Government policy to boost STEM learning
The government has broadly adopted a policy to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) teaching in a bid to turn around the Kingdom’s dismal pass rates for the subjects in the 12th grade national examinations, according to a government official. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-policy-to-boost-stem-learning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-policy-boost-stem-learning
Commuter rail link from city to airport considered
Royal Railways, the company that holds a 30-year concession to operate the Kingdom’s railway network, is conducting a feasibility study on establishing a commuter rail service to run between the capital’s airport and its central district, the company’s chief executive said yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/commuter-rail-link-from-city-to-airport-considered/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commuter-rail-link-city-airport-considered
New five-point plan to tackle drug slum
The government has announced a new action plan to deal with the drug problem in Trapaing Chhouk, a slum in the capital’s Sen Sok district that has been an open market for drug use and distribution for over a decade. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-five-point-plan-to-tackle-drug-slum/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-five-point-plan-tackle-drug-slum
All Nippon Airways mulls direct flight to Kingdom
Cambodian officials and Japanese airline All Nippon Airways discussed on Friday the possibility of starting a direct flight between the Kingdom and Japan next year, in a bid to facilitate the increase in bilateral business and investment transactions, according to a State Secretariat of Civil href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/all-nippon-airways-mulls-direct-flight-to-kingdom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/all-nippon-airways-mulls-direct-flight-kingdom
Vietnam border sealed against loggers
Cambodia’s military police said yesterday that they have sealed the Vietnam border against wood transport following a major crackdown on two tycoons’ logging warehouses on Sunday. Local observers and experts, however, suggested the actions were little more than a hiccup for a long-tolerated illicit trade. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-border-sealed-against-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara, Igor Kossov and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnam-border-sealed-against-loggers
Maid to return from Saudi Arabia as deal nears
Consular officials yesterday were working to repatriate a Cambodian maid fleeing what she described as unfair working conditions in Saudi Arabia, even as Cambodia’s minister of labour was en route to seal a long-awaited deal to open a pipeline of workers to the Gulf nation. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maid-to-return-from-saudi-arabia-as-deal-nears/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maid-return-saudi-arabia-deal-nears
Van driver dead, garment workers injured in highway crash
A high-speed collision in Preah Sihanouk province involving two container trucks, a beer truck and a van crammed with garment workers resulted in one death and 34 injuries on Tuesday evening, according to police, who reported that three drivers fled the scene and remain at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/van-driver-dead-garment-workers-injured-in-highway-crash/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/van-driver-dead-garment-workers-injured-in-highway-crash-109345/
Governor promises solution for remaining Borei Keila families
A working group within Phnom Penh City Hall is continuing its effort to help get compensation to Borei Keila families who have yet to accept the government’s offer, according to a Facebook post from Governor Pa Socheatevong, who led a discussion with community members on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governor-promises-solution-for-remaining-borei-keila-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Expert says tiger reintroduction plan sure to fail
A leading Indian conservationist and tiger expert is warning that a multimillion-dollar scheme to reintroduce the big cat to Cambodia will be a “tragic failure” that could cost lives, and that its advocates will come to rue the attempt. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/expert-says-tiger-reintroduction-plan-sure-to-fail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/expert-says-tiger-reintroduction-plan-sure-to-fail-111330/
Full traffic law to be enforced next month
Beginning on May 1, traffic police will ramp up enforcement of the new Traffic Law after a month and a half delay, according to a police statement yesterday. Police officials said enough drivers throughout the country now understood the law, paving the way for stricter href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/full-traffic-law-to-be-enforced-next-month/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24391/full-traffic-law-to-be-enforced-next-month/
ABA bank gets capital boost
With a $148 million injection of capital through a Share Purchase Agreement, National Bank of Canada (NBC) now holds a 90 percent stake in ABA Bank, according to ABA and NBC executives, who ensured that the agreement will not alter ABA Bank’s strategy but enhance href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aba-bank-gets-capital-boost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24800/aba-bank-gets-capital-boost/
Ethnic ninority villagers in Eastern Cambodia file court case over land grab
Indigenous villagers in eastern Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province have filed a complaint in local court against military officers and a land speculator who forcibly confiscated more than 80 hectares (198 acres) of their land, an official from a rights group said Thursday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ethnic-ninority-villagers-in-eastern-cambodia-file-court-case-over-land-grab/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
With little support, farmers at the mercy of the weather
Most years the rice fields outside Battambang are an unbroken sea of electric green, but this year they look more like a patchwork quilt. Some paddies are a healthy green, but others are a sickly yellow, while others are little more than empty, muddy fields href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/with-little-support-farmers-at-the-mercy-of-the-weather/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17211/with-little-support--farmers-at-the-mercy-of-the-weather/
Deportation figures triple
A year-long crackdown on illegal immigration equated to a threefold increase in deportations in the first 11 months of 2015, with 4,312 foreigners sent home versus just 1,307 in the same period last year, according to a Department of Immigration report obtained yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deportation-figures-triple/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deportation-figures-triple
Gov’t says Chinese gold mine in Mondolkiri needs local consent
An official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy has confirmed that a Chinese company is applying for a license to extract gold from a 100-hectare plot in Mondolkiri province, but insisted that the project would only go forward with the consent of local, small-scale href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-says-chinese-gold-mine-in-mondolkiri-needs-local-consent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-says-chinese-gold-mine-in-mondolkiri-needs-local-consent-103029/
Amid turmoil, EU calls for review of aid to Cambodia
The European Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution accusing the Cambodian government of laying politically motivated charges against the opposition and calling for aid cuts if its respect for human rights fails to improve—a loud echo of a resolution it passed just six months ago. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amid-turmoil-eu-calls-for-review-of-aid-to-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-turmoil-eu-calls-for-review-of-aid-to-cambodia-113900/
Two trapped gaurs die in sanctuary
Two rare gaurs, a mother and calf, have died after being found trapped in a snare in the Cardamom Mountains’ Samlot Protected Area, according to the sanctuary’s chief and an official from the Maddox Jolie-Pitt (MJP) Foundation, a wildlife NGO founded by Angelina Jolie. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/two-trapped-gaurs-die-in-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26899/two-trapped-gaurs-die-in-sanctuary/
ICC move fuels debate on Cambodian case
A new paper from the International Criminal Court laying out a shift in focus to crimes linked to environmental destruction and the unlawful dispossession of land has rekindled the debate over whether the court will launch an investigation into a case highlighting land-grabbing in Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/icc-move-fuels-debate-on-cambodian-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/icc-move-fuels-debate-cambodian-case
SVI to lay groundwork on electronics plant
A Cambodian subsidiary of Thai electronics manufacturing services company SVI Plc is moving closer to commencing construction on a factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh that will manufacture electronics equipment for export to the US and Europe, a company representative said yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/svi-to-lay-groundwork-on-electronics-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/svi-lay-groundwork-electronics-plant
Power line project threatens highly endangered bird: org
A proposed power transmission line to be constructed at the edge of the Tonle Sap Floodplain Protected Landscape as early as next year will pose a new threat to a critically endangered bird species known as the Bengal Florican, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/power-line-project-threatens-highly-endangered-bird-org/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/power-line-project-threatens-highly-endangered-bird-org