Mother Nature activists produce live podcast before hearing, urge court to summon founder to trial
Five environmental activists, charged with insulting the King and plotting against the government, produced a 30-minute podcast live on Facebook just before their third hearing to prove their innocence. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mother-nature-activists-produce-live-podcast-before-hearing-urge-court-to-summon-founder-to-trial/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim and Seoung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/mother-nature-activists-produce-live-podcast-before-hearing-urge-court-to-summon-founder-to-trial/
Forest cover analysis (1973 - 2014)
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Depicts the bar graphs that analyses Cambodia's forest cover change and forest cover distribution from 1973-2014 on a national and provincial level. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/profiles/forest-cover/forest-cover-1973-2014/forest-cover-analysis-1973-2014/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affair on the outcome of 27th ASEAN-New Zealand Dialogue held in Siem Reap on 20-21 February 2020
On 21 February, the Ministry of Foreign affair and International Cooperation (MoFaIC) has announced a press release on its official Facebook page and website on the outcome of the 27th aSEaN-New Zealand dialogue which held in Siem Reap on 20-21 February 2020. according to the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-affair-on-the-outcome-of-27th-asean-new-zealand-dialogue-held-in-siem-reap-on-20-21-february-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Foreign Affair and International Cooperation
Joint Statement of the Cambodia Indigenous Peoples Alliance on the Occasion of the 28th World Indigenous Peoples' Day and 18th in Cambodia
On August 9, 2022, the CAmbodiA Indigenous Peoples AlliAnce (CIPA) issued A joint stAtement on the Role of Indigenous Women in the PreservAtion And TrAnsmission of TrAditionAl Knowledge to CelebrAte the 28th World Indigenous Peoples’ DAy And 18th in CAmbodiA. This stAtement highlights the Attention <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/joint-stAtement-of-the-cAmbodiA-indigenous-peoples-AlliAnce-on-the-occAsion-of-the-28th-world-indigenous-peoples-dAy-And-18th-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cambodia Indigenous Peoples Alliance (CIPA)
Letter of the Ministry of Information on alcohol advertising
On 21 August 2017, the Ministry of InformAtion issued A letter lAying out recommendAtions to owners of rAdio And television stAtions And other mediA outlets As follows:Alcohol-AssociAted rewArd Advertising is Allowed only in the period of 15 dAys before And After Khmer New YeAr, Chinese <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/letter-of-the-ministry-of-informAtion-on-Alcohol-Advertising/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ministry of Information
Cambodia's Public Debt
According to the [inter]nAtionAl MonetAry Fund (IMF), At the end of 2011, the stock of CAmbodiA’s externAl public debt, including ArreArs, stood At Around US 3.8 billion or 30 percent of GDP (24 percent in NPV terms). ChinA remAins the lArgest bilAterAl creditor, contributing to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiAs-public-debt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Constitutional Council Upholds Rejection of Election Complaints
The Constitutional Council of Cambodia on Tuesday upheld the decision by the National Election Committee (NEC) to reject four complaints from the opposition CNRP of election irregularities during the July 28 poll. The Constitutional Council sent four separate letters to CNRP representatives Nou Chamroeun and Ruos <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/constitutional-council-upholds-rejection-of-election-complaints/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/constitutional-council-upholds-rejection-of-election-complaints-40383/
High Floodwaters Spread to Siem Reap, Battambang and Pailin
Flooding spread over the weekend as storms hit the country meaning Siem Reap, Battambang and Pailin have all been added to the list of provinces affected by high waters. In Siem Reap province, Nuon Krisna, director of the provincial department of water resources and meteorology, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/high-floodwaters-spread-to-siem-reap-battambang-and-pailin/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/high-floodwaters-spread-to-siem-reap-battambang-and-pailin-44466/
Phnom Penh’s 5 New Districts Create Fears of Gerrymandering
Phnom Penh City Hall’s plans to undertake the largest redrawing of the city’s administrative boundaries in decades, by creating five new districts before May’s district and city-level council elections, is likely an effort to gerrymander voting constituencies, a senior opposition party member said Monday. Municipal government <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penhs-5-new-districts-create-fears-of-gerrymandering/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-5-new-districts-create-fears-of-gerrymandering-47269/
Shorten Buildings or We Will, City Hall Tells Two Developers
The Phnom Penh municipal government will today issue announcements to two property developers ordering them to partially demolish buildings near the Royal Palace in order to reduce their height to comply with the original planning agreements, an official said. The two buildings—one owned by Vattanac Properties <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/shorten-buildings-or-we-will-city-hall-tells-two-developers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/shorten-buildings-or-we-will-city-hall-tells-two-developers-45510/
Farmers weigh up US technology
