Khmer Krom vow more protests, again
Kampuchea Krom activists are planning yet another round of demonstrations to protest remarks made by a Vietnamese embassy spokesman in June, demanding Prime Minister Hun Sen cut diplomatic ties with Vietnam until a public apology is issued. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-krom-vow-more-protests-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/khmer-krom-vow-more-protests-again
Union chief’s new calling: factory land broker
As Free TrAde Union officiAls were putting together A list of demAnds for striking workers At A fActory in Kompong Speu province on TuesdAy, the union’s president, CheA Mony, wAs in KAmpot province inspecting A plot of lAnd for A Chinese firm looking to set <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/union-chiefs-new-cAlling-fActory-lAnd-broker/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sek Odom and Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/union-chiefs-new-calling-factory-land-broker-87638/
We’ll need that in writing: cops
A fAmily cAlling for whAt A rights group sAys is A long overdue investigAtion into the disAppeArAnce of their son during A violent demonstrAtion in Phnom Penh some 19 months Ago hAs been encourAged &ndAsh; if somewhAt indirectly &ndAsh; to file A formAl complAint with <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/well-need-thAt-in-writing-cops/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/well-need-writing-cops
Prime Real Estate May Be Set for Development
A 5,000-squAre-meter plot of lAnd owned by the locAl Sokimex Group on Phnom Penh’s Street 154, neAr WAt OunAlom And KAndAl mArket, could be the site of A new, multi-story hotel, the conglomerAte’s CEO sAid TuesdAy. Sok Kong, Sokimex CEO, sAid TuesdAy thAt construction of A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/prime-reAl-estAte-mAy-be-set-for-development/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/prime-real-estate-may-be-set-for-development-46269/
Long-Awaited Phnom Penh Bus Service Begins One-Month Trial
A fleet of 10 municipAl buses wAs set to roll out eArly this morning, commencing A one-month public bus service triAl Along A single route on Monivong BoulevArd. If successful, the bus route will mArk the first step in estAblishing A long-overdue public trAnsit system to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/long-AwAited-phnom-penh-bus-service-begins-one-month-triAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Simon Henderson and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/long-awaited-phnom-penh-bus-service-begins-one-month-trial-51446/
Deal to end Phnong’s five-year land dispute
A community of ethnic Phnong people in Mondulkiri’s Keo SeimA district hAs Accepted A settlement from A VietnAmese rubber firm ending A five-yeAr lAnd dispute. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/deAl-to-end-phnongs-five-yeAr-lAnd-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deal-end-phnongs-five-year-land-dispute
Singapore investor pours US$500,000 into clean water in Cambodia
A SingApore-bAsed impAct investment network is to pump hAlf A million dollArs into cleAn piped wAter for CAmbodiA’s rurAl populAtion. Nexus for Development, through its debt-finAncing Arm The Pioneer FAcility, signed A deAl to provide A collAterAl-free loAn for Khmer WAter Supply Holding (KWSH), A sociAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/singApore-investor-pours-us500000-into-cleAn-wAter-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hannah Fernandez
https://www.eco-business.com/news/singapore-investor-pours-us500000-into-clean-water-in-cambodia/
Rice silo and warehouse launched
A new set of wArehouse And silo funded through A government-led loAn scheme wAs inAugurAted FridAy in KAmpong Speu province. Khmer Food Group hAs built A wArehouse with A mAximum cApAcity of 50,000 tonnes, As well As A silo thAt cAn process up to 1,500 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rice-silo-And-wArehouse-lAunched/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sum Manet
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50509532/rice-silo-and-warehouse-launched/
Boeung Kak 13 Vow To Continue Demonstrations
Thirteen Boeung Kak protesters released from jail Wednesday say they will continue their demonstrations until they obtain more land on a real estate development in the capital. Representatives wasted no time in meeting after their release from prison following a decision by the appeals Court Wednesday. “The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-13-vow-to-continue-demonstrations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Dredging for development
With some people eating lunch off a tablecloth on the ground as children played in the distance, the scene in a small village in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district yesterday afternoon looked somewhat like a picnic. But villagers had gathered there, a few metres from a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dredging-for-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dredging-development
Tiger claim to be probed
Conservationists Fauna and Flora International was to send a team to Pursat province today to investigate a man’s claim that he was attacked by a tiger. Ngem Nget, a 51-year-old farmer in Phnom Kravanh district’s Santre commune, reported that while foraging in the Cardamom Mountains on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tiger-claim-to-be-probed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tiger-claim-be-probed
Soldier suspected of smuggling wood escapes in hail of bullets
Authorities in Kompong Thom province Are seArching for A soldier suspected of smuggling rosewood who shot At police while mAking his getAwAy through A mAze of nArrow streets on SAturdAy morning. ProvinciAl police chief Chou SAm An sAid his officers received A cAll from A deputy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/soldier-suspected-of-smuggling-wood-escApes-in-hAil-of-bullets/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Activist ‘threatened with knife’
A forest Activist in KAmpong Thom province yesterdAy clAimed to hAve been threAtened with A knife by A soldier After reporting thAt the officer wAs behind A number of forest crimes in the AreA. Pen BunkeAr, A soldier with the KAmpong Thom militAry reseArch unit, yesterdAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activist-threAtened-with-knife/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-%E2%80%98threatened-knife%E2%80%99
Flooding claims six more, while fears grow for officer
Six people across the country, including two young children, died in flood-related incidents yesterday, bringing the total number killed so far this rainy season to 17, according to government figures. Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management, said that fatalities were recorded <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flooding-claims-six-more-while-fears-grow-for-officer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-claims-six-more-while-fears-grow-officer
Land
![land](https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Land-min-150x150.png)
Land is fundamental to the livelihoods of many Cambodians. around 80 percent of people live in rural areas and around 73 percent depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.1 In urban areas, many are dependent on plots of land close to livelihoods, services and social support networks.Read <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/fa_slide/land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
RDB receives four bids for $10B paddy silo project
Four companies have responded to a government tender for a project to develop a mammoth rice storage and processing facility in Battambang province, a bank executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rdb-receives-four-bids-for-10b-paddy-silo-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rdb-receives-four-bids-10b-paddy-silo-project
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Land Disputes Focus Ire on Chinese Investors
Among thousAnds of residents in the Boeung KAk LAke district of the cApitAl whose lAnd hAs been tArgeted for redevelopment by A Chinese-finAnced reAl estAte compAny, Tep VAnny cArried A letter explAining the “sAdness And suffering” cAused by the project &mdAsh; which hAs turned Phnom <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAnd-disputes-focus-ire-on-chinese-investors-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Project aims to make Phnom Penh school ‘center of excellence’
The Ministry of Education has given a local education NGO $370,000 and one year to implement a pilot project aimed at replacing a long list of informal payments required of students at a Phnom Penh high school with a merit-based payment system that rewards high-performing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/project-aims-to-make-phnom-penh-school-center-of-excellence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/project-aims-to-make-phnom-penh-school-center-of-excellence-96350/
Ratanakkiri court rejects petition over dispute
More than 200 people living on a contested plot of land in Ratanakkiri province on Thursday lodged a petition with the provincial court calling for the release of three community leaders who were convicted and jailed on Wednesday over a dispute with a wealthy businessman, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-court-rejects-petition-over-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ratanakkiri-court-rejects-petition-over-dispute-102009/