Notice on the publication of cadastral documents
On 05 July 2017, Pursat Provincial Government, through the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, published a notice on the publication of cadastral documents, including cadastral maps and lists of title holders, which are derived from the land valuation and data collection conducted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/notice-on-the-publication-of-cadastral-documents/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Cambodia
Press release on the outcome of the official visit to the Republic of Indonesia of H.E. Senior Minister Prak Sokhonn
On 06 February 2018, the Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation has released a press release on outcomes of the official visit to the Republic of Indonesia of H.E. Senior Minister Prak Sokhonn from 01-03 February 2018. The official visit aims to foster the friendly <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-outcome-of-the-official-visit-to-the-republic-of-indonesia-of-h-e-senior-minister-prak-sokhonn/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Extractive industry to become new economic driver – Ministry
The government last week said the extractive industry is on course to become a main economic pillar. Cambodia’s economic development is mostly driven by the construction, real estate, tourism, garments and agricultural sectors, but the government is working to diversify, with the extractive industry set <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/extractive-industry-to-become-new-economic-driver-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50663802/extractive-industry-to-become-new-economic-driver-ministry/
Kampong Chhnang governor denies Vietnamese land rumours
Kampong Chhnang provincial Governor Chhour Chandoeun yesterday dismissed rumours that the government is giving land concessions to Vietnamese people from a floating village on Tonle Sap lake. He said that the provincial authorities are in the process of resettling Cambodians and Vietnamese from the floating <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampong-chhnang-governor-denies-vietnamese-land-rumours/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50664367/kampong-chhnang-governor-denies-vietnamese-land-rumours/
Construction of new Phnom Penh airport on schedule
Construction of a new airport that will serve Phnom Penh is on track and could be completed as early as 2023, the developer said. Pung Kheav Se, chairman of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), the company behind the project, said they are now building <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-of-new-phnom-penh-airport-on-schedule/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50667677/construction-of-new-phnom-penh-airport-on-schedule/
Digital platform for sustainable charcoal production in the works
An innovAtive digitAl plAtform for the government is being developed to promote the sustAinAble production And consumption of chArcoAl. It’s the work of the United NAtions Development ProgrAmme (UNDP), which pArtnered with the Group for Environment, RenewAble Energies And SolidArity (Geres), the RegionAl Community Forestry <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/digitAl-plAtform-for-sustAinAble-chArcoAl-production-in-the-works/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Incitement Charge for Chhun
Global brands Levi’s and Gap had continued slashing orders at the Tai Yang and Camwell factories in Kandal province, costing the company that owns them about US$6 million, its manager claimed yesterday. Tai Yang Enterprises manager Wu Minghuor said the brands had reduced their orders from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/incitement-charge-for-chhun/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Country Is Prepared for Heavy Rains, Disaster Committee Says
To make sure Cambodia is ready for potential devastating floods, government officials have created an emergency preparedness plan that includes storing 16,000 tons of milled rice and putting 3,500 armed forces on reserve. [Nhim Vanda, first vice president in charge of the National Committee for Disaster Management <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/country-is-prepared-for-heavy-rains-disaster-committee-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia steps up Internet surveillance
As BurmA loosens its grip on the mediA, CAmbodiA hAs begun to rAnk high Among the countries repressing internet And telephone freedom in the nAme of nAtionAl security, sAfety And sociAl order. It is still not compArAble to ChinA or VietnAm, but CAmbodiA is moving <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-steps-up-internet-surveillAnce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://asiancorrespondent.com/88383/cambodia-internet-circular-surveillance-radio/
Man Charged With Clearing State Forestland
The Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday charged a man with clearing state-owned forestland after he was arrested on Monday along with 13 other villagers, according to provincial prosecutor Ben Sarath. Heoun Sokha was arrested in Kraya commune’s Santuk district after he was found by police clearing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/man-charged-with-clearing-state-forestland/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
$70 from India for power
India is financing the construction of a US$70 million transmission line to bring electricity from hydroelectric projects in Laos to Cambodia, according to Indian Chamber of Commerce President Debasish Pattnaik. Speaking yesterday after the official launch of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (ICC), Pattnaik <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/70-from-india-for-power/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090358436/Business/70m-from-india-for-power.html
Indigenous Forest Protection Group Again Told to Disband
Members of Bunong ethnic minority forest group in Kratie province who accused local police of barring their community patrols in search of illegal logging were told by a Forestry administration official yesterday that they had no authority to operate. Mr. [Peit] Kun Pedor [head of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/indigenous-forest-protection-group-again-told-to-disband/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Innovation and inspiration are the basis of BarCamp
BarCamp Phnom Penh, a technology conference at the University of Puthisastra, promises to attract industry professionals from aSEaN countries, the US, Germany and other countries around the world later this month, Be Chantra, lead organiser of the conference, says. Be Chantra says BarCamp Phnom Penh is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/innovation-and-inspiration-are-the-basis-of-barcamp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Slain Journalist's Mobile Phone Yields Clues
Police investigating the murder of a journalist whose battered body was discovered in Ratanakkiri province on Tuesday have unearthed key clues to who may have carried out the killing, an official said yesterday. Hang Serei Odom, 42-who had written exposes on the involvement of powerful people in forest <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/slain-journalists-mobile-phone-yields-clues/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Floods Force Evacuations in Northeast
Hundreds of families in Banteay Meanchey province were evacuated from their homes yesterday due to severe flooding, with authorities warning that more than 1,000 additional families may have to be rescued if torrential rains continue as expected over the course of next week. The rains that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/floods-force-evacuations-in-northeast/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Thousands Evacuated, but Floodwaters Abating
More than 400 families in Banteay Meanchey province have now been evacuated from their homes due to heavy flooding in towns and villages along the Thai border, provincial officials said yesterday. about 100 families were evacuated from Poipet City – the worst-hit area – yesterday alone, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thousands-evacuated-but-floodwaters-abating/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Negotiations Planned to Improve Relations in Garment Sector
Negotiations between the Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) and unions over a landmark agreement aimed at reducing strike action will be held on October 3, representatives said yesterday. The original agreement on improving industrial relations in the garment sector was signed in October 2010 by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/negotiations-planned-to-improve-relations-in-garment-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Awareness training on fake goods for officials
Cambodia lacks the resources for implementing intellectual property rights, while relevant officers lack skills to monitor the import of counterfeit products, according to an official. Var Roth San, Head of the Secretariat of National Committee for Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR) and Director of the Department of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/awareness-training-on-fake-goods-for-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012101259266/Business/officials-trained-on-fake-goods.html
Staff Protest Corruption at Telecom Cambodia
The director-general of Telecom Cambodia, one of the country’s most highly regarded state-owned enterprises and a candidate for listing on the stock exchange, has left his post amid an investigation into corruption allegations, the minister of posts and telecommunications said on Thursday. Despite the staff’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/staff-protest-corruption-at-telecom-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/staff-protest-corruption-at-telecom-cambodia-10535/
Memorial to Be Held in Koh Kong for Slain Forestry Activist
An estimAted 600 people who sAy their livelihoods hAve been Affected by illegAl logging And deforestAtion Across the country Are scheduled to gAther in Koh Kong province on FridAy At the site where environmentAl Activist Chut Wutty wAs shot deAd on April 26. The group will <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/memoriAl-to-be-held-in-koh-kong-for-slAin-forestry-Activist/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>