Cambodia launches National Council on Green Growth
Cambodia on Tuesday officially inaugurated the National Council on Green Growth, aiming at developing a sustainable economic society with natural resource and environment sustainability. Cambodia has adopted several legal instruments for the green growth implementation. Those included the roadmap for green growth, the memorandum of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-launches-national-council-on-green-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-03/19/c_132246075.htm
Cambodian PM to visit China to advance bilateral ties
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that he will pay an official visit to China early next month to meet with new Chinese leaders for talks on further enhancing bilateral relations. “I hope that new Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-to-visit-china-to-advance-bilateral-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-03/25/c_132260956.htm
Workers to get back pay before election
Social affairs Ministry officials yesterday promised that about 750 workers from the shuttered Pine Great garment factory will receive their overdue salaries before the election. Yesterday Touch Somuth, a member of the Social affairs Ministry committee formed to resolve the issue, said the committee was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-to-get-back-pay-before-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-get-back-pay-election
Cambodia's rubber exports up 29 pct in 5 months
Cambodia reported a 29 percent rise in dry rubber exports in the first five months of 2013, but revenues from the exports rose only 4 percent due to price decline in international markets. Currently, the country has about 300,000 hectares of rubber trees, according to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rubber-exports-up-29-pct-in-5-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-07/19/c_132556398.htm#
Insuring for higher education
Canada-based life insurance company Manulife has launched a product intended to provide parents with security for their children’s education, and officials at the firm say they are optimistic about its prospects. Manulife’s research found that even families who were financially struggling would take advantage of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/insuring-for-higher-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042365160/Business/insuring-for-higher-education.html
Jarai Villagers Ask UN for Help in Land Fight
More than 300 ethnic Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district in longstanding land disputes with two Vietnamese land concessionaires submitted a petition to UN human rights officers yesterday asking for help. Village representative Romas Chvat said locals were participating in an NGO-led workshop on protest <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jarai-villagers-ask-un-for-help-in-land-fight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Fixed-line users rise
The number of fixed-line telephone subscribers in Cambodia increased by four per cent in 2012 compared to 2011, standing in sharp contrast to a mobile phone subscriber growth of 22 per cent in the same period, statistics show. according to figures from the Ministry of Posts <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fixed-line-users-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466029/Business/fixed-line-users-rise.html
IPU Finds Assembly Has Little Loans Oversight
Cambodia’s National assembly is lacking, compared to other countries’ parliaments, in the oversight it exercises over new loans taken out by the government from international financial institutions, according to a new report. The study, published Tuesday by Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the World Bank, found <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ipu-finds-assembly-has-little-loans-oversight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/ipu-finds-assembly-has-little-loans-oversight-36432/
Officials talk disaster plan
The National Committee for Disaster Management is meeting with officials from throughout the country in Phnom Penh this week in the wake of a slew of destructive storms that have wreaked havoc in the first four months of 2013. Officials will gather for the second and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-talk-disaster-plan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
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Gov’t rights report to be sent to UN
The government will today submit its second report to the UN Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process that takes stock of human rights progress in each UN member state. Governments are required to report to the council every four and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-rights-report-to-be-sent-to-un/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-rights-report-be-sent-un
NGO pair sought over Korea work scam
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Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-pair-sought-over-korea-work-scam
Hun Sen rejects opposition calls to hold new election, step down
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday rejected opposition calls for him to dissolve the National assembly to pave the way for a new election and to step down from power. “I want to stress that there is no re-election, no one dissolves the legislature and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-rejects-opposition-calls-to-hold-new-election-step-down/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/kyodo-news-international/131220/hun-sen-rejects-opposition-calls-hold-new-election-ste
Monks enter forest fray
Months ago, Chinese engineers were posting markers for a hydropower dam opposed by villagers in Koh Kong province’s areng Valley. This week, in marked contrast, monks draped trees in iconic saffron sashes as they blessed the very forest the dam would destroy. The saffron robes <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monks-enter-forest-fray/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Daniel Quinlan and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-enter-forest-fray
Illegal logging suspects arrested
Two men were arrested and charged on Sunday with smuggling more than 2,000 kilograms of luxury-grade rosewood from Kampong Thom to Siem Reap town, anti-crime officials said yesterday. Thanh Ti, 21, and Viet Thy Thanh, 19, were caught manning a truck transferring 2,400 kilograms of rosewood <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illegal-logging-suspects-arrested/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-logging-suspects-arrested
UN Envoy Continues Meetings With CNRP, NGOs
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi, who is on his 10th fact-finding mission to Cambodia, met with opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy on Tuesday ahead of a planned meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior government officials Wednesday. Reached by telephone after the meeting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-envoy-continues-meetings-with-cnrp-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-continues-meetings-with-cnrp-ngos-50589/
Maids not heard from since 2011
Two sisters from Preah Vihear’s Kulen district hired to work in Malaysia as maids by Mey Yorn Services have not been heard from in more than two years, their mother said yesterday. Sok Noun, 45, hasn’t spoken to her daughters Bien Phok, 17, and Bien Phoun, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maids-not-heard-from-since-2011/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maids-not-heard-2011
Cambodia warned, again, on intellecual property regulation
Cambodian manufacturers are at risk of being blocked from exporting to the United States for using pirated software, IT industry bodies warned yesterday. Speaking at a seminar that was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh, Michael Mudd, the secretary general of the asia-Pacific Open <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-cambodia-warned-again-on-intellecual-property-regulation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-warned-again-intellecual-property-regulation
Vietnamese charged with illegal logging
The Mondolkiri Provincial Court on Tuesday charged 15 Vietnamese nationals with illegally crossing the border and logging protected forest, four days after the group was detained by members of the ethnic Bunong minority in a community forest 20 km from the border. Ya Narin, director of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnamese-charged-with-illegal-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/vietnamese-charged-with-illegal-logging-53975/
Cambodia garment sector has Asia's highest rate of unionization
Cambodia’s garment sector has the highest rate of unionization of any industry in asia, Cambodia Federation of Employers and Business associations Van Sou Leng said Tuesday. “Major efforts are needed to improve the quality of workplace relations,” Van said in a statement posted on the Camfeba <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-garment-sector-has-asias-highest-rate-of-unionization/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NDA0NmM5MWU5YjN
New hound joins mine battle
Cambodia’s newest demining employee comes with an impressive resume, years of experience – and four legs. Rambo touched down in Phnom Penh yesterday, then was driven to the Cambodian Mine action Centre (CMaC) training facility in Kampong Chhnang province. He is the first of 18 trained <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-hound-joins-mine-battle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-hound-joins-mine-battle