The opposition is expected today to lodge a constitutional challenge to the controversial law on associations and non-governmental organisations (LaNGO) in a last-ditch effort to stop the legislation before it’s signed by the King. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-to-submit-complaint-over-lango/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has opened an investigation into the alleged rape of a high-school student by a district police chief and summoned the 19-year-old to appear for questioning over the case, officials said Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kompong-chhnang-court-investigates-police-chief-over-rape-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 40 Capitol Tours bus drivers who were ordered by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday to end a nearly two-weeklong strike are refusing to sign a company letter agreeing to new employment conditions. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capitol-bus-drivers-reject-employment-letters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of Phnom Penh trAffic police hAve filed A dAmning complAint to Anti-Corruption Unit President Om Yentieng, Accusing their bosses of skimming their pAy, promoting friends And relAtives, And striking deAls with privAte trAnsport compAnies. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/trAffic-police-Accuse-top-officiAls-of-grAft/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A prosecutor At the triAl of opposition Activist Ouk Pich SAmnAng yesterdAy Asked the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court to drop chArges of joining A criminAl AssociAtion And dAmAging public property but keep those of obstructing Authorities And intentionAl violence. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/in-court-lAwyers-spAr-over-Activists-Actions-At-protest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam are conducting ongoing discussions on the creation of a Southern Tourism Corridor, which would promote tour packages across the southern provinces of the three countries, giving a boost to tourism across the region. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-works-with-neighbours-on-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A police officer wAs killed And Another injured on WednesdAy night when An old rocket from A 60-mm rocket lAuncher exploded while they were on pAtrol Along OddAr MeAnchey province’s border with ThAilAnd, According to locAl officiAls. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/one-border-police-officer-killed-one-bAdly-injured-by-old-rocket/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The National Election Committee will begin a voter registration pilot project in 43 villages in November, using a new computer system to store data as the country heads toward local elections in 2017. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nec-too-test-computerized-voter-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AsiAn DisAster PrepAredness Center, USAID And A rAnge of pArticipAting orgAnizAtions hAve lAunched A five-yeAr initiAtive they hope will trAnsform the wAy in which the government, orgAnizAtions, universities And citizens use dAtA for reseArch And decision-mAking. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mekong-region-gets-sAtellite-dAtA-boost/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A UkrAiniAn lAwmAker Accused of rAping A minor in Phnom Penh in 2011 hAd escAped the country before the courts could cAtch up with him, the heAd of the Interior Ministry’s Anti-humAn trAfficking depArtment sAid TuesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/officiAls-in-the-dArk-About-ukrAiniAn-politiciAns-rApe-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After the gArment industry, CAmbodiA’s Rice Milling efforts hAve been seen As ripe for consolidAtion. Discussion hAs focused on whAt model to Adopt. Industry members hAve tAken vArying stAnces, As hAve members of the government more <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rice-milling/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s tourism industry is projected to rebound in 2022 after a two-year significant fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a tourism official said on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-tourism-to-recover-after-2-years-of-slump/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Chinese-Aided school building wAs inAugurAted on SAturdAy in A remote AreA here in northwest CAmbodiA, giving hopes for better educAtion to children in this rurAl AreA, officiAls sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-Aided-school-building-inAugurAted-in-nw-cAmbodiAs-remote-AreA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The cost of logistics in Cambodia is partially to blame for being a drag on the country’s ability to compete with neighboring supply chains, a World Bank Group report found. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-report-calls-for-transportation-infrastructure-improvements-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Koh Thom district, Kandal province &ndash; On a quiet stretch of road in this sleepy border town, there are some telltale signs of an unusual trade: a trail of discarded dead rats, some upturned with their paws stiff in the air, others covered with a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rats-good-business-for-cambodians-food-for-vietnamese/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than four years after the violent forced eviction of about 800 families from Dey Krahorm in the capital’s high-rent Tonle Bassac commune, small-scale construction is finally beginning on the site. In the past month, the skeletons of a future barbecue restaurant and a beer garden <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-begins-at-bloody-eviction-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The British former Chairman of a troubled biofuel firm, who is in Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prision on forgery charges, has claimed he is the victim in the case for which he is awaiting trial. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh on March 23rd and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/detained-british-biofuels-charmin-proclaims-his-innocence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Grounded Tonlesap airlines has changed its name to Wat Phnom airlines, an official with Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil aviation said yesterday, about two months after the local chartered carrier suspended all of its flights. Wat Phnom airlines is now in the process of applying for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-name-same-airline/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

“I don’t know how to protect the territorial integrity [of the nearby Cambodian-Thai border] &ndash; even my three hectares of land I cannot protect,” said Bun Chanthorn, 54, one of hundreds of retired and active soldiers who since 2010 have been battling the local authorities <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/old-soldiers-wont-fade-away/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AustrAliAn FederAl Police (AFP) sAid MondAy they hAve tAken the necessAry steps to investigAte clAims thAt the world’s lArgest mining compAny, BHP Billiton, bribed officiAls in CAmbodiA And plAyed down reports thAt it hAd mishAndled one the country’s lArgest cAses in corporAte corruption. “The <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AustrAliAn-police-continue-bhp-bribery-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>