About 400 young Cambodians and members of the armed forces have launched a campaign calling for an end to violence against women and girls in response to a brutal attack by a real estate tycoon on a former female TV presenter. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/young-cambodians-launch-campaign-to-combat-violence-against-women/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A street seller who beat a Thai tourist to death with a pole outside a restaurant in Koh Kong province’s Khemara Phoumint City on Tuesday night was charged with murder by the provincial court on Wednesday, officials said Thursday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/street-seller-charged-for-beating-thai-tourist-to-death/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs released a statement Thursday expressing its “grave regret” at a joint NGO statement that criticized Prime Minister Hun Sen for a speech in which he referred to an unnamed female protester as a female animal. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-slams-ngos-for-criticism-of-prime-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Every Saturday afternoon, in a room in the Phnom Penh offices of a German political foundation, chairs are arranged in a u-shape. About 50 people, from a range of backgrounds, gather and chit-chat. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/political-forum-builds-cambodias-discussion-culture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An opposition Sam Rainsy Party activist who was badly beaten on September 16 by riot police during a protest against the demolition of homes at Boeng Kak lake filed a complaint yesterday with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against developer Shukaku Inc and the officers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/victim-of-police-beating-files-court-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian maid who recently returned home from work in Malaysia fell ill and died over the weekend, highlighting ongoing concerns over the treatment of impoverished Southeast Asian women who seek work abroad but are often abused by their employers. Kuy Lyda, 17, died at a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maids-death-believed-linked-to-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Four villagers accused of masterminding the theft and intentional damage of property belonging to Cheat Aphiwat Co Ltd in a land dispute will have another month to prepare for trial after right groups Adhoc garnered them a delay yesterday. A village chief and three other villagers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-row-trial-delayed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal yesterday upheld a verdict by Kompong Chhang Provincial Court over a land dispute in Konmpong Tralach district between a 70-year old woman and a company owned by the wife of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy over a 3,000-square-meter parcel href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-upholds-verdict-for-minsters-wifes-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A car belonging to Ly Thida, the director of the Kompong Cham provincial department of economy and finance, was involved in a fatal hit-and-run collision Thursday in the province’s Choeung Prey district, a police official said. District deputy police chief Cheang Se said two people were href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/economic-official-in-k-cham-hit-and-run/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of families from Kratie province’s Snuol district who were promised new plots of land after a Vietnamese rubber firm evicted them last month have complained that provincial officials are allowing hundreds of interlopers to stake a claim instead. The 405 families were evicted from the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-land-dispute-goes-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A fisherman who survived a deadly collision after his boat smashed into a towboat off the south coast earlier this year filed a complaint Tuesday with the Anti-Corruption Unit, accusing a Koh Kong Prov­incial Court judge and his clerk of corruption after the judge allowed href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fisherman-files-anti-corruption-unit-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A war-left mortar round exploded on Friday morning, killing an old woman and seriously injuring five others in northern Kampong Thom province, a provincial military police chief said. “The explosion occurred at 7:40 a.m. local time in Kampong Svay district when a man was hitting href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-woman-dies-5-others-injure-after-old-mortar-shell-explodes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Tycoon Try Pheap has collected an estimated 1,500 cubic metres of timber from Forestry Administration offices since the government in July issued his companies permission to confiscate “waste wood” from their offices and from the Ministry of Environment, according to preliminary government figures obtained by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-releases-data-on-timber-barons-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Greens will attempt to force a vote in the Senate on plans to resettle in Cambodia refugees whose claims for protection are recognised on Nauru and is challenging Labor to block any deal. The party’s immigration spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, is confident any deal with the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/greens-will-try-to-force-senate-vote-on-plans-to-settle-refugees-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 150 garment workers turned out to the Phnom Penh of­fices of the United Sisterhood Alliance NGO on Sunday to watch a politically charged fashion show entitled “Beautiful Clothes, Ugly Reality.” Aimed to highlight “the income gap between Cambodian garment workers and the selected CEOs of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-turn-models-on-political-catwalk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prince Sisowath Thomico, a cousin of King Norodom Sihamoni, strenuously denied a Fresh News report that he was the mastermind behind a group of opposition activists planning to disrupt the July 29 national elections. The report on Monday said that on a recent evening, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prince-thomico-denies-fresh-news-story-that-he-is-leading-group-to-destroy-polls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When Chheung Rattana was married a few years ago, the only thing she and her new husband inherited from their families was a small plot of land to grow rice on. It was a tough start for the newlyweds, who decided that the only way href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microfinance-success-stories-from-the-countryside/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of the Boeung Kak community yesterday submitted a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet, asking the premier to seek a royal pardon to release their jailed representative Tep Vanny, and also solve their outstanding land dispute. According to the petition by eight Boeung Kak href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-rights-activists-want-royal-pardon-for-tep-vanny/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and a microfinance industry insider applauded one of Cambodia’s top 10 MFIs Sathapana Limited, for changing the majority shareholder to a commercial bank. They said it proves a positive and strong funding source is essential for MFIs to peruse their href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/microfinance-deal-applauded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

For the second time in five days, Cambodia’s garment industry has been rocked by another partial collapse of a structure at a factory. Garment workers are reporting that at least 10 people, including a pregnant woman, have been injured after a concrete platform collapsed into a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/accident-rocks-garment-industry-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...