Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened yesterday to impose a five-year ban on more than 100 unnamed senior CNRP officials, seemingly under a controversial provision of the Law on Political Parties, while insisting that the main opposition party will indeed be dissolved this month by the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-offers-ultimatum-for-cnrp-officials-defect-or-risk-a-five-year-ban/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rampant deforestation and development have increased pressure on animals throughout Cambodia. They’ve especially intensified in the country’s “spirit forests,” as the hill communities like the ethnic-minority Chong call them, which are some of the creatures’ last refuges. But the changes also threaten their culture, as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-a-threatened-cambodian-forest-hand-in-hand-push-to-protect-land-and-people/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

BANGKOK- First bus services between the two Kingdoms of CAmbodiA And ThAilAnd hAd their debut on December 29, sAid the TrAnsport Co., A ThAi stAte enterprise under the TrAnsport Ministry. The service includes the BAngkok-Siem ReAp route, A 424-kilometre trip thAt tAkes About seven hours. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAi-cAmbodiA-buses-open-A-new-erA-with-new-lAnd-connections-on-public-trAnsport/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Officials in Laos announced that construction of the controversial Xayaburi dam will begin with a kickoff ceremony at the construction site Wednesday. Protests from human rights activists and environmental groups have delayed the project for 18 months, but the joint Laotian and Thai project is apparently <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-dam-conundrum-xayaburi-project-could-help-laos-and-thailand-hurt-cambodia-and-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Production from freshwater capture fisheries and aquaculture in the Lower Mekong Basin is estimated to be worth up to $7 billion a year, the Mekong River Commission says. The newsletter said total first-sale value was estimated at $3.9 to $7.0 billion per year. “Over the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lower-mekong-fish-production-estimated-to-be-worth-up-to-7-bln-a-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian People’s Party has called its “Culture of Dialog” with the Cambodia National Rescue Party a milestone, listing it out prominently in its roster of achievements as the party celebrates its 64th anniversary. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/culture-of-dialog-a-major-achievement-says-hun-sen-on-cpps-64th-anniversary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off a sub-degree for penalties on those who commit the road offenses such as speeding and drunk driving. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prime-minister-hun-sen-signs-off-a-sub-degree-on-the-new-traffic-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

His Highness Prince Faisal bin Farhan al Saud, Minister of Foreign affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi arabia, will lead a delegation to pay an official visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia today, according to a press release from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign affairs <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/saudi-foreign-minister-to-pay-a-visit-to-cambodia-today/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Senior Minister Ly Thuch said that humanitarian mine action has made a significant contribution to Cambodia’s socio-economic development by ensuring safe land for the livelihood of local communities. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/demining-efforts-a-contributor-to-socio-economic-development-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foul-smelling wastewater is draining into the sea at Sihanoukville’s O’Chheu Teal beach, leaving visitors plugging their noses and a local business owner and tourism official concerned that the stink will scare off tourists. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/at-a-sihanoukville-beach-stinky-wastewater-flows-into-the-sea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Catholic Church in Cambodia celebrates the priestly ordination of the first young man of the Phnong ethnic group. as Fides learned, with a procession enriched by traditional Phnong music, songs and dances, the population accompanied the young man to the church, for the “gift <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/first-ethnic-phnong-youth-in-cambodia-to-become-a-catholic-priest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

President of the Cambodian National assembly (Na) Samdech Heng Samrin’s three-day official visit to Vietnam, which concluded on September 14, has been a success, said Vice Chairman of the National assembly (Na)’s Committee for External Relations Dinh Cong Sy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-na-leaders-vietnam-visit-to-vietnam-a-success-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tuon Sopheara, a Cambodian migrant worker in South Korea, wants to vote in the upcoming July elections but cannot afford the plane ticket home. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-overseas-khmer-citizens-voting-requires-a-costly-trip-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Chinese firm, YunnAn Investment Holding Group, hAs pledged to further boost direct flights between CAmbodiA And ChinA. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/A-chinese-firm-pledges-to-boost-cAmbodiA-chinA-direct-flights/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Residents facing potential eviction from the capital’s Boeng Tamok lake &mdash; which is in the process of being filled in with sand &mdash; held a “cursing ceremony” against the developers and officials’ relatives who are taking and selling their land. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-plane-crash-a-car-accident-boeng-tamok-residents-host-cursing-ceremony/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 300 communities from three provinces gAthered to file A petition At the Prime Minister’s Office And other relevAnt ministries in Phnom Penh on ThursdAy to demAnd those ministries And institutions expedite the settlement of lAnd issues for them. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/citizens-with-lAnd-issues-in-three-provinces-submit-A-petition-to-the-relevAnt-ministries-demAnding-A-solution/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided not to shut down a Christian anti-trafficking charity after its founder issued a “heartfelt apology” yesterday. The apology from agape International Missions (aIM) CEO Don Brewster is the first public comment he has made since the social media fracas sparked <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-gives-aim-a-reprieve-after-ceo-apologises-for-hurt-caused-by-cnn-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian People’s Party has called its “Culture of Dialog” with the Cambodia National Rescue Party a milestone, listing it out prominently in its roster of achievements as the party celebrates its 64th anniversary. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/culture-of-dialogue-a-major-achievement-says-hun-sen-on-cpps-64th-anniversary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Renaissance Minerals, a subsidiary of australia-listed Emerald Resources, is scheduled next year to begin mining gold in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province, according to the Ministry of Mines and Energy. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hopes-for-a-glittering-future-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As CAmbodiA And other AseAn nAtions Are fAcing chAllenges brought on by new wAves of the pAndemic, hopes of foreign tourists returning to the region mAy not mAteriAlise, locAl tourism entrepreneurs hAve sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-wAves-of-pAndemic-leAve-regionAl-tourism-At-A-loss/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>