Cambodia priced out of Filipino rice tender again
Cambodia has lost a 100,000-tonne Filipino rice bid to Vietnam, on account of a higher costs as compared to regional competitors, marking the fourth time the Kingdom has failed to win a rice tender issued by the Philippines. The Philippines National Food Authority last week awarded href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-priced-out-of-filipino-rice-tender-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-priced-out-filipino-rice-tender-again
Tech designer hopes to create better data system for hospitals
Programmer Kong Divin recently returned from a trip to the US, where he won second place in a Microsoft Office context in Texas. He had entered the same competition last year, but did not win any prizes, though it gave him the drive to return. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tech-designer-hopes-to-create-better-data-system-for-hospitals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Socheata Hean
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/tech-designer-hopes-to-create-better-data-system-for-hospitals/2930672.html
Firm eyes Svay Rieng to set up tyre factory
According to a feasibility study revealed in a report published by Tyrepress Media, the tire-maker is interested in building a facility within Svay Rieng province’s QiLu (Cambodia) Special Economic Zone that is capable of making five million semi-steel radials a year. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/firm-eyes-svay-rieng-to-set-up-tyre-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firm-eyes-svay-rieng-set-tyre-factory
Siem Reap bird flu case ‘isolated’
Specialists from the Ministry of Health have collected samples from the area where a child contracted the influenza A/H9 “bird flu” for further testing while advising individuals to avoid all non-essential contact with poultry. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siem-reap-bird-flu-case-isolated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/siem-reap-bird-flu-case-isolated
Ministry says Japan’s concerns misplaced
Following a meeting in which a Japanese emissary urged the government to open negotiations with the now-dissolved opposition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggested Japan’s concerns were based on a “misunderstanding” and said Cambodia is too small to fight against an alleged “strong propaganda machine”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-says-japans-concerns-misplaced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-says-japans-concerns-misplaced
In ‘historic lawsuit’, Oddar Meanchey villagers take sugar giant Mitr Phol to court in Thailand
Cambodian villagers have filed a class action suit in Bangkok against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation for human rights violations after the eviction of hundreds of villagers in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province, with a US rights group calling the case a “historic lawsuit”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-historic-lawsuit-oddar-meanchey-villagers-take-sugar-giant-mitr-phol-to-court-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga and Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/historic-lawsuit-oddar-meanchey-villagers-take-sugar-giant-mitr-phol-court-thailand
New city to be built in Siem Reap province
A new urban centre will be built in Siem Reap, with the project having recently been included in the province’s tourism master plan. The project was proposed by Tourism Minister Thong Khon on Monday as a concept note during a meeting of an inter-ministerial committee. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-city-to-be-built-in-siem-reap-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50643972/new-city-to-be-built-in-siem-reap-province/
HRW urges authorities to reveal activist whereabouts
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Cambodian authorities to immediately reveal the whereabouts of a land activist who was “forcibly disappeared” in Preah Vihear province. It said it was the first time such a thing had occurred since the country was ruled by a single href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hrw-urges-authorities-to-reveal-activist-whereabouts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hrw-urges-authorities-reveal-activist-whereabouts
Stock of timber seized in Ratanakkiri
Ratanakkiri police and forestry administration officials yesterday raided a house and seized a large pile of various types of timber in O’Yadav district’s Pork Nhai commune. District police chief Mao Sann said the seizure was made during a crackdown on illegal logging in the area. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/stock-of-timber-seized-in-ratanakkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50522225/stock-of-timber-seized-in-ratanakkiri/
Sam Rainsy, government group set to clash at IPU Geneva meet?
Opposition figure Sam Rainsy has been invited to speak at the General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Geneva, according to a former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) lawmaker. A government delegation is also set to attend the meeting, a National Assembly press release href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-government-group-set-to-clash-at-ipu-geneva-meet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sam-rainsy-government-group-set-clash-ipu-geneva-meet
Ethnic land row forum created
The provincial government on Tuesday ordered the creation of a forum in a bid to find a resolution in the 10-year land dispute between 12 ethnic minority communities in Ratanakkiri province and Vietnamese agribusiness giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) over 20 ancestral “spirit mountains”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-land-row-forum-created/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-land-row-forum-created
Leader in Koh Kong land dispute is jailed
Heng Sok, who represented 50 families in a land dispute with Oknha Ly Yong Phat was sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined two million riel ($500) by the Koh Kong Provincial Court on Tuesday, on a charge of “using violence on a property href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/leader-in-koh-kong-land-dispute-is-jailed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/leader-koh-kong-land-dispute-jailed
Footwear protests continue into fourth day
More than 2,000 workers at King Maker Footwear Co continued protesting for a fourth day on Wednesday, as they demanded that 50 per cent of their salary be paid, after their jobs were suspended by the factory for a month due to a lack of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/footwear-protests-continue-into-fourth-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/footwear-protests-continue-fourth-day
Dam fuels desperation on banks of Se San river
A hand-painted sign nailed to a tree at the entrance of Sre Ko village along the southern banks of the Se San River in Stung Treng province greets visitors with a disturbing message – one made even more alarming by the seemingly tranquil environment and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dam-fuels-desperation-on-banks-of-se-san-river/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17729/dam-fuels-desperation-on-banks-of-se-san-river/
Governments halt migration to Thailand for four months
The Cambodian government has agreed to a request from the Thai Labor Ministry to temporarily block migrant workers from traveling to Thailand for the next four months as it conducts a census into migrants in the country, according to a statement released on Thursday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governments-halt-migration-to-thailand-for-four-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governments-halt-migration-to-thailand-for-four-months-111634/
Cambodia will not investigate protest shooting death, government spokesman says
Cambodian authorities will not pursue inquiries into the shooting death of a man killed during anti-government protests two years ago, a government spokesman said today as a Cambodian rights group slammed the Southeast Asian nation’s “dangerous path” away from democracy. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-will-not-investigate-protest-shooting-death-government-spokesman-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Morm Moniroth
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/investigate-09152015173349.html
Exports up 20% in H1 on Europe purchases
Cambodian exports saw a nearly 20 per cent increase for the first half of the year, as garment shipments to the European Union led the way in making up for a decrease in exports to the United States, according to a new Ministry of Commerce href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/exports-up-20-in-h1-on-europe-purchases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-20-h1-europe-purchases
PM meets china’s Xi, receives $150m grant
Prime Minister Hun Sen met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday to receive a grant worth more than $150 million, the majority of which will go toward the construction of a massive sports and entertainment complex in Phnom Penh, a senior official href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-meets-chinas-xi-receives-150m-grant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-meets-chinas-xi-receives-150m-grant-97440/
Takeo factory dispute negotiations prove fruitless
Unionists, factory representatives and Labor Ministry officials on Thursday failed to find a solution for about 1,600 employees of a garment factory in Takeo province who were fired for striking last month, and the case will be passed along to the Arbitration Council, a ministry href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/takeo-factory-dispute-negotiations-prove-fruitless/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/takeo-factory-dispute-negotiations-prove-fruitless-100231/
Delay on delivery of planes to Sky Angkor
Sky Angkor Airlines said yesterday that a plan to lease two Sukhoi SuperJet 100 aircraft from a Russian airline has been postponed, as the company has to sort out regulatory issues such as which aviation authority would be responsible in the event of a mishap. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/delay-on-delivery-of-planes-to-sky-angkor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/delay-delivery-planes-sky-angkor