The wife of imprisoned opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour on Thursday denied reports that she and the driver of her husband’s SUV fled the scene of a crash in Kandal province that left another man with a broken femur. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wife-of-jailed-senator-denies-claims-of-hit-and-run/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police arrested 36 men and one woman on Saturday in the latest raid on Phnom Penh’s Trapaing Chhouk slum, a cluster of shanties above a fetid pond in Sen Sok district where crystal methamphetamine use and distribution are rampant. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-arrest-37-in-meth-sweep-in-trapaing-chhouk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sam Rainsy Party deputy president Teav Vannol yesterday declined to say whether he would take leadership of the party in the wake of president Kong Korm’s retirement, though a fellow senator said it was all but a foregone conclusion. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-party-meets-soon-to-pick-new-chief/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Oddar Meanchey province are searching for three armed robbers who made off with about $30,000 in cash on Sunday after holding up a gas station and shooting the owner and her neighbor, a local official said Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trio-holds-up-gas-station-shoots-owner-neighbor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Senate on Friday released a statement condemning a European Parliament resolution on the political situation in Cambodia approved the day before, accusing the E.U.’s legislative body of meddling in the country’s internal affairs and disrespecting the rule of law. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senate-blasts-eu-resolution-seeking-rainsys-return/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Survivors of rape in Cambodia are being failed by a judicial system mired in corruption, where perpetrators can pay to have charges dropped and some victims have to marry their attackers, according to a report released Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-judicial-system-failing-rape-survivors-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government collected about $1.3 billion in tax revenue in 2015, a 21.67 percent increase over the previous year, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s general department of taxation on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-tax-revenue-collection-grows-nearly-22-in-2015/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police have been deployed to guard a beleaguered Muslim school for young women in a predominantly Cham community in Tbong Khmum province, amid ongoing attacks against the facility by unknown assailants, and death threats against educators, officials said on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-guard-muslim-school-from-rocks-threats-feces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Almost A yeAr After the creAtion of the new NAtionAl Election Committee (NEC), its nine members will meet on FridAy to select A new secretAry-generAl, the person who will implement its reform AgendA AheAd of elections in 2017 And 2018. . <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/for-key-post-the-new-nec-mulls-An-old-fAce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will provide a $50 million financing package to amret Co to help the Cambodian microfinance institution increase lending to smaller businesses, particularly those in the agriculture sector and rural areas, it said in a press release. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ifc-provides-50m-to-amret-micro-lender/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A former MEC Co. Ltd shAreholder wAs tried in AbsentiA by the Court of AppeAls yesterdAy morning for Allegedly defAming his former compAny And MEC’s chAirmAn, former CAmbodiAn Prime Minister Ung Huot, in 2014, According to A court officiAl. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/former-prime-minister-wins-defAmAtion-cAse/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Interior Ministry has struck a deal with China to buy 200 fire­trucks this year, nearly doubling Cam­bodia’s current fleet in a bid to bet­ter serve the country’s rural reach­es, officials said on Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firetruck-fleet-set-to-double-with-china-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

City Hall plans to privatize a 280-hectare plot of public land set aside for a $3 billion development by the Over­seas Cambodia Investment Cor­poration (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district, officials said Thursday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-planning-to-privatize-280-hectare-development-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The tax department issued a notice yesterday extending the deadline for businesses to finish their tax registration until May 31, the latest in a long string of delays that followed the introduction of strict new rules on tax registration in 2014.​​ <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tax-registration-deadline-pushed-back/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land rights activists from 10 communities in the capital yesterday submitted a request to City Hall requesting permission to march to the anti-Corruption Unit’s headquarters and deliver a petition in support of human rights activists jailed this week. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-request-to-march-on-acu-hq/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An NGO hAs filed A complAint with the Anti-Corruption Unit AgAinst senior NAtionAl Election Committee members for “colluding to commit corruption inside An independent institution”, relAting to A trAnsfer of the body’s employees from independent contrActors to government officiAls. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngo-files-complAint-AgAinst-nec/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Kampot’s Ta Reach bridge was severely damaged by a truck overloaded with illegal luxury timber over the weekend, prompting a manhunt for the truck’s driver, who was apparently on his way to Vietnam at the time of the accident. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bridge-broken-by-illegal-load/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Legal action will be taken against health institutes that offer a low quality of care, according to a directive issued by the Minister of Health last week, which also emphasized the importance of digital record keeping in the medical sector. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/health-sector-on-notice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of threatened Siamese rosewood in the 18 months after ratifying a 2013 international protocol designed to protect the species from destructive trade, according to a report released on Friday.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rosewood-exports-undercut-un-protections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s apex rice industry body held its annual general meeting on Saturday, with its members unanimously re-electing its well-connected incumbent president, Sok Puthyvuth, for a second term in what some are calling a dress rehearsal for his political ascendancy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-industry-body-president-gets-wary-vote-of-confidence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>