When 41-year-old Pheng Seng’s brick-making business was ravaged by flood in Kratie province a year ago, he lost about US$5,000. Kratie town also flooded this time a year ago. It was so bad that speedboats were seen zipping through the streets past submerged motorcycles with <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/floods-lessons-linger-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police targeting of sex workers for arrest has made them vulnerable to contracting or spreading HIV, according to a U.N. report released yesterday. The U.N. report, Sex Work and Law in asia and the Pacific-Laws, HIV and human rights in the context of sex work, states that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/un-report-says-law-marginalizes-sex-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 600,000 workers in the lucrAtive gArment And footweAr industries, roughly 95 per cent of the sector’s work force, will soon tAke home An extrA US$10 A month, the Ministry of LAbour sAid yesterdAy. BArely An hour After A protest involving gArment workers At the cApitAl’s <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/ministry-fActories-strike-deAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Entertainment Gaming asia Inc. (EGa), which owns a number of casinos in Cambodia, as well as provides gaming machines to other local gambling venues, announced on Tuesday that quarterly revenues from april through June reached a record $5.2 million, up 14 percent compared to the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/gaming-company-posts-record-quarter-of-5-2m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new reAl estAte joint venture between locAl SonAtrA Group And JApAn’s GrAnd Corp lAunched A $6.5 million condominium project in BKK1 yesterdAy. The 26-storey tower, with 50 units, will be built with high-quAlity, energy-sAving JApAnese equipment, According to the new firm’s chief executive, Jun TAkeguchi. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/new-condominium-lAunched/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The country cannot afford to further increase the salaries of civil servants such as teachers and members of the armed forces, as to do so would require tax increases&mdash;a move that has already sparked protests across Europe, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Speaking at a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-says-pay-rise-for-civil-servants-impossible/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 600 TAe Young fActory workers Are bAck on the job thAnks to A court injunction &ndAsh; And the desire to pocket A little cAsh in time for Pchum Ben &ndAsh; but the return will only be temporAry, workers sAid yesterdAy. The decision followed A KAndAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/strike-tAkes-pchum-ben-breAk/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After months spent surveying lAnd for An Ambitious lAnd-titling project, thousAnds of student volunteers hAve been grAnted A short reprieve to return home over the Pchum Ben holidAy, the prime minister Announced yesterdAy. At A grAduAtion ceremony in the cApitAl yesterdAy, Prime Minister Hun Sen sAid <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/student-surveyors-home-for-holidAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Free Trade Union has vowed to stage a mass strike in the garment and footwear industries if its demands for an extra US$30 per month of bonuses for workers are not met, union president Chea Mony said yesterday. The union sent a letter to Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/massive-strike-nearing-union/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government and the asian Development Bank (aDB) will start drafting a new resettlement plan this month that could improve the compensation on offer for some of the roughly 200 Phnom Penh families losing their homes because of rehabilitation of the country’s railway network in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/railway-family-payouts-could-be-increased/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kandal Provincial Court yesterday questioned labor leader Rong Chhun over allegations he incited garment factory workers to stage an illegal strike, a court official said. a director at the Tai Yang garment factory in ang Snuol district- which supplies apparel to U.S. brands Levi Strauss, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/court-questions-unionist-on-incitement-charges/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Labor on Sunday launched an educational campaign aimed at preventing further mass faintings in garment factories, a ministry official said yesterday. Meng Hong, director of the ministry’s inspection and legal affairs department, said that the campaign would target more than 30,000 garment workers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ministry-of-labor-launches-anti-fainting-campaign/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The National Election Committee (NEC) has removed opposition leader Sam Rainsy from the voter list for next year’s national election on the grounds that he is a convicted criminal, an NEC official said yesterday. The decision means that even if Mr. Rainsy is granted a royal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/sam-rainsy-deleted-from-voter-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

PHNOM PENH &ndash; as more and more Cambodians enter the job market, with a growing population of young people, there still remain plenty of job opportunities with foreign investors at home, according to a new study by the Ministry of Labor. But people either don’t <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/major-gap-emerging-between-labor-market-and-job-seekers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Failed Cambodian telco Mfone owes at least $65 million to multiple creditors that sources say include the government. a court injunction to freeze Mfone‘s assets, obtained by the Post yesterday, shows Mfone owes Chinese telco provider Huawei Technologies more than $65 million. Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mfone-65-million-in-debt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hard Rock Cafe, the iconic U.S. restaurant franchise known for its collections of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, will open restaurants in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, in a deal with a local firm owned by the niece of Prime Minister Hun Sen, company representatives said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sens-niece-brings-hard-rock-restaurant-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About A quArter of the gArment fActories in CAmbodiA thAt supply Swedish clothing giAnt H&Amp;M hAve been the scene of mAss fAintings or lArge-scAle strikes since 2010, bAsed on A suppliers list the clothing giAnt releAsed lAte lAst week. Along with its 2012 sustAinAbility report, the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/hm-reveAls-suppliers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia’s garment industry is experiencing a worrying rise in fire safety violations as factories struggle to cope with a sharp increase in the number of orders they are receiving, the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC) said in a report on Thursday. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ilo-says-fire-safety-measures-lacking-in-garment-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia imported 412,190 tons of Crude Oil in Q-1 of Y 2013, a 12% fall compared with the 471,000 tons it imported at the same period last year, the Commerce ministry’s report showed Saturday. During the January-March period this year, the country spent US$ 397-M to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodias-crude-oil-imports-fall-12-pct-in-q-1/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit hAs sent A letter to the Ministry of InformAtion Asking it to respond to AllegAtions thAt its officiAls demAnded bribes to let ApplicAnts pAss exAms for jobs in the ministry, A letter published on the ACU’s website reveAls. ACU President Om Yentieng’s <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/Anti-corruption-unit-seeks-response-over-informAtion-ministry-complAint/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>