Senators approve 2019-2023 development plan, power projects
Senators yesterday unanimously agreed to pass the National Strategic Development Plan of 2019-2023 worth $57.7 billion in capital. In order for the budget plan to be finalised, it will need to be reviewed by the Constitutional Council and approved by the King. The vote was held href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/senators-approve-2019-2023-development-plan-power-projects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50623286/senators-approve-2019-2023-development-plan-power-projects/
Smith expresses concerns over Cambodian situation
Rhona Smith, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia on Friday issued a statement expressing “grave concerns” over the “heightened political crackdown across Cambodia”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smith-expresses-concerns-over-cambodian-situation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/smith-expresses-concerns-over-cambodian-situation
Apsara Authority moves elephants out of Angkor area
The Apsara Authority and Elephant Management Association has started transferring elephants in the Angkor area to Bos Thom community forest in Siem Reap province’s Sout Nikom district in a bid to stop the animals from being used to ferry tourists around. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/apsara-authority-moves-elephants-out-of-angkor-area/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50660036/apsara-authority-moves-elephants-out-of-angkor-area/
World Innovations Forum holds first meet-up in the Kingdom
Monday night saw the first foray of World Innovations Forum Foundation in Phnom Penh, gathering an eclectic group of local and international entrepreneurs as part of their Seeding Innovation 2020 programme – a bid to change the way international development is done. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-innovations-forum-holds-first-meet-up-in-the-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Gerald Flynn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50661465/world-innovations-forum-holds-first-meet-up-in-the-kingdom/
Bit Traing chief calls for talks in dispute
Bit Traing commune chief Mach Chan on Tuesday appealed to Okhna Lanh Pheara and 77 families and urged them to find an acceptable solution to a land dispute, saying he had received requests from both sides since early October to intervene. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bit-traing-chief-calls-for-talks-in-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bit-traing-chief-calls-talks-dispute
GDT collects $2.4B in revenue from taxation in first 10 months
The government collected $2.40 billion in revenue from taxation during the first 10 months of this year – up 28.31 per cent year-on-year from $1.873 billion – a report from the General Department of Taxation (GDT) said on Monday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gdt-collects-2-4b-in-revenue-from-taxation-in-first-10-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gdt-collects-24b-revenue-taxation-first-10-months
Garment, textile, footwear exports nearly $8B in Q1-Q3
Cambodia exported more than $7.97 billion worth of garment, textile and footwear (GTF) products in the first nine months of this year, up 13.18 per cent year-on-year from $7.044 billion, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Customs and Excise href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-textile-footwear-exports-nearly-8b-in-q1-q3/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/garment-textile-footwear-exports-nearly-8b-q1-q3
UN World Food Programme helps Kingdom in disaster management
The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) signed a five-year partnership agreement on Wednesday for collaboration on crisis management and disaster risk reduction in Cambodia at the Peace Palace. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-world-food-programme-helps-kingdom-in-disaster-management/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-world-food-programme-helps-kingdom-disaster-management
Over 20 child street sellers rescued in raid
More than 20 child laborers were rescued in Phnom Penh on Tuesday after anti-human trafficking authorities arrested a couple who had forced the children to work as fruit sellers in exchange for payments made to their families, according to police.Officers from the Interior Ministry’s anti-human href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/over-20-child-street-sellers-rescued-in-raid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/over-20-child-street-sellers-rescued-in-raid-on-house-95148/
Government to revamp porous tax code
The government will scrap its poorly regulated and grossly inefficient estimated-tax regime, which covers mostly small enterprises, and bring all businesses in the Kingdom into the fold of its more-stringent “real” tax regime, leaked documents show.In an unpublished addendum to the 2016 national budget obtained href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-revamp-porous-tax-code/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-revamp-porous-tax-code
Shift in Aeon tenant mix as high-end brands replaced by cheaper options
Concerns are that, while the middle class is growing, Cambodia’s consumer base is not yet able to support premium retailersThe throngs of Cambodian families streaming into Aeon Mall over the Water Festival holiday made it clear that Phnom Penh’s poshest mall has successfully positioned itself href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shift-in-aeon-tenant-mix-as-high-end-brands-replaced-by-cheaper-options/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/shift-aeon-tenant-mix-high-end-brands-replaced-cheaper-options
Hun Sen slams activists opposing hydropower dams
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called environmental activists objecting to the construction of hydropower dams in Cambodia “extreme” insisting that such developments would benefit millions of people.His remarks came on Wednesday during the inauguration of a dam located on the Tatay river in Koh Kong href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-slams-activists-opposing-hydropower-dams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/hun-sen-slams-activists-opposing-hydropower-dams/3117183.html
PM tries again on deforestation
In recent months Prime Minister Hun Sen has made an effort to show that the government has a handle on the voracious deforestation that has ravaged the country’s forests over the years. Yet his speeches and decrees have done little to slow down, much less stop, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-tries-again-on-deforestation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28927/pm-tries-again-on-deforestation/
Police asked to pay vehicle tax
The owners of vehicles sporting police number plates must pay vehicle taxes by the end of the month or face having their vehicles impounded, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In a letter to Interior Minister Sar Kheng, Economy and Finance Minister Aun Ponmoniroth href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-asked-to-pay-vehicle-tax/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pech sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29374/police-asked-to--pay-vehicle-tax/
Minister tells UN ‘perfect democracy’ not realistic
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn defended the government before the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Saturday, saying that the ruling party was being held to unrealistic expectations of a “perfect democracy” while the opposition was “committing very serious crimes.” Delivering his first major address to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-tells-un-perfect-democracy-not-realistic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-tells-un-perfect-democracy-not-realistic-118422/
Time schedule for visit of Angkor temples from January 2016
The Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap (APSARA) has set a time schedule for the visit of tourists in the Angkor Archeological Park, reported the state news agency-AKP.The new time schedule, taking effect from Jan. 1, 2016, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/time-schedule-for-visit-of-angkor-temples-from-january-2016/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/time-schedule-for-visit-of-angkor-temples-from-january-2016-9056
Bridging the gap between investment and accessibility in Chroy Changvar
Develop in the West, but do not forget the beautiful East that is Chroy Changvar with its beautifully boastful appearance. This is the claim that Prime Minister Hun Sen has used for the last decade to encourage investment and development on the dormant peninsula flanked href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bridging-the-gap-between-investment-and-accessibility-in-chroy-changvar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Indian mining firm prepares to dig deep in Ratanakiri
The Ministry of Mines and Energy is set to issue the country’s first commercial underground mining license to Indian company Mesco Gold in two weeks, despite opposition by residents of two villages concerned about compensation and environmental damage. The company plans to break ground on its href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indian-mining-firm-prepares-to-dig-deep-in-ratanakiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Aisha Down and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/indian-mining-firm-prepares-dig-deep-ratanakkiri-117474/
Hun Sen hopes days of post-election protests are finished
The three-month voter registration period opened on Thursday, with Prime Minister Hun Sen telling reporters after enrolling at his local commune office that he hopes the new voter registry will put an end to post-election protests. After the July 2013 national election, the CNRP refused to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-hopes-days-of-post-election-protests-are-finished/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-hopes-days-post-election-protests-finished-117491/
Villagers destroy gates at Ratanakkiri court
About 150 villagers, enraged by the conviction and imprisonment of three of their community representatives, yesterday destroyed the gates of Ratanakkiri Provincial Court, bursting into the courtroom only to find that the three men had already been sent to jail.The representatives – Chroeung Touch, Em href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-destroy-gates-at-ratanakkiri-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-destroy-gates-ratanakkiri-court