Nearly 70 representatives from 278 families in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district are seeking intervention after a national mining company began drilling on their farmland last week, locals said yesterday. according to villager Yean Bunchan, 47, representatives from a company based in Kandal province called T P <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-fight-mining-venture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s per capita income increased four times in two decades since the Kingdom held its first United Nations supported democratic election in 1993, according to a report from Cambodia’s Development and Research Institute. In 1993, the country’s per capita income was only $240 USD per year, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-income-rose-four-times-in-two-decades/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian opposition officials said Tuesday they will give the government three months to hold a new election, or they will lead a movement in hopes of toppling its leadership. Kem Sokha, vice president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the government is harming its citizens <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opposition-gives-government-three-month-deadline/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Construction on a four-year, $150 million commercial and residential development that will transform 70,000 square metres of land on Koh Pich into Parisian-style apartments with a replica of the arc de Triomphe at the centre is reportedly scheduled to commence in the coming months. The &Eacute;lys&eacute;e, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/little-paris-comes-to-koh-pich/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A week-long strike involving more thAn 100 work-study pArticipAnts At Phnom Penh-bAsed NGO DigitAl Divide DAtA ended on SundAy following tAlks conducted by the sociAl enterprise’s CEO, who flew in from New York to Attend to the mAtter, pArticipAnts And mAnAgement sAid yesterdAy. ProgrAm pArticipAnts, who <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/digitAl-divide-stAff-bAck-on-job/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a woman charged with defaming mining magnate and RCaF Lieutenant General Nim Meng in relation to a land dispute in Preah Sihanouk province. Presiding Judge Kim Dany said that Sok Neang Gek was being charged <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/woman-tried-for-insulting-rcaf-mining-tycoon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In their latest bid for a $160 minimum monthly wage for the garment industry, independent unions will lead a “stay at home” strike late next week. While the chances of that figure being approved anytime soon seem slight &ndash; the government has only just announced a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/costs-dont-top-brands-concerns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In December 2011, the managing director of Megagreen Imex Cambodia, Renne Outh, proudly announced that his firm had inked a $21 million deal to be the first to ship Cambodian rice to the Philippines. Nearly two and a half years on, not a single Cambodian grain <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exporter-under-attack-in-rice-row/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 1,000 workers held a demonstration in front of Ocean Garment factory in the capital yesterday, burning tyres and blocking the road in protest against the management’s refusal to abide by a ruling that workers be paid in full for a one-month closure. On May <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-wage-rallies-heat-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in PursAt’s KrAkor district yesterdAy ordered A cAssAvA compAny to stop cleAring lAnd on which more thAn 60 fAmilies clAim they hAve plAnted rice And other crops since 1997, villAgers And A compAny officiAl sAid. Following protests in Anlong Tnort commune on TuesdAy, villAger Lim <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/firm-ordered-to-stop-cleAring-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Every day, five people die in traffic accidents in Cambodia &ndash; a number the government is hoping to reduce with a new policy aimed at cutting traffic accidents by 50 per cent in 2020. The National Policy on Road Safety, passed by the Council of Ministers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plan-aims-to-cut-road-deaths/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A spirited debAte on humAn rights in CAmbodiA wAs heArd in the AustrAliAn pArliAment this week After An opposition LAbor PArty MP introduced A motion cAlling on the government to condemn stAte violence AgAinst striking gArment workers And Ask Authorities to releAse detAined protesters. ClAre O’Neil, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-hAs-floor-in-oz-pArliAment-debAte/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 200 Cambodian garment workers have been hospitalized after episodes of mass fainting at three factories this week, highlighting problems within an industry that is critical to the kingdom’s fledgling economy. The plants all make clothes for brands such as sportswear giants Puma SE and adidas. Both <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mass-faintings-in-cambodia-sicken-over-200-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In the latest case involving illegal logging in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom district, two indigenous communities filed a lawsuit against three unidentified illegal loggers after confiscating a truck laden with luxury wood on Saturday, a rights monitor and villagers said yesterday. about 50 villagers turned over the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-nab-logging-truck/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seven people from the capital’s Borei Keila community allegedly injured by baton-wielding security forces last month, a pregnant woman among them, filed a lawsuit against Prampi Makara district authorities yesterday. The seven were among a group of dozens of families violently removed from a building on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/borei-keila-suit-filed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leaders yesterday announced plans to hold a thousands-strong “people’s congress” in the capital’s Freedom Park on Sunday, despite a ban on gatherings at the site. Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy and vice-president Kem Sokha, following their return from overseas trips to australia, New <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/peoples-congress-to-test-ban/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A steep decline in the number of red-heAded crAnes, Also known As SArus crAnes, hAs been recorded since eArly this yeAr in southern Kien GiAng province, the bird’s usuAl hot spot, compAred to A shArp rise in A CAmbodiAn sAnctuAry. MeAnwhile, hundreds of them hAve <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/red-heAded-crAnes-leAve-south-vn-province-for-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s brother Hun Neng and a Vietnamese state-owned rubber firm are involved in an illegal logging cartel involving several well-connected companies operating on a “massive scale” in the embattled Prey Lang forest, forest monitors working in the area allege. Video footage and photographs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/big-logging-cartel-alleged/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One the eve of the trial of 23 people arrested during a garment strike in January, their supporters yesterday expressed concern that politics, rather than the facts, may determine the verdict. Nearly four months after their arrests at protests on January 2 and 3 &ndash; the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/concerns-ahead-of-trial-for-23/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) says its Ibis Rice project has recorded a production surplus for the first time in its five-year history, prompting a bid to export the boutique product overseas. Concentrated in Preah Vihear province, Ibis Rice farmers produced more than 435 tonnes of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ibis-rice-exports-on-horizon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>