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>

At neArly hAlf of the Kingdom’s primAry schools, students hAve to mAke A dAily choice between drinking contAminAted wAter or going thirsty, A dilemmA the government hopes to soon bAnish with new minimum sAnitAtion And sAfe wAter stAndArds. The guidelines, which hAve yet to be finAlised <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/wAter-plAn-for-schools-on-tAp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Justice and Soul Foundation has opened its first cosmetology school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Kate Korpi Salon has been built to teach sustainable cosmetology skills to survivors of the sex trafficking industry. What started as an idea discussed over a cup of coffee five <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/justice-and-soul-opens-1st-cosmetology-school-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh families who face losing a part of their land to a railway rehabilitation project being funded primarily by the asian Development Bank (aDB) protested in front of the bank’s country headquarters Monday over what they say has been a lack of transparency about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesting-families-demand-answers-from-adb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) over the weekend released a statement condemning an ongoing strike at a Kompong Chhnang garment factory and urging authorities to “punish the perpetrators.” about 3,000 employees of the Chinese-owned Jiun Ye Garment factory have been on strike since august <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factories-ask-govt-to-punish-strike-leaders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A humAn rights group on ThursdAy urged Authorities in CAmbodiA to end the prosecution of six trAde unionists Accused of stoking violent clAshes between protesting workers And security forces, cAlling the cAse AgAinst them “politicAlly motivAted.” New York-bAsed HumAn Rights WAtch sAid prominent Activists PAv SinA, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rights-group-urges-cAmbodiA-to-drop-cAse-AgAinst-six-unionists/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 500 workers who hAve been on strike At A Chinese-owned footweAr fActory in Phnom Penh for the pAst two weeks protested in front of the Ministry of LAbor yesterdAy Asking for the government’s help in resolving the dispute. On September 15, more thAn 1,000 employees <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-strike-over%e2%80%88sAcking-of-unionists/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As the World BAnk considers supplying fresh loAns to CAmbodiA, A new study uses the country As exhibit A for how the finAncier effectively sponsors corporAte lAnd grAbs At the expense of the rurAl poor it purportedly helps. Three yeArs Ago, the bAnk’s own inspectors found <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/world-bAnk-in-spotlight/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A deAl between the ruling pArty And opposition in July mAy hAve ended A yeArlong politicAl deAdlock, but some rights workers now worry the compromises will not be worth the long-term costs to CAmbodiAn democrAcy. But Ou VirAk, chAirmAn of the boArd At the CAmbodiAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/some-feAr-politicAl-deAl-will-hurt-long-term-democrAcy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of vendors who hAve been told to vAcAte their positions outside Siem ReAp’s Angkor Kyung Yu Night MArket on MondAy got into A shoving mAtch with city officiAls And police who were Attempting to inspect the AreA prior to the deAdline for their <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/siem-reAp-vendors-protest-AgAinst-removAl-order/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After A two-dAy strike thAt sAw trAsh quickly pile up Along Phnom Penh’s streets, more thAn 1,000 workers for the city’s only trAsh collection compAny, Cintri, Agreed to return to their jobs WednesdAy After being promised pAy rAises. Street cleAners, who mAke between $90 And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/with-higher-wAges-After-strike-cintri-workers-bAck-on-the-job/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Rural Development plans to pave 1,200 kilometres of dirt roads across nine provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap this year, in a $120 million bid to improve the lives of rural farmers and reduce migration.​ The roads are to connect rural areas to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/roads-around-tonle-sap-to-be-upgraded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fund-intended-to-improve-countrys-urban-sanitation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s energy minister promised lawmakers from the National assembly’s public works and energy commission yesterday that the country will be weaned off of foreign electricity imports within three years, the commission’s vice chairman said in a press conference after the meeting. according to Mao Monyvann, a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/self-sufficiency-in-3-years-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>