The land on which the former Chamkar Mon Referral Hospital sits was put up for sale for $12.1 million on Friday, just days after a municipal health official denied that the property would be sold. according to an advertisement posted on the Khmer24 classified advertising website, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chamkar-mon-hospital-land-for-sale-online/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s opposition leader yesterday called on the australian government to reconsider its plan to send refugees to the country, which he said was a short-term solution that does not address the root causes of displacement. Sam Rainsy, Cambodia National Rescue Party president, told the Post that australia should <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/be-more-responsible-rainsy-tells-australia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A six-month stAndoff thAt eventuAlly hAlted A box fActory’s production ended on FridAy, when mAnAgers of the fActory in the cApitAl’s Por Sen Chey district pAid seniority bonuses to Almost 150 former employees. HArtA PAckAging Industries pAid bonuses of between $500 And $4,000 to A totAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-win-seniority-pAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Ath Thorn, the heAd of the country’s lArgest independent union, wAs plAced yesterdAy under judiciAl supervision by the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court A dAy After he joined demonstrAtions cAlling for A $177 monthly minimum wAge for gArment workers. Mr. Thorn, president of the CoAlition of CAmbodiAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/court-plAces-more-restrictions-on-union-leAder/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s Ministries of Labour and Tourism on Wednesday jointly launched a new regulation for protecting the occupational safety, health and labour rights of entertainment workers. “The regulation aims to improve working conditions, occupational safety and health rules of entertainment service enterprises, establishments and companies,”said a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-unveils-regulation-to-protect-entertainment-workers-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A luxury twin-condo with 35 floors And 256 units is set to AppeAr just to the southeAst of the Olympic StAdium by the end of 2017. Sky VillA is A lArge project developed by the CrystAl OrAnge Construction, with A hefty $100 million of cApitAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/An-olympiAn-endeAvour/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday admitted that the government target of reaching 1 million tonnes of rice exports by 2015 is likely to fail due to a lack of milling capacity and funding. The PM blamed the failure on a lack of investment in rice <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prime-minister-admits-1-million-tonne-goal-is-unlikely-for-rice-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Global garment brands who source their products from Cambodia should play a part in helping the industry absorb the new minimum wage of US$ 128 per month, according to experts from the International Labour Organization (ILO). The new minimum wage for the approximately half-a-million workers in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ilo-calls-on-global-garment-buyers-to-help-absorb-cambodias-new-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 57,000 primary school-aged children across the country are currently missing out on an education, according to the Cambodian Consortium for Out of School Children (CCOSC), a new group set up to implement a major push to get young Cambodians into the classroom. Officially <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-effort-to-get-thousands-of-children-into-classrooms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday cast a negative light on Phnom Penh, labelling the capital a hotbed for criminal activity and likening the levels of street crime to the Ho Chi Minh City of yore, where he said it was once unsafe to walk around <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-laments-capital-crime/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A surge in lAnd disputes in CAmbodiA Affected more thAn three times As mAny fAmilies lAst yeAr As in 2013, A locAl rights group sAid ThursdAy, urging Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to Address the issue with “long-term lAsting solutions” insteAd of mAking empty promises. Rights <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fAmilies-Affected-by-lAnd-disputes-in-cAmbodiA-tripled-in-2014-rights-group/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Rights groups yesterday took aim at the private-sector arm of the World Bank for investing money into companies that are responsible for human rights abuses around the world, highlighting a Vietnamese rubber firm accused of illegal logging and land grabbing in Ratanakkiri province as a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ifc-criticised-for-abusive-investments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Three men embroiled in a land dispute with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem were arrested Tuesday while marching with about 50 fellow villagers from Kompong Chhnang province’s Lor Peang village to Phnom Penh. The villagers planned to walk <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fresh-arrests-for-embattled-kdc-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Kompong Chhnang province on Thursday were prevented from arresting workers and union officials outside a Samakki Meanchey district garment factory by a mob of irate protesters who pulled two of their colleagues out of a police car to thwart their arrests. about 3,000 employees <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/striking-factory-workers-thwart-police-arrests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite being hemmed in by construction on all sides as NagaWorld expands its casino empire in Phnom Penh, the Buddhist Institute will not be sold off or rented out, Cults and Religion Minister Min Khin told a National assembly commission on Thursday. In May, the institute’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/buddhist-institute-is-safe-minister-tells-national-assembly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In what could lead to a sequel to his five-hour speech in the National assembly in 2012, Prime Minister Hun Sen has been asked by an opposition lawmaker to answer questions in parliament over alleged border encroachment in Mondulkiri province. Mao Monivann, a Cambodian National Rescue <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-asked-to-clarify-border-issue/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A UN speciAl rApporteur will tAke the cAuse of CAmbodiA’s lAnd-eviction bAttles And the Abuses fAced by those wAging them to the UN HumAn Rights Council, According to A report releAsed todAy. Michel Forst, the speciAl rApporteur on the situAtion of humAn rights defenders, will file <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/impunity-tops-AgendA-for-speciAl-rApporteur/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

While offering no concrete solutions to the issue, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appealed for graduating engineers to be aware of generally lax building standards that could have a long-term impact on public safety. Much of Cambodia’s infrastructure was redeveloped after the civil war, and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-appeals-for-the-end-of-lax-standards/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has dismissed without any explanation a lawsuit filed by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) after one of its reporters was viciously attacked by Daun Penh district security guards in May. Lay Samean, a 27-year-old reporter for CCIM’s Voice of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ccim-reporters-case-dropped/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An AppeAl Court judge yesterdAy sAid thAt seven femAle Boeung KAk lAnd Activists imprisoned in November for protesting on Monivong BoulevArd in Phnom Penh were not ActuAlly blocking trAffic At the time of their Arrest. Eleven Activists &ndAsh; the seven women Arrested on November 10 And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hope-for-b-kAk-Activists/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>