrAtions will AppeAr in the Court of AppeAl to Argue for bAil next week, despite the sAme court denying his request lAst month. Vorn Pov, president of Independent DemocrAcy of InformAl Economy AssociAtion (IDEA), And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bAil-request-for-pov-As-union-seeks-property/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A member of the much-mAligned NAtionAl Election Committee sAid yesterdAy he hoped thAt the body would ceAse to be merely A “pAper tiger” And be grAnted strong powers to punish politicAl pArties for electorAl trAnsgressions when future election reforms Are put in plAce. SpeAking At the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nec-strives-for-more-power/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A six-month protest over unpAid bonuses hAs seen production At A Por Sen Chey district box fActory grind to A hAlt over the pAst four dAys, with more thAn 200 former employees blocking gAtes And preventing shipments. Former employees At HArtA PAckAging Industries begAn bArricAding gAtes <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hAlf-yeAr-protest-shutters-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday charged at least seven opposition CNRP lawmakers-elect and a party activist with insurrection and incitement over a protest that turned violent on Tuesday, sending six of the group to Prey Sar prison. Meng Sopheary, a lawyer on the defense <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-officials-imprisoned-on-insurrection-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia could lose its competitive advantage in bicycle manufacturing and assembly, an industry source says. In a report from the Taipei Cycle Show late Wednesday, the US-based Bicycle Retailer and Industry News said Cambodia had used low wages and zero tariffs in the European Union to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-could-lose-competitive-edge-in-bicycles-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police raided four shops in Phnom Penh’s City Mall yesterday for allegedly selling pirated movies, a move that came a week after mall DVD vendors shut up shop to avoid a planned raid, the details of which were leaked beforehand. Officers conducted yesterday’s raid accompanied <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-mall-dvd-shops-raided/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a bustling room at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh, doctors from the Philippines, the U.S. and Nigeria gathered Sunday around a young boy, sitting in a plastic chair, and asked him to open his mouth wide. The boy is one of more than 100 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-clinic-marks-turning-point-for-correcting-cleft-surgeries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Tuesday that the ruling CPP has agreed to hold a fresh election before the current electoral term expires in July 2018 and that negotiations will now be held to select the election date. However, a CPP lawmaker said the party would <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-says-cpp-agrees-to-early-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police on Tuesday night arrested a 35-year-old man they say confessed to the murder of Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen and the brutal attack on her 19-month-old daughter in a burglary gone awry at their home just off Norodom Boulevard on Monday. National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arrest-in-un-murder/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Generals and two other air force officers, according to the country’s defense minister, who said strong winds may have led to the tragedy. Minister of Defense Tea Banh said that the cause of the crash into a pond about six miles (10 kilometers) south of Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strong-winds-may-have-downed-cambodia-chopper-defense-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MPWT) and the Phnom Penh municipality are preparing a ban on heavy trucks crossing the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge after cracks were discovered in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end, a City Hall official confirmed yesterday. at a meeting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cracks-discovered-in-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday convicted and imprisoned four people for their roles in a fraud case that involved the forging of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s signature to secure a mining license in Mondolkiri province. al Romny, the 41-year-old director of the local company <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jail-terms-for-four-in-mondolkiri-mining-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An internAtionAl Agriculture NGO is prepAring to roll out A nAtionwide project in pArtnership with computer-chip mAker Intel whereby more thAn 25,000 fArmers will be Able to receive reAl-time Advice on fArming methods viA A smArtphone App. The InternAtionAl Fund for AgriculturAl Development (IFAD) piloted the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/smArtphone-softwAre-to-help-rice-fArmers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

He may be just the police chief of Battambang, a languid riverside town in western Cambodia, but, recently, people have taken to calling Brig Gen Sar Theth the $7 million man. On Sept. 19, Brig Gen Theth’s officers tracked three Thai men in a pickup truck <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-seen-as-growing-source-of-counterfeit-dollars-in-southeast-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers at the center of a land dispute between villagers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of the mines and energy minister on Thursday pressed forward with a campaign against the release of five villagers who were imprisoned over violence <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kdc-workers-petition-against-the-release-of-five-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>