B Meanchey Court chief moved to Phnom Penh
Ang MeAlAtey, the former president of BAnteAy MeAnchey ProvinciAl Court, wAs Appointed president of the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court on MondAy, ending the eight-yeAr tenure of Chiv Keng. Justice Minister Ang Vong VAthAnA And Supreme Court President Dith Munty presided over the ceremony of Around 100 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/b-meAnchey-court-chief-moved-to-phnom-penh/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Eang Mengleng and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/b-meanchey-court-chief-moved-to-phnom-penh-56905/
Villagers accuse Mondolkiri company of major deforestation
Mondolkiri provincial villagers on Tuesday accused authorities there of colluding with a development company involved in serious deforestation. The Phnong minority villagers say the wife of the deputy provincial governor owns the company, Villas Development, which is allegedly involved in illegal logging. The activists spoke Tuesday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-accuse-mondolkiri-company-of-major-deforestation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/villagers-accuse-mondolkiri-company-of-major-deforestation/1948555.html
New deadlock but old tactics, analysts say
AheAd of todAy’s heAring on CAmbodiA’s record At the UN HumAn Rights Council in GenevA, opposition figures And AnAlysts sAid the ruling CAmbodiAn People’s PArty hAs reverted to fAmiliAr tActics of post-election suppression. AnAlysts yesterdAy sAid thAt the breAking up of CAmbodiA NAtionAl Rescue PArty-led protests <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/new-deAdlock-but-old-tActics-AnAlysts-sAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-deadlock-old-tactics-analysts-say
City Hall backtracks amid White Building outcry
With momentum gathering behind a movement to renovate rather than raze Phnom Penh’s famous White Building, City Hall on Thursday backtracked on its assertion earlier this week that the building was destined for demolition. On Tuesday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said the iconic apartment block <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hall-backtracks-amid-white-building-outcry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hul Reaksmey and Chan Cheuk Yin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-backtracks-amid-white-building-outcry-67556/
Turkish investors eye electronics, electricity production in Kingdom
Turkish investors have expressed interest in seeking investment partners in Cambodia in the electricity production and electronics sectors. Guven Uckan, the head of the Electrical Electronics and Services Exporters’ association (EESEa), said Cambodia had great potential for investment, with a number of Turkish investors currently doing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/turkish-investors-eye-electronics-electricity-production-in-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Bilateral trade with South Korea tops $657M
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea has topped more than $657 million for the first nine months of this year. according to Ministry of Commerce data obtained by The Post on Monday, the figure is a little more than $100 million shy of the $769 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bilateral-trade-with-south-korea-tops-657m/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bilateral-trade-south-korea-tops-657m
Ministry highlights work to register indigenous lands
The Land Management Ministry has announced it has officially registered thousands of hectares of land for scores of ethnic minority communities across the Kingdom. In a statement issued after the meeting, the ministry said so far it has registered 28,522 hectares of indigenous land to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-highlights-work-to-register-indigenous-lands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50674242/ministry-highlights-work-to-register-indigenous-lands
Council approves Aeon 3 project
Japan’s aeon Mall Co is to spend more than $200 million building its third shopping mall in Phnom Penh as the firm eyes the Kingdom’s burgeoning middle-class. Construction on aeon Mall 3 in the capital’s Meanchey district is to begin early next year as a result <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/council-approves-aeon-3-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/council-approves-aeon-3-project
More than 400 endangered turtle eggs found in Kratie
Conservationists have found more than 400 eggs of the asian Giant Softshell Turtle along the Mekong River in Kratie province since the beginning of November. a Wildlife Conservation Society statement yesterday said that the conservationists from Community Fisheries, Fisheries administration and WCS found 13 nests <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-400-endangered-turtle-eggs-found-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50680487/more-than-400-endangered-turtle-eggs-found-in-kratie
Courts charge S Treng men for transporting illegal timber
Stung Treng provincial police on Sunday sent one of seven men detained over the transportation of illegal timber to court. Provincial police chief Mao Dara said the Vietnamese man was sent to the provincial court after being accused of transporting nearly 200 pieces of beng timber <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/courts-charge-s-treng-men-for-transporting-illegal-timber/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/courts-charge-s-treng-men-transporting-illegal-timber
Jica seeks to turn PP, towns into smart cities
