<p>The Lower Sesan II dam project is a microcosm of the carving up of Cambodia. In one of the world’s most diverse river ecosystems, the ground burns. Whole forests are felled with scant regard for the law, while the project is backed by the country’s ...p>

<p>Mean Nara, ODC’s Senior Mapper, spoke to the audience about the launch of the GeoServer.On April 30, the ODC team hosted a monthly phnom penh Mapping Meet-up (ppMM), in which ODC, Atlas, and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut presented on the recent project updates and results. As ...p>

<p>According to the statement from the national bank of Cambodia (NBC), the country’s international reserves increased by 2.912 million US dollars so far this year with guaranteeing to import for four months. “For the management of the international reserves, we have implemented the policy with ...p>

<p>Four Land&nbsp;Management&nbsp;Ministry officials charged with corruption last week were released on bail yesterday, less than five days after arriving at prey Sar prison for detention ahead of trial, officials said. Srung Leang, director of the prison’s center no. 1, said he received the written release order ...p>

<p>Cambodian-focused Geopacific Resources (ASX: GpR) has now released its 10 for 17 non-renounceable rights issue which will raise up to A$3.0 million at $0.05, and forms part of a larger funding package. In August GpR outlined a funding package which will include an equity placement of ...p>

<p>After the end of the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia’s entire health sector including the health system, health facilities and equipment were completely destroyed.1 Since the 1990s, the Royal Government of Cambodia has placed a strong emphasis on recovering and improving the country’s health sector. In ...p>

<p>Authorities are planning upgrades to effectively double the capacity of boats travelling from phnom penh Autonomous port to Vietnam, according to port Director General Hei Bavy. A 2009 agreement with Vietnam authorities allows ships travelling down the Mekong from Cambodia to offload at Cai Mep ...p>

<p>Children played along the banks of phnom penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula yesterday, while their parents napped under the shade of their bright yellow and blue boat homes. But members of this Cham fishing community overlooking phnom penh’s&nbsp;city space said it was a very different scene on ...p>

<p>A massive power outage Wednesday in Southern Vietnam brought rolling blackouts that lasted for hours to Ho Chi Minh City, the entire southeastern region of Vietnam and large sections of phnom penh. Vietnam’s state-owned Southern power Corporation said Wednesday that the problem occurred around 2 p.m. ...p>

<p>A United Nations independent human rights expert urged restraint by all sides today after military police opened fire on striking garment workers in phnom penh, reportedly killing at least four people, as high social and political tensions in Cambodia boiled over into deadly clashes. In statement ...p>

<p>United Nations envoy is expected to arrived in Cambodia today, a week after the deadly crackdown by government forces against protesting workers on Veng Sreng street, which left five people dead. This is the first visit of Surya p. Subedi, UN Special Rapporteur on human ...p>

<p>Riot police and groups of men in plain clothes armed with sticks, Tasers and slingshots violently attacked a group of anti-eviction protesters conducting a hunger strike at Wat phnom late last night, injuring several people. protesters from phnom penh’s Boeng Kak community began the hunger strike ...p>

<p>The phnom penh Autonomous port has requested that City Hall reduce the length of its daily ban forbidding container trucks from traveling on phnom penh roads between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. because cargo is unable to reach the port, resulting in a decrease in ...p>

<p>The opposition CNRp on Monday delivered a letter of notice to provincial authorities of its plans to hold a rally in Siem Reap City to mark International Human Rights Day next Tuesday, a party official said. Ke Sovannaroth, the head of the CNRp’s Siem Reap working ...p>

<p>The lack of consultative process on three draft laws has set a worrying precedent for future key legislation, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya p. Subedi. “For many years in my capacity as the Special RapporteurI ...p>

<p>Yong Yim’s voice rises to a high-pitched quiver when she talks about a planned dam in the Areng Valley that would inundate land her family has inhabited for hundreds of years to form what amounts to a giant battery. Now they are staring at ...p>

<p>Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new map layer of Health facilities signed agreement for health care scheme (NSSF) on the interactive map, under the map category of “Social development”. This dataset provides the location and contact detail information of health facilities that signed ...p>

<p>The Asian Development Bank has provided $69 million for Cambodia to make major upgrades of provincial roads in some of the country’s poorest provinces, according to an ADB statement Wednesday. The provincial Roads Improvement project, financed by a $52 million loan from ADB Special Funds and ...p>

<p>Workers from the Ocean Garment factory, who have been protesting outside the plant in pur Senchey district for weeks, will file a request with phnom penh City Hall today to allow them to continue their demonstrations in front of the Ministry of Social Affairs and ...p>

<p>By 8 p.m. on the day of the July 28 election, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith was declaring victory for prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cpp with 68 seats to the opposition’s 55. In the days that followed, preliminary results released by the National Election Committee (NEC) arrived ...p>