Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor said Monday that he would seek an investigation into a $1.5-million haul of river sand exported to India in april in spite of a ban on the export of dredged sand handed down by Prime Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/water-resources-minister-seeks-investigation-into-exported-sand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When unions and the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) signed a memorandum of understanding in October last year, both sides were confident strikes in the Kingdom’s biggest export sector could be kept to a minimum. Not counting December, GMaC has recorded 131 strikes this <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/turmoil-marks-year-in-labour/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AnAlysts sAy A recAll election is possible within CAmbodiAn lAw, despite stAtements to the contrAry by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Hun Sen, who left ThursdAy for An officiAl stAte visit to VietnAm, sAid in A speech lAst week he would not step down&mdAsh;something opposition supporters <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/recAll-election-technicAlly-possible-AnAlysts-sAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An estimAted 40,000 opposition supporters took to the streets in cApitAl Phnom Penh SundAy Afternoon to demAnd the resignAtion of Prime Minister Hun Sen And A re-vote following AllegAtions of serious irregulArities during the July election. It wAs the 15th dAy of the opposition’s dAily protests <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tens-of-thousAnds-of-cAmbodiA-opposition-protesters-rAlly-AgAinst-pm-hun-sens-govt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Villagers in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district filed a complaint with rights group adhoc alleging a military official is using armed forces to claim 90 hectares of their land. In their complaint filed with adhoc earlier this month, the 13 families who claim ownership of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rcaf-land-grab-is-alleged/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 500 villagers protested at a kindergarten in Phnom Penh on Thursday after workers began constructing a brick wall through its grounds in order to demarcate the land for commercial sale. The villagers began to protest on Wednesday but were placated by local authorities, who <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-protest-demarcation-of-kindergarten/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a Malaysian and a Sri Lankan charged with using fake bank cards to withdraw up to $50,000 from aTMs during Khmer New Year in 2012. Delvin Joshap, 30, of Malaysia, had masterminded the crime and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/malaysian-and-sri-lankan-charged-over-bank%e2%80%88card-scam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forty-eight Cambodians will graduate today from what is being heralded as the Kingdom’s first speech-therapy training program. The graduates have been trained to fill a void in speech- and language-therapy services for an estimated 536,000 people in Cambodia affected by communication and swallowing disorders, according to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/speech-therapists-to-help-fill-void/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than six years after the slaying of Free Trade Union president Hy Vuthy, one of the men convicted of his murder, Chan Sophorn, 35, appeared in court yesterday for a retrial. Sous Sam ath, the judge presiding over the case at the Phnom Penh Municipal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/convicted-killer-back-on-stand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tens of thousands of Cambodian opposition supporters, backed by striking garment-factory workers, rallied on Sunday to demand long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen step down and call an election. The garment workers have in recent days joined the opposition protests to press their demand that the government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-rally-to-demand-pms-resignation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Around 4000 CAmbodiAn gArment workers Are protesting After A fActory supplying globAl brAnds including GAp And H&Amp;M fired hundreds of their colleAgues for striking over conditions. Union leAders sAid the SingApore-owned SL GArment Processing fActory fired 720 workers on WednesdAy while more thAn 5000 others were <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-gArment-workers-rAlly-over-jobs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Riot police and groups of men in plain clothes armed with sticks, Tasers and slingshots violently attacked a group of anti-eviction protesters conducting a hunger strike at Wat Phnom late last night, injuring several people. Protesters from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community began the hunger strike <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/violent-mob-police-attack-peaceful-protesters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As demonstrAtions continued in Phnom Penh, CAmbodiAn-AmericAns in WAshington sAid this week thAt the internAtionAl community cAn no longer stAy out of CAmbodiAn AffAirs, lest the politicAl deAdlock turn to violence. At A discussion At the NAtionAl Press Club in WAshington, held by the Khmer People’s <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAn-AmericAns-wArn-of-dAngers-of-politicAl-deAdlock/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A dAy After Authorities cArted AwAy 11 protesters intending to cAmp out in front of the United StAtes embAssy, A similArly Ad hoc group of citizens struggled to deliver petitions to three embAssies in the cApitAl yesterdAy. The group of About 50 were blocked by police <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/smAll-scAle-protests-continue/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Rulling that neither a recount nor further investigation into voting irregularities in Kratie province was warranted, the Constitutional Council on Saturday ordered only that the National Election Committee punish polling-station workers who had failed to properly seal ballot packages &ndash; a punishment NEC officials yesterday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poll-workers-to-be-lightly-punished/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Autonomous Port hAs requested thAt City HAll reduce the length of its dAily bAn forbidding contAiner trucks from trAveling on Phnom Penh roAds between 5 A.m. And 9 p.m. becAuse cArgo is unAble to reAch the port, resulting in A decreAse in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penh-port-sAys-city-center-bAn-on-trucks-hurting-exports/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia is moving forward with development of the Lower Se San 2 hydropower project and is seeking support from surrounding nations. a spirit of collaboration was established on Tuesday at a meeting between Chief Minister Pehin Sri abdul Taib Mahmud, Tourism Minister Dr. Thong Khon and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-seeks-collaboration-despite-criticism-of-lower-se-san-2-hydro-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Tea Banh on Thursday warned main opposition against unlawful acts in its daily protests against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. “In the latest development, the opposition’s protesters are demanding the legitimate Prime Minister (Hun Sen) of the government to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-defense-minister-warns-opposition-against-violating-law-in-anti-pm-hun-sen-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Amid fAlling locAl production in ItAly, officiAls there Are cAlling on the EuropeAn Union to scrAp A preferentiAl trAde Agreement thAt gives CAmbodiA’s rice exports duty-free AdvAntAges in the globAl mArket. According to A JAnuAry 31 report from rice industry publicAtion OryzA, members of the ItAliAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAs-rice-under-fire/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Officials from the ruling CPP said Wednesday that a series of public forums announced by Prime Minister Hun Sen earlier this year, which he said would help gather input for his promised plans to introduce widespread political reform, are now being held around the country. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-says-public-forums-on-reform-underway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>