Overloaded vehicles are contributing to a more rapid than anticipated deterioration of Cambodia’s road network, experts said yesterday. “The cost of overloading causes problems to everyone involved, but it is easy to control damage if we have good system in place. This is the only <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/overloaded-vehicles-at-issue-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday warned angkor Beer promoters to protest peacefully until a resolution could be reached on their pay claims, a union representative said. Protests held by the angkor Beer promoters turned violent on Tuesday evening, with one promoter hospitalized after protestors clashed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/city-hall-calls-on-angkor-beer-promoters-to-protest-peacefully/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ministers from the six Mekong region nations concluded a two-day meeting yesterday in which they solidified plans for an economic strategy that would span a decade and require billions in investment. Speaking at Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace at the annual ministerial meeting, Minister of Commerce <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/economic-plan-for-mekong-region-gets-finalized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ten international organizations including Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, and Global Witness have urged dozens of foreign ministers to consider freezing aid to Cambodia if the government passes the current draft of its proposed NGO law. In a letter sent Wednesday to 36 foreign ministers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/donors-asked-to-freeze-aid-over-ngo-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Phnom Penh Autonomous Port will trAnsfer 75 per cent of its loAding cApAcity to A new locAtion At KAndAl  to better hAndle the increAsed shipments pAssing through the cApitAl, According to PPAP officiAls. The PPAP hAd received US$68 mill-ion in finAncing from the Chinese <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/port-will-trAnsfer-bulk-of-cApAcity-to-kAndAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

According to A Sept 4 press releAse from the Council for Development of CAmbodiA (CDC), there Are currently A totAl of 19 SEZs And most of them Are situAted Along CAmbodiA’s borders with VietnAm And ThAilAnd. Eight Are fully operAtionAl with both locAl And foreign <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/foreign-investment-needed-in-speciAl-economic-zones/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The latest in a series of land concessions granted in protected forests has cut nearly 10,000 hectares from Cambodia’s largest wildlife sanctuary &ndash; home to the Kingdom’s critically endangered national bird, the Giant Ibis. a September 7 sub-decree, released on Monday evening, reclassified 9,237 hectares of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/rare-giant-ibis-loses-habitat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With no restart date in sight more than a year after construction halted on the $240 million Gold Tower 42, investors said yesterday they were forming an association to demand that their deposits be refunded if construction does not resume. Chhin Jintong, who put down a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/resume-construction-or-refund-us-gold-tower-buyers-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Workers at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province that supplies global retailer H&amp;M will return to work tomorrow, after more than 100 staff were hopitalised on Monday, following what they and union representatives described as a mass fainting incident. a spokesperson for H&amp;M’s headquarters in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/stories-vary-on-latest-mass-fainting-incident/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Hundreds of villagers living around Prey Long forest have begun a weeklong campaign in the north of Kompong Thom province to protect Prey Long, one of Cambodia’s largest remaining primary forests, the Prey Long People’s Network said yesterday The group of villagers planned to protest later <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/villagers-campaign-in-kompong-thom-to-protect-prey-long-forest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A nAtionwide survey wAs under wAy by the Ministry of Commerce’s Rice Exporter Union to meAsure CAmbodiA’s milled-rice industry in order to give internAtionAl buyers An AccurAte picture of the Kingdom’s current cApAcity, insiders sAid yesterdAy. Although dAtA for the survey wAs still being collected, those <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/kingdom-tAkes-steps-to-AttrAct-milled-rice-buyers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The price of gasoline rose to a 5800 riel ($1.44) per liter Monday, a 14 percent rise since the beginning of the year. Economists and businesses yesterday said the high prices are having a negative impact on the economy, as everything from transportation companies to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/businesses-feel-strain-of-high-gas-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has agreed to create a regulatory body to ensure that companies operating in Cambodia’s telecommunications sector follow regulations and that companies that do not comply are held to account. according to a statement from the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Hun Sen approved <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/new-govt-body-to-regulate-telecom-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five cashew farmers in Ratanakkiri province will file a lawsuit against Hong an Mang Yang K Rubber Development Company today at the provincial court after the company mistakenly burned down 13 hectares of cashew trees last week, a human rights official said on Friday. With cashew <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/farmers-to-sue-rubber-company-after-land-clearing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A proposed increAse in the reserve requirement would decreAse lending And slow CAmbodiA’s economic growth, According to some bAnkers And experts.  The NAtionAl BAnk of CAmbodiA is set to hold A meeting lAter this month discussing A possible rAise of the reserve requirement from 12 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/proposed-chAnges-to-reserve-requirement-meets-controversy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 1,000 families from four districts in Siem Reap province involved in ongoing land disputes released a joint statement on Friday asking for intervention from government officials. Villagers involved in six separate land disputes with various private companies in four districts claim a total <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/land-disputes-in-siem-reap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sixty villagers from Kratie province staged a protest Friday in Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum Park, claiming that their land had been grabbed by three private companies, and appealed to Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene in their case. Slesh Vansoekrya, a representative of the villages, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/dozens-protest-in-phnom-penh-over-land-loss/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

At leAst 22 fAmilies living in the cApitAl’s ChAmkArmon district sAy they Are being forced to sell their lAnd At below mArket vAlue to ThAilAnd’s Bun Roong CompAny in order to mAke wAy for A housing development. VillAge representAtive Chhim VeAsnA sAid on WednesdAy thAt the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/residents-concerned-over-low-lAnd-price/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Some 100 former residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community yesterday delivered petitions to 10 embassies and the offices of the World Bank and European Union asking them to pressure the government into increasing the compensation for their evictions. Sam Vanna, a representative of the residents, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/boeng-kak-evictees-deliver-petitions-to-embassies-to-pressure-government/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tong Yang Securities (Cambodia) and aCLEDa Securities yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to partner the services they offer to the Kingdom’s budding financial markets. To expand their footprint in the market,  the companies aimed to provide a combination of advisory and underwriting services for companies <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/acleda-tong-yang-sign-mou/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>