The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court has summoned four villagers embroiled in a long-running land dispute over charges of alleged incitement  and violence involving a company owned by the wife of government minister, a court official said yesterday. Two summoned vllagers, from Kompong Tralach district’s Ta Ches commune, faced similar <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/firm-owned-by-ministrys-wife-files-suit-against-four-villagers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tuol Kork district has been showing its potential through infrastructure development, and is changing from a residential into a commercial area, according to property experts. Moreover, Tuol Kork will become a more central area because it is located in the middle of the old Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/tuol-kork-on-the-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The mother of a domestic maid allegedly stranded in Malaysia has become the latest Cambodian claimant to file an official complaint to the Ministry of Interior over labor abuse in the country. Em Sokhum said her 24-year-old daughter Chher Sophorn left to pursue work in Malaysia more than <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/maid-may-be-stuck-in-malaysia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Inside a gleaming white-and-blue garment factory in Cambodia stand rows of second-hand Singers &mdash; weathered sewing machines transported from a plant in China that closed last year. The Hong Kong-headquartered Top Form, which has 700 workers at the plant, is one of many businesses that have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodias-low-wages-lure-manufacturers-away-from-china-other-countries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chased out of the house by her Malaysian employer, fresh-faced Tieng SaSa, 18, found shelter with an NGO, escaping alleged abuse at the hands of her employer that included binding her hands and beating her feet with a metal club until her bones broke. Three months <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/maids-seek-justice-in-malaysia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two men from Kratie province who were removed from a vehicle on Tuesday while traveling to Phnom Penh to demonstrate at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house over a land dispute, have been arrested by internal security police and charged with fraud, an official said yesterday. Sless <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/missing-land-protesters-were-arrested-charged-with-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

PTT Plc, the national energy conglomerate, is moving forward with plans to establish a retail oil business in Myanmar by working with a local partner Currently, oil consumption per head in the neighbouring country is very low at 38 litres annually, compared to 140 litres in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ptt-signs-agreement-to-set-up-retail-oil-venture-in-myanmar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and neighboring Vietnam grew by 17 per cent in the first nine months of the year compared to the same period last year, a decrease from previous years, the Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia said yesterday. The data showed a total trade volume <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/trade-with-vietnam-slows/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of companies registering to become members of the Garment Manufacturing association in Cambodia (GMaC) doubled last year, with more investment in value-added products. GMaC said the number of new members reached 120 last year, compared with 60 newcomers in 2011. “Labour-intensive industries in China <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/gmac-members-double/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour has scheduled a meeting on February 26 with representatives of various unions to discuss the new minimum wage for garment workers in the country. However, the Ministry expects the various workers’ unions to agree on what the new wage should <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/minimum-wage-may-rise-for-cambodian-garment-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Friday put the blame for last week’s failure among asean countries to release a joint communiqu&eacute; on territorial disputes in the South China Sea firmly back on Vietnam and the Philippines. More than a week since discussions related to the territorial dispute between asean’s members <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hor-namhong-rejects-blame-for-failed-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court will appoint a new judge to process complaints filed by ethnic Jarai minority villagers against a firm owned by Keat Kolney, the sister of Finance Minister Keat Chhon, regarding a land dispute that has now dragged on for more than five <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/new-judge-appointed-to-keat-kolney-land-disputer-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new book by A CAmbodiAn-born Author, due to be published this month, is set to bring the debAte over CAmbodiA’s dependence on foreign Aid into the spotlight. Since 1992, CAmbodiA hAs received more AssistAnce for its development thAn Almost Any other country on the plAnet. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/upcoming-book-Assesses-benefits-And-limitAtions-of-foreign-Aid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The job couldn’t have been more different from the kind that drew Tim Page to Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s. The mud, wet boots and sleepless nights described in several of his books were cast aside for an air-conditioned SUV, a laptop and a phone. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/photographer-tim-page-swaps-war-for-land-in-new-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Vatha, a 42-year-old construction worker, has been toiling for four years at numerous building sites across Phnom Penh. He knocks down dilapidated dwellings and in their place builds houses and apartments that are bigger, better &ndash; and increasingly higher &ndash; as demand for residential property, especially <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/as-phnom-penhs-buildings-rise-safety-scales-back/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thirty-four garment factory workers fainted yesterday morning in Kompong Chhnang province, making it the third time in a year that a mass fainting has occurred at the factory, workers said yesterday. M&amp;V International Manufacturing LTD. factory, which is a supplier to Swedish clothing brand H&amp;M, experienced two incidents <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/garment-workers-faint-at-hm-clothing-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday questioned one of three human rights workers charged-alongside a journalist-with inciting ethnic minority villagers to protest violently against a powerful agro-industry firm during a 2009 land dispute. a representative of the villagers said yesterday that about 500 of them are planning to gather <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/first-rights-worker-questioned-in-land-dispute-incitement-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Education garment workers and their bosses on how to avoiding fainting is the latest strategy the Ministry of Labor is using to address a problem that has plagued the industry in the past two years, a ministry official said yesterday. Labor Ministry Secretary of State Oum Mean said he <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/workers-given-lesson-in-how-not-to-faint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Some 200 garment factory workers protested at the Ministry of Social affairs on Friday, a day after they held a demonstration in front of the Swedish Embassy in Phnom Penh and urged diplomats to intervene in a labour dispute involving unpaid wages from a factory <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/unpaid-garment-workers-continue-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Tourism and the French TV channel TF1 have signed a deal on a “2013 action plan” that will promote Cambodia’s beach tourism. The agreement was inked yesterday by Tourism Minister Thong Khon and Franck Firmin Guion, the president of adventure Line Product-ions (aLP). The plan <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/beaches-to-drive-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>