The number of Cambodia’s outbound travelers increased by 10 percent year-on-year to 871,000 last year, a report of the Ministry of Tourism showed Tuesday. ang Kim Eang, president of Cambodia association of Travel agents, which represents about 220 tour and travel companies, said most of Cambodian <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/about-871000-cambodians-travel-abroad-in-2013-up-10-pct/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh will host one of AsiA’s biggest technology conferences lAter this month. FossAsiA, A conference on open source And free softwAre, will be held in the cApitAl Feb. 28 to MArch 2&mdAsh;A free event open to students, developers And entrepreneurs. Technologies discussed At the conference will <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-to-host-open-source-tech-conference/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

NagaCorp recently announced it would invest $369 million in its latest project opposite the Buddhist Institute. The Hong Kong-listed casino operator’s latest Phnom Penh venture, Naga2,will include a casino, a hotel and a conference hall. The announcement of the investment by NagaCorp, Cambodia’s biggest casino operator, was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/letting-it-ride-nagacorp-lifts-lid-on-large-scale-expansion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vattanac Capital Tower, a long-anticipated gleaming tower that dominates the city’s skyline from Monivong Boulevard, continues to attract tenants to its commercial office space. The most recent tenants to occupy the building are Qatar airways and investment company One asia Capital, with Qatar occupying 180 square <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tenants-begin-occupation-of-phnom-penhs-tower-of-glass/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials from the Ministry of agriculture have called on farmers to cease using chemical pesticides and adopt environmentally friendly methods in an effort to increase yields and reduce damage to produce. at an agriculture workshop on biological control agents hosted yesterday by the Ministry of agriculture, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-urged-to-go-green/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A British conservAtion group sAys its hidden cAmerAs hAve tAken photos of A wild cAttle species in An AreA in Siem ReAp province where it wAs previously thought to be extinct. In A stAtement releAsed WednesdAy, FAunA And FlorA InternAtionAl sAid the cAmerAs recorded six individuAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/endAngered-wild-cAttle-discovered-in-northwest-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The minister of mines and energy on Monday said a new private-public working group will study the impacts of a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong opposed by hundreds of resident ethnic minority families and find them an adequate resettlement site. a Cambodian consultancy, SBK Research <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-pushes-ahead-with-study-of-koh-kong-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A bloody slingshot bAttle broke out in Kompong Speu province yesterdAy when villAgers who hAve sold their lAnd to A privAte compAny defended the firm’s mAchinery As it Attempted to bulldoze the homes of neighbors who hAve refused to sell. The dispute, in Thpong district’s YA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-shoot-slingshots-in-lAnd-dispute-bAttle/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

When Men Chan started out as a cyclo driver in Phnom Penh in 1966, his services were in demand and his salary was modest but adequate. Now&mdash;like most of his colleagues across the city&mdash;the 71-year-old is struggling to make ends meet as his income stagnates and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cyclo-drivers-struggle-as-demand-dwindles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 30 residents of A plAnned community on the eAstern outskirts of Phnom Penh gAthered Around the picturesque lAke thAt forms the center of their neighborhood MondAy to prevent its developer, A former opposition lAwmAker, from reclAiming the lAnd to construct condos. The residents, mAny of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/weAlthy-residents-protest-lAke-reclAmAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nine environmental activists on trial for the destruction of private property in Kompong Thom province denied allegations in court Monday that they ravaged a local farmer’s cassava field in 2011. The nine members of the Prey Long People’s Network, a group of activists dedicated to protecting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-deny-property-damage-charge-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A locAl journAlist wAs beAten to deAth in KAmpong ChhnAng province’s Cholkiri district on SAturdAy night in An AttAck thAt Authorities believe mAy hAve been relAted to his reporting on illegAl fishing, police sAid yesterdAy. District police officer Tith Reth sAid thAt Suon ChAn, 44, A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/journAlist-beAten-to-deAth-in-k-chhnAng/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who became first prime minister of Cambodia after the 1993 U.N.-sponsored elections, will form a new party and re-enter the political arena, according to his cabinet chief. “The prince has a plan to create a new party,” said Naranarith anandayath, chief of Prince <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ranariddh-to-re-enter-politics-with-new-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia rejected a report of the US State Department, which attacked the government of Prime Minister Hen Sen for widespread abuse against human rights. The 31-page report highlighted a flawed and poorly managed electoral process in July’s general election process. The report raised a number of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-rejects-us-report-on-human-rights-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following a scathing report from its internal watchdog about the resettlement of thousands of Cambodian families affected by a national railway rehabilitation project that it is funding, the asian Development Bank has agreed with the government on an action plan for further compensation, it said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/compensation-plan-agreed-to-says-adb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly two years have passed since Cambodia’s leading forestry activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in the Cardamom Mountains. after a long wait, more than 100 activists, supporters and monks will finally make the pilgrimage on Saturday to the spot where he was killed to pay <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/to-honour-chut-wutty/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An unsettled, decAdes-old $1.5 billion loAn from the then-Soviet Union to CAmbodiA’s VietnAm-bAcked 1980s government emerged As the key tAlking point during A meeting between Foreign Minister Hor NAmhong And RussiA’s new AmbAssAdor to CAmbodiA yesterdAy, A ministry spokesmAn sAid. The meeting between NAmhong And RussiAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/russiAn-debt-emerges-As-billion-dollAr-question/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

With the help of a Federation of Canadian Municipalities partnership with the County of Kings, Battambang has won a clean city award from the Government of Cambodia. Battambang was ranked number-one in this year’s Clean City award Competition. Federation of Canadian Municipalities program manager Pascal Lavoie <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/battambang-wins-clean-city-award-with-help-from-county-of-kings-fcm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 60 residents from Phnom Penh And the provinces of BAttAmbAng, BAnteAy MeAnchey And PreAh SihAnouk who lost lAnd or Are in dAnger of losing lAnd due to A rAilroAd development project funded by the AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) protested outside its offices ThursdAy morning <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Adb-protest-lAnds-meeting-few-results/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Interior Ministry police arrested a former Phnom Penh deputy governor and municipal councilor on Thursday for questioning over allegations of land fraud, but released him the next day, police said Sunday. Chea Sothon, who served as a councilor from 2009 until earlier this year and was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-councilor-arrested-for-alleged-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>