Call for national researchers for the Global Data Barometer – Asia Region
Open Data for Development Asia Hub (D4DAsia) is currently seeking independent, country-level researchers (individual or institution) for the following 14 countries:Indonesia; Philippines; Singapore; Cambodia; Lao PDR; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; Sri Lanka; India; Nepal; Bangladesh; Taiwan; and Japan.Selected researchers will act as national researchers for the
ODC join Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication's workshop on capacity building for all post and telecommunication departments (Phase 2)
Picture from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication facebook page on 28 April 2023.From 25th April to 27th May 2023, The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications organized a series of workshops with the aim of providing capacity building to subnational government officers from all its
Open Development Cambodia publishes Indigenous Communities profile page
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published new profile page of Indigenous Communities into Khmer and English languages. Together with the website’s map explorer web tool, this profile page aims to provide the most up-to-date information of the country’s Registered Indigenous Communal Land using data visualizations.Please
Open Development Cambodia updates Land page
ODC has just updated and translated on topic page of “Land” in Cambodia. This Land page is included of Land policy and classifications, Land tenure rights, Land transfer and public land lease, Land dispute resolution, and also map of “Families with less than 1 hectare
Senator’s son-in-law rejects land grab claim
The son-in-law of Senator Kok An has rejected accusations the tycoon is attempting to grab six hectares of land from a plot he sold to a South Korean development company 10 years ago.
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senators-son-law-rejects-land-grab-claim
Plans take root for cassava processor
A Chinese-based investment firm has announced plans to begin construction on the first of 10 cassava processing plants next month, with a total planned investment of $150 million, according to Agriculture Minister Veng Sokhon.
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plans-take-root-cassava-processor
Families allege flood aid graft
More than 10 families in Pailin province are claiming that flood aid proffered by Cambodia Red Cross officials is being unfairly distributed by commune and village authorities.
Kim San, 61, a member of one of 16 severely flood-affected families in Sala Krao district’s Stung Trang commune
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-allege-flood-aid-graft
‘Reuse-ful’ ways to solve Cambodia’s waste problem
In 2018, Khmer Times reported a 10 percent increase per year in waste generated by the Kingdom. In 2019, Phnom Penh alone generated up to 3,000 tonnes of waste daily – with Cambodia as a whole producing over 10,000 tonnes – the equivalent to 3.6 million
Tom Starkey
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50739896/reuse-ful-ways-to-solve-cambodias-waste-problem/
The cowboys of the Mekong
The calls almost always come at night. Three or four times a month, the mobile phone of Koh Pdao’s river guard outpost will ring. A villager has spotted illegal fishermen somewhere along a 10-kilometer stretch of brushy island shore and wants them caught.
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15312/the-cowboys-of-the-mekong/
Preah Vihear villagers petition PM over razing
Around 20 people representing 250 villagers from Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district petitioned Prime Minister Hun Sen for a solution to the razing of their village in 2012, which was done under instructions from current provincial CPP lawmaker Suos Yara and local officials.
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-villagers-petition-pm-over-razing
Unions, GMAC at the table
Employer representatives and trade unions sat down across from each other for the first time yesterday for head-to-head negotiations over next year’s garment sector minimum wage, with factory owners reluctantly offering a small $2 increase to their earlier proposal of $144.20.
Lay Samean and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-gmac-table
New film on the garbage dump kids
To mark 20 years of the work of NGO Pour un Sourie d’Enfant (PSE), a new film about the founders was premiered at the Chaktomouk Hall on Phnom Penh’s riverside on Friday evening when Queen Mother Norodom Monineath was the guest of honor.
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29610/new-film-on--the-garbage--dump-kids/
Teacher training video released
The Education Ministry has produced a short video and posted it to its YouTube channel to help teachers educate students in grades one to three. The video, which runs less than 20 minutes, shows methods of teaching Khmer literature, mathematics and other subjects.
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101660/teacher-training-video-released/
Only 23 rapes recorded in Phnom Penh last year in crime spike
Police tallied only 23 rapes in Phnom Penh last year despite an overall spike of 20 percent in criminal cases, prompting experts to caution that the data posted on the Cambodian National Police website provided only a partial picture of the city’s crimes.
Buth Kimsay and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/only-23-rapes-recorded-in-phnom-penh-last-year-in-crime-spike-123666/
Police seek Cham leader for maids sent to Saudi
Anti-human trafficking police are seeking the arrest of prominent Cham Muslim community leader and former Social Affairs Ministry official Ahmad Yahya for sending roughly 20 women to Saudi Arabia to work as maids more than a decade ago, after arresting his nephew last week.
Yon Sineat and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-seek-cham-leader-maids-sent-saudi
The National Minimum Wage Council has started talks to consider raising the $194 monthly salary of garment workers
Unions representing garment workers in Cambodia are seeking a monthly wage hike of between $20 and $50 for their members in talks with the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) that started yesterday.
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132343/the-national-minimum-wage-council-has-started-talks-to-consider-raising-the-194-monthly-salary-of-garment-workers/
New gold mining company starts trial operation in Preah Vihear province
Delcom Campuchea Plc., a joint venture between local and Chinese investors, has started its trial operation in Preah Vihear northern province since early August, extracting about 20 kilogrammes of gold ore.
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501130203/new-gold-mining-company-starts-trial-operation-in-preah-vihear-province/
SEZ Shooting Victims Called for Questioning
The Svay Rieng Provincial Court has issued summonses to question three women who were allegedly shot by a government official during a protest at a special economic zone (SEZ) in February, a court official and the plaintiffs said yesterday.
About 20 eyewitnesses have already been questioned
Alleged Kratie 'secessionist' arrested
Police in the capital yesterday arrested the alleged leader of a “secessionist plot”, Beehive Radio station director Mam Sonando, who had already been abroad for two months when hundreds of security personnel stormed a Kratie province village in May.
Khieu Sopheak, a spokesman for the Ministry
Krungsri expects more growth from Cambodian MFI
Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya released its first financial statement since completing its acquisition of Cambodian microlender Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) last month, showing a quarterly net profit increase of 10.6 percent from a year earlier.
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/krungsri-expects-more-growth-cambodian-mfi
