The Chinese government yesterday provided hundreds of thousands of dollars of cars and electronics to the Senate. according to a Senate statement, a handover ceremony was presided over by second vice president Tep Ngorn and Li an, an economic and trade adviser with the Chinese <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-provides-electronic-equipment-cars-to-senate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The property behemoth in Phnom Penh has attracted a top China-based developer, Country Garden Holdings Co. Ltd, which seems keen to invest in the building of a modern satellite city that can accommodate two million people in the Kingdom. Yang Guoqiang, Chairman of Country Garden <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-developer-eyes-satellite-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Women make up the majority of street vendors selling food, clothes and a range of other retail goods across Cambodia, a new report in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Business has revealed. Using data from Cambodia’s economic census, researchers Nobuo Hirohata and Kazuhiro Fukuyo, from Yamaguchi <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/women-run-cambodias-street-economy-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The fate of a Rohingya refugee who has chosen to return home rather than remain in Cambodia as part of a controversial resettlement deal with australia is now in the hands of the Myanmar government, senior officials from both countries said yesterday.Moe Htet Kyaw, second <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/refugee-awaits-word-on-exit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAn in KAmpong Speu’s OrAl district wAs briefly plAced under house Arrest yesterdAy, following his public criticism of the government And prime minister At A town hAll meeting.Ung Ny, CAmbodiAn NAtionAl Rescue PArty (CNRP) OrAl district executive director, sAid thAt 45-yeAr-old HAy Hoeun, A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAn-briefly-detAined-over-criticism-of-govt-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

At leAst three people were injured in A grenAde AttAck on Street 163 in Phnom Penh’s Boeung Keng KAng III commune At About 7:40pm yesterdAy evening, police sAid. The victims did not AppeAr to be the intended tArgets of the grenAde, which wAs tossed under A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/grenAde-AttAck-injures-three-people-in-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A mAn in KAmpong Speu’s OrAl district wAs briefly plAced under house Arrest yesterdAy, following his public criticism of the government And prime minister At A town hAll meeting.Ung Ny, CAmbodiAn NAtionAl Rescue PArty (CNRP) OrAl district executive director, sAid thAt 45-yeAr-old HAy Hoeun, A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAn-briefly-detAined-over-criticism-of-govt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Cambodian hire-purchase subsidiary of aeon Thana Sinsap (Thailand) or aeonts has become the first Japanese financial firm to receive a specialised bank licence to do credit-card business in the neighbouring country, according to a statment to the Stock Exchange of Thailand aeon Microfinance (Cambodia), <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aeonts-wins-cambodia-licence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

No significant commercial delays or losses resulted from the collision between a train and a cement truck in Kampot province on Sunday as engineers were able to remove the disabled truck from the tracks and resume operations on the rail line within hours of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/railway-operations-resume-after-collision/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The developer of Banhji, a locally developed accounting platform aimed at small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), is in talks with investors to secure funding as part of a plan to expand the application beyond Cambodia. Officially launched in October after a four-month beta testing period, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/accounting-platform-seeks-funds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fourteen community representatives speaking for thousands of families yesterday petitioned the South Korean Embassy, Environment Ministry and Forestry administration to halt the expansion of a controversial “reforestation” project by a Korean company situated between the protected Prey Lang forest and Mekong River. Their petition &ndash; <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/calls-to-halt-reforestation-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Royal Cambodian armed Forces chief of joint staff Hun Manet has said he disagrees that Preah Sihanouk province, where Chinese investment in hotels and casinos has skyrocketed, will become a second Macau. Lieutenant General Manet made the comment on Monday during a ground-breaking ceremony for the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-manet-sihanoukville-is-not-macau/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A recent government report on protecting the country’s nAturAl resources reveAls thAt A totAl of 1,166 crimes were recorded, but only 873 ended up in court And only 293 of those cAses resulted in smAll fines being issued. The report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/penAlties-for-logging-fAlling/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A Chinese compAny will spend roughly $60 million to build A construction supply center on the outskirts of Phnom Penh After finAlizing A lAnd leAsing Agreement with the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) on FridAy. YunnAn SengmAo Investment will build the Aptly nAmed Construction MAteriAl Supplies <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/megA-construction-supply-center/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Interior is giving 30 hectares of land to a well-connected development company in exchange for a smaller piece of land on the southern outskirts of Phnom Penh. The land swap, announced in a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on January 18, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-swaps-30-hectares/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

“THE logical approach now”, reckons Naly Pilorge of LICaDHO, a Cambodian human-rights watchdog, “would be to continue attacking.” She is talking about a crackdown on all forms of political dissent launched in august by Hun Sen, who has been prime minister for 32 years and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-is-systematically-squashing-all-forms-of-dissent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Commerce Ministry yesterday announced a 19 percent surge in exports for the year and a quadrupling of revenue collected from import licence fees, but would not provide analogous figures for total imports or explain what could be driving the increases. according to the ministry’s annual <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exports-rose-19-percent-commerce-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), a coalition of the Sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party, stands to gain about 30 percent of the vote if it decides to stand against the ruling CPP in next year’s national elections, the Committee for Free <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/coalition-party-could-take-30-percent-of-vote-in-2013-elections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Tokyo-bAsed Auto supplier, the YAzAki CorporAtion, hAs completed the construction of An Automotive electronics And instrument plAnt in CAmbodiA And the production will be lAunched lAter this month, A compAny representAtive sAid WednesdAy. SpeAking during A meeting with CAmbodiAn Prime Minister Hun Sen At the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jApAnese-Auto-supplier-sets-to-lAunch-Auto-pArts-fActory-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than a thousand garment workers went on strike yesterday morning to demand a minimum wage increase and better working conditions, following the failure of minimum wage negotiations between unions and employers on Monday. Some 600 workers in Kandal province yesterday protested in front of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wage-demands-workers-hit-streets-in-bid-for-pay-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>