The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) signed a partnership agreement with a business development company on Monday in an attempt to increase awareness about the country’s stock market among entrepreneurs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/csx-aims-to-boost-awareness-with-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Stevia Nutra Corporation, a company focused on producing artificial sweetener from the plant stevia, has announced that it has incorporated Mighty Mekong agro Industries Co Ltd, a Cambodian-based wholly owned subsidiary. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/natural-sweetener-coming/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Serbian Minister of Foreign affairs Ivan Mrkic will pay a two-day visit to Cambodia next Monday to promote bilateral relations, according to a press release from Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry on Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/serbian-fm-to-visit-cambodia-to-boost-bilateral-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian finance industry is to celebrate the sixth Banking and Finance Conference a week from today, at a meeting that will focus on developing technology in the country’s financial sector. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/banking-on-technology-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thai authorities have found five Cambodians employed illegally at a clothing store in Phuket after they were allegedly sold into slave-like conditions by a human-trafficking network, according to Thai media. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-trafficking-alleged/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Sihanoukville are seeking to arrest a Russian businessman who is wanted in his home country for possession of weapons and explosives as part of a criminal syndicate, according to Interpol. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/authorities-seek-russian-for-crimes-in-cambodia-at-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn-AmericAn mAn wAs convicted by A U.S. federAl jury in AlAskA on MondAy of Attempting to trAvel to CAmbodiA to hAve sex with underAge girls, U.S. mediA reported. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AmericAn-mAn-convicted-over-child-sex-trips-to-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

During a graduation ceremony at Royal University of Law and Economics, Prime Minister Hun Sen said he and the opposition leader agreed to create a law to prevent landlords from raising rent. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-proposes-law-to-prevent-rent-increase/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Water Supply authority has released a statement dismissing a media report suggesting that it had been using unhealthy amounts of iron in its water purification processes as an “exaggeration.” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-authority-rejects-water-quality-claim/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A couple wAs Arrested And sent to court yesterdAy After Attempting to sell $38,000 in fAke diAmond jewellery to A gold vendor in PreAh SihAnouk province, According to provinciAl militAry police.​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fAke-diAmond-leAds-to-mArket-sting-in-sville/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Three boys and a girl, one of whom is disabled, were removed from a Phnom Penh orphanage on Tuesday after its main donor accused its director of physical abuse and sexual misconduct. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/orphanage-closed-following-accusations-of-sex/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five people from Kampong Phluk village were injured after a violent protest erupted over the election of a new committee to support boating tourism in Siem Reap’s Bakong district on Saturday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boat-scrap-halts-votes-over-ticket-earnings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen returned Monday from a weekend in Japan that included a day-trip 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo to Yamaguchi Prefecture, home base of Prime Minister Shinzo abe. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-becomes-chinas-business-rival-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition lawmaker Real Camerin is set to revisit a contested area of the Cambodia-Vietnam border in Svay Rieng province on July 19, despite being injured during a brawl there last month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-lawmaker-to-revisit-vietnamese-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prince Norodom Ranariddh has announced the formation of a youth group for the royalist party Funcinpec, in hopes of finding more support among a new demographic. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/royalist-party-forms-youth-movement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Residents of the Phnom Penh suburb of Ta Ngov have reached a verbal agreement with the Chbar ampov district government to make room for the expansion of a road along Barang Canal. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ta-ngov-residents-to-keep-land-despite-road-expansion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Twelve Montagnards were voluntarily repatriated to Vietnam on Friday through a Ratanakkiri province border checkpoint after being cheated by a broker who promised them jobs in Thailand, according to officials.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/montagnard-group-voluntarily-sent-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Pursat Provincial Court on Monday charged a border police official with intentional violence for cutting off his colleague’s fingers with a cleaver at their barracks on Friday night, officials said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-charged-after-severing-colleagues-hand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As hundreds of riot police conducted protest suppression drills in Phnom Penh’s Freedom PArk on MondAy morning, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s mAnsion in the center of the city wAs the focAl point of A demonstrAtion by some 2,000 gArment fActory workers. MunicipAl police, Along with 16 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-trAin-At-freedom-pArk-As-protesters-tArget-hun-sens-house/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of ThAi And InternAtionAl NGOs sAid yesterdAy thAt they supported CAmbodiAn communities filing A lAwsuit AgAinst sugAr giAnt Mitr Phol seeking compensAtion And remedies over Alleged humAn rights violAtions. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-ngo-supports-cAmbodiAn-fArmers-over-compensAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>