Forest patrollers and rights groups are questioning why the Oddar Meanchey Forestry administration has yet to take action after a soldier transporting illegal timber allegedly beat and threatened to kill a patroller last month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/still-no-action-taken-on-threatening-of-forest-patroller/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Boeung Kak activists and family members of jailed protest leader Tep Vanny submitted a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet on Tuesday asking for her release or a reduction in her sentence. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-activists-submit-petition-for-release-of-leader-tep-vanny/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In just over a month since the creation of a special task force to curb illegal fishing on the Tonle Sap lake, the agriculture Ministry says it has already dealt with thousands of offenses. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-of-cases-of-illegal-fishing-found-by-task-force/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Japan International Cooperation agency (JICa) will conduct a feasibility study on building an urban railway in Phnom Penh, with the aim of developing a master plan to reduce traffic congestion in the capital. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jica-study-on-urban-railway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

NagaWorld, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed NagaCorp, recorded a modest four percent increase in gross gaming revenue (GGR) last year, bringing the figure up to $500.8 million.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/modest-growth-for-nagaworld/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization, a conservation organisation in Kampong Speu, pledged yesterday to file a letter of complaint to authorities after learning that 6 hectares of protected forestland were cleared illegally. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-to-file-report-over-clearing-of-forestland/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampong Chhnang provincial authorities on Saturday intercepted and seized a truck loaded with 300 kilograms of live snakes and tortoises, though the wildlife traders managed to escape, a provincial Forestry administration official said yesterday.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/big-wildlife-bust-yields-300-kilos-in-kampong-chhnang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia Royal Gendarmerie and Kratie provincial military police yesterday concluded a crackdown on a known timber smuggling route in Sambour district, confiscating nearly 100 pieces of wood equivalent to about 40 cubic metres. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illegal-timber-loads-seized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Operations against human trafficking networks increased by a whopping 127 percent compared to the same period in 2016, according to a six-month report released yesterday by the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/busts-on-human-trafficking-double/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese officials will begin studying possible routes for a skytrain connecting Central Market to Phnom Penh International airport, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday after securing a loan agreement with Japan last week. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-expert-to-study-possible-airport-skytrain-routes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government announced yesterday that it would “intervene” to support the price that farmers receive for their paddy rice, though without instituting a price floor or direct subsidies that would jeopardise a free market. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-directs-support-to-rice-farmers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Jailed ex-opposition figure Meach Sovannara has written a letter congratulating Prime Minister Hun Sen on his recent wedding anniversary in an apparent bid to secure a reduction in his 20-year prison term. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activist-makes-soft-bid-for-pardon-by-congratulating-hun-sen-on-anniversary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government is forming an interministerial committee to review an application from a Chinese firm to build another hydropower dam in Koh Kong province, according to a spokesman from the Mines and Energy Ministry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prospect-of-another-koh-kong-dam-raised/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three helicopters, eight armoured personnel carriers and other military materials from China arrived in Cambodia yesterday a few days ahead of a military exercise between the Cambodian and Chinese militaries in Kampong Speu province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-choppers-apcs-arrive-for-joint-exercise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With the Kingdom in the middle of a controversial “war on drugs”, six Mekong countries agreed yesterday to adopt a regional drug policy that puts health care first, and mandates police and judicial cooperation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mekong-states-sign-on-to-un-policy-on-drugs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local bars and restaurants have balked at a government directive that bans the sale or consumption of alcohol this weekend in a move ostensibly aimed at preventing civil disorder and unrest during commune elections. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bars-to-resist-two-day-ban-on-alcohol-around-commune-elections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Agriculture Ministry is set to sign A mAngo export investment deAl with A Chinese firm worth up to $50 million, the second such deAl in the country, Agriculture Minister Veng Sokhon sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Agriculture-ministry-to-ink-50-million-mAngo-pAct/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Collective Union of Movement of Workers has sent a letter to the Ministry of Labour seeking intervention over abusive working conditions for staffers at a casino in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-claims-casino-labour-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia attracted some 2.57 million international visitors in the first nine months of this year, a 24% rise compared with the same period last year, a report from the Ministry of Tourism showed on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/over-2-5-million-visitors-to-cambodia-in-the-first-nine-months-of-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh City Hall had signed a contract with the French company Citelum on Monday to broaden and modernise its public lighting system over the course of a 20-year agreement, the French embassy announced yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-signs-city-lights-contract-with-french-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>