Two former board members of the country’s largest independent garment sector union asked the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday to suspend president ath Thorn and two fellow officials over allegations of embezzlement. Oum Visal and Roeung Chanthorn, founding board members of the Coalition of Cambodian <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-urged-to-suspend-garment-union-leader/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mu Sochua, the outspoken lawmaker of the opposition who just spent a week in jail, says she is going to continue pushing for democratic reforms in Cambodia. “I’m not intimidated by arrest,” she told “Hello VOa” on Wednesday. “Instead, my will to defend the people and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/after-jailing-mu-sochua-more-determined-print-share/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A sAnd-dredging ferry cAught fire And two of its pumping mAchines exploded yesterdAy in KAndAl’s Kien SvAy district. The blAst sent A blAck plume of smoke over the Mekong And cAused oil to leAk into the river. Yem Sokhum, Phomthom commune police chief, sAid thAt According to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/dredging-ferry-cAtches-fire/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia has seen significant improvements in logistics performance in the last four years, a World Bank’s senior official said Wednesday. “according to the World Bank Logistics Performance Index (LPI), Cambodia’s LPI ranking has risen spectacularly by 46 places, to 83rd out of 160 countries in 2014, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-improvements-in-logistics-performance-world-bank/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A fishing community thAt AbAndoned A stretch of the Tonle SAp river in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district eArlier this month After deAd fish begAn AppeAring in the wAter hAve brought their floAting houses bAck home, Authorities And community representAtives sAid yesterdAy. The 29 fAmilies who <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/floAting-houses-come-bAck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia has not seen any case of H7N9 bird flu virus and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, a senior health official said Monday. Speaking at a seminar on the awareness of H7N9 and MERS coronavirus, Dr. Ly Sovann, director of the health ministry’s communicable <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-signs-of-h7n9-flu-mers-coronavirus-identified-in-cambodia-health-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As CAmbodiAn migrAnt workers return in droves from ThAilAnd through the cAsino-lAden border town of Poipet, Prime Minister Hun Sen is wArning gAmbling pArlour owners this does not meAn A jAckpot for them. “CAsinos in Phnom Penh And Along the border Are not for Khmer citizens,” <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/locAls-still-off-limits-pm-cAutions-cAsinos/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian farmers are looking toward a new organization to help them get the best prices for their rice, but many are skeptical disparities between farmers and traders can be overcome. The Cambodian Rice Federation was started in May, bringing together disparate companies, associations and farmers in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-association-seeks-to-improve-rice-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On Thailand’s border with Myanmar, also known as Burma, a malaria research and treatment clinic is stepping up efforts to eliminate a drug-resistant form of the parasite before it spreads abroad. artemisinin medicines have been highly effective against malaria when used in combination with other drugs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/drug-resistant-malaria-spreads-in-se-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is the third most at-risk country to money laundering and terrorist financing in the world, according to a global index released last month, trailing only Iran and afghanistan. The anti-Money Laundering Index, first published by the Swiss-based Basel Institute on Governance in 2012, assigns the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-vulnerable-to-money-laundering/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian health authorities on Tuesday said more than 80 people &ndash; including children and the elderly &ndash; who tested positive for HIV/aIDS in a single remote village may have been infected by contaminated needles. Hundreds of panicked residents of the village in Battambang province in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/82-get-hiv-in-remote-khmer-village/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh, a son of late King Norodom Sihanouk, said Monday that his return to be the president of the royalist Funcinpec Party is to reunite the royalists and Sihanoukists. The prince also said that the party will work closely with Prime Minister Hun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/return-to-old-party-is-to-reunite-royalists-sihanoukists-cambodian-prince-ranariddh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 cubic metres of luxury timber were found inside the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary near a Vietnamese-owned economic land concession on Saturday in Ratanakkiri province, according to adhoc and a local resident, who suspect the timber was taken out of the protected area. Nearly <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/timber-found-in-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam met yesterday in Vientiane to discuss the progress and challenges of the Lao pilot programme for narrowing the development gap towards asean integration. The programme was formulated as a pilot project in October 2010 by the Lao government, asean Secretariat <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-cambodia-vietnam-discuss-aec-preparedness/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The president of the AsiAn Development BAnk sAys A proposed Chinese-led regionAl bAnk is A potentiAl pArtner insteAd of A rivAl And the ADB is tAlking with Beijing to shAre its experience. TAkehiko NAkAo’s comments cAme After WAshington softened its opposition to the Chinese-proposed AsiAn InfrAstructure <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Adb-president-chinA-led-bAnk-potentiAl-pArtner-not-rivAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Unions and factories remained at odds over where to peg next year’s minimum wage for the garment sector after a meeting between representatives for both sides on Friday, though they agreed to resume the talks later in the month. Earlier this year, the Labor advisory Committee, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-factories-set-positions-on-minimum-wage-raise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Pailin provincial authorities are searching for a suspect who allegedly commissioned the excavation of a gold mine on land the protection of which is funded by the foundation of american actress angelina Jolie. Provincial environmental police are holding three men at a spot where they were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illegal-mining-op-halted-in-preserve/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and australia have reiterated their commitment to comply with a refugee agreement they signed last month, despite persistent criticism from human rights groups and opposition parties of the two countries, a senior official said on Sunday. The commitment was made during a meeting on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-australia-vow-to-honor-refugee-deal-despite-criticism-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Thai Ministry of Tourism and Sports is set to form a joint working team with Cambodia in a bid to devise measures for promoting cross-border tourism. Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul disclosed that the ministry and related officials from Cambodia are preparing to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourism-min-joins-hands-with-cambodia-to-facilitate-cross-border-travels/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A meeting held for the “sociAl network” Khmer for Khmer yesterdAy reveAled trepidAtion Among members About the group’s possible future As A new politicAl pArty. The group, which currently clAims to Advise CAmbodiA’s pArties on internAl democrAcy, hAs scheduled A referendum next month to decide the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/opinions-differ-when-it-comes-to-new-pArty/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>