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

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

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

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 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/competitiveness-rAnking-slips/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnong-rAlly-in-mondulkiri/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

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

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

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

Malaysian company PMTI Energy (Cambodia) Co has signed a 10-year deal to supply Electricite du Cambodge with 48,000 megawatts of energy derived from rice husks every year. Phou Puy, president of PMTI, told the Post yesterday that about 70 per cent of the power generated from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rice-husks-to-pump-energy-to-the-grid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a scene that has become all too familiar over the past year, a group of five fishermen who had endured more than a year in forced labour on a Thai fishing vessel returned to an emotional reunion with their families in Phnom Penh last <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/relief-tales-of-abuse-as-fishermen-return/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Desperate for a flutter during a junta crackdown on gambling at home, Thais are making a beeline for casinos in a seedy Cambodian border town &mdash; which has already been deluged by migrants also fleeing the kingdom. For over a decade Poipet, a scruffy, vice-ridden frontier <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thais-hit-cambodia-casinos-to-sidestep-junta-betting-blitz/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Security forces shot and killed a 15-year-old girl on Wednesday during a clash with about 200 villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-police-officers-kill-girl-15-in-clash-with-villagers-over-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s embassy in Malaysia yesterday denied pressuring domestic workers from the Kingdom into renewing their visas, after rights groups told the Post last week that the embassy exploited a legal loophole to keep maids in the country. The statement came as a Malaysian employers association, which has observed the drafting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/embassy-defends-handling-of-maids/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The US ambassador at large for Global Women’s Issues &ndash; an office in the US State Department &ndash; met with five of the Boeung Kak lake female activists on Saturday in a sidelines meeting of a Lower Mekong gender policy dialogue. “It was a full <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-hears-boeung-kak-women/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

 Phnom Penh Authorities decided to extend the curfew for Another week from todAy till MAy 27, with stricter enforcement. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/phnom-penh-extends-curfew-for-Another-week-to-curb-covid-19-spreAd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

There were 811 cases of forest crimes, land grabs, and illegal hunting of wildlife reported last year, and of the number 320 involved in forest crimes were fined while another 491 were taken to court. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-that-800-forest-crimes-land-grabs-and-illegal-wildlife-hunting-reported-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Royal Government of Cambodia’s total public debt stock is at $9.81 billion consisting of 68 percent from Bilateral Developing Partners (DPs) and 32 percent from Multilateral DPs, according to Cambodia’s Public Debt Situation at the end of Q1 2022. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-public-debt-at-9-81-billion-says-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Concerned over the rising use of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) among Cambodian youth and the health risks these products pose, the Ministry of Education on Friday issued guidelines to prevent the sale and use of these products in public and private educational institutions. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/moh-issues-guidelines-to-prevent-e-cigarettes-use/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Defence Minister General Tea Seiha will hold talks with his Vietnamese counterpart General Phan Van Giang on strengthening friendly relations and cooperation between the two armies and peoples. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/defence-minister-in-vietnam-to-boost-military-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Heng Sour, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, on October 25, met with US ambassador to Cambodia Patrick Murphy at the Ministry. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-continues-to-support-cambodia-in-the-areas-of-employment-social-security-and-vocational-training/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>