The Philippines’ Cebu-Pacific airlines will launch direct flights to Siem Reap from Manila on april 19, according to a Cambodian civil aviation official. The Philippine airline sought to take advantage of Siem Reap’s status as a big tourist destination, Soy Sokhan said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flights-from-manila-ready-for-take-off/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fabled luxury car maker Rolls-Royce will soon be marketing its goods in one of the world’s poorest countries: Cambodia. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars announced Monday that it has joined with a Cambodian business partner to open a showroom in the Cambodian capital next month. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rolls-royce-to-sell-luxury-automobiles-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A member of Interior Minister SAr Kheng’s cAbinet wAs on TuesdAy sentenced to one yeAr in jAil for frAud After he wAs found guilty of Accepting $38,000 in 2011 from A TAiwAnese-CAnAdiAn nAtionAl in exchAnge for citizenship documents thAt were never delivered. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/interior-ministry-cAbinet-member-jAiled-for-frAud/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Government on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Inter Far East Engineering Public Company Limited of Thailand to study the feasibility of turning the city’s waste into energy, according to a notice posted on the municipality’s website. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-city-hall-hoping-to-turn-garbage-into-electricity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following a two-hour low-speed boat chase down the Mekong River in Kandal province early Thursday morning, some 100 angry villagers led by a local opposition official detained five Vietnamese nationals they say have been using illegal fishing techniques for the past three months. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/angry-villagers-chase-vietnamese-fishermen-down-mekong-river/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of conservAtionists in KrAtie province submitted on FridAy A formAl request Asking Defence Minister TeA BAnh to discipline two KrAtie-bAsed militAry commAnders. They Accuse the officers of profiting from illegAl logging And threAtening to kill An Activist should he continue his work. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/conservAtionists-Ask-minister-to-tAke-Action/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The European Union (EU) said this week that it has hired a pair of consultants to help the government design a system for compensating the thousands of families believed to have had their homes or farms illegally confiscated by the country’s private sugar plantations. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-hires-experts-to-help-govt-compensate-evictees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP spokesman Yem Ponhearith said on Monday that he plans to summon four government ministers to parliament to determine whether a remote area of Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain used for prayer ceremonies by Vietnamese tourists could be turned into a Cambodian cultural site. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-seeks-to-supplant-vietnamese-prayer-sites/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Turkish mAn who survived A drive-by shooting in SihAnoukville only to be Arrested less thAn 24 hours lAter over An eArlier stAbbing incident wAs chArged by the PreAh SihAnouk ProvinciAl Court on SundAy&mdAsh;After which he Attempted to flee while still in hAndcuffs. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/After-chArges-lAid-turkish-stAbbing-suspect-Attempts-to-flee/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In the coming weeks, a task force composed of officials from the ministries of tourism, religion, culture and education will lead an expedition to a remote patch of forest on Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain where Vietnamese tourists pray, the education minister said Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-to-examine-vietnamese-grave-site-on-bokor-mountain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP Vice President Kem Sokha walked free from the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday afternoon after being questioned by a prosecutor for seven hours over his connections to a plethora of protests that broke out in Phnom Penh following the disputed 2013 national election. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kem-sokha-walks-free-after-7-hours-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some of the unions that have been demanding a hefty $77 raise to the current monthly minimum wage of $100 for the country’s garment workers said Thursday they were willing to go as low as a $35 increase, though others refused to budge. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-factories-unions-edge-closer-to-wage-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government officials remained mum Thursday over a new sub-decree purporting to formalize monthly expenditures of senior government officials while the opposition and civil society groups said the regulation was a facade meant to conceal the real amount of money being made by CPP officials. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-civil-society-groups-rebuke-govt-over-stipends/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One of the country’s largest unions on Sunday came out in favor of a new minimum wage for garment workers far lower than what many of its counterparts have been agitating for over the past several months, bolstering prospects for a compromise with factories. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/free-trade-union-proposes-130-garment-worker-minimum-wage/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said Monday that a group of people close to the opposition party has applied to register a firm with the government that will operate the television license promised to the CNRP by Prime Minister Hun Sen during the political deadlock. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-begins-registration-for-first-opposition-tv-station/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng received a letter from Sam Rainsy who called for the release of Meach Sovannara, head of CNRP’s information and media department, and will send the letter to the Ministry of Justice, a senior official said Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sar-kheng-forwards-sam-rainsys-request-to-justice-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Teachers will be able to file complaints to the government under a new commission led by Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron. The commission will include Naron as chairman, two undersecretaries of state as deputies and a number of other officials. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-panel-for-teachers-problems/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian officials say they are investigating a health clinic in a small village where more than 100 people have now tested positive for HIV. authorities say they fear the repeated use of an infected needle could be causing the devastating outbreak in northwestern Battambang province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-investigates-health-clinic-in-village-hiv-outbreak/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Former Cambodian Prime Min­ister Pen Sovann, who was installed by the Vietnamese after they toppled the Khmer Rouge, but was later removed and imprisoned in Vietnam, has announced a plan to file a complaint against Cambodia’s eastern neighbor at the International Criminal Court. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pen-sovann-plans-icc-complaint-against-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A womAn who Allegedly presented herself As both A relAtive of Prime Minister Hun Sen And the sister of logging mAgnAte Try PheAp wAs Arrested by militAry police in Poipet town on MondAy on suspicion of frAud, provinciAl militAry police commAnder Or Borith sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/womAn-clAimed-fAmily-ties-with-pm-police-sAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>