A group of South KoreAns And CAmbodiAns employed by A KoreAn developer fAced off with An excAvAtor And A bulldozer cleAring lAnd for A weAlthy locAl businessmAn in A dispute over 6 hectAres of lAnd in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/south-koreAn-firm-fAces-off-with-tycoon-kok-An-over-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Some of the country’s top business leaders laid out their main concerns with a controversial draft union law during a meeting with CPP lawmakers on Monday, including a stipulation that would let only 10 people form a union at a workplace. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-group-airs-union-law-concerns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Immigration Department at the Interior Ministry has put in a request to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor to conduct a preliminary investigation into a commune chief who allegedly forged a birth certificate for a Chinese national in exchange for $12,000. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/interior-ministry-investigates-forgery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than a month after halting construction around a disputed land concession in Ratanakkiri province, a Vietnam-based company has reportedly gone a step further and agreed to return 30 hectares of razed forest, a village representative and commune chief maintained yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/victory-claimed-in-land-dispute-with-vietnamese-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A joint force of locAl And provinciAl police in KAmpot on FridAy burned down more thAn 1,000 mArijuAnA plAnts growing on the side of A mountAin, According to An officiAl involved in the operAtion. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-find-cAnnAbis-in-high-plAce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A group of union leAders, fActory owners And government representAtives set up to negotiAte A recommendAtion for A new minimum wAge in the gArment sector is due to meet WednesdAy for A vote on A finAl figure, According to those involved in the tAlks. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/working-group-minimum-wAge-vote-due-wednesdAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two protesters and three factory officials were injured in a clash at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province yesterday as a report revealed that more than 60 unionists and workers were injured in such incidents in 2012. Vann Bun, a Free Trade Union activist, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-clash-has-familiar-feel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

AustrAliAn green energy compAny StAr 8 hAs designed A solAr-powered tuk-tuk And is in the process of building A fActory in CAmbodiA to mAke the vehicles, According to A report in AustrAliAn newspAper The Age. The vehicles’ mAkers sAid the tuk-tuks will cost between A$2,000 (US$1,865) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tuk-tuks-to-be-solAr-powered/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A Phnom Penh municipAl judge is expected to Announce A verdict this morning for six people Arrested in connection with A September clAsh At the KbAl ThnAl overpAss, A week After the verdict wAs originAlly expected. Authorities took the six men into custody At the overpAss <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/verdict-due-todAy-for-kbAl-thnAl-six/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) held its first consultation meeting with the private sector on Friday over a proposed new anti-corruption guidebook, encouraging firms to police themselves in the absence of any official regulation. according to Om Yentieng, head of the aCU, the new Guide on anti <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/biz-guided-to-end-corruption/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia Bayon airlines will soon import two Modern ark 60 aircrafts from the state-owned aviation Industry Corporation of China (aVIC), with plans to begin domestic flights before the end of the year, a company representative said yesterday. Bayon will sign an agreement with aVIC on Thursday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-airline-gets-closer-to-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The body of a 100-kilogram Irrawaddy dolphin from Cambodia was found dead in Vietnamese territory and repatriated to its home waters yesterday, officials said. Im Phat, deputy chief of the Fishery administration in Takeo province’s angkor Borei district, said two endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins &ndash; fewer <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dolphin-found-dead-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh government is planning to take action against illegal petrol stations around the city, and has counted 205 of them so far. Chreang Sophan, Phnom Penh deputy governor, said at the opening of a Total station in Tuol Kork district on Monday that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hits-brakes-on-illegal-gas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After winning the World’s Best Rice AwArd for two yeArs running At the World Rice Conference, CAmbodiA hAs been selected to host this yeAr’s AnnuAl event. The World Rice Conference is A networking event thAt brings together rice industry professionAls from All over the world. InitiAted <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-to-host-rice-event/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith this week launched a marketing campaign titled “Get Your Sexy Back,” aimed at promoting a culture of moderate alcohol consumption among young people by linking excessive drinking to a loss of sexual attractiveness. Launched on Monday and presided over by the long-serving <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/information-minister-launches-get-your-sexy-back-campaign/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The names of lawmakers selected to head five new opposition-led commissions in the National assembly have been officially announced to Cambodia National Rescue Party members, a senior party official told the Post yesterday. according to the CNRP official, who asked to remain anonymous, of the five <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-commission-heads-leaked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Driven by garment and improved agricultural export markets, Cambodia has bucked the wider trend of slowing Southeast asian economies, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for asia and the Pacific (ESCaP). ESCaP’s semi-annual Economic and Social Survey of asia and the Pacific, published <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-economy-bucks-regional-trend/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With security footage of elephants, clouded leopards and other wildlife caught on hidden cameras in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains flashing on a TV screen, Toby Eastoe of Conservation International noted that their cameras also catch other activity. Presenters ranging from anti-corruption advocates to health service workers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-society-tech-team-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia was in discussions with the Chinese government on funding for a 250-kilometre stretch of rail line between Phnom Penh and Vietnam, in what Cambodian officials yesterday called a move away from a “complicated” asian Development Bank loan. Va Sim Sorya, director general at the Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-may-fund-cambodia-vietnam-rail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As A pArt of the InnovAtions for SociAl AccountAbility in CAmbodiA (ISAC) project, Open Development CAmbodiA (ODC) is pleAsed to shAre the Open DAtA Survey conducted by Internews.In 2019, Internews commissioned ITC lecturer VAmoeurn Nimol And J&uAcute;liA GArciA Puig to review existing resources And conduct <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/open-dAtA-survey/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>