Police warns of Classiscam cyber threat in Kingdom
The National Police’s anti-Cyber Crime Department has called on social media users to be wary of messages advertising opportunities to win rewards after observing a recent increase in the proliferation of scams on platforms like Telegram and Facebook. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-warns-of-classiscam-cyber-threat-in-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-warns-classiscam-cyber-threat-kingdom
ADB: Adapting to 4IR will boost garments, tourism
A study conducted by the AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) recommended thAt CAmbodiA develop industry trAnsformAtion mAps in key sectors to enAble trAnsitions under the fourth industriAl revolution (4IR). This should be AccompAnied by AdequAte investment in skills development for new And repositioned jobs. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Adb-AdApting-to-4ir-will-boost-gArments-tourism/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adb-adapting-4ir-will-boost-garments-tourism
National action plan against gender violence launched
Senior officials and international envoys have urged cooperation from society to put a stop to all forms of violence against women amid concerns that incidence has risen across the country and the world since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-action-plan-against-gender-violence-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-action-plan-against-gender-violence-launched
BookLab teaches children social skills
The AsiA FoundAtion with support from SmArt AxiAtA hAs lAunched BookLAb &ndAsh; A children’s book creAtion event to produce 10 children’s storybooks, lAying out different situAtions And problems for young reAders to leArn And explore. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/booklAb-teAches-children-sociAl-skills/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/booklab-teaches-children-social-skills
Cooler, wetter dry season this year forecasted
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has issued a forecast predicting that dry season weather this year would be more favourable than last year, with rainstorms and lighting strikes anticipated to happen more frequently from this month, especially in low-lying areas and coastal provinces. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cooler-wetter-dry-season-this-year-forecasted/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cooler-wetter-dry-season-year-forecasted
Contract farming in Mondulkiri fruit and vegetables rolling out
Tropicam Fruit and Vegetable Co Ltd will be rolling out a contract farming agreement with groups of farmers in Mondulkiri province on the supply, purchase and safe production of fruits and vegetables according to Good agriculture Practice (GaP) standards. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/contract-farming-in-mondulkiri-fruit-and-vegetables-rolling-out/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Alarm at loss of rare ungulates
Senior environment officials and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Cambodia) have expressed concerns about a dramatic decline in populations of ungulates – large hoofed mammals – in the Srepok and Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuaries located in Mondulkiri province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/alarm-at-loss-of-rare-ungulates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alarm-loss-rare-ungulates
Gold production expected later this year
In the wake of oil production starting in Cambodia, the nation is also placing high hopes of becoming a gold producing country, with the first mining of the precious metal due to start later this year than originally planned. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gold-production-expected-later-this-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807498/gold-production-expected-later-this-year/
Cambodia gets $28M Oz grant for Covid vaccines
The AustrAliAn government Announced on FebruAry 1 thAt it hAs provided A grAnt of $28 million for the rollout of Covid-19 vAccines Approved by World HeAlth OrgAnisAtion (WHO) for 1.5 million CAmbodiAns. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-gets-28m-oz-grAnt-for-covid-vAccines/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-gets-28m-oz-grant-covid-vaccines
Visa: Cambodia’s 2021 transaction trends
A desire for increAsed security And An Acute AwAreness of current heAlth guidelines hAs generAted An uptick in the use of non-cAsh pAyments, According to US multinAtionAl finAnciAl services corp VisA, As meAsured in its lAtest Consumer PAyments Attitudes survey. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/visA-cAmbodiAs-2021-trAnsAction-trends/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810543/visa-cambodias-2021-transaction-trends/
Developing recruitment processes key amid digital adoption: Experts
Recruitment has come a long way since its humble beginnings as printed box adverts in the local newspaper. according to global niche technology staffing company Next Venture, technology has and will continue to have the biggest impact on recruitment. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/developing-recruitment-processes-key-amid-digital-adoption-experts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Tom Starkey
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809632/developing-recruitment-processes-key-amid-digital-adoption-experts/
Cash-crop exports 200K tonnes in January
Cambodia exported 203,485 tonnes of seven major cash crops last month, according to a report by the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The ministry lists these as milled rice, natural rubber, corn, cashew nuts, peppercorn, as well as fresh bananas, chillies and mangoes. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cash-crop-exports-200k-tonnes-in-january/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cash-crop-exports-200k-tonnes-january
More than 600,000 migrant workers register into the system
A totAl of 654,864 foreign workers from CAmbodiA, LAos And MyAnmAr hAve registered since JAnuAry 15 to screen for Covid-19 After the online registrAtion system closed At midnight on FebruAry 13. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/more-thAn-600000-migrAnt-workers-register-into-the-system/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
The Nation Thailand Staff
https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30402649?utm_source=category&utm_medium=internal_referral
Safe foods stores keep prices steady amid lockdown
A number of sAfe-AgriculturAl-product speciAlist stores in Phnom Penh hAve expressed their commitment to mAintAin the prices of their commodities And contribute to the government’s efforts to improve people’s livelihoods during the ongoing two-week coronAvirus lockdown in Phnom Penh And AdjAcent TAkhmAo town in KAndAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/sAfe-foods-stores-keep-prices-steAdy-Amid-lockdown/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/safe-foods-stores-keep-prices-steady-amid-lockdown
PPCBank pays coupon interest on second bond
South Korean-owned Phnom Penh Commercial Bank Plc (PPCBank) announced a first coupon payout to investors in its second bond despite unrest in the Cambodian economy fuelled by the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ppcbank-pays-coupon-interest-on-second-bond/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppcbank-pays-coupon-interest-second-bond
National Assembly president seeks more cooperation with Singapore, Philippines
National assembly president Heng Samrin has encouraged the newly appointed ambassadors of two asean nations, Singapore and the Philippines, to promote more cooperation, according to a statement released on his official Facebook page yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-assembly-president-seeks-more-cooperation-with-singapore-philippines/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50832706/national-assembly-president-seeks-more-cooperation-with-singapore-philippines/
NGOs: Reorient mining fund provisions
OXFAM CAmbodiA And the NGO AffiliAted Network for SociAl AccountAbility (ANSA) will jointly implement A project Aimed At providing input to the government’s minerAl resource development fund. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngos-reorient-mining-fund-provisions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-reorient-mining-fund-provisions
CDC greenlights five projects worth $1.3B
The government on March 26 approved five new investment projects worth about $1.3 billion and expected to absorb 2,250 workers, even amid a dramatic escalation in the aSEaN member’s fight against the spread of the Covid-19 disease. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cdc-greenlights-five-projects-worth-1-3b/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cdc-greenlights-five-projects-worth-13b
Ministry rejects report on loss of forest cover
The Ministry of Environment rejected a report from the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime which claimed that Cambodia had lost more than 50,000ha of forest cover in Prey Lang Wildlife and Preah Rokar-Chheb Wildlife Sanctuaries over an 18-year period. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-rejects-report-on-loss-of-forest-cover/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-rejects-report-loss-forest-cover
MRC unveils plans to balance Mekong basin development
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) unveiled a new 10-year Basin Development Strategy (BDS) and five-year Strategic Plan (SP) to balance basin development and management to enable Mekong member countries to address emerging challenges and improve the overall state of the basin. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mrc-unveils-plans-to-balance-mekong-basin-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mrc-unveils-plans-balance-mekong-basin-development