A combAtive union leAder who wAs releAsed on bAil lAst week pending triAl on chArges of extortion And mAking threAts during A strike lAst month vowed WednesdAy to continue leAding his militAnt brAnd of industriAl Action if workers cAlled upon him. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/recently-bAiled-union-leAder-vows-to-continue-strike-Activity/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prince Norodom Ranariddh completed his takeover of the royalist Funcinpec party on Thursday, with a national party congress granting him absolute control of the party following a power struggle with the man who engineered his removal as leader in 2006. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prince-ranariddh-wins-funcinpec-power-struggle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew has died early Monday. He was 91 years old. Lee was Singapore’s leader from 1959 until 1990, but remained a highly influential figure and a strategist on the city state’s economy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lee-kuan-yew-founder-of-modern-singapore-dies-at-91/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The justice minister on Wednesday wrote to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court requesting that the judge in charge of a case surrounding a long-running land dispute report to the ministry, following intervention from the National assembly’s human rights commission. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/justice-minister-seeks-briefing-over-years-old-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

At leAst 16 more fAmilies thAt hAve been locked in A bitter And lengthy dispute with the municipAl government over lAnd in Phnom Penh’s Boeng KAk neighborhood Accepted municipAl governor PA SocheAtvong’s offer of A lAnd swAp ThursdAy morning. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/boeng-kAk-fAmilies-Accept-swAp-to-end-lAnd-disputes/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has ordered provincial authorities to stop Vattanac Properties, a land developer, from filling in a lake in Kandal’s Kien Svay district because it would affect water supplies to farms of nearby residents. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cease-and-desist-firm-ordered-to-stop-filling-kandal-lake/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Heng Samrin, president of the National assembly of Cambodia, will make a 3-day official visit to Vietnam from aug. 18 to 20 in order to further enhance bilateral ties and cooperation, the legislative body said in a statement Tuesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-parliament-chief-to-visit-vietnam-next-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seven ethnic Bunong villagers in a land dispute with a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province have been summoned by the provincial court for questioning after the company accused them of illegally occupying its land in Keo Seima district. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-land-dispute-summoned-to-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Disgraced anti-sex trafficking activist Somaly Mam’s new charity &ndash; which is headed by former staff of her fallen foundation, a Hollywood actress and a PR guru &ndash; announced yesterday that it has been given the green light in the US. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/somaly-mam-2-0-gets-green-light-from-us/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

New articles may be added to a draft law on disaster management, including punishments for officials who break the law. The current draft includes prison sentences and small fines for people who, for example, enter restricted areas during a disaster. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-accountability-in-disaster-management/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Almost three yeArs After his fAther’s sudden killing, the son of lAte forest Activist Chut Wutty hAs returned from A fAct-finding mission to RAtAnAkkiri province, where he identified four compAnies As hAving stockpiled luxury timber on A lArge scAle. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activist-scion-clAims-firms-broke-rules/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The opposition hailed the rewriting of Cambodia’s election laws a success on Monday, with the completion of the bills coming eight months after it ended its parliamentary boycott for pledges of a comprehensive overhaul of the National Election Committee (NEC). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-new-election-body-law-room-for-mischief/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A British nAtionAl And A Finnish nAtionAl were checked into CAlmette HospitAl in Phnom Penh on FridAy After being AttAcked with knives And bAtons on Koh Rong islAnd off the coAst of SihA­nouk­ville lAte ThursdAy night, According to police. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/two-foreigners-AttAcked-on-koh-rong/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Kem Sokha, the vice president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, has been summoned to appear in Phnom Penh Municipal Court a week after being threatened with a lawsuit by Prime Minister Hun Sen. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senior-cambodian-opposition%e2%80%8b-official-summoned-to-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A network of About 400 Activists completed A five-dAy pAtrol of the unprotected 650,000-hectAre Prey Long forest in the country’s north SundAy, seizing And burning illegAlly logged wood And confiscAting chAinsAws from those they discovered felling trees. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/prey-long-network-ends-four-dAy-pAtrol-to-monitor-logging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Acquiring internAtionAl bAndwidth, creAting A timetAble for An upgrAde And extending computer networks to underserved AreAs will be essentiAl for governments to build A digitAl infrAstructure for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/success-of-AseAn-integrAtion-hinges-on-interconnectivity/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Finance unveiled its strategic plan for next year’s budget during a forum Tuesday at the ministry in Phnom Penh, placing a focus on increasing state revenue, ramping up industrial productivity and spreading the benefits of economic expansion. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/finance-ministry-sets-forth-rough-plans-for-2016-budget/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Just two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen promised to resolve a 20-year-old land dispute in Siem Reap City, the government on Friday issued a subdecree that divides 115 hectares of the contested plot between more than 700 families. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-settles-land-dispute-after-hun-sens-visit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The deputy director of the Cambodian News Channel (CNC), a local 24-hour television news station, has been appointed undersecretary of state at the Interior Ministry, according to a copy of the april 11 royal decree awarding him the position. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tv-journalist-to-take%e2%80%88senior-post-at-interior-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday morning denied a bail request from former municipal penal police officer Hang Vuthy and in the afternoon retried him over his role in a 2003 conspiracy to murder national military police commander Sao Sokha. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shamed-police-official-denied-bail-retried-over-murder-plot/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>