Provincial Ministry of Labour officials will today meet with union representatives and management at the factory where a ceiling collapse killed two workers last May, in an attempt to resolve a strike. about 5,000 employees at Wing Star Shoes, an asics supplier, walked off the job <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wing-star-workers-walk-out/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia asked Thailand Friday to compensate the families of five Cambodians killed when a World War II bomb exploded in a scrap metal shop in Bangkok. The explosion on Wednesday killed a total of seven people, injured 20 others and destroyed or damaged 10 buildings. “Our <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/compensation-demanded-for-5-killed-in-blast/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kem Sokha, the vice president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, is in Washington this week, seeking support for his party as it negotiates a political deal with its ruling party rival. The opposition is calling for a electoral reforms and a recall vote, after <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-confident-wary-as-negotiations-continue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local authorities in Kratie met Tuesday with 301 families who were recently given a social land concession in Snuol district to discuss how to deal with an influx of hundreds of villagers who are also hoping to live on the land. The 750-hectare concession was granted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-seek-solutions-to-rush-on%e2%80%88kratie-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction of the Don Sahong hydropower project in southern Laos is likely to decimate an already dwindling population of critically endangered Mekong dolphins, according to a World Wildlife Fund science brief published today. about 85 dolphins inhabit a deep-water pool restricted to a stretch of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dam-dire-for-dolphins/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Cambodia on Monday beat anti-government demonstrators who tried to defy a ban on public demonstrations to demand a license for what would be the Southeast asian nation’s first opposition television channel. Several hundred supporters of Mam Sonando, a fierce government critic, came out to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-police-beat-protesters-for-tv-license-bid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The literacy NGO Sipar is set to expand its fleet of mobile libraries and place a new focus on teaching the country’s youth about road safety as part of its partnership with global gas giant Total. a “Safety” library&mdash;the 10th in Sipar’s fleet&mdash;will join nine other <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/total-ngo-team-up-for-road-safety-libraries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tuesday morning, not long after dawn, a line of students formed outside En Komar Primary School, in Kampong Thom province. Students were waiting to receive breakfast from their teachers. The breakfasts are part of a World Food Program initiative that aims to feed 3.5 million students <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hot-breakfast-program-helps-students/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreigners seeking to learn the Khmer language have long been restricted by a dearth of resources beyond beginner’s textbooks, often relying on conversation and the methods of individual teachers to advance their vocabulary and comprehension. aiming to put a small dent in the situation, U.S. citizen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/online-khmer-english-audio-dictionary-launches/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kandal Provincial Court on Tuesday tried two opposition CNRP officials and their lawyer&mdash;two of them in absentia&mdash;over a case dating back to 2011 that was abruptly scheduled a week ago. Chan Cheng, who was elected last year as a CNRP National assembly member from Kandal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-hears-years-old-case-against-cnrp-officials-lawyer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Festivals of India including a photo show and dance performances will be held in Cambodia’s Phnom Penh and Siem Reap cities from Feb. 13 to Feb. 19, according to a media statement from the Indian Embassy in Cambodia on Wednesday. Speaking at a press <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indian-cultural-week-to-kick-off-in-cambodia-thursday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court summoned two former Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation bus drivers for questioning Tuesday after the court received a complaint from the bus company accusing the drivers of intimidation and defamation. The drivers, Yim Kuyba and Phon Visal, were asked to appear in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sorya-drivers-called-to-court-over-intimidation-defamation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As pArt of A trio of long-AwAited judiciAl lAws pAssed lAst month by the NAtionAl Assembly, the country’s judiciAl system is set to integrAte A number of new provinciAl AppeAl courts, expAnding Access to the AppeAl process to people imprisoned outside Phnom Penh. But the only <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/reform-needed-with-new-AppeAl-courts-on-the-wAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A militAry police officiAl confirmed ThursdAy thAt his unit’s new heAdquArters were being built in the heArt of Phnom Penh’s restive Boeng KAk neighborhood, meters AwAy from the homes of some of the country’s most high-profile Anti-eviction Activists. About A hAlf-dozen Armed militAry police officers were <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/city-builds-militAry-police-bAse-Amid-Activist-neighborhood/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A delegAtion from the OrgAnizAtion of IslAmic CooperAtion (OIC) recently visited CAmbodiA to pArticipAte in An internAtionAl conference orgAnized by the Council for Development of CAmbodiA under the slogAn “IslAmic EducAtion And Economic Development in CAmbodiA” in the cApitAl Phnom Penh. LocAted in the southern portion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/oic-delegAtion-visits-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Monks and nationalist protesters burned a Vietnamese flag in front of the Vietnamese Embassy on Tuesday as the embassy continued to ignore calls to apologize for comments made by a diplomat in July. about 600 protesters gathered at the embassy once again to press for a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-krom-protesters-burn-vietnamese-flag/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Cambodia say they have arrested three people after a journalist investigating illegal logging was shot dead. Taing Try was killed on Sunday at a logging site in Kratie province, where he had gone with several reporters. Two years ago a prominent environmentalist was also shot <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-arrests-three-after-logging-journalist-killed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As CAmbodiA prepAres for A regionAl meeting over A contentious LAo dAm on the Mekong River, fishing communities in Stung Treng province hAve AppeAled to LAos to cAncel the project. The Don SAhong dAm would be built on the Mekong, two kilometers from the CAmbodiAn border. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-fishermen-urge-better-studies-on-lAo-dAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Driving on National Road 6 through recently harvested rice fields, six 10-meter-tall structures emerge like vortexes from the sparse terrain. Not far along is the commotion of a country fair: bale mazes, archery games, face painting, a ferris wheel and blaring Khmer pop music. Welcome to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bale-festival-seeks-to-spark-pastoral-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Interior Minister Sar Kheng said Tuesday that he would try to find a solution for moto-taxi drivers who have complained about a stipulation in the newly adopted traffic law that says motorbikes can carry a maximum of two adults and one child. Mr. Kheng said that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-reassures-moto-taxi-drivers-over-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>