Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with chair of Cambodia’s Funcinpec Party Norodom Ranarith on Tuesday. Ranarith, who led the Funcinpec Party to win Cambodia’s general election in 1993, was re-elected chairman of the party in January this year. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-vice-president-meets-chair-of-cambodias-funcinpec-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered a temporary ban on imported meat, although details are still forthcoming, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-orders-temporary-ban-on-imported-frozen-meat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A lawyer for six women accused of trafficking young women to China conceded his clients’ guilt during their trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday but asked for leniency because of their modest education. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawyer-calls-for-leniency-for-trafficking-suspects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Oil prices in Cambodia hit the highest of all time on Friday, with a liter of premium gasoline going for 1.45 U.S. dollars at all petrol stations in the capital. The price is the highest ever if compared with the peak price of 1.41 U.S. dollars href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oil-prices-hit-all-time-high-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A delegation comprised of Japan’s top business leaders, known as Keidanren, began a six-day trip to Myanmar and Cambodia Monday, seeking new business and investment opportunities there. Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, is leading the delegation and said he hopes that meetings with href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japans-businessmen-visit-myanmar-cambodia-for-investment-opportunities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than 1,300 people and 250 students in Kampong Speu are set to benefit from a $25,000 donation to WaterAid Cambodia, which will be used to improve access to clean water. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/25000-donation-to-promote-clean-water-in-kampong-speu/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Child rights groups Action Pour Les Enfants and International Justice Mission have said they carried out a “detailed and impartial” investigation into claims of sexual abuse before removing six young boys from their families against their parents’ wishes last week.  In a statement defending their work href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aple-defends-work-on-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly President Heng Samrin has given himself the power to deny access to the assembly compound, including the offices of all lawmakers, to anyone not employed by the government and has barred all private citizens from testifying before—or sitting in on—assembly commission meetings. In href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rule-changes-give-assembly-president-broad-new%e2%80%88powers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Officials are attempting to se­cure the release of two Cambo­dian men who were sentenced to three months in a Thai prison on Thursday after being summarily convicted of at­tacking government inspectors at a market in Sa Kaeo province the day before, ac­cording to the Ministry href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-cambodians-convicted-following-thailand-market-melee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When 112 families gathered to demonstrate for four hours in front of the Ratanakkiri provincial court last Wednesday, most of their invective was directed toward the court itself, and toward someone they termed “a rich man from Phnom Penh,” a Mr. Heang Socheat, whom, they href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-land-dispute-takes-diamond-twist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Nobody here seems to know much about Company 72.Locals know they are living on land the company cultivates under a government-granted economic land concession (ELC)—some have tak­en menial jobs tending the crops, all have seen lush forests decimated to make way for them—but beyond that, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/grand-concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thai soldiers arrested four Cambodian youths on Saturday for allegedly logging rosewood in Thailand’s Trat province, near the border with Battambang province, officials said on Sunday. “Thai soldiers in black uniforms arrested the four Khmer youths because they crossed the border illegally in an attempt to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-soldiers-arrest-youths-for-logging-across-border/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s anti-logging task force on Monday confiscated nearly 3,000 logs stashed in a forest clearing in Mondolkiri province, officials said on Tuesday. The owner of the 2,949 pieces of second-grade timber—Khlong, Tbeng and Trach—is unknown, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police, which href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/who-owns-the-2949-logs-found-by-a-government-task-force/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Tuesday donated 100 tons of milled rice to Cambodia as humanitarian aid. Hun Sen expressed gratitude to China’s Guangxi, saying that Cambodia and China’s Guangxi have seen growing relations and cooperation in agriculture. He asked Zhang to encourage more href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinas-guangxi-donates-100-tons-milled-rice-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

One of five villagers arrested in a land dispute with politically connected company KDC International told the Post after their release on Friday that he would keep protesting “until our community obtains a resolution from the government”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kdc-protests-to-go-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

California-based real estate firm Century 21 enters the emerging Cambodian property market with today’s formal opening of its local operations in the country. According to Goos, the local franchise of Century 21 would concentrate on foreign buyers, especially on selling new condominiums, to avoid competing href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-real-estate-giant-century-21-opens-cambodia-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Customers of state power provider Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) may get an added shock when they open their bills this month. Along with their monthly total, customers in the capital and four provinces will receive a warning that they could end of up in court if href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/electric-bills-come-with-threat-no-online-gripes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is keen to grow Japonica rice and the Ministry of Agriculture is currently conducting field trials to explore the possibility. “We are currently studying how Japonica rice can be grown in the country and it will take three to four years to know the full href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japonica-field-trials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The listed Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) earned total revenues of 36.9 million U.S. dollars in 2012, up 25 percent year-on-year, according to the firm’s unaudited financial statement on Wednesday. The report said that the firm’s net income after tax was 8.56 million U.S. dollars href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-listed-water-supplier-records-revenue-up-25-pct-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

President of the National Assembly of Cambodia Heng Samrin said on Monday that the Cambodian side ” regrets” that activists set Vietnamese flag on fire in protests in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Heng Samrin made the statement while meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-speaker-regrets-activistsmove-to-burn-vietnamese-flag/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...