A project in Stung Treng province is giving women the opportunity to pArticipAte in one of the fAstest-growing food-production sectors in CAmbodiA: AquAculture fisheries &ndAsh; A field thAt hAs Also trAditionAlly been Among its most mAle-dominAted. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AquAculture-pushed-for-women/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Several civil society groups yesterday issued a joint statement urging members of parliament to review the national budget which is set to allocate close to 35 percent of national spending solely to the Defense Ministry and a contingency reserve. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-societies-urge-budget-review/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mysterious cluster of crude oil storAge tAnks recently constructed on the coAst neAr KAmpot Are linked to A $400 million project by timber bAron Try PheAp to build An industriAl pArk And oil refinery, government officiAls confirmed yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/plAns-spilt-for-oil-refinery/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

At A press conference yesterdAy, NEC member And spokesmAn HAng PutheA sAid thAt in the process of posting the voter list to the website, the committee encountered two mAjor problems &ndAsh; A slow Access speed And An invAsion by hAckers. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hAckers-tArget-voter-website/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Locals in Siem Reap province’s Kralanh district and Banteay Meanchey’s Preah Netr Preah district yesterday alleged that a sand-dredging company is polluting a river that straddles the two districts and stoking fears of bank collapse. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/neighbouring-villages-share-dredging-worries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is expecting a shipment of military vehicles donated by South Korea, according to a sub-decree. The Ministry of Finance in December released about $1 million to the Defence Ministry to cover the equipment’s transportation, it says.​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rcaf-gets-korean-gear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government officials are working to settle compensation claims for 50 families living alongside a kilometer of rail track in Poipet town, to allow a rail link between Cambodia and Thailand to open by the middle of the year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-rail-link-held-up-by-compensation-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials are still investigating an arson attack on a Mondolkiri province community forestry monitoring office by dozens of masked farmers on Friday, in what they suspect was retaliation for preventing the farmers from growing cassava in a protected area. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/masked-farmers-raid-burn-down-community-forestry-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Ratanakkiri province Thursday’stopped a bus and arrested two Vietnamese men&mdash;the driver and a bus company employee&mdash;who were attempting to transport about 300 kg of luxury-grade timber across the border to Vietnam, officials said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-arrested-with-luxury-grade-wood-on-bus/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japan-based company Metawater will provide its power-saving inverter technology to a water treatment plant in Cambodia’s capital through an arrangement that will help the Japanese government earn carbon reduction credits, according to a Nikkei asian Review report. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/water-plant-gets-efficiency-boost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s capital market regulator will meet soon to discuss a proposal to permit market orders for trading stocks on the Kingdom’s bourse, a move that would give investors more flexibility when buying or selling shares, officials have said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flexibility-measures-weighed-for-csx/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Angry residents in KrAtie town’s KrAkor commune yesterdAy protested AgAinst A sAnd-mining compAny they Accuse of dAmAging A locAl roAd. The protesters used their vehicles to block the compAny’s trucks from driving on the roAd. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/krAtie-locAls-block-sAnd-mining-trucks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) organised a consultation workshop yesterday to gather information and comments from agriculture sector stakeholders to assist in the preparation of a 2018 national budget that would better support to the sector. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mef-holds-agricultural-workshop/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The first mobile app offering a comprehensive and interactive history of the Khmer Rouge, created in the hopes of ending a “collective denial” about some of the atrocities committed by the Pol Pot regime, went live on Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/first-khmer-rouge-history-mobile-app-released-on-android/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Activists rejected An Apology on MondAy from A prominent television news host for remArks he mAde thAt A rApist And murderer should hAve kept his victim Alive to “keep her for using AgAin,” sAying he wAs not genuinely sorry. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activists-reject-tv-bosss-Apology-for-rApe-remArk/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia has yet to export mangoes to South Korea despite signing a memorandum of understanding in 2015 with the East asian country’s animal and Plant Quarantine agency, according to a senior official in the Ministry of agriculture. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/still-no-mango-exports-to-south-korea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Since the widely condemned arrest of opposition leader Kem Sokha on “treason” charges this month, at least a dozen Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers have left the country, though a senior party official yesterday insisted they would “return soon”. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-brass-leave-cambodia-but-back-soon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

DNC AsiAtic Holdings Sdn Bhd, A MAlAysiAn mAnufActurer of motorcycles, will ship 25,000 units of its DemAk model to the kingdom this yeAr, in A deAl worth $56 million thAt is pArt of its overseAs expAnsion strAtegy.​​​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAlAysiAn-motorcycle-mAker-breAks-into-cAmbodiAn-mArket/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A RoyAl CAmbodiAn Armed Forces member, bAcked up by seven of his fellow soldiers, Allegedly AttAcked A community forest pAtroller And threAtened to set him And his fAmily on fire for confiscAting illegAl timber, According to the pAtroller. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/soldiers-AttAck-pAtrollers-for-confiscAting-timber/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A deAdline for An eArn-in Agreement involving AustrAliAn-listed MedusA Mining And SeA Resources to explore the Prek KAmpi region of KrAtie province pAssed on ThursdAy with no deAl being reAched, According to A UK-bAsed news website. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/window-closes-for-deAl-on-mine-project-in-krAtie/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>