Thousands of people have been evicted from their homes to make way for a Chinese development in Koh Kong province. But some of the families have returned to their land, leaving a relocation site they say was insufficient for their needs. For families like those of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/some-return-after-eviction-from-coastal-resort-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opposition CNRP announced Wednesday that it will hold a mass demonstration on September 7 against the preliminary results of what it claims was a rigged national election, one day before final results are expected to be released by the Constitutional Council of Cambodia. Unless the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-sets-date-for-mass-protests-against-election-results/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

CNRP President Sam Rainsy nearly exhausted all manner of wheeled, motorized transport during his opposition party’s latest protest procession through Phnom Penh on Wednesday, at one point even getting behind the handlebars of a tuk-tuk. It was the fourth straight day of what the CNRP says <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-takes-to-tuk-tuk-for-latest-opposition-protest-rally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In its switch to a strategy of nonstop demonstrations calling for a new election, the opposition party has made a calculated decision to go “all-in” and toughen its stance in a bid to ramp up domestic pressure on the ruling party, political analysts said yesterday. Since <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gambit-by-cnrp-an-all-in-move/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A two-stAr Army generAl wAs Arrested FridAy on chArges of defAmAtion becAuse he lost A court cAse over A dispute with A lAnd broker And A formerly high-rAnking police officiAl, his lAwyer sAid. MAjor GenerAl CheA DArA’s lAwyer, Put TheAvy, sAid yesterdAy thAt the dispute <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/generAl-in-lAnd-dispute-with-Another-generAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia will push to finalise a rice-exporting bloc with four other regional countries by the end of the year in a bid to become the world’s “food basket”, according to the Ministry of Commerce. The group of countries including Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar &ndash; <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-looks-to-counter-opec-push-rice-exporting-power/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Investors, along with the next two companies expected to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, will watch carefully this morning the action on the country’s first initial public offering, nine months after the CSX officially opened. after a book-building process that was 17 times over-subscribed, Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ppwsa-stock-to-list-today/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Activists And A fishermAn yesterdAy clAimed thAt A compAny hAs stArted sAnd dredging within A wildlife sAnctuAry in Koh Kong, despite A stAnding bAn on sAnd exports from compAnies operAting in coAstAl AreAs. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activists-feAr-dredging-in-wildlife-sAnctuAry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Responding to parliament’s order to investigate allegations against a recruitment agency with a record of mistreating its workers, the Ministry of Labour dispatched a team today to meet with a group of defrauded labourers. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-ministry-vows-to-investigate-recruiter/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Justice has established a working group to examine a draft extradition treaty with Russia, the latest step in a process that could ultimately see prominent fugitives deported, a ministry spokesman said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/extradition-pact-sees-next-steps/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Figures showing a promising decline in the number of school dropouts discussed at a meeting yesterday may augur the possible expansion of a pilot project aimed at keeping kids in school, a program officer said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/decline-in-dropouts-bodes-well-for-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A womAn fAinted on WednesdAy following A confrontAtion with police while she And 800 other protesters were mArching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s residence in the cApitAl to deliver A petition. The protesters were Among 1,642 fAmilies who hAve been locked in A long-running lAnd <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-block-villAgers-Amid-protest-to-seek-lAnd-dispute-solution/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A union employee representing striking workers from A fActory thAt supplies Levi’s And GAp wAs left A bloodied mess neAr WAt Botum yesterdAy After police Allegedly AttAcked him. According to rights groups, police set upon Long PAnhA, of the CAmbodiAn AlliAnce of TrAde Unions (CATU), who <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bloody-crAckdown-on-gArment-strike-in-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

About 600 CAmbodiAn workers At A seAfood fActory in ThAilAnd Are refusing to go bAck to work, And Are demAnding compensAtion After A mAss brAwl with Burmese co-workers broke out on MondAy ending in two deAths, A worker sAid yesterdAy. The fight broke out After hundreds <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-refuse-to-restArt-work-At-thAi-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Boeung Kak community and a land rights NGO yesterday released a proposed demarcation plan they say could solve the long-standing land dispute. In a map presented yesterday, villagers said they had agreed on a land division that would make room for 70 families locked out <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-boeung-kak-activists-offer-solution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Representatives of a Chinese firm embroiled in a land dispute in Preah Vihear province have destroyed a hectare of rice fields to drive a farmer away, villagers alleged yesterday. according to 45-year-old villager Tem Song, on June 28 six Cambodian and Chinese employees of Roy Feng <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/company-destroyed-rice-field/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ten Phnom Penh residents, accused by police of having been involved in a car and moto theft ring, yesterday saw their charges dropped for lack of evidence. The decision came after a significant portion of the group had spent more than a year behind bars without <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pre-trial-injustice-on-show/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

OSK Holdings Berhad and RHB Capital Berhad have announced the signing of a conditional share purchase agreement to merge their investment banking operations, creating the largest investment bank by assets in Malaysia, an official press release said.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/osk-and-rhb-bank-in-merger-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police threatened workers and fired shots into the air as a dispute involving about 800 Cambodian workers at Phatthana Seafood Co Ltd in Thailand’s Songkhla province escalated yesterday, a workers’ representative said. Sok Sorng said “many police” had threatened workers with guns as more than 1,000 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strikers-claim-shots-fired/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The mental health sector faces a sever lack of funding that could ultimately undermine Cambodia’s development and the governemnt’s own health care goals, concludes a new report by the human rights law center at Fordham University in New York. In a comparative study on Cambodia’s mental <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mental-health-sector-severely-underfunded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>