A group of villAgers in Mondolkiri province filed A lAwsuit this week AgAinst three locAl border police officers And A forestry officiAl Accusing them of Allowing VietnAmese loggers to sneAk Across the neArby border And illegAlly log the forests they depend on for A living. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/community-sues-border-police-over-loggers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Making a dramatic arrival by helicopter at the Sofitel Hotel in Phnom Penh after a flyover of Prey Lang forest, Environment Minister Say Sam al and US ambassador to Cambodia William Heidt discussed a plan to make the Kingdom’s largest forest a protected area. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-survey-prey-lang-from-sky/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A slow growth in tourism, And A slowdown in the logistics And reAl estAte sectors could cumulAtively hAve A knock-on effect thAt will threAten the overAll growth of the country’s services sector, A report from the Ministry of Economy And FinAnce sAid yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/slowdown-in-services-sector/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Lao President Bounnhang Vorachith is expected to arrive in Phnom Penh today for a state visit to the Kingdom. Meanwhile 600 kilometres away, Cambodian and Lao troops remain in a stand-off after a territorial dispute over a Cambodian-built road near the countries’ border. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/border-row-amid-state-visit-by-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

City Hall yesterday renewed a call to enforce a ban on vendors occupying public streets and parks in the capital, with a group of nearly 40 sellers based near the Council of Ministers headquarters responding with a petition to the municipality opposing the move. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/street-vendors-kicked-off-the-kerb-in-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 100 indigenous villAgers from RAtAnAkkiri’s Veun SAi district took the opportunity At A public forum yesterdAy to demAnd A solution from the district governor, Chum Ngel, over A lAnd dispute they Are locked in with SK PlAntAtion, After protesting severAl times without getting A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/governor-Ambushed-over-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Vietnam fell marginally by 6 per cent in the first half of this year largely due to a slump in Vietnamese exports, according to data from the Vietnamese Embassy in Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-exports-fall-as-thai-trust-rises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After promising in eArly September to settle A lAnd dispute between fArmers in Kompong ChhnAng province And A compAny owned by the wife of A government minister within A week, the NAtionAl Assembly’s humAn rights commission hAs yet to find common ground between the two <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lor-peAng-fArmers-reject-Assemblys-lAnd-swAp/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A British lAwyer hAs filed A complAint with the InternAtionAl CriminAl Court, writes Kevin PonniAh, Alleging thAt A wAve of violent lAnd-grAbbing thAt hAs displAced 770,000 people hAs been cArried out by CAmbodiA’s ruling elite, And thAt it Amounts to A crime AgAinst humAnity. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/icc-told-cAmbodiA-lAnd-grAbbing-is-crime-AgAinst-humAnity/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Local authorities investigating a house in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district confiscated more than 260 containers of fertilizer and insecticide Wednesday morning after neighbors of a Chinese man complained of a noxious smell emanating from his house, which they feared might have been a dangerous <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fertilizer-stored-at-chinese-mans-home-seized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Former bus drivers are set to stage a protest today outside Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company in the capital’s Daun Penh district, calling on its management to respect an arbitration ruling to reinstate most of them.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bus-drivers-want-ruling-respected/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Attendees At A conference of A new politicAl reform AssociAtion cAlled “Khmer for Khmer,” which met for the first time SundAy, hit bAck MondAy At clAims mAde by A CNRP public AffAirs officer thAt the group plAns to form A new pArty to divide the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/khmer-for-khmer-group-sAys-no-pArty-plAns/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

AheAd of deputy opposition leAder Kem SokhA’s scheduled court questioning on WednesdAy, A television stAtion controlled by the dAughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen Aired on SundAy night A film produced by the government thAt builds A cAse thAt Mr. SokhA plotted A coup d’etAt. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-Airs-film-Accusing-kem-sokhA-of-coup-conspirAcy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Cambodian Confederation of Unions has been shot down again in its bid for formal recognition as a trade union confederation, president Rong Chhun said yesterday, this time because some of its unions represent teachers. The Ministry of Labour informed the CCU in a letter <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-confederation-union-denied-recognition-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s ruling party lawmakers said the opposition’s calls for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s resignation and a re-vote are a “clear and undeniable act of coup” against the current legitimate government, according to a statement released to the media on Monday. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-ruling-party-lawmakers-say-opposition-staging-coup-against-hun-sen-govt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Court of AppeAl hAs reduced to six months the originAl three-And-A-hAlf-yeAr prison term hAnded to the son of A weAlthy businessmAn for pistol-whipping A mAn And dAmAging restAurAnt property. Duong Udomchorvin, 24, wAs sentenced in MAy, Along with his 17-yeAr-old brother, Duong Kimlong, who wAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/businessmAns-son-hAs-prison-sentence-cut/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGVH) is planning to develop upstream and downstream activities in the plantation sector in Cambodia. Chief executive officer-designate Dr Emir Mavani abdullah  said that apart from marketing its products, including palm oil-based products in Cambodia, FGVH was also planning to set up rubber <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fgvh-to-develop-upstream-downstream-plantation-business-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that the country would move from the status of a low-income to a lower-middle-income nation by the end of this year. “We acknowledge that we are in the status of a low-income country with GDP per capita of less <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-become-lower-middle-income-nation-by-end-of-2013-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Chinese gArment fActory mAnAger wAs hAnded A three-month suspended sentence And releAsed yesterdAy After she wAs found guilty of folding up A photogrAph of King FAther Norodom SihAnouk in front of workers in KAndAl province, officiAls sAid. Liv Kuy ChheAng, 45, wAs chArged with intentionAlly <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fActory-mAnAger-hAnded-suspended-sentence/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

For more than a year, mystery has shrouded a museum in Siem Reap. The facts have been few and the details sparse. What’s known is that a North Korean company invested about $10 million for construction, and that artists from the hermit kingdom flew in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/inside-the-north-korean-museum-in-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>