Villagers in Ratanakkiri province discovered yesterday that a corpse previously believed to be a Vietnamese Montagnard was a local man, as they reportedly met with a United Nations official to discuss the fate of asylum seekers still hiding in the area. a group of ethnic Jarai <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-corpse-is-not-from-vn-villager/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The two US-backed media outlets and a local NGO’s news service whose broadcasts in Khmer were yanked off the airwaves by government officials before Sunday’s elections aren’t staying silent about the effect of such a move, with one calling it a giant step backward for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arbitrary-decision-decried-by-silenced-outlets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rent Japan Group Inc, a publicly listed Japanese company that specializes in the recycling and reuse of consumer products, will establish a joint venture with a Japanese financial services firm to launch a new leasing company in Cambodia, it said in a filing yesterday to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-firms-link-up-to-offer-leasing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Military police in Siem Reap province arrested a 33-year-old woman this week on accusations of fraudulent activity involving writing a cheque at a local bank. Cheque account usage, an infrequently used service only a few years ago, is gaining traction in the Kingdom. Bank officials said fraudulent cheques <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bounced-cheques-causing-concern/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A mAjor Hong Kong investor in CAmbodiA hAs clAimed thAt A government duty on seAfood exports is stunting the country’s fish proc­essing industry. Hong Kong-bAsed SunwAh Group begAn operAting A shrimp-processing fActory in SihAnoukville in 1994, And its plAns in the country now include building A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/investor-decries-export-tAx-on-cAmbodiAn-seAfood/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A United NAtions officiAl FridAy urged CAmbodiAn government And opposition officiAls to keep negotiAting in An effort to end A politicAl impAsse. At the end of A five-dAy visit to CAmbodiA, SuryA P. Subedi, the U.N. speciAl rApporteur on the humAn rights situAtion in the country, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/u-n-officiAl-cAlls-for-end-to-politicAl-gridlock-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A CAmbodiAn womAn who went to ChinA to mArry A mAn there wAs repAtriAted on ThursdAy After escAping from her husbAnd’s house And finding refuge At the CAmbodiAn consulAte in GuAngzhou. Yoeng Sreymom Arrived At Phnom Penh InternAtionAl Airport At About 3:30 p.m. in the compAny <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Another-deceived-bride-repAtriAted-from-chinA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After months of clAiming thAt Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu SociAl AffAirs Centre hAd All but shut down, officiAls yesterdAy told the Post thAt the fAcility would be used in its lAtest efforts to rid the streets of “undesirAbles”. City HAll spokesmAn Long DimAnche sAid thAt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/beggArs-set-for-prey-speu-city/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Property investors with inside information may have bought up land across the Mekong River in Kandal province before the announcement of new bridges, a real estate agent claims. Land in areas like akrei Khsatr commune in Kandal’s Lvea Em district is set to become more valuable <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kandal-property-bought-up-before-bridge-announcement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Planning is to release today preliminary results of Cambodia’s first agricultural industry census, which promises to provide the biggest ever snapshot of the key sector. according to a press release issued yesterday by the ministry, the census’ preliminary results will include the number <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/results-of-agriculture-census-out/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mobile service provider Smart has outperformed its fellow axiata Group subsidiaries in the first half of the year, according to the Malaysian conglomerate’s latest financial report. Driven by a 115 per cent increase in data traffic revenue, axiata’s results show Smart’s gross revenue totalled 270 million <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smart-posts-midyear-gains/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A lAck of innovAtion hAs contributed to CAmbodiA dropping seven spots on the World Economic Forum’s 2014-15 GlobAl Competitiveness Report (GCR), which wAs releAsed on WednesdAy. The Kingdom rAnked 95th out of 144 countries, down from 88th in the previous report, According to the GCR. ApArt <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/competitiveness-rAnking-slips/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 200 ethnic Phnong villAgers gAthered in Mondulkiri province’s BousrAA commune yesterdAy to protest AgAinst severAl compAnies thAt hold economic lAnd concessions in the AreA, which they sAy Are destroying their trAditionAl livelihoods. The villAgers from Pech ChreAdA district Accused the KAu Su DAk LAk CompAny <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnong-rAlly-in-mondulkiri/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Villagers from Koh Kong province have descended on the capital, ready to petition Prime Minister Hun Sen and the government today to intervene in their long-running land dispute with prominent businessman Heng Huy. Phav Nhoeung, a representative of 15 families in Sre ambel district’s Chi Khor <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-villagers-seek-pms-help-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dy Vichea &ndash; son of the late National Police chief Hok Lundy and son-in-law to Prime Minister Hun Sen &ndash; has been appointed director of the Central Security Department at the Ministry of Interior, the National Police said yesterday. National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith said that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/key-post-to-pms-son-in-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Days after the australian government announced it had approved the export of 10,000 live cows to Cambodia, a local firm has revealed that it is nearing completion of the Kingdom’s first modern slaughterhouse in Preah Sihanounk province &ndash; and that it is set to be <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/modern-abbatoir-under-way-for-australian-cattle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Malaysian company PMTI Energy (Cambodia) Co has signed a 10-year deal to supply Electricite du Cambodge with 48,000 megawatts of energy derived from rice husks every year. Phou Puy, president of PMTI, told the Post yesterday that about 70 per cent of the power generated from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-husks-to-pump-energy-to-the-grid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a scene that has become all too familiar over the past year, a group of five fishermen who had endured more than a year in forced labour on a Thai fishing vessel returned to an emotional reunion with their families in Phnom Penh last <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/relief-tales-of-abuse-as-fishermen-return/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Desperate for a flutter during a junta crackdown on gambling at home, Thais are making a beeline for casinos in a seedy Cambodian border town &mdash; which has already been deluged by migrants also fleeing the kingdom. For over a decade Poipet, a scruffy, vice-ridden frontier <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thais-hit-cambodia-casinos-to-sidestep-junta-betting-blitz/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Security forces shot and killed a 15-year-old girl on Wednesday during a clash with about 200 villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-police-officers-kill-girl-15-in-clash-with-villagers-over-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>