The Council of Ministers on Friday passed a sub-decree on the management of adult entertainment clubs and a draft of a new national housing policy to promote home ownership, a cabinet official said. The new Sub-Decree on Management of adult Entertainment Places, consisting of 25 articles, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-clubs-near-schools-council-of-ministers-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A KAmpong Thom lAndowner wAs stopped by provinciAl officiAls from cleAring A piece of lAnd used As A “spirit forest” by locAl villAgers. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAndowner-unwittingly-begins-cleAring-Ancient-spirit-forest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A Tuol Kork resident Arrested lAst month following A complAint by A powerful businessmAn who wAnts his fAmily’s lAnd wAs releAsed on bAil yesterdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/khun-seAr-disputAnt-set-free-dAughter-denied-bAil/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A tycoon who is building A cAsino And A dAm in OddAr MeAnchy province hAs come under fire for displAcing villAgers &ndAsh; And possibly the militAry. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tycoon-under-fire-for-cAsino-project/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

French engineering firm Systra is underway with a feasibility study to build a tramway from Phnom Penh International airport to the Royal Railway Station, Governor Kep Chuktema said on Friday. The agreement to study a tramway was first made between Systra and City Hall in July <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/french-company-begins-tram-feasibility-study/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A suspect wAs questioned on ThursdAy over A grenAde AttAck on the home of A militAry police officer in KAndAl province’s Mok KAmpoul district, which AppeArs to hAve been motivAted by A dispute over 3 meters of lAnd, police sAid. No one wAs injured when the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/suspect-questioned-over-kAndAl-grenAde-AttAck/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Phnom Penh Municipal Court heard a case on Thursday against a member of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), designated a terrorist group in the Kingdom, for holding a press conference last year in which he called for the government to release political prisoners, with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/member-of-knlf-faces-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A plot of lAnd consisting of 300 hectAres And locAted in O’RAing district hAs been chosen by locAl Authorities for the development of A domestic Airport, sAid Sin ChAnserey VuthA, spokesmAn for SSCA. This plot will now be submitted to the government for ApprovAl. If <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAnd-eArmArked-for-mondulkiris-new-Airport/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The illegal timber trade to Vietnam, a key nexus in a shadow industry worth billions of dollars, has been all but eliminated, an official said yesterday in summarising a new report from the government’s anti-logging commission, a claim met with disbelief by more than one <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/crackdown-halts-illegal-timber-trade-with-vietnam-govt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A bitter dispute over the development of the mAin mArket in RAtAnAkkiri province’s BAnlung City, which hAs pitted the city’s governor AgAinst A well-connected CPP lAwmAker, wAs resolved by the Council of Ministers eArlier this month in fAvor of the complAinAnt, A weAlthy businessmAn who <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/govt-hAnds-down-ruling-in-mArket-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Preparations are underway for the construction of a new border checkpoint to Thailand in Banteay Meanchey province, officials said yesterday. after signing a joint agreement to open a new checkpoint last august for the purpose of boosting bilateral trade, Banteay Meanchey authorities sent a letter to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-border-checkpoint-to-thailand-planned/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A $100 million freshwAter AquArium, pArt of which will be A reseArch And breeding center, is being plAnned for Phnom Penh.​ The project, reveAled in A meeting between Prime Minister Hun Sen And A visiting JApAnese delegAtion from the JApAn-CAmbodiA AssociAtion on FridAy, will be funded <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/100-million-freshwAter-AquArium-plAnned/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A $20 million Ministry of Agriculture progrAmme hAs struggled to meet its goAl of introducing 160 tonnes A dAy of high-quAlity locAlly produced vegetAbles to the mArket, with ministry officiAls sAying thAt As A result of high production costs And pricing issues it wAs currently <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-produce-plAn-comes-up-short/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Former opposition leader Sam Rainsy has been summoned from exile to answer a charge of “treason” over an alleged agreement he made with a pro-Montagnard activist. Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Sieng Sok issued a letter on Thursday to summon Rainsy as a “suspect” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rainsy-summoned-for-treason-over-alleged-montagnard-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Though they live in orphanages, an estimated 13,000 children in facilities across Cambodia have at least one living parent. as part of a sea change in government policy in a country with a checkered history with orphanages, officials in Battambang province on Tuesday kicked off <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/project-aims-to-send-children-in-orphanages-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia National Rescue Party sent a letter on Monday to Interior Minister Sar Kheng asking for clarification on a recently amended prakas that now requires eligible voters to get a police verification letter before a commune chief can attest to their place of residence, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-questions-prakas-on-voter-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forestry police let a vehicle with a half cubic meter of rosewood go Wednesday after border soldiers stopped it in Ou Svay commune in Tropang Prosat district. The vehicle belonged to Rath Sambo, a police officer at the Ministry of Interior who fled the scene, sources <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oddor-meanchey-forestry-police-let-rosewood-shipment-go/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Crown Holdings, a metal packaging company, said this week it would build a second factory in Cambodia to keep up with the Kingdom’s growing beer industry. The Sihanoukville factory, which is expected to produce 725 million aluminium cans a year, will be begin operating in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/second-can-factory-will-cater-to-locals-thirst/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday questioned the jailed daughter of a family locked in a bitter land dispute with tycoon Khun Sear over a complaint alleging that the businessman’s company was involved in an attack in October 2013, when a canvas bag containing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/daughter-of-land-dispute-family-questioned-over-cobra-attack/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A representAtive of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CAbinet yesterdAy Advised 163 fAmilies involved in A 6-yeAr lAnd dispute with A businesswomAn in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district to seek the Justice Ministry’s expertise After the Agriculture Ministry sAid on WednesdAy it hAd swApped the contested <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/After-ministrys-intervention-fAmilies-Ask-hun-sen-for-help/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>