Some 300 villagers from the andong Trabaek community in Svay Rieng province’s Romeas Hek district will accompany two representatives who have been summonsed to the provincial court Tuesday to clarify allegations of illegal logging that villagers say were fabricated by Forestry administration officials in order <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/villagers-summonsed-in-illegal-logging-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Property experts say foreign companies are coming to invest in Cambodia’s property sector, as they see the growth and potential of the Kingdom. Sung Bonna, director of Bonna Realty Group, said that the number of foreign companies in the sector has grown, and most are from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/foreign-investment-in-cambodias-property-rises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following six straight days of protests by hundreds of staff at NagaWorld Casino, casino management yesterday agreed to reinstate four senior workers and said they would consider increasing the entire staff’s minimum wage. Between 500 and 1,000 workers had been demonstrating over what they said were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/nagaworld-workers-reinstated-after-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Senior representatives for Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and aSEaN met here Tuesday and issued a joint statement highlighting their agreement to forge stronger mutual investment, trade, transport and scientific cooperation links. The joint statement was released at the conclusion of the 6th annual Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam (CLMV) Summit, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/asean-countries-agree-to-greater-economic-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The price increase for Phnom Penh Water Supply authority shares maxed out after an hour of trading yesterday morning, the second day of operations on the Cambodia Securities Exchange. PPWSa closed up 4.84 per cent yesterday at 9,750 riel (US$2.44), climbing from 9,300 the day before, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ppwsa-up-again-with-retail-buyers-moving-in/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Phnom Penh yesterday afternoon began rounding up homeless people as part of the city’s preparations for next month’s asean Foreign Ministers Meeting, officials said. “We collect them because we don’t want them to affect foreign tourists as we prepare for the arrival of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/city-rounds-up-homeless-before-asean-meeting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As A delegAtion of US business owners prepAres to trAvel to CAmbodiA with US SecretAry of StAte HillAry Clinton, AnAlysts sAy they will be tough to court, given CAmbodiA’s lAck of lAw enforcement. “Investors don’t bring guns, they don’t bring bodyguArds&mdAsh;they bring money to invest,” sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/As-cAmbodiA-courts-us-business-old-problems-remAin/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

In the first six months of the year, 26 Cambodians have been shot dead by the Thai military while illegally logging along the border, nearly double the number killed in all of 2011. “according to the Cambodian-Thai Relations Bureau documents for the semester, there were 26 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/in-6-months-26-shot-dead-on-border-while-illegally-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 16,000 hectares of rice paddies are currently being affected by drought across the country, officials said yesterday. “There wasn’t enough rain for the rice this year, ” said Nhep Srorn, director of Takeo province’s agriculture department. Pich Sokhin, governor of Oddar Meanchey province, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/countrywide-drought-is-damaging-rice-paddies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Following a ceremony to honor late King Father Norodom Sihanouk on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich, more than 2,000 additional student volunteers were deployed yesterday morning by the Ministry of Land Management to measure plots of land in 19 provinces, officials said. Mr. Chhun Lim [Land Management Minister] said that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/two-thousand-more-students-to-measure-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The AlliAnce of Rice Producers Exporters of CAmbodiA (ARPEC) will releAse US$2 million After December 15th to its members in nine provinces so they cAn buy pAddy rice before the hArvest seAson ends And stocks been depleted. He sAid the pAy out is being drAwn from <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/AlliAnce-to-disburse-2-million-to-buy-pAddy-rice-help-exports/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s total exports to the United States increased by 0.2 per cent over the first 10 months of the year, a year-on-year analysis from the US Department of Commerce showed. The data showed exports to the US totalled $2.296 billion between January and October this <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/exports-to-us-rise-by-0-2-per-cent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Energy supplies will be more secure once territorial disputes between Thailand and Cambodia are resolved, Department of Mineral Fuels director-general Songpob Polchan said on Friday. Mr Songpob said that the sooner Thailand and Cambodia are able to work out their differences, the sooner they can exploit <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/energy-security-linked-to-firm-borders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After yeArs of poor yields, the cricket fArmers of Kompong Thom province hAve more thAn tripled their AverAge cAtch compAred with the sAme time lAst yeAr due to eArly rAins, An Agriculture officiAl sAid yesterdAy. Ou BunsophoAn, director of the Kompong Thom provinciAl Agriculture depArtment, sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/in-kompong-thom-province-cricket-yield-skyrocketing/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Borei Keila families have slept under staircases near piles of rubbish since they were forced from their homes on January 3, but they are hopeful of compensation following an unexpected visit from city officials last week. Representative Chum Ngan, 39, said village, commune and Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/borei-keila-evictees-given-hope/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of mobile telephone subscriptions reached nearly 20  million at the end of June, representing 135 percent of the total population, the telecoms minister said last week. The number of mobile subscriptions first topped Cambodia’s total population of 14.5 million people in November last year, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mobile-phone-subscriptions-near-20-million/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land conflicts, discrimination, corruption and inequality dominated discussions between citizens and lawmakers at forums across the country this year, according to the U.S.-based organization the National Democratic Institute (NDI). In its annual report, obtained yesterday, the NDI noted “significant consistencies in the concerns facing Cambodians across <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/land-issues-are-dominating-talks-between-citizens-lawmakers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land governance policies in asia, especially concessions made to private companies, are leaving the region’s poorest vulnerable to human rights abuses, experts say. “Land-grabbing by the rich and powerful continues,” Suson Bunsak, executive secretary of the Cambodian Human Rights action Committee, said at the recent asia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-rural-poor-lose-out-in-land-deals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday said it had dropped its investigation into the killing of environmental activist Chut Wutty, allegedly by a now-deceased military police officer in april. The court made the surprise announcement during the tril of Rann Boroth, who took the stand yesterday for the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/court-drops-investigation-into-killing-of-activist-chut-wutty/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

After A two-yeAr hiAtus, the CAmBuild, CAmFood And CAmHotel exhibitions Are bAck At DiAmond IslAnd this week, stArting on WednesdAy And going through to FridAy. Andrew Siow, director of the KuAlA Lumpur-heAdquArtered AMB Exhibitions, sAys the three industry shows At the sAme time should AttrAct more <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/trAde-show-stArts-on-wednesdAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>