Food Imports See Big Jump
CAMBODIA’S totAl food And beverAge imports jumped 28 percent yeAr-on-yeAr through June to US$74 million, As domestic demAnd continued to outpAce the Kingdom’s production cApAcity. The demAnd comes As CAmbodiA’s economy regAins momentum following the globAl finAnciAl crisis, sAid officiAls At the Ministry of Commerce, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/food-imports-see-big-jump/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082351201/Business/food-imports-see-big-jump.html
Statement of the Royal Government of Cambodia on further steps to strengthen democracy and political space
On 03 December 2018, the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion hAs releAsed A stAtement on further steps to strengthen democrAcy And politicAl spAce. The ministry hAs underlined the position And further steps to be tAken to uphold the RoyAl Government of CAmbodiA’s Aforementioned <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/stAtement-of-the-royAl-government-of-cAmbodiA-on-further-steps-to-strengthen-democrAcy-And-politicAl-spAce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Kingdom poised to ink deal for first wind farm
The government and French-owned The Blue Circle (Cambodia) Co Ltd will soon sign an agreement to build a wind farm in Kampot province – the first of its kind in the Kingdom. The agreement comes as the government has made efforts to diversify its power <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-poised-to-ink-deal-for-first-wind-farm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-poised-ink-deal-first-wind-farm
Press release: Japanese Government approves USD 251,970 for Legal Documentation Centre
On 08 November 2019, the Embassy of Japan in Cambodia announced a press release to inform the public that the Government of Japan approved the utilization of up to USD 251,970 from the counterpart fund for “Fulfilling the Legacy Mandate of the Legal Documentation Center <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-japanese-government-approves-usd-251970-for-legal-documentation-centre/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Pavement improvement plan on Mao Tse Toung Boulevard underway
The Phnom Penh Municipal Hall is assessing a pavement improvement project along Mao Tse Toung Boulevard meant to provide ease of travel for disabled persons and pedestrians, Phnom Penh Municipal Hall spokesman Met Meas Pheakdey told The Post on Wednesday. Meas Pheakdey said: “The cost <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pavement-improvement-plan-on-mao-tse-toung-boulevard-underway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pavement-improvement-plan-mao-tse-toung-boulevard-underway
Press release: Signing of MoU on development cooperation between Republic of Korea and 5 ASEAN Countries during the Investment ASEAN 2019
On Monday afternoon 25th November 2019 in Busan, Republic of Korea, H.E Chhieng Yanara, Minister attached to the Prime Minister, has signed on behalf of the Royal Government of Cambodia on MoU on Development Cooperation between Republic of Korea and 5 aSEaN countries such as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-signing-of-mou-on-development-cooperation-between-republic-of-korea-and-5-asean-countries-during-the-investment-asean-2019/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Council for the Development of Cambodia
Transport master plan nearing completion
The government has nearly finished the draft of the Intermodal Transport Master Plan 2021-2030 (the Plan), a Ministry of Economy and Finance press release said on Wednesday. The draft seeks to promote Cambodia’s connectivity, reduce transportation and logistics costs, integrate the Kingdom into the region <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/transport-master-plan-nearing-completion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/transport-master-plan-nearing-completion
Japan-Cambodia ink clean water supply agreement
Minister of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion PrAk Sokhonn And JApAnese AmbAssAdor MAsAhiro MikAmi on WednesdAy signed A grAnt Agreement for ¥2.4 million ($22 million) on the “Project for ExpAnsion of CleAn WAter Supply System in PursAt Province”. The Agreement, finAlised At the Ministry of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jApAn-cAmbodiA-ink-cleAn-wAter-supply-Agreement/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-cambodia-ink-clean-water-supply-agreement
Chinese firms seek investments in coconut farming in Cambodia
A group of investors from the Chinese province of HAinAn is now in the Kingdom exploring opportunities in coconut fArming. The delegAtion met yesterdAy with Minister of Agriculture Veng SAkhon in Phnom Penh to discuss the coconut sector in the Kingdom And Announce their intention <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/chinese-firms-seek-investments-in-coconut-fArming-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50667072/chinese-firms-seek-investments-in-coconut-farming-in-cambodia/
Life in the Koh Kong jungle through the eyes of forest rangers
A photogrAphy exhibit chronicling the lives of forest rAngers working towArd the environmentAl protection of the jungles in Koh Kong province will be displAyed on SAturdAy At the cApitAl’s 5 Drunk Men sky bAr. The photos Are to be sold to, with the profits going to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/life-in-the-koh-kong-jungle-through-the-eyes-of-forest-rAngers/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Raksmey Hong
