Plans for a light railway system in Phnom Penh were discussed at a meeting between Public Works and Transportation Minister Sun Chanthol and Japanese International Cooperation agency (JICa) regional director-general Yasushi Tanaka on Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/light-railway-raised-yet-again-at-jica-meet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh is studying the prospect of a toll highway to run from the capital to Phnom Penh International airport, a dangerous stretch of road that kills many people each year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-mulling-new-highway-to-airport/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported 369,105 tonnes of milled rice in the first nine months of 2015 &mdash; a 37 percent rise over the same period last year, according to a report on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-37-percent-surge-in-rice-export/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Benny Widyono, a former UN official in Cambodia during its transition period in the 1990s, says the country’s mass killings were in part a result of the Cold War. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/professor-puts-khmer-rouge-in-context-of-the-cold-war/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fear of government interference, legal repercussions and violence remain impediments to free and independent journalism in Cambodia, according to a survey released on Wednesday in a report by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fear-hinders-independent-journalism-in-cambodia-survey-finds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A member of the Prey LAng Community Network (PLCN) in KrAtie province wAs seriously injured After she wAs AttAcked by An unknown AssAilAnt while sleeping in A hAmmock on SundAy night neAr Boeung ChA villAge. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AttAck-on-prey-lAng-defender-highlights-logger-brutAlity/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Building the capacity for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) is vital to attracting investors from the EU, where there is a strong appetite for putting money into Cambodia, a senior government official said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stronger-smes-needed-to-draw-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has given final approval for a planned $3 billion, 133-story twin-tower skyscraper that developers claim will be completed by 2018, a spokesman for the Ministry of Land Management said on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-approves-133-story-skyscraper/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Human rights activist Ny Chakrya has received a subpoena to give evidence at Phnom Penh Municipal Court in the latest development in a defamation case against him that has been heavily criticised by international observers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/subpoena-calls-adhoc-activist-for-questioning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The “culture of dialogue” between Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy will be over unless Mr. Rainsy issues a public apology for describing the premier as a fascist, CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-must-apologize-to-hun-sen-cpp-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Sunday that civil servants and members of the armed forces will receive a minimum monthly salary of about $250 by 2018, the next year a national election is scheduled to be held. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-pledges-250-civil-servant-salary-by-2018/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Employers in the Kingdom need to draw up more contracts with their young workers to keep them from being exploited and left in the dark in case of a dispute, a youth NGO urged yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dearth-of-job-security-for-young-workers-org/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The new duty-free shop opened by China Duty Free Group (CDFG) in Sihanoukville will have a major impact on development of the tourism industry in the coastal resort, a senior provincial official said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/duty-free-shop-follows-tourism-surge-on-coast/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Interior Ministry has asked Interpol to help arrest a “Cambodian living abroad” it believes is responsible for doctoring and circulating an image of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s wife, according to a ministry spokesman. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-seeks-to-arrest-photoshopper-abroad/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights released a public notice on Monday noting a “substantial increase” in the number of people being charged for making anti-government or anti-Hun Sen comments in social media. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-notes-uptick-in-govt-threats-against-online-posters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police who shut down a gathering of 30 people in a private home in Prey Veng province yesterday justified the action by saying the organisers had failed to notify the district governor in writing beforehand. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-put-an-end-to-gathering-of-farmers-in-prey-veng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Health (MoH) intends to discuss with Dr. Beat Richner the possibility of organizing a test for doctors in private clinics throughout the Kingdom about their professional knowledge, a spokesman confirmed yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/testing-doctors-possible-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has sent Hanoi a formal letter to complain about an outpost it claims Vietnam is building along a disputed stretch of border where both governments have supposedly agreed to refrain from any development. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/%e1%9e%81%e1%9f%92%e1%9e%98%e1%9f%82%e1%9e%9a-cambodia-lodges-complaint-over-vietnam-border-outpost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The son-in-law of Senator Kok an has rejected accusations the tycoon is attempting to grab six hectares of land from a plot he sold to a South Korean development company 10 years ago. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senators-son-in-law-rejects-land-grab-claim/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A doctor is on the run following the deAth of A young womAn in Kompong Thom province, who died on FridAy After receiving An injection from the doctor At An unlicensed clinic, police sAid SundAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/unlicensed-doctor-flees-After-pAtient-dies-in-kompong-thom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>