US and Cambodian governments have presented a united front calling for the country’s agriculture industry to diversify, modernise and commercialise. US ambassador William E Todd and the Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council for agricultural and Rural Development Yim Chhay Ly led an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-weigh-up-us-technology/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chan Muy Hong and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-weigh-us-technology
Cambodia’s tourism anchored to Angkor
More than 90% of tourists visiting Cambodia will end up at Siem Reap’s world heritage site angkor Wat, despite efforts to open other areas of the country to tourism. Officials attending the asean Tourism Forum admitted that efforts to convince tour operators to include trips to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-tourism-anchored-to-angkor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
TTR Weekly News Staff
http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2014/01/cambodias-tourism-anchored-to-angkor/
CPP lawmakers lash out at critics of one-party Assembly
The single-party National assembly sat for the second day of its third plenary session Wednesday, discussing two of eight chapters of the draft law on the Organization and Functioning of the Courts. The CPP-only parliament—minus 55 boycotting opposition CNRP lawmakers-elect—convened to discuss the first of three <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-lawmakers-lash-out-at-critics-of-one-party-assembly/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-lawmakers-lash-out-at-critics-of-one-party-assembly-59332/
Press release on the result of the 2019 annual meeting and the 2020 direction of the Ministry of Mines and Energy
On 11-12 February 2020, the Ministry of Mines and Energy convened the 2019 annual meeting and the 2020 direction at the ministry. Presided over by the Minister of Mines and Energy, around 500 people of the ministry officials, representative of the Municipal/Provincial Governor Council, and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-result-of-the-2019-annual-meeting-and-the-2020-direction-of-the-ministry-of-mines-and-energy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry of Mines and Energy
Press release of World Bank on scaling up social accountability in key public services in Cambodia
On 20 March 2020, World Bank has issued a press release on scaling up social accountability in key public services in Cambodia. The World Bank approved two complementary grants today to support social accountability in key public services such as health centers, primary schools, and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-of-world-bank-on-scaling-up-social-accountability-in-key-public-services-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
World Bank
Guidance for members and buyers on partial withdrawal of EBA for exports to the European Union
On 12 August 2020, the GArment MAnufActurers AssociAtion in CAmbodiA (GMAC) issued guidAnce for its members And buyers following the pArtiAl withdrAwAl of EBA for exports to the EuropeAn Union thAt will tAke effect from 12 August 2020. GMAC hAs prepAred this guidAnce for the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/guidAnce-for-members-And-buyers-on-pArtiAl-withdrAwAl-of-ebA-for-exports-to-the-europeAn-union/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC)
Outcomes of the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conferences Sessions with the Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China and Japan, and the 22nd ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, back-to-back with the 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
On 4 August 2021, the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion issued A press releAse on the 0utcomes of the ASEAN Post MinisteriAl Conferences Sessions with the Republic of KoreA, People’s Republic of ChinA And JApAn, And the 22nd ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/outcomes-of-the-AseAn-post-ministeriAl-conferences-sessions-with-the-republic-of-koreA-peoples-republic-of-chinA-And-jApAn-And-the-22nd-AseAn-plus-three-foreign-ministers-meeting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Outcomes of the Friends of the Mekong Ministerial Meeting
On 6 August 2021, the Ministry of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion issued A press releAse on the outcomes of the Friends of the Mekong MinisteriAl Meeting on 5 August 2021, viA conference. On 5 August 2021, H.E. PrAk Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minster of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/outcomes-of-the-friends-of-the-mekong-ministeriAl-meeting/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Arrival of the second batch of AstraZeneca vaccines manufactured in Japan and donated by the government of Japan
On 6 August 2021, EmbAssy of JApAn in the Kingdom of CAmbodiA issued A press releAse on the ArrivAl of the second bAtch of AstrAZenecA vAccines mAnufActured in JApAn And donAted by the government of JApAn. As pArt of the efforts of the Government of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/ArrivAl-of-the-second-bAtch-of-AstrAzenecA-vAccines-mAnufActured-in-jApAn-And-donAted-by-the-government-of-jApAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Exchange of Notes and related documents on the extension of Grant Aid for the purpose of the implementation of the Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship in 2021
On 23 July 2021, Ministry of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion &ndAsh; CAmbodiA issued A press releAse on His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign AffAirs And InternAtionAl CooperAtion, And His Excellency MIKAMI MAsAhiro, AmbAssAdor of JApAn to the Kingdom of CAmbodiA, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/exchAnge-of-notes-And-relAted-documents-on-the-extension-of-grAnt-Aid-for-the-purpose-of-the-implementAtion-of-the-project-for-humAn-resource-development-scholArship-in-2021/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation