During a three-day visit to Cambodia, UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Director Debora Comini met with ministry officials and development partners to enhance efforts to end violence against children and end unnecessary family separation. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unicef-urges-govt-to-enhance-efforts-to-end-child-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Protesters, including a band of angry monks, clashed with military and riot police on Thursday in Phnom Penh as authorities tried to prevent a local housing rights group from carrying out a rally against forced evictions. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a coalition of five local href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-eviction-protesters-clash-with-security-forces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A massive Chinese steel firm, with which Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a $2 billion deal to build a steel mill in September, has formed a subsidiary company in Cambodia, according to a company announcement. Delong Holdings Limited, which is listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange but has href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-steel-giant-gets-ready-for-cambodian-arm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Cambodian worker that took place on Monday outside a factory in Thailand’s Songkhla province, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said yesterday. Phan Chem, a representative of Cambodian workers at Siam International Food Co said a 19-year-old worker href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/questions-raised-over-migrant-worker-death/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A military police commander has filed a complaint against a Forestry Administration chief whom he accuses of wrongly sending authorities to search a truck suspected of transporting illegally logged luxury wood, officials said yesterday. When Forestry Administration officials searched the truck at a military police base in Kompong Thom province on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commmander-files-complaint-against-forestry-chief/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-corpse-is-not-from-vn-villager/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japan-firms-link-up-to-offer-leasing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bounced-cheques-causing-concern/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investor-decries-export-tax-on-cambodian-seafood/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/u-n-official-calls-for-end-to-political-gridlock-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/another-deceived-bride-repatriated-from-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/beggars-set-for-prey-speu-city/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kandal-property-bought-up-before-bridge-announcement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/results-of-agriculture-census-out/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smart-posts-midyear-gains/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/competitiveness-ranking-slips/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnong-rally-in-mondulkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/koh-kong-villagers-seek-pms-help-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Dy Vichea – son of the late National Police chief Hok Lundy and son-in-law to Prime Minister Hun Sen – 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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/key-post-to-pms-son-in-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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 – and that it is set to be href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/modern-abbatoir-under-way-for-australian-cattle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...