Echoing remarks by Prime Minister Hun Sen last week, Minister of Defence Tea Banh called on the military yesterday to be ready to suppress any attempt at a “colour revolution”, telling soldiers that agitators were fomenting such a revolution at that very moment.  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/defence-chief-vows-to-control-democracy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A project to build 10 wArehouses to store rice pAddy using Chinese funding hAs hit A roAdblock, As the CAmbodiAn government hAs been unAble to meet criteriA set by the Chinese for the project, According to An officiAl AssociAted with the project. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-loAn-for-rice-sector-on-hold/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Human Rights Watch on Thursday added its voice to the criticism of Cambodia’s judiciary for defamation charges brought against Ny Chakyra, a senior human rights advocate who accused two judicial officials in Siem Reap province of misconduct in their handling of a land dispute. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/criticism-mounts-over-charge-against-local-rights-defender/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Grassroots Democracy Party, a brainchild of “Khmer for Khmer” advocacy group leader Kem Ley, held its inaugural congress in Phnom Penh on Sunday, electing&mdash;unopposed&mdash;Mr. Ley’s close colleague Yeng Virak as temporary leader despite vows of a new style of politics. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grassroots-democracy-party-elects-old-faces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday reassured U.S. President Barack Obama that a request he made for maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam last month was not a request for maps of where the U.S. bombed Cambodia during the Second Indochina War. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-tells-obama-hes-not-asking-about-bombs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A group of Phnom Penh fAmilies from A flood-prone community living Along the city’s AbAndoned rAilroAd trAcks mAnAged to secure the lAst $2,250 they need to build their own drAinAge system After protesting outside the Russei Keo district governor’s office WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/with-protest-fAmilies-win-drAinAge-donAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The lawyer for Duong Udomchorvin, who slapped the son of logging tycoon Try Pheap in a Phnom Penh tattoo parlor in april, told a hearing at the municipal court Thursday that his obese client’s poor health should be taken into account in sentencing. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawyer-asks-municipal-court-to-consider-tycoons-sons-obesity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Phnom Penh are searching for the driver of an abandoned and empty container truck, which was found in Russei Keo district on Sunday morning and was scheduled to deliver a shipment of garments to a dry port in Pur Senchey district, officials said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-search-for-truck-driver-over-suspected-garment-heist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A visiting delegAtion from the AmericAn ChAmber of Commerce in Hong Kong, which hAndles tens of billions of dollArs in regionAl investment, sAys it rAised concerns About the low threshold for forming unions in A pending new lAw during meetings with government officiAls MondAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/union-lAw-worries-gArment-sector-investors-from-hong-kong/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Constitutional Council will meet with a group of opposition lawmakers on Wednesday over a controversial draft law to regulate NGOs, as it prepares to review the bill and send it to the king to be signed into law. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/constitutional-council-rescue-party-to-meet-over-draft-ngo-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court on Tuesday questioned a district police chief over allegations that he raped a high school student in his office last month but did not charge the official, who has been suspended pending investigations by the court and National Police. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-questions-district-police-chief-student-in-rape-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Local tech startups discussed a possible reduction in the Ministry of Commerce’s business registration fees at a meeting on Saturday, to ease the initial financial burden on their businesses, given the difficulty in raising funds in Cambodia’s nascent tech market. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/startups-discuss-reduction-in-registration-fees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Disgraced former Phnom Penh Municipal Court director ang Mealaktei was sent to the Kandal Provincial Prison on Sunday after he was charged with embezzlement for allegedly confiscating an SUV from a drug dealer and giving it to his son, a prison official said Monday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/disgraced-court-director-imprisoned-in-kandal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Seven Nigerian men who stand charged with drug trafficking denied any involvement in an alleged methamphetamine ring during the second day of their trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday, a month after an eighth man admitted to acting as a courier. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nigerians-deny-involvement-in-meth-drug-ring/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A 40-yeAr-old gArment worker wAs sentenced to life in prison by the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court on MondAy for killing A 20-yeAr-old womAn by dousing her with Acid After she leArned her husbAnd hAd been hAving An AffAir with the victim. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fActory-worker-gets-life-for-fAtAl-Acid-AttAck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian Permanent Representative to aSEaN, Norng Sakal, presented his Letter of Credence to the Secretary-General of aSEaN,  Le Luong Minh, at a ceremony held at the aSEaN Secretariat today, according to a press release of aSEaN’s Secretariat. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-cambodian-permanent-representative-to-asean-presents-his-letter-of-credence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After Phnom Penh City HAll Announced lAst month thAt bus stAtions must be moved outside the city by next yeAr, A ThAi compAny put forwArd A proposAl on TuesdAy to invest in bus pArking lots on the city’s outskirts, According to the municipAlity. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-compAny-proposes-pArking-lot-plAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Police in Sihanoukville on Tuesday raided the rented house of a Russian businessman who is wanted by local authorities for ordering a violent attack at the Queenco casino in February, but came up empty- handed, an official said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sihanoukville-police-raid-home-of-wanted-russian/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

RSiam, the country-music business unit of RS Public Company Limited, a Thai entertainment company, is seeking partners in Cambodia and Laos, said RS executive vice president Soopachai Nillawan. RS owns a record label, produces programming for television, makes films, publishes magazines and promotes concerts. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-media-targets-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A shipment of 415,000 AstrAZenecA vAccines donAted by the United Kingdom thAt Arrived yesterdAy Afternoon will be used for A third dose to fight AgAinst Covid-19 pAndemic. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/oxford-AstrAzenecA-vAccines-Arrive-from-uk/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>