Troubled Cambodian telecoms operator Mfone will be disposed of by its parent company, Thaicom, in the coming weeks for $100 to INT Management Service Company Limited (INT), according to a filing with the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). Shenington Investment, a subsidiary of Thaicom and the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thaicom-to-sell-mfone-for-100/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Eight representatives of Phnom Penh communities involved in land disputes were allowed to present their petitions to the Council of Ministers yesterday after authorities blocked about 200 of their fellow petitioners from gathering in front of the Peace Palace. During a meeting with the representatives, Bun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/peace-palace-petitions-sent-to-prime-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

TTY director-general Na Marady, a well-known Cambodian tycoon, has been accused of owing money to farmers from whom he bought potatoes on credit more than a year ago in Memot district’s Koki and Kompoan communes in Kampong Cham province. The villagers complained on Friday that Na <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/tty-tycoon-owes-potato-debt-villagers-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian villagers demonstrated on Friday against a controversial Lao hydropower dam that activists say is being built in defiance of an agreement to assess its potentially damaging impact on millions of people first. about 200 villagers whose livelihoods depend on the Mekong River urged a halt <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-villagers-protest-controversial-laos-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

TK Garment Co Ltd, a leading Thai original equipment manufacturer for fashion lines in Thailand, is relocating its largest production site to Cambodia to escape high wage costs, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday. according to Ken Loo, secretary general of the Garment Manufacturers association in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodias-cheap-labour-attracts-interest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

German sportswear brand Puma is seeking information on why the Svay Rieng Provincial Court decided to charge former Bavet City Governor Chhouk Bundith with causing unintentional injuries, a Puma representative said yesterday. Mr Bundith is the sole suspect in a shooting in Bavet City on February <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/puma-wants-facts-behind-governors-charge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Major international garment and shoe brands have expressed interest in funding a food program that would feed Cambodian factory workers lunches in an effort to improve health and productivity, a labour advocate said on Wednesday. Dave Welsh, country director of the american Center for International Labor <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/brands-proving-free-lunches-might-exist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kratie Provincial Court yesterday issued a search warrant for the home of Chum Vuthy, a man who allegedly trades in luxury wood, in Kratie City, provincial police said. Mr. Vuthy had been transporting a load of illegal lumber from Stung Treng City to Vietnam and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/police-search-home-of-luxury-wood-trader-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has received a US$1 million grant in order to develop its milled rice industry and strengthen the country’s exporting capacity, according to the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce. It is part of a larger, US$3-4 million grant from the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), a partnership <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/milled-rice-boost-cambodia-gets-us1-million-grant-for-milled-rice-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Entertainment Gaming asia Inc. (EGa), a U.S.-listed gaming firm operating primarily in Cambodia, posted a 93 percent decrease in profits for the first nine months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to the company’s financial statement released Tuesday. “The decrease <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/firm-posts-fall-in-profits-on-slot-machines/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A plAn to creAte A free trAde AreA covering roughly hAlf the world’s populAtion by 2015 wAs initiAted yesterdAy by regionAl And world leAders meeting in Phnom Penh. During the AseAn And relAted meetings At his office, Prime Minister Hun Sen Announced thAt the group of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/hun-sen-Announces-tAlks-to-being-on-huge-free-trAde-zone/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Rights groups said they will continue to advocate in land grabbing and eviction cases, and villagers involved in such disputes said they will continue to turn to NGOs for help despite a warning by Prime Minister Hun Sen for civil society to stay clear of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/rights-groups-say-work-to-go-on-despite-hun-sens-remarks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ethnic Jarai villagers and a local rights worker yesterday discovered about 3,000 more logs that have been illegally cut by the Vietnamese owners of a rubber concession in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district, according to rights group adhoc. The logs were found stockpiled in dense forest inside <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thousands-more-logs-found-on-companys-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The national flag carrier, Cambodia angkor air (Caa), added a new passenger plane on Sunday in order to expand new flight destinations to countries in the region, said a senior government official. “The new airbus 321 plane is leased from an airbus manufacturer in France,” Tek <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodias-national-carrier-adds-new-aircraft-targeting-singapore-china/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Democratic Kampuchea’s commerce committee was under the leadership of co-accused Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary, testimony by former national bank deputy director Sar Kimlomouth revealed yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. although the Khmer Rouge regime had eliminated currency and attempted to turn the nation into <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/kr-commerce-scrutinized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and Thailand are poised for a boost in trade and tourism following a new agreement taking effect today that simplifies procedures at a key border crossing between the two nations. “The ability to move people, goods, and vehicles across borders efficiently and responsibly is at the heart of regional economic integration,” said Craig Steffensen, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/trade-tourism-to-get-boost-along-phnom-penh-bangkok-route/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A decision on whether to build the XAyAburi dAm on the Mekong River in northern LAos is A life And deAth one thAt will Affect CAmbodiAns downstreAm, According to Foreign Minister Hor NAmhong. SpeAking to reporters on FridAy, NAmhong sAid the controversiAl 1,260-megAwAtt hydropower dAm hAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/questions-over-lAos-dAm/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cassava plantings in Battambang province dropped more than 18 per cent in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to agriculture officials. The decease is a result of that previous year’s yield fetching a low price and farmers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cassava-plantings-decrease/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A NEW report from the OrgAnisAtion for Economic Co-operAtion And Development (OECD) sAys GDP growth in CAmbodiA over the next five yeArs is likely to hit 6.9 per cent, the highest of Any ASEAN country ApArt from LAos. However, the report wArns thAt CAmbodiA needs to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/heAlthy-growth-for-cAmbodiAs-economy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Seven representatives of 415 families entangled in an unresolved land dispute with a deputy commander of the Royal Cambodian armed Forces have received a second summons to appear in Battambang Provincial Court to clarify accusations that they had vandalized the commander’s property, “They not only <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/land-dispute-back-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>