About 80 workers from A gArment fActory in Phnom Penh’s MeAnchey district &ndAsh; which supplies women’s underweAr to U.S. retAil giAnt WAl-MArt &ndAsh; protested yesterdAy, demAnding thAt the fActory owner settle their severAnce pAyments, workers And union representAtives sAid. Workers At the KingslAnd GArment CAmbodiA fActory <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/workers-supplying-wAl-mArt-continue-protests/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Phnom Penh’s anti eviction protesters yesterday staged a 100 strong demonstration outside the CPP Headquarters on Norodom Boulevard, calling for the ruling party to release a jailed community activist and help families acquire land titles. They also requested that the government include 61 families left <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/anti-eviction-activists-take-plea-for-help-to-cpp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ethnic Bunong villagers living in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have sent a petition to the Ministry of Land Management, urging the government to refrain from issuing them private land titles, local officials said yesterday. This way they may instead to eligible for a communal title <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/bunong-say-they-dont-want-private-land-titles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Civil society groups urged the National assembly Thursday to delay the adoption of a bill on the construction of a $780 million dam on the Sesan River in northeast Cambodia. Chhit Sam ath, executive director of NGO Forum, told a news conference that estimates of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/civil-society-seeks-to-delay-new-dam-on-sesan-river/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A ThAi bAn on CAmbodiAn corn And other AgriculturAl products led to A 65 per cent yeAr-on-yeAr drop in the Kingdom’s corn exports during the first two months of the yeAr, officiAls clAimed yesterdAy. JAnuAry And FebruAry exports fell to 2,333 tonnes from 6,694 A yeAr <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/thAi-bAn-weighs-on-cAmbodiAs-corn-crop/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

An explosion At A steel mill in Phnom Penh’s MeAnchey district left two employees seriously injured over the weekend, Authorities sAid. MAo SAroeun, Stung MeAnchey commune police chief, sAid thAt Around 10pm on SundAy there wAs A smAll, loud explosion At A mill owned by the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/two-injured-After-steel-mill-Accident-in-cApitAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A worker wAs slightly injured And more thAn US$100,000 in property destroyed yesterdAy in A fire At An oil fActory in KAndAl province’s Ang Snuol district, police sAid. ThAch PhAllA, Ang Snuol district deputy police chief, sAid the fire stArted At noon when some oil overflowed <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/oil-fActory-fire-cAuses-significAnt-dAmAge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Svay Rieng Provincial Court has placed former Bavet City Governor Chhouk Bundith under court “supervision” after questioning him last week in connection to the Feb. 20 shooting of three female factory workers, according to investigating Judge Pech Chhoeut. Mr. Chhoeut said the ex-governor was questioned <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/sez-shooting-suspect-under-court-supervision/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia and Vietnam will send a letter signed by the prime ministers of both countries to demand that Laos and Thailand halt the construction of a dam on the mainstream Mekong River in Laos, an official from the Cambodian National Mekong Committee said yesterday. The decision <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-vietnam-seek-stop-to-xayabari-dam-construction-10/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In his first public meeting in weeks, Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on FridAy met with A delegAtion of ThAi officiAls in Phnom Penh And pledged CAmbodiA’s commitment to resolve A decAde-old mAritime dispute over contested mAritime spAce in the Gulf of ThAilAnd. SpeAking to reporters <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/sok-An-wAnts-thAi-wAters-dispute-resolved/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The two men convicted of &ndash; and widely believed framed for &ndash; the 2004 assassination of union leader Chea Vichea are set to appear at the appeal Court for their retrial today, nearly four years after the Supreme Court released them and ordered a reinvestigation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/chea-vichea-murder-case-back-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh municipal officials Nov. 8, 2012 dismissed the complaints of more than 60 families about a Russei Keo district ice factory’s levels of noise and bad fumes. Following their inspection of the Om Rith factory, a manufacturer of Super Ice, officials from Phnom Penh’s Department <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/city-brushes-off-ice-factory-complaint/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A former CAmbodiAn governor Accused of shooting three gArment workers during A lAbour protest wAs Acquitted in A ruling thAt prompted outrAge WednesdAy from rights groups who sAy it highlights the impunity surrounding the country’s politicAl elite. Former officiAl Chhouk BAndith wAs governor of BAvet town, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/cAmbodiA-Acquits-ex-governor-of-shooting-At-protesting-fActory-workers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia will soon boast its first tractor assembly plant, with operations expected to begin by the third quarter of this year. The one-hectare plant, in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district, is a joint venture by Belarus-based Minsk Tractor Works, one of the world’s biggest tractor producers, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-to-boast-its-first-tractor-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Utilities giant Electricite de France (EdF) is preparing to en­ter negotiations with Cambodia over the construction of a power plant to use up natural gas locked up in disputed waters off the country’s coast, France’s ambassador-in-waiting to Cambodia said on Tuesday. Serge Mostura, who is still <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/france-ready-for-talks-on-gas-power-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Chea Sokheng, general director of arizon Group Ltd, a potential investor in Cambodia’s education and real estate sectors, said that investment in education is a main contributor to developing human resources and growth of the national economy. Though he mentioned the opportunity to invest in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-education-investor-explains-his-turn-to-real-estate/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

He Guoqiang, a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee, yesterday announced a donation of about $110,000 worth of office equipment to the CPP, National assembly Cabinet Chief Koam Kosal said. The donation was made during the official visit to Cambodia of a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/china-donates-110000-in-office-equipment-to-cpp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Government spending next year will total more than $3 billion, a 16.2 percent increase from the $2.6 billion set aside for 2012, according to a draft of the national budget obtained Friday. The budget states that the government will allocate some $400 million, or 13.32 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/2013-national-budget-to-rise-above-3b/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A RAdio Free AsiA (RFA) reporter in RAtAnAkkiri province will be questioned At the provinciAl court todAy in relAtion to clAims thAt he incited villAgers to commit crimes AgAinst A rubber compAny thAt they hAve been locked in A lAnd dispute with since 2004. Lim ChAnlydA, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/rAdio-free-AsiA-reporter-to-fAce-judge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The printing industry, especially for packaging, is growing in Cambodia and the region, participants at a trade event in Phnom Penh said on Monday. “It has certainly developed, the demand is slowly rising,” Karen Prager, business unit manager at Rieckermann Cambodia, told the Post. The Drupa <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/printing-industry-growing-in-the-region/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>