GI products closer to fruition
Three of Cambodia’s most iconic natural products – Thma Koul rice, Kampot durian and Cambodian silk – have been earmarked by the government to obtain the World Trade Organization’s Geographical Indication (GI) status. Speaking to reporters after a press conference on GI registration at the Ministry href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gi-products-closer-to-fruition/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gi-products-closer-fruition
Minister to address beatings
Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith has pledged to meet with Daun Penh District Governor Sok Sambath to discuss the targeting of journalists by hired district security guards, said UNESCO country representative Anne Lemaistre, who met with the minister on Friday. The minister is also keen on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-to-address-beatings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kevin Ponniah and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-address-beatings
Directive aims to stop ELC abuses
Sacred burial grounds and community forests should be granted more protection under a new government proclamation issued this month, but rights groups and land-grab victims are wary that, without proper enforcement, it will amount to little in practice. An interministerial proclamation, or prakas, signed by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/directive-aims-to-stop-elc-abuses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/directive-aims-stop-elc-abuses
FAO Estimates Cambodia 2014 Rice Exports to Increase Slightly to 1.2 Million Tons
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated Cambodia’s 2014 rice exports to increase slightly to 1.2 million tons over that in 2013 due to increased production. The FAO reports that its exports estimate includes unofficial exports of milled as well as paddy rice href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fao-estimates-cambodia-2014-rice-exports-to-increase-slightly-to-1-2-million-tons/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/news/rice-news/fao-estimates-cambodia-2014-rice-exports-increase-slightly-12-million-tons
CNRP to walk away from talks
Negotiations between the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party and ruling Cambodian People’s Party looked like they might screech to an abrupt halt yesterday, as opposition leaders visiting supporters in Tbong Khmum province said they will “cut off” talks. Speaking to about 1,000 supporters in the province’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-to-walk-away-from-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Meas Sokchea and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-walk-away-talks
Angkor brewery agrees to strikers’ demands
More than 200 striking workers at Cambodia’s largest brewer, Cambrew Ltd., resumed work on Saturday after the company agreed to lift their monthly salary from $120 to $150 as they had been demanding. The workers at the company, which produces Angkor beer and Black Panther stout, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/angkor-brewery-agrees-to-strikers-demands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/angkor-brewery-agrees-to-strikers-demands-58466/
Monks protest over institute
A group of about 100 people, including 50 or so monks, attempted to march yesterday to protest outside Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute, but were thwarted by droves of military police and district security guards on Sisowath Quay. No violence occurred as Independent Monk Network leader But href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monks-protest-over-institute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monks-protest-over-institute
Cross at your own risk
Since he began making the perilous journey to Thailand to log rosewood 10 years ago, Sao Sophon* has had plenty of time to calculate the cost of dying. “When we cross the border to Thailand, our lives are equal to $80 or $90, because that is href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cross-at-your-own-risk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cross-your-own-risk
In Cambodia, fake orphanages soak up donations by duping tourists
Just before the sun sets over the enchanting Angkor temples in northern Cambodia, a group of children gets ready for their big show. Every day, according to fliers at restaurants and hotels around town, the children perform an hour-long “charity show” for tourists visiting the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-cambodia-fake-orphanages-soak-up-donations-by-duping-tourists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Denise Hruby
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140721/in-cambodia-fake-orphanages-soak-up-donations-by-duping-tourists
Slow year for Japanese investment
The Japanese embassy is reporting a $280 million drop in Japanese investment last year, but officials were quick to say that the numbers don’t necessarily reflect slumping investor confidence in Cambodia. Japanese investment in the Kingdom reached about $47.5 million in 2013, compared to $328 million href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/slow-year-for-japanese-investment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hor Kimsay and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/slow-year-japanese-investment
Smart rolls out 4G network
Mobile internet speeds in Cambodia are ratcheting up a notch. Smart Mobile, the country’s second largest operator by subscribers, is making 4G LTE internet available to customers this week, the company announced yesterday during the launch of the service at NagaWorld Casino. Thomas Hundt, CEO of Smart, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/smart-rolls-out-4g-network/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smart-rolls-out-4g-network
Cambodia at UN To Defend Rights Record
Cambodia’s opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, is currently in Geneva, where the UN Human Rights Committee is reviewing the country’s rights record. Cambodian government officials are defending their rights record for the second time in four years at the Universal Periodic Review. Sam Rainsy, who heads the Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-at-un-to-defend-rights-record/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-at-un-to-defend-rights-record/1839449.html
Prey Speu tales conflict
Following last week’s street sweep, children as young as 7 years old were kept in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre, eyewitnesses, staff and those targeted by the initiative have told the Post, directly contradicting government denials offered earlier this week. Standing at the centre’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prey-speu-tales-conflict/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-speu-tales-conflict
Joint statement regarding the Oddar Meanchey authorities’ continued illegal conduct towards Equitable Cambodia’s staff
We, the undersigned civil society groups, condemn the actions of the Oddar Meanchey authorities who have, since September 2014, been engaged in the obstruction, harassment, intimidation, and assault of rights workers (see Annex 1: Timeline of Events). Most recently, a four-person team from Equitable Cambodia (“EC”) was in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/joint-statement-regarding-the-oddar-meanchey-authorities-continued-illegal-conduct-towards-equitable-cambodias-staff/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Joint Organizations
EU funding to the Kingdom rises threefold
The European Union’s delegation to Cambodia will almost triple its funding to the Kingdom over the next five years because the bloc’s aid policy has shifted its focus to least developed countries. Jean-François Cautain, ambassador for the European Union’s delegation to Cambodia, announced the EU would href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-funding-to-the-kingdom-rises-threefold/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-funding-kingdom-rises-threefold
Joint statement: Civil society organizations call for all baseless charges against journalists to be dropped
On 22 December 2019, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) alongside CamboJA and 35 other organizations has released a joint statement to urge the Royal Government of Cambodia to take concrete action to ensure that the right to freedom of expression is respected and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/joint-statement-civil-society-organizations-call-for-all-baseless-charges-against-journalists-to-be-dropped/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
Transparency key to attract US investments: Ambassador
US Ambassador Patrick Murphy on Monday held a meeting with Land Management Minister Chea Sophara to discuss the need for transparency in development projects to attract more American investments. Mr Murphy tweeted after the meeting the United States wants to see that all development projects in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/transparency-key-to-attract-us-investments-ambassador/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sun Mesa
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50673427/transparency-key-to-attract-us-investments-ambassador
Downsized
![ELC](https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ELC-150x150.jpeg)
The concession has been subjected to additional reductions in size and has not been cancelled previously. Publicly available information on land area cut from ELCS does not include maps or spatial data of excisions. Thus, ODC cannot present land area cut in shapes. As a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/layers/downsized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mekong levels to drop as China conducts equipment tests
The Mekong River Commission on Tuesday reported dam equipment tests in China will affect water levels in Cambodia, Thailand and Laos in the middle of this month. In a press release obtained yesterday, the MRC said the tests are being conducted in China’s Jinghong hydropower station href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mekong-levels-to-drop-as-china-conducts-equipment-tests/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50675730/mekong-levels-to-drop-as-china-conducts-equipment-tests
Protesters demand speedy land dispute resolution at ministry
More than 700 people affected by land disputes gathered in Phnom Penh on Monday to protest in front of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning, and Construction. The protesters who came from Koh Kong, Kampong Speu, Oddar Meanchey and Preah Vihear provinces demanded a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesters-demand-speedy-land-dispute-resolution-at-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/protesters-demand-speedy-land-dispute-resolution-ministry