India is financing the construction of a US$70 million transmission line to bring electricity from hydroelectric projects in Laos to Cambodia, according to Indian Chamber of Commerce President Debasish Pattnaik. Speaking yesterday after the official launch of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (ICC), Pattnaik <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/70-from-india-for-power/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Members of Bunong ethnic minority forest group in Kratie province who accused local police of barring their community patrols in search of illegal logging were told by a Forestry administration official yesterday that they had no authority to operate. Mr. [Peit] Kun Pedor [head of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/indigenous-forest-protection-group-again-told-to-disband/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

BarCamp Phnom Penh, a technology conference at the University of Puthisastra, promises to attract industry professionals from aSEaN countries, the US, Germany and other countries around the world later this month, Be Chantra, lead organiser of the conference, says. Be Chantra says BarCamp Phnom Penh is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/innovation-and-inspiration-are-the-basis-of-barcamp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police investigating the murder of a journalist whose battered body was discovered in Ratanakkiri province on Tuesday have unearthed key clues to who may have carried out the killing, an official said yesterday. Hang Serei Odom, 42-who had written exposes on the involvement of powerful people in forest <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/slain-journalists-mobile-phone-yields-clues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of families in Banteay Meanchey province were evacuated from their homes yesterday due to severe flooding, with authorities warning that more than 1,000 additional families may have to be rescued if torrential rains continue as expected over the course of next week. The rains that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/floods-force-evacuations-in-northeast/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 400 families in Banteay Meanchey province have now been evacuated from their homes due to heavy flooding in towns and villages along the Thai border, provincial officials said yesterday. about 100 families were evacuated from Poipet City &ndash; the worst-hit area &ndash; yesterday alone, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thousands-evacuated-but-floodwaters-abating/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Negotiations between the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) and unions over a landmark agreement aimed at reducing strike action will be held on October 3, representatives said yesterday. The original agreement on improving industrial relations in the garment sector was signed in October 2010 by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/negotiations-planned-to-improve-relations-in-garment-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia lacks the resources for implementing intellectual property rights, while relevant officers lack skills to monitor the import of counterfeit products, according to an official. Var Roth San, Head of the Secretariat of National Committee for Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR) and Director of  the Department of  <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/awareness-training-on-fake-goods-for-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The director-general of Tele­com Cambodia, one of the country’s most highly regarded state-owned enterprises and a candidate for listing on the stock exchange, has left his post amid an investigation into corruption allegations, the minister of posts and telecommunications said on Thursday. Despite the staff’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/staff-protest-corruption-at-telecom-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An estimAted 600 people who sAy their livelihoods hAve been Affected by illegAl logging And deforestAtion Across the country Are scheduled to gAther in Koh Kong province on FridAy At the site where environmentAl Activist Chut Wutty wAs shot deAd on April 26. The group will <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/memoriAl-to-be-held-in-koh-kong-for-slAin-forestry-Activist/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Poipet City authorities have given dozens of families living along a section of railway slated for renovation 10 days to move or face forcible eviction. Poipet City Deputy Governor an Vanak said that the eviction notice was sent Monday to about 40 families, only eight of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/national-rail-project-heralded-by-eviction-notices-in-poipet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The homes of 137 families in Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district have been demolished since Tuesday, when more than 60 police, military forces and forestry officials began evicting families from land claimed by Touch Hiv, an agricultural company, local officials and villagers said yesterday. “We <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/homes-destroyed-one-arrested-amid-land-grab/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 150 businesses and associations from around the world gathered on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich yesterday for the launch of the country’s annual food and hospitality exhibition. Two events, the International Food, Drinks and Wine Show and the Cambodian International Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Industry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/businesses-look-for-opportunities-in-tourism-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

High demand for beef, particularly during the Islamic Qurban festival which ended yesterday, caused beef prices to almost double compared with the same period last year, according to Islamic leaders and officials. Him Khortieth, IKatan  Mahabbah Muslimin’s (IMaN) representative in Cambodia, said the association planned to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/beef-price-almost-doubles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government collected more than $1.4 billion in revenues during the first nine months of the year, a 27 percent increase over the same period last year, figures released Thursday by the Ministry of Economy and Finance show. according to the Table of Government Financial Operations <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/government-revenues-up-27-percent-in-first-nine-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The media release from ministry of land management, urbanization and construction on august 10 said: after getting information of irregularity on implementing the social economic land for former armed forces and poor families which published in media on June 14,2012. Ministry set up a committee to monitor the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/phnom-penh-court-charge-four-officials-of-land-ministry-over-corruption/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A district governor And two fisheries officiAls Are Among 10 people who will be questioned At the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court next week over the destruction of flooded forest to mAke wAy for dry-seAson rice fields in KAmpong Thom province, An officiAl sAid yesterdAy. On July 27, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/officiAls-to-be-questioned-over-destruction-of-flooded-forest/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Villagers took an increasingly vocal stand on land issues during rare opportunities to speak with National assembly members this past year, according to the National Democratic Institute. During the most recent town hall-style Constituency Dialogues, started by NDI in 2004 to promote contact between assembly members <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mp-dialogues-focus-on-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Lying in a hospital bed at Phnom Penh’s Naga Clinic yesterday well-known tycoon Khaou Chuly said that he may appeal to the prime minister to intervene in an attempted murder conviction against his wife that was upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday. Mr. Chuly, 83, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/tycoon-takes-to-hospital-as-wife-returns-to-prison/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Worldwide, office demand stemmed from the automotive, high-tech and energy industries. The latter is evident in Cambodia, where drilling off the coast near Sihanoukville has helped to increase office demand. Thus, companies such as Total and Chevron are large office occupiers, and new Japanese oil <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/interesting-times-for-phnom-penh-office-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>