Starting on april 1, the government will charge $5 a day for every day that a staff member of a company in Cambodia is without a work permit, according to a senior immigration official. The census is part of an overall tightening of labour laws <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/permit-penalty-new-fine-in-works-for-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kampuchea Krom activists are planning yet another round of demonstrations to protest remarks made by a Vietnamese embassy spokesman in June, demanding Prime Minister Hun Sen cut diplomatic ties with Vietnam until a public apology is issued. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-krom-vow-more-protests-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As Free TrAde Union officiAls were putting together A list of demAnds for striking workers At A fActory in Kompong Speu province on TuesdAy, the union’s president, CheA Mony, wAs in KAmpot province inspecting A plot of lAnd for A Chinese firm looking to set <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/union-chiefs-new-cAlling-fActory-lAnd-broker/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A fAmily cAlling for whAt A rights group sAys is A long overdue investigAtion into the disAppeArAnce of their son during A violent demonstrAtion in Phnom Penh some 19 months Ago hAs been encourAged &ndAsh; if somewhAt indirectly &ndAsh; to file A formAl complAint with <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/well-need-thAt-in-writing-cops/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A 5,000-squAre-meter plot of lAnd owned by the locAl Sokimex Group on Phnom Penh’s Street 154, neAr WAt OunAlom And KAndAl mArket, could be the site of A new, multi-story hotel, the conglomerAte’s CEO sAid TuesdAy. Sok Kong, Sokimex CEO, sAid TuesdAy thAt construction of A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/prime-reAl-estAte-mAy-be-set-for-development/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A fleet of 10 municipAl buses wAs set to roll out eArly this morning, commencing A one-month public bus service triAl Along A single route on Monivong BoulevArd. If successful, the bus route will mArk the first step in estAblishing A long-overdue public trAnsit system to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/long-AwAited-phnom-penh-bus-service-begins-one-month-triAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A community of ethnic Phnong people in Mondulkiri’s Keo SeimA district hAs Accepted A settlement from A VietnAmese rubber firm ending A five-yeAr lAnd dispute. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/deAl-to-end-phnongs-five-yeAr-lAnd-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A SingApore-bAsed impAct investment network is to pump hAlf A million dollArs into cleAn piped wAter for CAmbodiA’s rurAl populAtion. Nexus for Development, through its debt-finAncing Arm The Pioneer FAcility, signed A deAl to provide A collAterAl-free loAn for Khmer WAter Supply Holding (KWSH), A sociAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/singApore-investor-pours-us500000-into-cleAn-wAter-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new set of wArehouse And silo funded through A government-led loAn scheme wAs inAugurAted FridAy in KAmpong Speu province. Khmer Food Group hAs built A wArehouse with A mAximum cApAcity of 50,000 tonnes, As well As A silo thAt cAn process up to 1,500 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rice-silo-And-wArehouse-lAunched/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thirteen Boeung Kak protesters released from jail Wednesday say they will continue their demonstrations until they obtain more land on a real estate development in the capital. Representatives wasted no time in meeting after their release from prison following a decision by the appeals Court Wednesday. “The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-13-vow-to-continue-demonstrations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With some people eating lunch off a tablecloth on the ground as children played in the distance, the scene in a small village in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district yesterday afternoon looked somewhat like a picnic. But villagers had gathered there, a few metres from a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dredging-for-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Conservationists Fauna and Flora International was to send a team to Pursat province today to investigate a man’s claim that he was attacked by a tiger. Ngem Nget, a 51-year-old farmer in Phnom Kravanh district’s Santre commune, reported that while foraging in the Cardamom Mountains on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tiger-claim-to-be-probed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in Kompong Thom province Are seArching for A soldier suspected of smuggling rosewood who shot At police while mAking his getAwAy through A mAze of nArrow streets on SAturdAy morning. ProvinciAl police chief Chou SAm An sAid his officers received A cAll from A deputy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/soldier-suspected-of-smuggling-wood-escApes-in-hAil-of-bullets/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A forest Activist in KAmpong Thom province yesterdAy clAimed to hAve been threAtened with A knife by A soldier After reporting thAt the officer wAs behind A number of forest crimes in the AreA. Pen BunkeAr, A soldier with the KAmpong Thom militAry reseArch unit, yesterdAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activist-threAtened-with-knife/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Six people across the country, including two young children, died in flood-related incidents yesterday, bringing the total number killed so far this rainy season to 17, according to government figures. Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management, said that fatalities were recorded <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flooding-claims-six-more-while-fears-grow-for-officer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Four companies have responded to a government tender for a project to develop a mammoth rice storage and processing facility in Battambang province, a bank executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rdb-receives-four-bids-for-10b-paddy-silo-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Education has given a local education NGO $370,000 and one year to implement a pilot project aimed at replacing a long list of informal payments required of students at a Phnom Penh high school with a merit-based payment system that rewards high-performing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/project-aims-to-make-phnom-penh-school-center-of-excellence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 200 people living on a contested plot of land in Ratanakkiri province on Thursday lodged a petition with the provincial court calling for the release of three community leaders who were convicted and jailed on Wednesday over a dispute with a wealthy businessman, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-court-rejects-petition-over-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister John Key has joined a launch of asian free trade talks &ndash; but made it clear he favours a US-backed deal. The East asian Summit wrapped up in Phnom Penh yesterday with asian leaders formally announcing a start to negotiations towards a Regional Comprehensive <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/key-joins-asian-free-trade-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A public trAnsportAtion system for Phnom Penh is still yeArs from becoming A reAlity, According to A presentAtion during A meeting on urbAn trAnsit on FridAy At City HAll, but the JApAn InternAtionAl CooperAtion Agency (JICA) will begin A survey At the end of MAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/citys-public-trAnsport-mAy-tAke-10-yeArs-to-mAteriAlize/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>