China’s Henan Provincial Communications Planning Survey and Design Institute (HPCPSDI) signed a contract with Cambodia’s Transport Ministry on Tuesday to draw up a road network master plan for Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/henan-to-draw-up-road-network-master-plan-for-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign AffAirs Minister Hor NAmhong on ThursdAy requested thAt ChinA construct its plAnned regionAl wAter resources institute in CAmbodiA, during A meeting with ChinA’s speciAl rApporteur in chArge of AsiA AffAirs, A spokesmAn sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hor-nAmhong-wAnts-wAter-institute-built-locAlly/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Land concessions for large-scale agricultural plantations are stripping off Cambodia’s forest cover, according to a new report by Forest Trends, a U.S.-based environmental protection group.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-concessions-responsible-for-large-scale-deforestation-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three people in Oddar Meanchey province will be questioned today over the alleged premeditated murder of a “gentle” 60-year-old woman accused by a local family of practising sorcery, police said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sorcerer-slaying-examined/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced the owner of a massage parlor to five years in prison for prostituting a 16-year-old girl and four women at his establishment earlier this year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/massage-parlor-owner-gets-5-years-for-prostituting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Anti-humAn trAfficking police Arrested A mAn And A womAn At Phnom Penh InternAtionAl Airport on TuesdAy night, As they Attempted to send two CAmbodiAn women to be sold As brides in ChinA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinA-brides-rescued-Alleged-brokers-busted/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Deutsche Bank and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) have poured millions of dollars into Vietnamese rubber companies operating in Cambodia that have engaged in illegal logging and forced evictions of local farmers, the environmental rights group Global Witness says in a new report <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deutsche-bank-ifc-rubber-investments-questioned/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged four female Boeng Kak lake residents with insulting police and obstructing public officials during a protest that turned violent on Monday. Earlier in the day, dozens of residents were blocked by riot police from leaving the lake area, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-protesters-charged-as-lake-clashes-persist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Water Supply authority (PPWSa) will become the first publicly traded company on the Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) when trading begins on april 18, Ming Bankosal the general director of the Securities and Exchanges Commission of Cambodia said yesterday. “We are planning on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stock-trading-to-start-next-month-with-water-authority-ipo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The court prosecutor investigating last month’s shooting of three female factory workers at a special economic zone (SEZ) denied a newspaper report claiming the chief suspect, former Bavet City Governor Chhouk Bundith, had confessed to shooting the women. Svay Rieng Provincial Court prosecutor Hing Bunchea said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governor-drew-gun-not-blood-prosecutor-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in Kompong Thom province yesterdAy forced A pAgodA to withdrAw its invitAtion to host A workshop About forest protection, continuing their pressure on two NGOs thAt provide community legAl educAtion in the province, A monk And NGO worker sAid. Chin Neth, chief monk At <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/k-thom-Authorities-prevent-ngo-workshop/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Monday’s shooting of protesting factory workers by security guards at a Svay Rieng special economic zone could damage Cambodia’s international reputation and potentially impact the country’s bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday Speaking at the opening <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shootings-may-impact-security-council-bid-minister-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Monday’s shooting of protesting factory workers by security guards at a Svay Rieng special economic zone could damage Cambodia’s international reputation and potentially impact the country’s bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, Interior Minister Sar Kheng said yesterday. Speaking at the opening <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shootings-may-impact-security-council-bid-minister-says-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AustrAliAn FederAl Police (AFP) hAve decided not to investigAte the AustrAliAn mining compAny OZ MinerAls, sAying informAtion thAt the firm pAid hundreds of thousAnds of dollArs to fAmily members of officiAls in the Ministry of Industry, Mines And Energy (Mime) when buying out its <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/no-investigAtion-of-oz-minerAls-deAl-police-sAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A government committee yesterdAy Approved A drAft sub-decree Aimed At protecting the endAngered Mekong River dolphin And will send it to the Council of Ministers within A few weeks. Among the provisions contAined in the sub-decree is the creAtion of A 180-km-long conservAtion AreA stretching <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/river-dolphin-conservAtion-gets-go-AheAd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

For the second time in a month, Forestry administration officials in Kratie province’s Snuol district have found hundreds of cubic meters of first-grade wood that had been smuggled to a site near the tributary of the Prek Pao river, officials said yesterday. as in previous wood <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-again-seize-timber-in-kratie-without-any-arrests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Chinese and South Korean governments have been granted permission to build 565 km of new railroad in Cambodia and have already conducted feasibility studies, according to a government report released yesterday. In its annual report, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said that plans <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-reveals-chinese-korean-railway-plans/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s garment sector yesterday looked more like a teacher to regional economies such as Myanmar than a student of China and other export juggernauts. With more than 500 garment and shoe factories &ndash; adding a new one every 10 days, according to the Garment Manufacturers association <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-gives-region-export-advice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh’s public housing policy, aimed to provide affordable housing for the middle income class and low income class, is expected to boost the construction sector in Cambodia as an increased population and rapid urbanisation is expected to create a demand of more than a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governments-plan-to-develop-public-housing-takes-on-shape/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The United States and Cambodia have agreed to begin discussions on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) in a bid to spur trade and investment between the two countries, officials said on Friday following the end of the aSEaN-US Business Summit in Siem Reap. “a bilateral investment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investment-treaty-with-us-discussed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>