The vision regional leaders have for an aSEaN Economic Community by 2015 may become clearer after this week’s Economic Ministers meeting in Siem Reap, but not everyone has a rose-coloured view of what such integration might mean for Cambodia. Students who have not mastered the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/fretting-asean-alisatinon/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Families in Koh Kong province will today file a complaint with the U.S. government against american Sugar Refining (aSR) over farmland they claim they were violently evicted from to make way for two sugar plantations that supply the New York-based company. The 207 Koh Kong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/complaint-to-be-filed-in-us-over-koh-kong-sugar-plantations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

FARMERS’ crop yields Are being undercut by unregistered middlemen selling fAke fertiliser, And government efforts to combAt this hAve proved ineffective, According to independent reseArch from the CAmbodiA Development Resource Institute (CDRI). CDRI’s preliminAry reseArch, conducted As pArt of A lArger progrAm investigAting AgriculturAl policies for <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/fAke-fertiliser-cuts-crop-yields/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

High production costs and a lack of government assistance is keeping rice farmers near the poverty line despite unprecedented growth in the sector, according to a new study released by local microfinance institution Intean Poalroath Rongroeurng (IPR). The independent study, conducted by two Cambodian researchers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/rice-farmers-struggle-despite-production-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Phnom Penh now offers AdidAs brAnd-nAme sportsweAr At #90 SihAnouk BoulevArd just west of the Independence Monument in the lAtest enhAncement of whAt hAs become CAmbodiA’s fAshion district. Phnom Penh’s movers And shAkers were on hAnd for SAturdAy night’s AdidAs lAunch event with A tent-enclosed street-side stAge AdjAcent <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/AdidAs-joins-fAshion-district/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 300 activists from Kampong Thom province’s Prey Lang Community Network were stopped by district police yesterday as they were marching from the Vietnamese-owned CRCK Company to deliver a lawsuit in Sandan district calling for the postponement of alleged forest clearing and the “invasion” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/prey-lang-activists-halted-on-road/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Mondolkiri and Kompong Thom provinces could suffer some of the most extreme effects of climate change in the Lower Mekong Basin region, such as a high incidence of flash floods and droughts by 2050, according to a new study. analyzing temperature and rainfall from 84 provinces <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mondolkirri-kompong-thom-face-climate-threat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Just recently, the Philippines government signed a memorandum of agreement (MOa) on rice trade with the Kingdom of Cambodia to pave the way for the National Food authority (NFa) to import rice from that country for the next two years. The Department of Foreign affairs (DFa) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ph-to-import-rice-from-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Student volunteers from across the country yesterday took a break from their land-measuring duties to attend a pre-Khmer New Year ceremony at Phnom Penh’s Koh Pitch where they were presented with a thank-you letter from Mr. Hun Sen. Since Mr. Hun Sen launched the land titling <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hun-sen-thanks-student-land-titling-volunteers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government of Japan on Wednesday signed to provide a grant aid of 36 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for a clean water project and a human resource development project. according to a press statement, the amount of 33.4 million U.S. dollars goes for the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/japan-provides-36-mln-usd-grant-aid-to-cambodia-for-clean-water-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thai airasia (Taa) is breaking into the Bangkok-Siem Reap segment long dominated by Bangkok airways in a move reflecting Cambodia’s new directive to open up its top destination for mass tourism. Taa secured permission from Cambodian authorities to launch a daily service starting on Oct <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thai-airasia-on-siem-reap-price-war/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National Election Committee (NEC) Secretary-General Tep Nytha reiterated Thursday that the NEC had no authority to establish a joint-party investigation into alleged irregularities during Sunday’s national election, while opposition leader Sam Rainsy said he would now seek an investigation outside the NEC. Prime Minister Hun Sen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/nec-rejects-joint-party-vote-investigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Five men working for Ratanakkiri rubber concessionaire DM Group, including a soldier, have been arrested for allegedly beating a villager and his children &ndash; one of whom, doctors say, may not survive &ndash; in a scuffle over their family’s land, the father said yesterday. Police confirmed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/kids-beaten-over-elc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The father of three children attacked with wooden sticks and steel poles by employees of well-connected DM Group in Ratanakkiri province has filed a lawsuit against the firm, and is asking for tens of thousands of dollars in compensation. .. The provincial court has charged the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/father-suing-rubber-firm-for-beating-his-three-children/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

About 100 people protested WednesdAy evening outside A Phnom Penh ice-mAking fActory owned by the dAughter of deputy Kompong Spue governor Tong Seng, complAining thAt the fActory cAuses A bAd smell And thAt the heAlth of residents in Russei Keo district’s Kilometer 6 commune wAs <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/residents-cAll-for-foul-seAling-fActory-to-move/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A MAlAysiAn Court yesterdAy sentenced A couple to 24 yeArs in jAil for culpAble homicide After their CAmbodiAn mAid stArved to deAth while working for them in their home on the northwest coAst of PenAg, Agence FrAnce Press (AFP) reported. CAmbodiAn opposition lAwmAker And former <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/mAlAysiAn-couple-jAiled-for-stArving-mAid-to-deAth/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Logging baron Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Co, Ltd has been granted a licence to collect and process the controversial plant known as yellow vine around the Stung atay hydropower dam in the Cardamom Mountains, according to documents received by the Post yesterday. The vine has <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/try-pheap-given-ok-to-harvest-yellow-vine/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has always been a source for a broad variety of raw materials  from the agricultural sector. The country exports many of these materials to neighbouring countries and other markets in the world &ndash; without turning them into new products. This lack of domestic processing has <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/noodle-maker-tries-instant-route/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government on Sunday warned foreigners to stay away from opposition protests against a hotly disputed election as thousands of riot police practised crowd control in the capital. authorities and security forces would “avoid potential clashes at all costs” said the government in a statement <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodia-warns-foreigners-to-stay-away-from-poll-protests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The United States and the European Union on Monday urged Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties to continue their dialogue towards electoral reforms and settlement of national problems. “The United States calls for a transparent review of irregularities in the July 28 national elections which would help <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/u-s-eu-urge-cambodia-elected-parties-to-continue-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>