The Ministry of Labour on Saturday issued a 12-point set of standards for recruitment agencies sending workers abroad, warning operators they have just over a month to comply. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-standards-for-recruitment-agencies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 90 people had been hospitalized in Takeo province as of Tuesday evening after eating tainted noodles during a Buddhist ceremony at a pagoda on Monday, officials said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/over-ninety-poisoned-by-noodles-vendor-shut-down/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Conflicting versions of events emerged yesterday after a Battambang man was found dead in a disused gold-mining pit in the province’s Phnom Proek district.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/battambang-man-dies-in-old-gold-mining-pit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 124 logs of luxury timber were discovered on a riverbed on Sunday within Mondulkiri’s Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary some 500 metres from a military base, officials said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-find-logs-hidden-on-riverbed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A teAm of divers from the CAmbodiAn Mine Action Centre recovered A lArge bomb dropped from US plAnes during the wAr in the 1970s in KAndAl province yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cmAc-divers-remove-us-bomb-in-kAndAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Japan, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s largest donor to date, has contributed a further $1.12 million to its international component, the tribunal said on Tuesday in a statement. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-donates-1-1-million-to-tribunal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Breaking further from traditional partners, Cambodia has aborted a planned military exercise with australia, a defense official said on Tuesday, tilting the country’s allegiances once again toward China. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-further-shift-military-cancels-drill-with-australia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A feAsibility study into the possibility of estAblishing A series of wArehouses And kiln for rice fArmers is exploring how to improve the quAlity of storAge in the industry. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/study-on-how-to-boost-rice-storAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 200 Chinese people were Arrested yesterdAy in two Poipet guesthouses in A bust on A scAm operAtion thAt tArgeted civil servAnts in ChinA with blAckmAil, According to police. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-hold-200-chinese-in-scAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nippon Express, a Japanese company specialising in truck, rail and air transport services, is now eyeing an expansion of its operations in Cambodia, according to a recent government announcement. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-logistics-company-plans-expansion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Daun Penh district authorities have ordered a group of Kandal market vendors to move in the hopes of reopening a street that has blocked vehicular traffic for many years. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/street-vendors-told-to-move/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An Anti-tAnk mine exploded After demining experts drove A mAchine over it in A cAssAvA plAntAtion in BAnteAy MeAnchey’s MAlAi district yesterdAy, but no one wAs injured. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Anti-tAnk-mine-explodes-in-bAnteAy-meAnchey/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nearly seven months after a gas tanker truck was involved in a deadly crash in Banteay Meanchey province, authorities finally searched it on Saturday, finding it loaded with rosewood. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timber-found-inside-tanker/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen left here on Monday for a 3-day official visit to Bangladesh where the two countries are expected to ink four deals, a senior official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-heads-for-bangladesh-4-deals-to-be-signed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five striking workers at a Kandal province garment factory were injured yesterday after a group of men allegedly showed up at the protest, attempted to steal equipment and beat several strikers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indochine-protesters-attacked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has rejected a U.S.- based Human Rights Watch’s “labor abuse” report, saying the report is groundless, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Labor late on Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-rebukes-labor-abuse-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

 A CAmbodiAn court chArged two men for trying to smuggle 23 people into ThAilAnd to work, A report sAid MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/2-chArged-for-trAfficking-cAmbodiAns/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Siem Reap Provincial Court summoned a provincial councillor and his oknha wife in for questioning last week after two businessmen filed a complaint accusing them of fraud amounting to $60,000. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/provincial-councillor-quizzed-over-land-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly 40 former employees at a Siem Reap province massage parlour will protest in front of its storefront today after management allegedly fired them for trying to introduce a labour union. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unionising-masseuses-to-protest-alleged-firing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Commerce Minister Sun Chan­thol evoked the late U.S. President John Kennedy on Friday at a seminar about “rebranding” Cambodia that quickly turned into a promotional event for Coca-Cola. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/coca-cola-guides-rebranding-cambodia-event/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>