Five Cambodian workers rescued from slave-like conditions on a fishing vessel at a port in Senegal were repatriated last Thursday. Cambodia has rescued seven labourers from Senegal, four from South africa and five from China this year, said Huy Pichsovann <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fishermen-repatriated-in-growing-numbers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC), a rights group, is investigating a mother’s claim that her daughter is being abused and held against her will by her employers in Malaysia, Moeun Tola, head of CLEC’s labor program, said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maid-held-by-malaysian-employers-mother-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In the latest chapter of what is proving to be an arduous struggle to protect a government demarcated Community Forest in Battambang province, 36 hectares of the land have reportedly been given over to outsiders including a military official. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/community-forest-woes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

During a joint investigation with police and military police last week, the Forestry administration found evidence of large-scale illegal logging by the Vietnamese owners of a rubber concession in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, officials said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/forestry-officials-confirm-illegal-logging-by-vietnamese-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More then 100 Jarai families in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district have rejected a government proposal to measure their land, saying it would pave the way to turning over a spirit forest to the families of police and soldiers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jarai-ethnic-group-takes-stand-on-spirit-forest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday questioned nine Borei Keila community representatives and a lawyer from the powerful Phanimex firm after residents filed a complaint against the company accusing it of failing to provide them with replacement housing following their eviction. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-hears-borei-keila-residents-case-for-housing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AustrAliA’s FAirfAx mediA hAs obtAined A leAked officiAl report into A troubled And controversiAl CAmbodiAn rAil project being funded by AusAID And the AsiAn Development BAnk. The report outlines poor construction, botched surveys leAding to the evictions of fAmilies <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-rAil-delAys-cost-blowouts-leAked-report-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Police in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district took part in a sting target took part in a sting targeting illegal computer gaming locations yesterday, arresting seven people and seizing 71 illicit machines across three locations in Phsar Thmey III village. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/raid-of-illegal-gaming-sites-snares-seven/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police and deminers in Kandal province on Wednesday removed from a riverbank a 241-kg Mark 82 bomb, of the kind the U.S. dropped on Cambodia in the heavy bombing that took place during its war against neighboring Vietnam. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/241-kg-us-war-era-bomb-found-in-kandal-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) arrested two border officials from on corruption charges. a source said that Sok Hak and Em Sophat were arrested last week after they asked a Hochi Minh-Phnom Penh buses to pay USD 250. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-officials-arrested-on-corruption-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new outbreAk of H5N1 highly pAthogenic AviAn influenzA hAs been reported in A villAge poultry flock. The veterinAry Authority sent Follow Up Report No.3 dAted 21 MArch to the World OrgAnisAtion for AnimAl HeAlth (OIE). <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Another-h5n1-AviAn-flu-outbreAk-in-south-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Nascent insurance markets in Cambodia, Cuba and Myanmar offer “significant opportunities” to foreign insurers, according to a US market research company. In a statement released Wednesday, Dallas-based Market Reports Store praised Cambodia’s “bold economic reforms and economic liberalisation” since 2000. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-insurance-industry-has-substantial-potential-for-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Finance Ministry’s general department of customs and excise is getting a new boss after the long-serving general department chief Pen Siman retires, according to a royal decree released to the media Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-king-appoints-new-chief-for-customs-and-excise-department/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

NGOs have filed a new complaint against australia’s aNZ Bank claiming it owes compensation to 681 Cambodian families who say their farms were illegally grabbed by a sugarcane plantation the bank helped to finance. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-grab-complaint-against-anz-filed-with-oecd/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Six Cambodian trade unions led around 1,000 garment workers to march through streets here on Sunday to demand a higher minimum wage as annual talks on a wage hike are scheduled for next month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-trade-unions-lead-protest-to-demand-higher-wage-for-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The wife of slain journalist Taing Try filed a complaint with the Kratie Provincial Court on Tuesday urging judicial officials to bring charges against two more men, including a local military police chief, for her husband’s murder on Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/murdered-reporters-wife-asks-court-to-expand-investigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy will meet with leaders of ruling party soon to seek release of a senior official. The arrest of Meach Sovannara is politically motivated and it needs to be politically intervened, said a party spokesman Yim Sovann. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-to-meet-cpp-top-leaders-to-seek-release-of-senior-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After promising in September to quickly resolve A yeArs-long lAnd dispute involving villAgers And the politicAlly connected development compAny KDC InternAtionAl, A member of the NAtionAl Assembly’s humAn rights commission visited Affected fAmilies in KAmpong ChhnAng province yesterdAy.​ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/nA-commission-member-visits-k-chhnAng-kdc-site/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A Defense Ministry officiAl hAs requested thAt vehicles beAring RoyAl CAmbodiAn Armed Forces (RCAF) license plAtes be exempt from pAying the country’s roAd tAx, noting thAt A recent increAse in inspections by tAx officiAls could hurt “militAry officers’ feelings.” <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/defense-ministry-officiAl-Asks-for-militAry-plAte-tAx-exemption/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Siem Reap provincial police chief Sorth Nady has been named as a conspirator in a complaint to the anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) that accuses the provincial force’s personnel chief of soliciting bribes for promotions and embezzling money from salary books. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-police-chief-named-as-conspirator-in-corruption-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>