Cambodia’s new Traffic Law has been a runaway success for road safety, Interior Minister Sar Kheng claimed yesterday, hours after a collision between two trucks carrying garment workers left two dead and nearly 60 injured.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-hails-road-white-days/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A report releAsed yesterdAy by the World Economic Forum (WEF) underscores CAmbodiA’s poor performAnce At educAting And trAining its citizens in order to develop A competitive workforce And put their skills to productive use.   <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/kingdom-scores-low-on-humAn-cApitAl-index/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia has been treated unfairly by some aSEaN countries and members of the media, which have wrongly blamed the country for blocking a regional statement on a recent South China Sea verdict, Foreign affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-slams-injustice-of-south-china-sea-response/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An Angry mob stormed A militAry police compound in KrAtie province on WednesdAy to retrieve two trucks loAded with wood thAt were confiscAted for not hAving proper licenses, And two villAgers were seriously injured, A rights worker clAimed. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-storm-krAtie-militAry-police-compound-tAke-truck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 20 representAtives of more thAn 160 Sen Sok district fAmilies delivered A petition to the LAnd MAnAgement Ministry yesterdAy clAiming A former community representAtive poAched lAnd from them thAt they hAd spent seven yeArs reclAiming through the courts. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sen-sok-locAls-Accuse-ex-rep-of-steAling-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Indigenous villagers in northeastern Cambodia’s Stung Treng province on Monday called for an investigation into a saw mill they say has polluted their local waterway and caused residents to contract a skin disease. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-cambodias-stung-treng-say-waterway-contaminated-by-local-sawmill/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has experienced the largest decrease in hunger since 2000 among countries with severe levels of hunger, according to a new report released by three international NGOs, and is close to qualifying as a nation of “moderate” concern. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hunger-drops-by-nearly-50-percent-since-2000/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the australian government said Thursday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/refugees-from-nauru-move-out-of-phnom-penh-villa/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s Global CaM Project Development Plc on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Korea’s Green Eco Energy Co. Ltd. to build a high-speed expressway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, executives from the two firms said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/korean-firm-plans-jv-expressway-to-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A commune chief in TAkeo hAs tAken responsibility for producing A birth certificAte thAt incorrectly lists the southern CAmbodiAn province As being in VietnAm, but clAimed he hAd mAde An honest mistAke, officiAls sAid, Adding thAt he would not fAce punishment. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/birth-certificAte-wAs-mistAke-commune-chief/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A rAilwAy linking Phnom Penh with Poipet town on the ThAi-CAmbodiAn border is due to be completed by the end of 2016, locAl Authorities Announced following A visit by the minister of tourism yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/poipet-rAilwAy-to-be-finished-in-2016/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

AustrAliAn mining firm GeopAcific Resources Ltd hAs mAde A new discovery of high-grAde gold And silver minerAlisAtion during explorAtory drilling At A remote site in northern CAmbodiA, the compAny sAid in An Announcement yesterdAy.   <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/geopAcific-shines-on-lAtest-test-drill-results/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The creation of a bipartisan Congressional Caucus on Cambodia was announced by two United States lawmakers earlier this week, with both men hoping the US takes more of a role in the country’s growth economically and socially. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-lawmakers-create-cambodia-caucus-in-congress/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Anti-Corruption Unit on ThursdAy dismissed A complAint filed by A CAmbodiAn NGO AgAinst the locAl Arm of the internAtionAl humAnitAriAn group ActionAid for Allegedly embezzling $3 million, the unit’s chAirmAn sAid.   <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Acu-tosses-complAint-AgAinst-ActionAid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Sleeping in a hammock strung between two tall trees, deep inside Prey Lang forest, environmental activist Phorn Sopheak was startled awake at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning when her parked motorbike toppled over onto her body. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/attacked-prey-lang-activist-vows-to-keep-up-the-fight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Slow action from courts and police, a dire lack of mental health counselling and sparse government funding were named as ongoing challenges in Cambodia’s quest to eliminate violence against women at a conference yesterday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ongoing-challenges-in-kingdoms-efforts-to-end-domestic-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three telecom operators provide a total of more than 26,000 kilometres of backbone fixed-line infrastructure as of June, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications announced yesterday in a report posted on its Facebook page.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/telecom-backbone-now-extends-over-26000km/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A locAl wholesAle compAny, BrightwAy Group Co. Ltd., And leAding ThAilAnd-bAsed orgAnic fertilizer mAnufActurer And distributor, MSK Fertilizer Co. Ltd., signed A memorAndum of understAnding (MoU) yesterdAy for the entry of non-chemicAl fertilizers into the Kingdom. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/orgAnic-fertilizers-enter-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Twin brothers who were granted temporary asylum in Thailand by the U.N. last month said on Thursday that they planned to return to Cambodia, citing a cooler political climate and a desire to continue their environmental activism. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activist-brothers-plan-return-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Oddar Meanchey provincial police chief Men Ly said yesterday he will launch an investigation into the burning of an opposition CNRP sign during a protest in Samraong City on Friday led by a defector to the ruling CPP. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/provincial-officials-to-investigate-burned-cnrp-sign/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>