Mondulkiri elephant row continues
An Eco-tourism initiAtive in Mondulkiri province will remAin open for dAytime visits only for the time being, After Authorities heArd from officiAls At the ElephAnt VAlley Project (EVP) And locAls who complAin the NGO siphons tourism money. EVP officiAls met with people who filed complAints with <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mondulkiri-elephAnt-row-continues/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sean Teehan and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-elephant-row-continues
Activists seek UN monitors
Anti-logging Activists wrote to the United NAtions yesterdAy to cAll for the monitoring of A lAwsuit in which they Accuse hundreds of officiAls in KAmpong Speu province’s Phnom OrAl Wildlife SAnctuAry of illegAl deforestAtion. The NAturAl Resource And Wildlife PreservAtion OrgAnizAtion (NRWPO) listed 241 officiAls it <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activists-seek-un-monitors/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-seek-un-monitors
Cambodia flood death toll climbs to 122
The death toll from Mekong River and flash floods in Cambodia has risen to 122 in the past four weeks, a senior disaster control official said Monday. “To date, the floods have killed 122 people and affected some 1.5 million people,” Nhim Vanda, vice-president of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-flood-death-toll-climbs-to-122/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/14/c_132797207.htm
French offer forensics 101
In the past two years, the French embassy in Phnom Penh has been drawn into at least two high-profile cases in which their nationals have died in suspicious circumstances in Cambodia. In an attempt to improve forensic investigations in the Kingdom, the French embassy announced <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/french-offer-forensics-101/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/french-offer-forensics-101
Profits peeled at new centre
A pilot cAshew-peeling fActory in KAmpong Thom province Aims to mAke business eAsier for fArmers who hAve trAditionAlly relied upon sending their rAw hArvest elsewhere for processing. With $130,000 from the AsiA Development BAnk, the building went up in MAy on 3,600 squAre metres in KAmpong <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/profits-peeled-At-new-centre/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/profits-peeled-new-centre
Landmine casualties in Cambodia down 36 pct in 7 months
Cambodia reported 74 landmine casualties in the first seven months of this year, down 36 percent from the 115 casualties over the same period last year, the figures of the Cambodia Mine action Center (CMaC) said Tuesday. During the January-July period this year, 12 people were <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/landmine-casualties-in-cambodia-down-36-pct-in-7-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-08/27/c_132666679.htm
Cambodia's rice exports up 107 pct in 8 months
Cambodia has seen a remarkable rise in the exports of milled rice in the first eight months of the year due to increasing demand on international markets, official figures showed Wednesday. The data, from the single window secretariat for facilitating milled rice exports, recorded that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-exports-up-107-pct-in-8-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staf
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/18/c_132731824.htm
Cambodia sees 15 pct drop in new business registration in 8 months
Cambodian Ministry of Commerce said Friday that it had issued operating licenses to 1,952 new companies in the first eight months of the year, down 15 percent compared with the 2,300 firms over the same period last year. During the January-august period this year, the ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-sees-15-pct-drop-in-new-business-registration-in-8-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/20/c_132736133.htm
Border beat goes on for opposition
Returning to a long-time party priority, opposition lawmakers yesterday said they will travel to Kampong Cham’s Memot district today to investigate claims that Vietnamese troops were forcing farmers off land that rightfully belongs to Cambodia. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Mao Monyvan, who ran in Kampong <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/border-beat-goes-on-for-opposition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/border-beat-goes-opposition
Women’s health gets $14m boost
Taking strides to curb Cambodia’s high maternal and child mortality rates, health officials yesterday launched a $14 million initiative to improve women’s limited access to reproductive health care. During the three-year Partnering to Save Lives campaign, funded by ausaid, NGOs Care Cambodia, Marie Stopes and Save <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/womens-health-gets-14m-boost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/women%E2%80%99s-health-gets-14m-boost
Cambodia to attend CLV united front meeting in Laos
