More than a dozen of american company representatives are visiting Cambodia to look into investment opportunities, a Cambodian spokesman said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/u-s-business-executives-eye-investment-potential-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of a local journalist and a Chinese national accused of selling nearly 40 grams of methamphetamine to undercover police last august. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/duo-tried-after-bust/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A dissident group, which wAs unexpectedly given the green light lAst month to form A politicAl pArty, clAims it hAs AlreAdy exceeded the number of signAtures necessAry to register. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/kppm-sAys-its-one-step-closer-to-pArty-hood/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Three Chinese men and a Cambodian were charged Friday by the Battambang Provincial Court for operating unlicensed medical facilities and supplying spoiled or fake drugs, a court official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-charged-over-unlicensed-medical-clinics-in-battambang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Gunshots were fired in a tense standoff between two armed groups in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary last month, prompting a court investigation into what happened. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-action-on-standoff-claim/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A NigeriAn mAn chArged with drug trAfficking WednesdAy Admitted in court to trAnsporting crystAl methAmphetAmine in Phnom Penh lAst yeAr, but clAimed he hAd merely been A hired hAnd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/during-triAl-of-eight-nigeriAn-Admits-to-moving-crystAl-meth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Military police in Stung Treng province on Monday arrested a Laotian man with a half-kilogram of crystal methamphetamine he had smuggled into the country, an official said Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laotian-arrested-for-trafficking-methamphetamine/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A push is on to mAndAte hAndicApped-Accessible rAmps At the Kingdom’s tourist AttrActions, A member of the government’s DisAbility Action Council (DAC) sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-rAmping-up-plAn-for-tourist-site-Access/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Local authorities told residents of Kratie province’s Snuol district that they would not allow a private company to plant crops on their land during a meeting yesterday. Poeng Vin, chief of Pi Thnou commune, said that local authorities would measure land belonging to hundreds of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-land-dispute-meet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

What do three Cambodian teenage girls, a French T-shirt designer, a Japanese doctoral student and a Cambodian businessman have in common? On Thursday afternoon, they were all captured by the appeal of BRow Coffee and Bakery on street 214. The value of this crowd of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/brown-coffee-chain-expands-with-third-store/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia was ranked the ninth most at risk country of being exposed to natural disasters out of 173 countries surveyed in a new report by the UN University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security a UNDP report released in august supported the World Risk report’s findings <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-ranked-ninth-most-at-risk-for-disasters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Reactions in Malaysian media to Cambodia’s Oct 15 ban on sending maids to Malaysia contain a mix of shame, indignation and a need to stress that most employers in Malaysia do not mistreat foreign domestic workers. “There are very few bad apples among us,” said an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-malaysia-maid-ban-met-with-mixed-feelings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Residents of two villages in Kandal province say police are threatening to arrest them for filing a complaint about a company they accuse of failing to fully pay them for land allegedly bought from them almost 15 years ago. Kuy Chanthorn, a resident of Kakab village <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-waiting-for-payment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A solution to the OverlApping ClAims AreA (OCA) in the Gulf of ThAilAnd mAy be At hAnd due to the election of PueA ThAi. Petroleum compAnies Are sAid to to be reAdy to explore the region, An AreA of more thAn 27,000 squAre kilometers. A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/oil-dispute-optimism/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cigarette promoters will have to stop work when a tobacco advertisement ban takes effect in late august, a health official said yesterday. a February sub-decree, which also bans advertising tobacco in the media and on billboards, states that the “promotion of tobacco products to customers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cigarette-promoters-to-lose-jobs-after-tobacco-ad-ban/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Economic growth in Cambodia is being hampered by poor sanitation and hygiene, and rising food prices are leaving people struggling to afford basic produce for a balanced diet, according to a report released yesterday by the UN Development Program (UNDP). The UNDP’s 2011 Human Development Report <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/subpar-sanitation-high-food-prices-curbing-growth-un-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Justice has ordered authorities in Preah Sihanouk province to suspend enforcement of a Supreme Court verdict issued in connection with a land dispute between 70 families and an official from the Sihanoukville autonomous Port. On October 28, the Supreme Court granted a land <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-suspends-verdict/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Minister of Environment has countered a rights worker’s claim that villagers relocated to make way for a Chinese-backed mega-tourism project in Koh Kong province lack proper access to medical care. about 1,100 families have been forcibly evicted from their coastal villages in Botum Sakor National <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-minister-denies-hardship-at-tourism-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Provincial authorities released land protester Bun Ratha, who was detained on Friday and sent to Kratie prison, after his supporters blocked traffic on National Road 73 yesterday. More than 500 villagers from Chhlong district’s Kampong Damrei commune, who are in a dispute with rubber company Kasotim <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villager-freed-after-road-block/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday there would never be a foreign military base in his country, following a news report that China was lobbying for a naval base in southwest Koh Kong province. The asia Times, citing unidentified diplomatic sources and analysts, reported <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-says-wont-allow-any-foreign-military-base-in-his-country/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>