U.S. fast-food chain Burger King is set to open its first restaurant in Cambodia next month, an official confirmed yesterday. advertisements have gone up at the Phnom Penh International airport bearing the famous Burger King logo, with a message saying that the chain is “Coming soon.” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/burger-king-to-open-at-phnom-penh-airport/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

It’s a nearly 300-kilometre stretch of rail in disrepair. More than 60 bridges &ndash; some crumbling, some dotted with landmines at the base &ndash; lie on the line between the towns of Bat Deong, northwest of Phnom Penh, and Sisophan near the Thai border. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/rail-looks-for-new-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Children of imprisoned Boeung Kak lake women pleaded for their mothers’ release outside the Ministry of Justice yesterday. The demonstration, which included more than 200 Boeung Kak residents and activist monk Loun Savath, was held on the eve of International Children’s Day. It also coincided with more <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/boeung-kak-childrens-tearful-plea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Lawyers have called on Cambodia’s anti-Corruption Unit to implement transparent reporting on monetary donations it receives from individual politicians and government groups. During an anti-corruption training session on Friday, they pointed out the incapacitating influence the aCU would face if it tried to investigate a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/acu-donations-in-spotlight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More Cambodian migrant workers headed to South Korea in the first half of this year than in all of 2011, data from the Ministry of Labour shows. a suspension on Vietnamese migration, coupled with an improving Korean economy, primarily accounted for the jump, officials say. Working <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/migrants-to-korea-jump/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Anti-Corruption Unit hAs Arrested A militAry police officer Accused of involvement in An illegAl luxury timber rAcket in PursAt province’s KrAkor district &ndAsh; An AreA where government investigAtors conceded thAt complicity by the powerful wAs rife. On SAturdAy, the Anti-grAft Agency Arrested militAry police officer <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/cop-nAbbed-in-timber-bust/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Trade between Cambodia and South Korea has risen by almost 40 percent in 2012, a South Korean trade official said. Ki Bong-moon manager of the trade and investment unit at the intergovernmental body the asean-Korea Centre, said in an email on Sunday that trade between <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodias-trade-with-south-korea-increasing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forte Insurance, a leading general insurance company in Cambodia, officially launched the region’s first online travel insurance product. Officials and insiders said the product is to serve the growing number of Cambodian outbound tourists. Youk Chamroeunrith, Forte Insurance general manager, told the Post yesterday that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/forte-set-to-insure-travellers-on-the-net/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

One of the first things UN Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi did on his week-long fact-finding mission in Cambodia was visit the grave of slain environmentalist Chut Wutty. It wasn’t on the itinerary, but Subedi, rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, said he wanted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/subedi-shocked-by-evictions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom’s first life insurance company, Cambodian Life, launched yesterday, courting a market almost entirely unfamiliar with the service. Industry insiders said demand for the products would need time to grow. The establishment of Cambodian Life in the Kingdom would develop confidence in the market and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/first-life-insurance-company-launches-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Free Trade Union president Chea Mony has announced that his union will leave the Cambodian Confederation of Unions and sever all ties with its long-time ally, the Cambodian Independent Teachers’ association. In a letter to Minister of Labour Vong Sauth, dated June 27 and obtained by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/free-trade-union-breaks-from-ally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thousands of workers from factories owned by Tai Yang Enterprise in Kandal province’s ang Snuol district blocked National Road 4 for more than seven hours yesterday to push the company to meet their demands. May Sopheaktra said workers decided to block the road after the companytried <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/road-blocked-as-strike-escalates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in DAun Penh district rounded up more thAn 80 homeless people, drug users And prostitutes AheAd of this week’s high-level meetings for AseAn And regionAl delegAtes in Phnom Penh, A district officiAl sAid yesterdAy. District governor Sok SAmbAth sAid thAt the 82 people rounded up <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/dAun-penh-vAgrAnts-rounded-up-prior-to-AseAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Newly-appointed asian Development Bank’s director for Cambodia Eric Sidgwick said Wednesday that promoting inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth that will help improve the quality of life of Cambodians, especially those who are most vulnerable, are his key focus areas. “This is an exciting time to be <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/new-adb-cambodia-director-vows-to-focus-on-inclusive-growth-boosting-partnership/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fourteen Cambodian men jailed in Thailand for drug trafficking or illegal logging have been released in the past week after reaching the end of their sentences, a border official said yesterday. Touch Ra, director of the Chaom Sangam Cambodia-Thailand border checkpoint in Oddar Meanchey province, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/illegal-loggers-trafficker-return/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia on Monday broke ground for the construction of a 19-million-U.S.-dollar flyover in Phnom Penh’s southwestern part to meet the growing number of vehicles. Prime Minister Hun Sen said it will take 28 months to complete the construction of the 429-meter flyover. “The sky bridge will not <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-breaks-ground-for-3rd-flyover-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

China has reportedly dispatched embassy officials to investigate a major breach at the Chinese-built Stung atai dam in Pusat province on Saturday, which swept away four men, three of whom are still missing. Yang Tian Yue, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh, told local <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/chinese-officials-to-dam-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday criticized the Cambodian News Channel (CNC) for broadcasting an interview with an NGO worker who had claimed on air that the large number of illegal Cambodian workers to Thailand was due to high cost of obtaining a Cambodian passport. Speaking at <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-denounces-televised-comments-on-passport-fees/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rights group Adhoc hAs requested thAt the government cAncel economic lAnd concessions held by two VietnAmese compAnies in RAtAnAkkiri province’s O’YAdAw district, on the grounds thAt the firms Are logging And exporting wood illegAlly. “Adhoc cAlls on the RoyAl Government of CAmbodiA to immediAtely cAncel the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/Adhoc-requests-cAncellAtion-of-2-vietnAmese-lAnd-concessions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Finance Minister Keat Chhon an­nounced a new plan on Thursday to cut down on rampant state corruption by dispersing three-quarters of non-tax revenue to ministries and their employees as financial “rewards.” With anti-Corruption Unit chief Om Yentieng by his side, Mr. Chhon laid out the bare <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/finance-ministry-to-tackle-graft-with-rewards/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>