International market- research company TNS has announced the opening of the company’s first office in Cambodia, and has joined forces with MSD, a Cambodian market and social research firm that is a “long-standing partner”, an official company statement said. Ralf Matthaes has been appointed regional managing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tns-launches-new-office-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ratanakkiri provincial prosecutor on Monday filed a complaint with the appeal Court against a decision made by the province’s investigating judge, San Bunthoeun, to release a Vietnamese timber trader, a court spokesman said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-loggers-release-appealed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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The CPP has filed a complaint to a commune election committee in Takeo province alleging that a group of CNRP supporters obstructed a ruling party parade of about 400 supporters on Saturday, officials said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-complains-of-cnrp-march/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Transparency International Cambodia yesterday presented findings of a recent scathing report on corruption to the newly formed parliamentary anti-corruption commission. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-positive-na-wants-to-tackle-corruption/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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Local officials apologized yesterday to the Vietnamese owners of a rubber plantation in this northwestern province, after a dispute with local residents spiraled out of control a day earlier with angry villagers setting a company building aflame.  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/furious-villagers-respond-with-flames/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

All but A hAndful of foreign journAlists on stAff At The Phnom Penh Post, CAmbodiA’s lAst remAining independent dAily newspAper, resigned on WednesdAy. Citing differences over the meAning of “editoriAl independence,” they quit within dAys After new owners fired its editor-in-chief who refused to remove A published <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/At-cAmbodiAs-lAst-independent-newspAper-top-editor-fired-foreign-journAlists-quit/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia attracted 333,900 Chinese tourists last year, a 35 percent rise compared with 247, 200 Chinese visitors in a year earlier, according to a report of the Ministry of Tourism on Tuesday. “We see a steady rise of Chinese tourists to Cambodia from year to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-greets-333900-chinese-tourists-in-2012-up-35-pct/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ministry of Social affairs officials yesterday conducted a meeting between the owners of a factory, which produces clothing for H&amp;M, Gap and Levi Strauss, and its workers, but threatened to file a complaint against the Coalition of Cambodian apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCaWDU), union representatives <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-meets-striking-union-representatives/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Both the National assembly and the Constitutional Council of Cambodia, the highest legal authority in the land, convened closed-door meetings Thursday during which they decided not to reinstate opposition leader Sam Rainsy as a voter and parliamentary candidate for Sunday’s national election. according to a copy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsys-last-minute-efforts-to-run-rebuffed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has a response to teachers’ request for health insurance: We’ll provide it if you buy it. at a meeting in Takeo province this past weekend, the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ association (CITa) said an upcoming teacher strike would include health insurance on the list of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/benefits-for-teachers-not-yet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Property prices in Phnom Penh’s prime residential locations increased by 13.7 per cent in the first half of 2014, while prime office development land prices increased by 7.6 per cent, according to Knight Frank Prime asia Development Land Indices. Ross Wheble, the independent global property consultancy’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/first-half-sees-values-spike-for-prime-residential-areas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Six economic land concessionaires in Preah Vihear and Oddar Meanchey provinces have had their contracts to supply the government with wood to build housing for soldiers and their families cancelled. In 2011, after the conflict with Thailand over the Preah Vihear temple, the government encouraged the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/logging-deals-cancelled/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

British conservation group Fauna &amp; Flora International says it has captured the first image of a yellow-bellied weasel in Cambodia under a joint initiative with Oxford University. In a statement released Wednesday, the group said researchers led by FFI field biologist Channa Phan were conducting a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shock-and-awe-as-yellow-bellied-weasel-found-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In an effort to “clean” Phnom Penh’s streets ahead of the coming Pchum Ben celebrations, authorities in Daun Penh district yesterday rounded up 27 homeless people. Kim Vutha, district security chief, told the Post that authorities conducted the roundup in Wat Phnom, Srah Chak, Boeung Raing and Chey <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/holiday-brings-street-sweeps/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The battle for subscriber numbers rages on in the still-clustered Cambodian mobile market. Smart Mobile this week announced it passed the 3 million-subscriber mark, which would make it Cambodia’s second-largest operator by subscriber numbers after Vietnam’s Metfone. Numbers obtained by the Post showed Cellcard with a consecutive <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/telcos-still-vie-for-subscribers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two thousand five hundred &ndash; for Mom Dalin, this is more than just a random number or the price of a coffee, it is her way of making a living. The 55-year-old sits at a small desk in her son’s shop on Sihanouk Boulevard, within sight <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/discount-shops-attracting-crowds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers in Koh Kong province involved in a land dispute with a Chinese company received notice on Saturday that the local government will soon implement a court order kicking them off their land, officials and a villager said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eviction-date-draws-nearer-for-koh-kong-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>