Cambodia, a Southeast asian country with 15 million inhabitants, has begun to embrace intensive livestock production despite numerous obstacles. The industry heavily relies on the import of genetics, soybean meal, fish meal, additives, medicines and vaccines. a major constraint preventing producers from taking up intensive <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-embraces-intensive-livestock-production/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Early on Monday morning, at about 1am, two trucks carrying roughly 10 cubic metres of illegally felled timber were bouncing down the road between Oddar Meanchey and Siem Reap. Police stopped the trucks &ndash; one of which bore military plates &ndash; and seized the haul, but <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/little-won-in-logging-crackdown/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

King Norodom Sihamoni used a speech during celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of Cambodia’s independence from France on Saturday to call for unity amid growing concerns over the long-term harmony of the nation since July’s disputed national election. Government officials, military officers and foreign diplomats turned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/on-independence-day-king-sihamoni-calls-for-unity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand’s second-largest cement company has suspended a cement-plant project valued at about $200 million in Kampot province because of political uncertainty and better investment opportunities in Myanmar, according to a senior executive. Philippe arto, the managing director of Siam City Cement Public Company Limited (SCCC), said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-company-shelves-kampot-cement-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian and international rights groups have renewed their calls for the release of Phnom Penh housing rights campaigner campaigner Yorm Bopha one year after her arrest, urging the public and national leaders not to forget her during the country’s current political deadlock. Global watchdog amnesty International <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/calls-for-boeung-kak-activists-release-renewed-on-one-year-anniversary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, along with the rest of his party, condemned the opening of the National assembly yesterday, saying in a speech delivered in Siem Reap that the action violated the constitution and had reverted the country to “communist” rule. Even as rumours swirled about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-calls-assembly-meeting-communist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Supreme Court ordered the release of two men Wednesday who were wrongly convicted and jailed for the 2004 murder of a prominent opposition activist. The court’s decision to drop all charges came amid renewed calls to free the men, whom leading international rights groups have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-high-court-drops-case-against-men-wrongly-jailed-for-2004-murder-of-labor-activist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

There were ugly scenes on Friday at Phnom Penh’s hill-temple Wat Phnom when district security guards scuffled, shouted abuse and punched a group of mostly women and monks who had gathered to hold a memorial ceremony for Mao Sok Chan&mdash;the 29-year-old man shot dead by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/security-guards-disrupt-memorial-ceremony-for-slain-man/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo abe has pledged to help Cambodia with electoral reforms, following a request by Prime Minister Hun Sen to send experts to the country ahead of future polls and amid an ongoing dispute over national elections held more than three months ago. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-to-assist-cambodia-with-election-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

BATI DISTRICT, TAkeo province &ndAsh; At A fArming school here lAst week, 150 poor AgriculturAl workers gAthered to celebrAte grAduAting A two-month trAining course. The new group of educAtors will now set out with their newly Acquired skills to help trAnsform the country’s poorest rurAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/project-Aims-to-mAke-subsistence-fArms-profitAble/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Since her husband was arrested in June and thrown in provincial prison to await trial, Soam Chantha, 32, has given birth to a baby boy. at the same time the men have been locked up, police have failed to arrest former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unionists-jailing-compared-with-bandith/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As leAders from the CPP And CNRP sAt down for A round of top-level negotiAtions Aimed At breAking the country’s prolonged politicAl impAsse on MondAy, opposition supporters once AgAin poured into Phnom Penh’s Freedom PArk for the second dAy of demonstrAtions AgAinst Alleged frAud in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cnrp-touts-success-on-second-dAy-of-demonstrAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday threatened to release an audio recording in which opposition leader Sam Rainsy purportedly acknowledged a ruling party election victory during a meeting between the two leaders aimed at ending a political deadlock. Sam Rainsy’s Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-claims-opposition-acknowledged-ruling-party-victory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An increAsing number of CAmbodiAns see themselves fAring worse, A GAllup polls suggests. In A globAl survey releAsed eArlier this month, the US-bAsed firm rAnked CAmbodiA neAr the very bottom in terms of life sAtisfAction, And it found thAt 34 percent of surveyed CAmbodiAns consider themselves <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/increAsingly-cAmbodiAns-sAy-they-Are-suffering-poll/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Talks between Cambodia’s ruling party and the opposition to resolve the impasse over last year’s election have been deadlocked for months. The two sides disagree on a number of issues, most significantly reform of the National Election Committee (NEC). But signs of a thaw have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-eight-month-political-deadlock-shows-hints-of-ending/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng became the latest senior member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP government to accuse the opposition CNRP of attempting to “topple” the government though what he claimed is a “constitutional coup.” In a posting to the Interior Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/45322/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Freedom Park was placed under lockdown and a march by land rights activists was blocked Saturday morning as Phnom Penh’s security officials were out in force to ensure that peaceful rallies on International Women’s Day could not go as planned. Prime Minister Hun Sen on February <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protest-ban-firmly-in-place-on-womens-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly castigated the Kampong Thom provincial governor in a speech on Saturday for allegedly claiming a large portion of land and saying it was needed for the local office of the Cambodian Red Cross, an agency lead by Hun Sen’s wife, Bun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-deals-leave-the-red-cross-out-of-it-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has updated dataset and added two new features (Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary and Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary) to the map layer of Management zones of natural protected areas in Cambodia in both Khmer and English. You can find the dataset in various format such as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updated-dataset-and-two-new-features-to-the-map-layer-of-management-zones-of-natural-protected-areas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Imprisoned Boeung Kak lake villagers, some crying, motioned to human rights representatives and Post reporters through a chain-link fence at Prey Sar prison on Tuesday. Their efforts to talk to the visitors were futile, however, as two guards stopped anyone from approaching the 13 women sentenced <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-women-kept-away-from-ngo-reporters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>