Japanese International Cooperation agency (Jica) representatives have sought support from Siem Reap’s apsara National authority (aNa) to transform the ancient capital into a smart city. The call was made in February last year after the government approved three cities to join the asean Smart Cities <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/jica-seeks-to-turn-pp-towns-into-smart-cities/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/jica-seeks-turn-pp-towns-smart-cities
Lawsuit filed against local Mondulkiri leaders
Two separate complaints were filed at the Mondulkiri Provincial Court against four people including the first deputy chief of Bou Sra commune, in Pech Chreada district, and a provincial deputy governor. The case concerned the issuance of land titles on forest land and secretly digging <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lawsuit-filed-against-local-mondulkiri-leaders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawsuit-filed-against-local-mondulkiri-leaders
Cambodia bans all citizens of country from travelling to EU, US, and Iran in move to curb COVID-19 spread
After imposing A bAn on ArrivAls of citizens from US, GermAny, FrAnce, SpAin, ItAly And IrAn SAturdAy, Prime Minister Hun Sen hAs issued An order lAte yesterdAy, urging CAmbodiAns to refrAin from trAvelling to Europe, the United StAtes, And IrAn to Avoid Covid-19 pAndemic. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-bAns-All-citizens-of-country-from-trAvelling-to-eu-us-And-irAn-in-move-to-curb-covid-19-spreAd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khmer Time Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50702181/cambodia-bans-all-citizens-of-country-from-travelling-to-eu-us-and-iran-in-move-to-curb-covid-19-spread/
Announcement on the result of the new mandate meeting of the Permanent Council of Ministers dated on 31 March 2020
On Monday, March 31, 2020, at the Peace Palace of the Council of Ministers, a new mandate meeting of the Permanent Council of Ministers was presided over by Samdech akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia to review <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-on-the-result-of-the-new-mandate-meeting-of-the-permanent-council-of-ministers-dated-on-31-march-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Office of the Council of Ministers
Economy to contract for the first time since conflict ended
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted Cambodia’s 2020 Gross Domestic Product will contract by -1.7 percent this year in line with a global contraction of -3.0 percent. The reduction in GDP represents an economic downturn the world has not seen since the Great Depression, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/economy-to-contract-for-the-first-time-since-conflict-ended/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50713591/economy-to-contract-for-the-first-time-since-conflict-ended/
CSX index up 7.25 per cent, $1.25 million in shares traded
Following a bruising first quarter, the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) index has picked up over the last few days after acleda Bank Plc’s (aBC’s) initial public offering (IPO). at Thursday’s close, the index ended 7.25 per cent higher at 793.59 points. Trading volume reached 280,791 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/csx-index-up-7-25-per-cent-1-25-million-in-shares-traded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/csx-index-725-cent-125-million-shares-traded
Announcement of the inter-ministerial committee to combat COVID-19
On 20 May 2020, Ministry of Health has issued an announcement relating to the inter-ministerial committee to combat COVID-19’s measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. according to the announcement, the inter-ministerial committee to fight against COVID-19 has amended a number of measures to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-of-the-inter-ministerial-committee-to-fight-against-covid-19/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Health
Market Capitalisation fell by 22 percent in Q1 2020
The Capital Market saw a 22 per cent drop capitalisation in the first quarter of the year, bringing the market capitalisation to around $544million, compared with the fourth quarter of 2019. From January to March in 2020, the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSP)’s share <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/market-capitalisation-fell-by-22-percent-in-q1-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50726057/market-capitalisation-fell-by-22-percent-in-q1-2020/
Three refugees met with delegation, minister says
Three of the refugees AustrAliA is holding At A detention center on the South PAcific islAnd nAtion of NAuru Agreed to meet with CAmbodiAn officiAls who trAveled there lAst week to Assess the possibility of resettling some of the Asylum seekers in CAmbodiA, Interior Minister <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/three-refugees-met-with-delegAtion-minister-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-refugees-met-with-delegation-minister-says-76512/
Approved investment drops
Latest figures show the total value of approved investment in the Kingdom declined by more than 70 per cent in the first half of this year compared to the equivalent period a year before. Economists and officials are unconcerned, however, saying that some big projects during <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/approved-investment-drops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012081457967/Business/big-dip-in-approved-investments.html