Prominent Boeung Kak villager and protester Yorm Bopha was yesterday jailed in Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison, after she and her husband &ndash; en route to check for their names on a voting register &ndash; were pounced on by police in plain clothes in what <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/b-kak-woman-arrested/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sitting at his outpost overlooking the Mekong River, Deab Kuy remembers an incident some years ago when fishermen threatened to attack him if they were stopped from casting their nets around the river’s sandy islets here in Sambok commune. The outpost, little more than a wooden house on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/fight-to-save-mekong-dolphin-makes-enemies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A lArge North AmericAn union hAs cAlled on US retAil giAnt WAlmArt to tAke immediAte Action AgAinst one of its seAfood suppliers in ThAilAnd Accused of holding CAmbodiAn workers in debt bondAge while bArely providing them with enough money to eAt. The United Food And CommerciAl Workers <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/wAlmArt-intervention-sought-At-thAi-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Local authorities, including a heavily armed police officer, broke up a training session on land rights in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district on Friday, claiming the two groups had no legal right to hold such a meeting. The move marks the second time in less than a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/police-clamp-down-on-land-rights-meeting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court handed down a 20-year jail sentence to independent radio station owner Mam Sonando yesterday for his role in fomenting an alleged secessionist movement in a decision drawing condemnation from human rights groups and some of Cambodia’s main foreign donors. The court <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/sonando-jailed-for-20-years-sentence-denounced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) has submitted a new law to the National assembly for consideration that would institute a minimum monthly wage of $150 for garment workers and $250 for civil servants, the newly formed opposition party announced at a press conference yesterday. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cnrp-proposes-minimum-wage-law-for-garment-state-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite interest in participating in the stock market, confusion as to how and where to invest in the Cambodia Securities Exchange still persists among many Cambodians without close ties to or backgrounds in trading. after the much-anticipated and long-delayed launch of CSX trading last week, Soun Sokret, an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/stocks-still-an-unknown-for-many-cambodians/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

KOH KONG, Cambodia &ndash; Frustrated by government inaction, Cambodian citizen patrollers are risking their lives to take on the country’s illegal loggers in a bid to save their shrinking forests. The shooting of a prominent environmentalist by a military policeman last month after he refused to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-forest-campaigners-fight-rampant-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Inside a nondescript villa in central Phnom Penh, men and women in white lab coats peer through lenses, carefully studying the magnified objects in front of them. But these aren’t biologists researching cell division or bacteria; these are gem testers concerned with inclusions and refractive indices on rubies, sapphires and other precious stones. They are working <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodias-gems-and-jewelry-sector-set-to-shine/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A Chinese AcAdemic with close ties to ChinA’s stAte security AppArAtus hAs clAimed thAt Beijing coordinAted with the CAmbodiAn government to influence the outcome of the AseAn meeting in Phnom Penh, According to the FinAnciAl Times. In An interview with the FinAnciAl Times on WednesdAy, Chen <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/beijing-coordinAted-with-cAmbodiA-to-influence-AseAn-meeting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Disgraced anti-drug czar Moek Dara’s appeal against his life sentence for convictions in 25 separate cases of bribery and masterminding a criminal enterprise began yesterday morning in Phnom Penh. Co-accused, former Ministry of Interior anti-drug police department chief Chea Leng also appeared at the Court of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/former-anti-drug-czars-appeal-begins/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Government of Cambodia on Friday passed a draft law on fire prevention in order to contribute to maintaining security, social safety, public order, and life and property protection, according to a media statement released after the weekly Cabinet meeting. In the meeting, Hun Sen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-passes-fire-prevention-draft-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Luxury jewellery brand Tiffany &amp; Co is building a diamond-polishing factory in Phnom Penh, as the company, which has enjoyed increasing sales, seeks to ensure it can continue supplying the diamonds it needs. Construction began last month on the 1.2-hectare factory, along with a training centre, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/tiffany-to-polish-diamonds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prices in the global carbon market are too low to provide an incentive for Cambodian businesses to engage in carbon offset schemes, but there are other options for businesses to gain funds for emission reduction, industry experts say. Speaking on the sidelines of a two-day educational <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-explores-carbon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese sports brand aSICS has agreed to pay compensation to the families of victims who died in a factory collapse in May, a brand representative said. aSICS Corporation managing executive officer Ron Pietersen, who arrived in Phnom Penh on Friday, said the company profoundly regretted the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/asics-compensates-killed-workers-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The result remains hotly disputed, but Cambodia’s recent general election has put long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen on a collision course with a resurgent opposition and revealed widespread unhappiness with his iron-fisted rule. While analysts aren’t writing off the chances of the politically ruthless Hun Sen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/opposition-vows-mass-protest-over-cambodian-election-deadlock/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian political analysts say the opposition is now facing a dilemma, as public pressure continues for a just solution for alleged election fraud. That has limited the opposition’s ability to deal for a political solution, analysts said this week. However, with the return of King <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/analysts-see-conundrum-for-opposition-in-political-dealing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Monks marching toward Phnom Penh to mark International Human Rights Day on Tuesday in front of the National assembly have continued to receive a cold reception from some pagodas along their way and blocked a national road Thursday afternoon in protest. about 100 marchers, including several <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/monks-on-peace-walk-block-national-road-to-protest-ill-treatment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sand-dredging boats were active along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Tuesday, despite the city’s municipal governor, Pa Socheatvong, having ordered a complete suspension of dredging in the city the day before. Phnom Penh City Hall on Monday put in place the temporary <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/sand-dredging-boats-active-one-day-after-ban-announced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Jubilant conservationists expressed hope on Tuesday for the survival of the critically-endangered Giant Ibis after a nest of the bird species was discovered in a previously unknown habitat in northeastern Cambodia. Habitat loss and poaching has pushed the Giant Ibis to the edge of extinction, with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/endangered-giant-ibis-found-in-new-cambodia-habitat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>