Hundreds of villagers living on Siem Reap’s historic Phnom Kulen are reeling after the government announced they would be relocated as part of a scheme to secure a UNESCO World Heritage Listing for the site. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unesco-push-will-clear-villagers-off-of-kulen-mountain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia rice exports saw a small rebound in October, notching up 12 per cent as compared to a year earlier, as harvests from the delayed rainy-season planting began to reach the nation’s rice mills. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mills-busy-as-new-rice-crop-rolls-in/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Residents living next to a sewage canal in Chomchao commune are concerned about their safety after the walls containing the canal and the ground around it began to collapse when contractors began work on a nearby construction site. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/residents-angry-over-canal-wall-collapse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nagacorp Ltd, the parent company of NagaWorld, Cambodia’s biggest casino, is expected to bid on a licence to operate the first casino resort in Cyprus, according to a media report from the Mediterranean island. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nagacorp-could-bid-on-cyprus-casino-licence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia attracted the fixed asset investment of 319.4 million U.S. dollars from its aSEaN member states in 2015, up 56 percent from a year earlier, according to a government report on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-gets-about-320-mln-usd-investment-from-asean-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With global oil prices down and a devalued United States dollar, the price of gold has remained stable and has risen slightly while trade at gold shops has been steady, a gold shop owner said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gold-riel-not-affected-by-dollar-fluctuations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers in Mondulkiri province are protesting the construction of a Ministry of Mines vocational training centre on a piece of land they say is sacred with cultural significance to people across the province.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sacred-site-threatened-by-construction-in-mondulkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AustrAliAn AmbAssAdor AngelA CorcorAn And CAmbodiAn Foreign AffAirs Minister PrAk Sokhonn reAffirmed their two countries’ commitment to A controversiAl And unpopulAr refugee resettlement deAl they struck in 2014, A spokesmAn for the minister sAid on ThursdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/refugee-deAl-Alive-And-well-ministry-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A future CNRP government would fAce A powerful bAcklAsh if it Attempted to replAce CPP loyAlists Pol SAroeun And Neth SAvoeun As the commAnders of the militAry And nAtionAl police, Prime Minister Hun Sen wArned MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hun-sen-wArns-opposition-of-bAcklAsh-by-Armed-forces/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The government has agreed to delay the passage of a controversial law governing the trade union sector, announcing it would set up a national workshop to work out the legislation’s thornier clauses on December 15. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-law-delayed-after-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia scored very poorly on a perceived corruption index, put out each year by Transparency International, but a government spokesman says the report doesn’t reflect the “effort” the government has put into combating the practice. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-dispute-transparency-internationals-corruption-index/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new five-yeAr plAn is being drAfted to woo more Chinese tourists to the Kingdom, following A surge in visitors from the world’s most populous nAtion, Tourism Minister Thong Khon sAid yesterdAy. /Sum MAnet <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-tourism-strAtegy-to-focus-on-chinese-mArket/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Twenty-seven Chinese and Taiwanese nationals were arrested during a raid on a villa in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district on Monday on suspicion of operating an internet-phone scam, officials said.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-taiwanese-arrested-in-internet-phone-fraud-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee yesterday released a monthly meeting schedule with the European and Japanese embassies in a bid to ensure the voter-registration process, due to begin September 1, will go smoothly.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-announces-schedule-for-meetings-with-donors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A cAr filled with A slithering menAgerie of reptiles destined to be sold At mArket in VietnAm wAs seized by CAmbodiA-VietnAm border officiAls in KAndAl province on WednesdAy night, According to Koh Thom district police. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/reptile-cAper-in-the-bAg-for-border-cops/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The National Museum will undergo a massive expansion, but this will not include removing the Royal University of Fine arts which sits behind it, officials at the Ministry of Culture and Fine arts told a public forum yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plan-to-expand-museum-short-on-details/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced two Vietnamese women to five years in prison for attempting to send pseudoephedrine&mdash;a common precursor in the synthesis of methamphetamine&mdash;to australia in a box of bras. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/women-get-five-years-for-smuggling-attempt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh’s lack of a clear master plan for development has hurt its communities and allowed private developers to collude with authorities to push out poorer residents, speakers at a land rights conference said yesterday.  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poor-lack-voice-amid-urban-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The CPP appears set to pass a controversial trade union law next month despite conceding it is “not 100 percent perfect” and failing to address a litany of objections from unions, employers and the opposition party. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/contested-trade-union-law-slated-for-vote-in-assembly-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

European Gaming machine supplier and casino operator Entertainment Gaming asia Inc reported consolidated revenues of $7.3 million in 4Q15, a decrease of 12 per cent compared to the same period a year earlier. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-slots-help-offset-egas-losses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>