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle-arts-culture/life-koh-kong-jungle-through-eyes-forest-rangers
Minister gets tough on illegal modification of vehicles by mechanics
Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol on Tuesday warned mechanics workshops throughout the country to stop modifying vehicles against technical and legal standards, or face shutdown. Chanthol said modified vehicles were known to have caused accidents and affected road safety. He said authorities <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-gets-tough-on-illegal-modification-of-vehicles-by-mechanics/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-gets-tough-illegal-modification-vehicles-mechanics
PM reminds Cambodians of freedoms on Human Rights Day
Prime Minister Hun Sen took to Facebook on the 71st International Human Rights Day on Tuesday to remind Cambodians that the rights and freedoms they currently enjoyed came from liberation from the genocidal Pol Pot regime on January 7, 1979. He said under the Khmer <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-reminds-cambodians-of-freedoms-on-human-rights-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/pm-reminds-cambodians-freedoms-human-rights-day
Gov't Continues to Privatize State Properties
The privatization of state-owned land continued last month with several large government- owned plots in Phnom Penh transferred to state-private property, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen. according to the document signed May 24, the state-owned properties, measuring 40,998 square meters in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-continues-to-privatize-state-properties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Gov't to Award Three Communal Land Titles to Ethnic Bunong
Three ethnic Bunong communities in Mondolkiri province may soon receive long-awaited collective property titles, which would bring to six the total number of communal land titles granted to the country’s indigenous people since the Land Law was created in 2011. and while the possible issuing of the three <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-to-award-three-communal-land-titles-to-ethnic-bunong/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Recent Development and Economic Outlook
The UN’s assessment suggests that Cambodia is one of the top five countries that have made significant progress toward meeting its MDGs by 2015. The poverty rate has dropped dramatically from 47.50 percent in 1993 to 34.70 percent in 2004 and 23 percent in 2011, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/recent-development-and-economic-outlook/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Investors Look For Hotel Opportunities In Southeast Asia
Hotel transaction volumes in asia hit US$620 million (Bt18.18 billion) in the first quarter, up 190 per cent from the same period last year, and properties in Southeast asia are attracting investor attention, according to real-estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle. “Rising visitor arrivals, robust trading <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/investors-look-for-hotel-opportunities-in-southeast-asia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NGM4ODkxZTEzMjg
Trafficked numbers rising
Their stories have become all too familiar – Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common. anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trafficked-numbers-rising/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Danson Cheong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265773/National/trafficked-numbers-rising.html
Cambodia scores high marks for renewable energy
Cambodia’s share of modern biomass in total energy consumption is among the highest in the world, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Bank and the International Energy agency. The report also found that growth in Cambodia’s dependence on renewable energy excluding traditional biomass <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-scores-high-marks-for-renewable-energy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MjRiYTU0NzYyNTR
Asian garment industry to undergo further segmentation
The AsiAn gArment mAnufActuring industry will undergo further segmentAtion in the next three to four yeArs As competition becomes more intense, experts sAid. ChinA, ThAilAnd And VietnAm will mAinly produce high-end clothing, while BAnglAdesh, LAos, BurmA And CAmbodiA will mAinly produce low-end clothing. Lu QijiAn, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AsiAn-gArment-industry-to-undergo-further-segmentAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2013-07/15/content_16778408.htm
Paths to Parliament Cleared for CPP’s Powerful Sons
Despite failing to win enough votes in the July 28 election to become lawmakers, at least three sons of some of the ruling CPP’s most high-ranking members will still take up seats in Parliament when the next government is formed, senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/paths-to-parliament-cleared-for-cpps-powerful-sons/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Neou Vannarin
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/paths-to-parliament-cleared-for-cpps-powerful-sons-38716/