Another witness to the fAtAl shootings of environmentAl Activist Chut Wutty And militAry police officer In RAttAnA wAs questioned At Koh Kong ProvinciAl Court yesterdAy. Bou Orn is the third employee of logging compAny Timbergreen &ndAsh; A firm Chut Wutty wAs investigAting for Alleged illegAl logging <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/chut-wutty-slAying-witness-questioned/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Authorities in Stung Treng province hAve releAsed the nAmes of five government officiAls whom they Arrested on TuesdAy in SAmki commune for interfering with A corps of youth volunteers sent to meAsure lAnd As pArt of the prime minister’s nAtionAl initiAtive to grAnt property to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/officiAls-nAmed-After-blocking-volunteers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Drought has been hitting 11 out of the 24 cities and provinces in Cambodia and affecting tens of thousands of hectares of rice seedlings, Keo Vy, spokesman and chief of the Cabinet of the National Committee for Disaster Management, said Thursday The drought-hit provinces are Kampong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/drought-hits-11-provinces-in-cambodia-spokesman/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Work has resumed on a controversial $3.5 billion dam across the Mekong River in Laos, its Thai developer said on Thursday, contradicting Laotian assurances it had been suspended following protests over its environmental impact. Laos agreed in December to suspend the Xayaburi dam project and said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/work-restarts-at-xayaburi-dam-in-laos-project-leader/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Toll Royal Railways signed two freight logistics agreements with Siam Concrete Group and United Logistics and Distribution at their offices in Phnom Penh’s Central Railway Station yesterday. SCG Cambodia contracted TRR for the transport and warehousing for bagged cement from Touk Meas in Kampot province to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/toll-royal-railways-expands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A leAding globAl provider of finAnciAl services technology solutions, todAy Announced thAt ACLEDA BAnk Plc. (ACLEDA), the lArgest bAnk in CAmbodiA, hAs extended its ACLEDA Unity mobile bAnking And pAyments service to new, untApped consumer segments using Mobiliti ReAch&trAde; from Fiserv. The bAnk, which hAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/AcledA-bAnk-plc-extends-mobile-finAnciAl-services-to-new-segments-with-mobiliti-reAch-from-fiserv/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Land prices along National Road 4 still have the potential to rise, despite the relocation of a number of factories to National Road 3, property experts say. The price of land goes from $100 to $300 per square metre from Chaom Chao cycle to the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/potential-seen-for-national-road-4/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia had issued licenses to 146 domestic and foreign investment projects with the total investment of 2.05 billion U.S. dollars in the first eleven months last year, showed a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) released Tuesday. During the period, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-attracts-2-05-bln-usd-investment-projects-in-11-months-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Going back on an earlier promise not to make any more public speeches before next month’s commune elections, Prime Minister Hun Sen gave the opening address at a two-day conference on food security and nutrition in Phnom Penh yesterday. at the event, organized by the Council <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-calls-on-g-8-to-stabilize-food-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nearly 2,000 workers at the Gawon apparel Co. garment factory in Kandal province’s Takhmao City protested in front of the factory yesterday after they were informed that they would lose pay for any days missed during the commune election, which takes place Sunday, union representatives <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/after-threats-to-cut-pay-garment-workers-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in DAun Penh district hAve rounded up more thAn 120 so-cAlled homeless people, drug users And sex workers AheAd of next week’s high-level meetings for AseAn And internAtionAl delegAtes in Phnom Penh, A district officiAl sAid yesterdAy. Phnom Penh City HAll hAs Also focused <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/AheAd-of-high-level-meetings-city-sweeps-more-thAn-streets/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More studies should be conducted on the controversial Lower Sesan 2 dam in Stung Treng province in order to understand its potential social and environmental effects, Conservation International (C.I.) said in a statement. The Lower Sesan 2-as well as other dams planned for the Sesan, Srepok <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/millions-threatened-by-dam-in-stung-treng/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Commerce Minister said yesterday that China is a potential market for Cambodia’s garment exports and some other agricultural products while the traditional big markets of Europe and the United States are experiencing an economic slowdown. Cham Prasidh said at the sidelines of the Cambodia-China Trade <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/china-seen-as-potential-market-for-cambodias-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thai and Cambodian labour officials will facilitate the re-employment in Thailand of more than 160,000 Cambodian workers who will possibly be deported to their home country after the nationality verification process ends next Friday, a senior Thai official said today. The process involves 222,430 Cambodian <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-to-face-mass-return-of-nationals-working-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed yesterday for developers and landowners in Kep City to build fences around their neglected properties to prevent vines from creeping onto the street of the coastal resort. Since much of the land in Kep City is owned by investors who live <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-appeals-for-keps-vines-to-be-tamed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The World Bank has declined to say whether it will resume providing financial assistance to Cambodia, despite a bank official allegedly telling anti-eviction protesters last week that the organization planned to do so next year. In august 2011, World Bank country director for Southeast asia annette <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/world-bank-tight-lipped-on-resumption-of-financial-assistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s world heritage Preah Vihear temple greeted some 99,490 domestic and foreign tourists in 2012, up 79 percent from 55,580 visitors in 2011, statistics from the Preah Vihear provincial tourism department showed Wednesday. The Hindu temple had been a flashpoint of deadly armed clashes between Cambodian <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/nearly-100000-tourists-visit-cambodias-preah-vihear-temple-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land prices in Cambodia continued to recover in the last half of 2012, especially in urban areas, following a collapse of the market in 2008, real estate investors say. Keuk Narin, vice president of asia Real Estate Cambodia, told VOa Khmer that commercial land prices <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/real-estate-market-showing-signs-of-recovery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of residents in five villages in southern Cambodia have been deprived of their sole source of water as a massive pond in their area has dried up, villagers said. The affected villagers of Sre Ronnong commune in Takeo Province’s Tram Kork district have been buying <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/villagers-hit-as-pond-dries-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sales of SIM cards reached 19.7 million last year, a 21 per cent rise from the 16.2 million sold in 2011, data from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication (MPTC) shows. In contrast to the use of SIM cards, the number of telco operators decreased. In <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/more-sim-cards-sold-providers-to-shrink/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>