Garment and footwear industry workers were promised a range of services from Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday, including free bus rides, a minimum wage hike and health insurance. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bus-rides-and-health-insurance-for-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Labour Confederation said garment workers need a monthly wage of $224 to survive, a steep rise from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s proposed increase to $168. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/increase-not-enough-clc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An OknhA hAs filed A complAint seeking $100,000 in compensAtion from A nAvy commAnder in PreAh SihAnouk for Allegedly encroAching on his lAnd And threAtening his employees. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/oknhA-files-complAint-in-dispute-over-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prey Veng province military police and the Wildlife alliance on Friday night conducted a raid upon a truck transporting hundreds of kilograms of illegal wildlife destined for Vietnam. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wildlife-seized-in-prey-veng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen today announced plans to offer free health care to cyclo drivers and to form a foundation to help preserve them as a tourist attraction. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-courts-cyclo-drivers-with-free-health-care-new-preservation-foundation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Battambang provincial authorities yesterday announced a new border pass for provincial residents to ease their crossing into Thailand, following a similar announcement by Banteay Meanchey province on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/border-passes-set-for-battambang-residents/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSa), the single listed company on the Cambodia Security Exchange (CSX), expected a 12 percent surge in profit in 2014, a senior official said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-only-listed-company-predicts-12-pct-rise-in-profit-this-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen will lead a delegation to visit the People’s Republic of Bangladesh next week, according to a statement by Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-to-visit-bangladesh-next-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following a number of separate arrests made in Thailand, a bus shepherded 20 Cambodian monks back home through the international checkpoint at Poipet on Saturday afternoon, local officials said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/group-of-20-monks-repatriated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sousdey Finance, a subsidiary of Thitikorn Limited in Thailand, will start a financial hire-leasing service for motorbikes in Phnom Penh, with an initial start-up fund of $100,000. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-firm-latest-to-offer-lease-financing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With petty crime on the rise in Cambodia, the National Police on Friday drafted a plan to protect foreign nationals and investors throughout the country, a police spokesman said Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-draft-plan-to-protect-foreign-nationals-and-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Daun Penh district governor Kuoch Chamroeun on Monday negotiated a truce between two rival groups of tuk-tuk drivers who clashed violently earlier this month in a dispute over passengers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rival-tuk-tuk-associations-agree-to-truce/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One of five garment workers facing charges after a clash with security forces and other workers at a Kampong Cham footwear factory last month was hospitalised after fainting in prison. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-fight-man-faints-after-shock-of-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers at Siem Reap International airport have ended an 11-day strike after agreeing with the company on a plan to negotiate over their grievances, a union rep said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plan-to-negotiate-ends-siem-reap-airport-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chan Soveth, a longtime human rights defender, died of a heart attack on Wednesday. Colleagues say he was returning from celebrations to mark International Human Rights Day. He was 51. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chan-soveth-human-rights-defender-dies-at-51/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The son of a wealthy property developer and police general was arrested Monday evening after attacking another rich, young businessman inside a Phnom Penh tattoo parlor, military police said Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wealthy%e2%80%88developers-son-arrested-for-tattoo-parlor-attack/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ostap Doroshenko, the son of jailed Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko, has spoken out on his father’s recent detainment, blaming it on a plot orchestrated by a predictable family foe. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/doroshenkos-son-hits-out-in-defence-of-jailed-father/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Suy Channe, at 34 years of age, is becoming a familiar face in Cambodia’s IT sector as a female coder and regional leader at Innovation Lab SEa (InSTEDD). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/coder-challenges-male-dominance-in-it/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The director of a Phnom Penh children’s NGO arrested over allegations of abuse was released from police custody on Wednesday due to a lack of evidence, police said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-boss-out-on-lack-of-evidence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A South KoreAn-owned gArment fActory bowed to union pressure ThursdAy And Agreed to pAy its former workers wAges they Are owed, following A meeting with the Ministry of LAbor. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fActory-Agrees-to-pAy-wAges-to-former-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>