More than 200 families filed a complaint with the Preah Vihear provincial court yesterday against two employees of logging tycoon Try Pheap who allegedly cleared 15 hectares of community forest late last year before being stopped by villagers. Huon Kino, 39, a representative of the 203 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/try-pheap-loggers-sued/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Friday that the country’s main opposition party should join the National assembly if it really wants to debate on an electoral reform or a re-election. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), led by longtime opposition <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-deputy-pm-urges-opposition-to-join-parliament/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives of more than 250 ethnic Lao families in Stung Treng province, near the border with Laos, met under a mango tree Monday and decided to reject a compensation package offered by the developer of the Lower Sesan II dam. In January, the government approved a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-demand-more-dam-compensation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on WednesdAy posted to its website A four-pAge document giving Public Works And TrAnsport Minister TrAm Iv Tek’s response to complAints of corruption within his ministry, including thAt the minister hAd AwArded himself exorbitAnt bonuses. The ACU sAid in the document thAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAnsport-minister-defends-self-grAnted-bonuses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Gender studies will be incorporated into the curriculum at Cambodia’s largest university in an effort to shape the country’s top students’ views on the role of women in society, educators and experts said on Wednesday at a workshop on the course. a pilot program will begin <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gender-course-to-be-piloted-at-royal-university/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of unions in the U.K. is urging its government to mAke sure British brAnds sourcing clothes from CAmbodiAn fActories respect their workers’ rights, And to Ask the EuropeAn Union to negotiAte A deAl with the CAmbodiAn government to improve fActory conditions. In A July <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/uk-urged-to-help-improve-cAmbodiAs-fActories/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Following a meeting with a visiting U.S. diplomat on Wednesday, Ministry of Foreign affairs Secretary of State Ouch Borith said the U.S. shares Cambodia’s concerns about a controversial hydropower dam Laos is planning to build on the Mekong River. Cambodia and Vietnam both fear that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-us-share-concerns-over-lao-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A proposed project hopes to chAnnel the widespreAd use of mobile phones Among fActory workers to bring the voice of the 600,000 CAmbodiAns employed in the cruciAl gArment sector into future wAge negotiAtions. The project, which would collect informAtion About working hours, conditions, wAges And expenses <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/proposAl-Aims-to-bring-workers-voices-to-negotiAting-tAble/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thai soldiers shot and seriously injured at least four illegal loggers who crossed into Thailand from Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district last week, a rights worker said Sunday. a group of about 10 loggers were searching for luxury rosewood across the border in Thailand’s Sisaket <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/one-missing-four-injured-after-shooting-at-thai-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The tripartite working group set up to negotiate and advise the Ministry of Labour’s Labour advisory Committee (LaC) on next year’s minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment sector has stopped meeting after reaching a stalemate. Made up of 27 members &ndash; nine each from employers, the government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-wage-talks-fall-apart/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The governor of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district said he has asked the Overseas Cambodia Investment Company (OCIC) to compensate the owners of two restaurants that were flooded Wednesday after the firm’s excavator ruptured a nearby levee that had been holding back a pool of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/district-tells-development-firm-to-compensate-flooded-eateries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh municipal government on Monday rejected a request from protesters to stage a one-month demonstration in the city’s Freedom Park for the release of 10 jailed activists and refused to receive their latest petition demanding a solution to their long-running land disputes. about 100 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-turns-away-anti-eviction-protesters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of indigenous families from Ratanakkiri’s andong Meas district have demanded the government cancel the economic land concession of a Vietnamese rubber company that they say is illegally prospecting for gold. about a dozen people representing 384 families handed a petition to CNRP lawmakers yesterday requesting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-want-elc-revoked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Koh Kong Provincial Court has agreed to a request to delay the questioning of an anti-dam activist accused of illegally felling trees to build a community center in the areng Valley. Ven Vorn&mdash;an ethnic Chong who has joined local protests organized by the NGO Mother <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-delays-questioning-of-anti-dam-activist-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Koh Kong Provincial Court has agreed to a request to delay the questioning of an anti-dam activist accused of illegally felling trees to build a community center in the areng Valley. Ven Vorn&mdash;an ethnic Chong who has joined local protests organized by the NGO Mother <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-delays-questioning-of-anti-dam-activist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 500 ethnic minority Khmer Krom monks And Activists on MondAy stAged A fresh protest here to demAnd A VietnAmese diplomAt to recognize the “true history” of the former KAmpucheA Krom provinces. It wAs the third rAlly in the lAst two months After Trung VAn Thong, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/scores-of-ethnic-khmer-krom-hold-fresh-rAlly-AgAinst-vietnAmese-diplomAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of JApAnese experts Arrived in CAmbodiA TuesdAy for A two-dAy visit As A follow-up teAm regArding the needs survey implemented lAst MAy for electorAl reform AssistAnce to CAmbodiA. The teAm wAs led by Mr. TAdAyuki MIYASHITA, Director, Country AssistAnce PlAnning Division I, InternAtionAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jApAnese-follow-up-teAm-Arrives-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian police on Sunday sent a village medical practitioner to court to face the charges of causing mass HIV infections after over 100 people in a remote village were infected with the virus, a local police officer said. “The unlicensed doctor confessed that he had <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-unlicensed-doctor-faces-charges-of-causing-mass-hiv-infections-in-village/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Takeo province are investigating allegations of torture made against a local police officer accused of tying up and beating his niece amid a dispute over the use of the family’s land. Eng Vibol, 37, claims she was badly beaten by her uncle, police captain <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/woman-claims-torture-over-family-homestead/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A three-dAy holidAy in the tourist town of Siem ReAp hAs gArnered millions of dollArs in economic vAlue, officiAls sAid TuesdAy. The Angkor SAnkrAntA, held neAr the fAmed temples of Angkor WAt, celebrAtes the Khmer New YeAr, A lunAr holidAy thAt typicAlly fAlls in April. It <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-yeAr-holidAy-brought-millions-of-dollArs-to-siem-reAp-officiAls-sAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>