Heads of the national united fronts from three Indochina countries will meet in Vientiane on Wednesday for the Second Summit Meeting. The Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) President, Dr Phanduangchit Vongsa, informed the media about the planned agenda last week. President of the Solidarity Front for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-to-attend-clv-united-front-meeting-in-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=YmUxZTVjNGY3OTU
Vietnam’s investment skyrockets
Political instability has done little to dampen Vietnam’s appetite for investment in Cambodia, the latest figures revealed yesterday by Prime Minister Hun Sen show. Last year, Vietnamese investment reached $302 million, up 250 per cent from $86 million in 2012, according to the prime minister, who <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnams-investment-skyrockets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/vietnam%E2%80%99s-investment-skyrockets
Cambodia's rice export to reach 1 mln tons in 2015: commerce minister
Cambodia’s Minister of Commerce Sun Chanthol said Tuesday that the country is expected to achieve its goal of exporting one million tons of milled rice in 2015. “The country had exported more than 400,000 tons in 2013 and there is two years more toward the goal, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-export-to-reach-1-mln-tons-in-2015-commerce-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-01/21/c_133062965.htm
Minister calls for construction of plastic recycle plants in Bavet, Sihanoukville
Say Sam al, Minister of Environment, on Thursday called for construction of plastic recycle plants in Bavet and Sihanoukville. Speaking at the meeting, the minister said that in the last 20 years Ministry of Environment as well as Cambodian government didn’t allow trash recycle in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-calls-for-construction-of-plastic-recycle-plants-in-bavet-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herlad
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NzAwNDJmMjdmZTN
Solar power for communes
The offices of commune officials along the Tonle Sap basin will soon be solar-powered as part of a poverty-reduction project backed by the asian Development Bank. Some 123 off-the-grid commune council offices in Banteay Meanchey, Siem Reap, Kampong Thom and Kampong Cham provinces will be fitted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/solar-power-for-communes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/solar-power-communes
Cambodia among best performers in cutting numbers of children out of school
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are among the world’s top ten performers in reducing the proportion of children out of school, according to a recent UNESCO report. The report, released in January and launched in Phnom Penh on Thursday, also showed that Thailand was among the world’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-among-best-performers-in-cutting-numbers-of-children-out-of-school/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ZWY2MWMzNWQ2ZTJ
CPP official calls on authorities to seize MPs’ number plates from CNRP lawmakers
Senior official from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party called on authorities to take action against CNRP senior member whose vehicles still use fourth mandate number plates, which are invalid. The National assembly was ready to deliver the new number plates to the CNRP’s elected lawmakers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-official-calls-on-authorities-to-seize-mps-number-plates-from-cnrp-lawmakers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=OTA3ZDU1ZmQ3ZjM
Cambodian PM orders troops along border with Thailand to stay calm
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday advised armed forces and local authorities along border with Thailand to keep calm. Cambodia and Thailand has had a bitter border dispute since July 2008 when the UNESCO added the Cambodia’s Preah Vihear temple to its World Heritage <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-orders-troops-along-border-with-thailand-to-stay-calm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/09/c_133322374.htm
Government spending, foreign aid up in 2013
Government spending increased 32 per cent last year, while increases in both domestic revenue and foreign aid helped stabilise Cambodia’s budget deficit, according to budget statements from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). The consolidated financial records, which were released on May 8, show Cambodia’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-spending-foreign-aid-up-in-2013/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-spending-foreign-aid-2013
Brands, international unions press Cambodian government on labor issues
Representatives from some of the world’s largest fashion brands and the leader of one of the world’s biggest union organizations met this week with Cambodian officials and local clothing manufacturers to demand better treatment and improve workplace safety for the country’s estimated 600,000 garment workers. Garment <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/brands-international-unions-press-cambodian-government-on-labor-issues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/brands-international-unions-press-government-on-labor-issues/1923596.html