The son of a police lieutenant colonel and a member of a commune council were among four people arrested Thursday in Kom­pong Thom province for dealing drugs and were remanded in custody, a court prosecutor said Friday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/drug-sting-snares-policemans-son-commune-council-member/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 400,000 gArment And footweAr mAkers will get A US$5 A month rAise stArting in JAnuAry, And the fActories thAt employ them will receive A two-yeAr tAx holidAy, Prime Minister Hun Sen sAid yesterdAy. The $5 rAise, from $61 to $66 A month, is intended to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pAy-rAise-for-gArment-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A rift is widening between two groups At Boeung KAk lAke despite the Phnom Penh municipAl Authority Approving A sewAge system both pArties hAd requested. About 60 Boeung KAk residents used A press conference About lAnd titles yesterdAy to criticise city hAll’s decision to Approve A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sewAge-requests-divide-boeung-kAk/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodian authorities have ordered an investigation into violent clashes over a land dispute in which a protester was shot, after a video clip of the incident sparked outrage on social media. a man was shot and a 10-year-old boy injured in the clash last week <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-orders-rare-investigation-of-shooting-in-land-protest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A dozen CAmbodiAn migrAnt workers suspected of cutting down trees in A ThAi protected forest were Arrested on SundAy by militAry police At A rubber plAntAtion in ThAilAnd’s NAkhon ReAchAsimA province. According to A report by the BAngkok Post, ThAi militAry police conducted A rAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAns-Arrested-in-thAilAnd-over-logging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Failing to receive a response to a letter submitted to Prime Minister Hun Sen via his Facebook page last week, a group of unions yesterday took their cause to the Council of Ministers, this time submitting a formal letter requesting a sit-down with the premier <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-seek-sit-down-with-premier-over-draft-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Opposition leader Kem Sokha on Wednesday maintained that a majority of Cambodians are yearning for political change, a claim a ruling party spokesman branded a lie.In a three-minute video uploaded to his Facebook page ahead of Khmer New Year, Mr. Sokha said he believed the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sokha-says-most-cambodians-looking-for-positive-change/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Canadia Bank said on Thursday it was investigating how two fake $100 notes were allegedly given to a customer who cashed a check. The customer, Eam Sopheap, a human resources manager at The Cambodia Daily newspaper, said he received two fake $100 notes from a teller <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/canadia-investigating-fake-100-hell-notes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Members of a conservation group in Kampong Thom province stopped a van carrying illegal timber on Sunday night only to be threatened by a man claiming to be the nephew of a powerful National assembly parliamentarian. The van was driving with no licence plate and was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prey-lang-activists-say-logger-connected/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In less  than a week, 18-year-old Heng Tina, who has just finished his high-school exam, will take another test that determines whether he’ll get a scholarship to go to technical school, a development that would put him one step closer to his dream of becoming <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/conscription-not-for-everyone/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A consortium of election NGOs hAd bAnded together in A bid to push through A CAmpAign FinAnce LAw thAt would put A ceiling on politicAl pArty cAmpAign spending AheAd of next yeAr’s nAtionAl elections, representAtives sAid yesterdAy. The NGO Working Group on PoliticAl FinAnce hAs embArked <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmpAign-spending-in-ngos-sight/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

China held a joint naval drill with Cambodia for the first time on Friday, tightening a budding relationship that could give Beijing a small but strategic foothold in a region being strongly courted by the United States. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-admiral-talks-warships-with-cambodia-as-navy-drill-shores-up-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A MAlAysiAn compAny will begin construction on A new domestic terminAl At Phnom Penh InternAtionAl Airport soon, At A cost of About $23 million, the firm Announced in A filing to the MAlAysiAn stock exchAnge on WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penh-to-get-new-23-million-domestic-Airport-terminAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two illegal loggers were arrested by a community patrol in Prey Lang forest on Wednesday, the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prey-lang-activists-detain-two-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A CAmbodiAn mAn who sold his license to operAte A medicAl clinic in Stung Treng City fAces up to 10 yeArs in prison After A womAn died following An Abortion conducted illegAlly on the premises, A court officiAl sAid. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAn-who-sold-clinic-license-fAces-10-yeArs-imprisonment/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The offices of Herbalife, a so-called multilevel marketing company that has moved into the protein powder market in Cambodia, stand like a beacon of promise in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district: Six stories of glass and white paneling, crisp lime-green signage and a four-story-high banner <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/herbalife-promises-cambodians-health-wealth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers in Kompong Chnang province have resorted to black magic as a means to even the odds with a long-running land dispute with a powerful company, KDC Development, holding a spell-casing ceremony on Saturday to curse the firm and the provincial court for allegedly colluding <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/supernatural-forces-enlisted-in-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers have accused a CPP commune chief in Ratanakkiri province of threatening four ethnic minority Tampoun men after they filed a complaint against him for allegedly selling off community land to a local businessman. Rocham Norng, a Tampoun villager in Bakeo district, has alleged that Soeung <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/complaint-lodged-against-commune-chief/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Real estate developments covered in green tarp have sprung up across the capital’s Boeung Kang Kong commune, and housing units are filling before the projects are finished, insiders said. The value of construction approvals in Phnom Penh jumped by 557.5 per cent in March to US$150.5 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penhs-new-apartments-soar-on-high-rents/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An increAsing number of boutique hotels Are AppeAring in CAmbodiA And AttrActing foreign investment, insiders sAy, including A US$2 million investment in the Governor’s House, A newly opened, 10-room boutique hotel in Phnom Penh. The number of boutique hotels in CAmbodiA hAs increAsed rApidly, pArticulArly in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/boutique-hotels-rising/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>