Ethnic Minorities File Illegal Logging Complaint
A group of 12 ethnic minority villAgers in RAtAnAkkiri province hAve filed A complAint with the provinciAl court over whAt they clAim is collusion between other villAgers And locAl Authorities to illegAlly log luxury timber from 193 hectAres of lAnd inside A community forest. The Prov <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ethnic-minorities-file-illegAl-logging-complAint/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ethnic-minorities-file-illegal-logging-complaint-42145/
Cobras Thrown Into Land Dispute Family’s Home
Three highly venomous cobras were thrown early Tuesday morning into the Phnom Penh home of a family locked in a dispute with a private company that wants to develop the family’s land in Tuol Kok district. Ly Sreang Kheng, 58, his wife Mok Siv Hong, 51, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cobras-thrown-into-land-dispute-familys-home/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-cobras-thrown-into-land-dispute-familys-home-46359/
Killing of Journalist May Not Be Linked to Illegal Fishing Reports
Police in Kompong Chhnang province on Tuesday said they were looking for three suspects in the murder of a local journalist on Friday night and may soon add more names to the list, but still had no motive for the attack. However, the provincial coordinator for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/killing-of-journalist-may-not-be-linked-to-illegal-fishing-reports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/killing-of-journalist-may-not-be-linked-to-illegal-fishing-reports-51448/
Wild lobster stocks replenished
Seven million young lobsters had been released into Cambodia’s rivers and Tonle Sap Lake this year in an effort to build the nation’s fish and shellfish stocks, officials said yesterday. Nao Thouk, general director of the Fisheries administration at the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said, about <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wild-lobster-stocks-replenished/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Property rights threatened, NGOs claim
A drAft AgriculturAl lAnd lAw threAtens to eliminAte property rights And effectively remove All limitAtions on the size of economic lAnd concessions, A coAlition of civil society groups sAid in A stAtement releAsed.The drAft of The LAw on the MAnAgement And Use of AgriculturAl LAnd, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/property-rights-threAtened-ngos-clAim/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
David Boyle and May Titthara, P. 1
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012072457586/National-news/property-rights-threatened-ngos-claim.html
Law on accounting and audits approved by cabinet
The Cabinet approved a Law on accounting and audits at a meeting Friday morning. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/law-on-accounting-and-audits-approved-by-cabinet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ven Rathavong and Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13103/law-on-accounting-and-audits-approved-by-cabinet/
CNRP’s Next Challenge—How to Compromise
Over the past three days, the CNRP conducted one of the most significant campaigns of mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government in years. For three days, more than 20,000 people packed into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for daily appearances from opposition leaders Sam Rainsy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrps-next-challenge-how-to-compromise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrps-next-challenge-how-to-compromise-42580/
Evicted railway families await ADB’s help
In 2011, Oeun Phirun took out a $450 loan from the asian Development Bank, using half to buy a used motorbike and spending the rest on a small flock of ducks and chickens he hoped to raise. His family and about 1,000 others have been evicted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/evicted-railway-families-await-adbs-help/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Zsombor Peter and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evicted-railway-families-await-adbs-help-56128/
Renewable energy to power Takeo milling plant
A JApAn energy compAny yesterdAy sAid it plAnned to build A rice mill fuelled by rice husks in CAmbodiA’s TAkeo province. New Energy And IndustriAl Technology Development OrgAnizAtion yesterdAy signed A memorAndum of understAnding with the Kingdom’s Ministry of Industry, Mines And Energy (MIME) confirming cooperAtion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/renewAble-energy-to-power-tAkeo-milling-plAnt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
‘Maid brokers’ on the stand
A teenAger wAs one of 13 girls locked inside A recruitment compAny’s offices in the cApitAl lAst yeAr After being promised work As A mAid in MAlAysiA, she told the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court yesterdAy. The court yesterdAy tried three people over Alleged illegAl detention And humAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAid-brokers-on-the-stAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012040655461/National-news/maid-brokers-on-the-stand.html
Families displaced in Siem Pang
Thousands of families along the Sekong river were evacuated last week after the collapse of a dam in Laos led to a deluge in the district. a member of the Kavet ethnic minority, Ms Doung and her family were among 15 other families in Santepheap <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-displaced-in-siem-pang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50517410/families-displaced-in-siem-pang/
Ministry orders inspection of building sites in Preah Sihanouk
The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction ordered a committee on Tuesday to spend a week inspecting the legality and technical standards of all construction projects in Preah Sihanouk province. This follows the collapse of a seven-storey building in Sihanoukville on Saturday that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-orders-inspection-of-building-sites-in-preah-sihanouk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-orders-inspection-building-sites-preah-sihanouk
Men nabbed for dolphin zone fishing
Two men have been placed in pre-trial detention for “fishing using electric shock devices” in a Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin conservation zone in Kratie province. a 104kg, 1.98m male dolphin was found dead in the same preservation area on Sunday after its flipper became entangled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/men-nabbed-for-dolphin-zone-fishing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/men-nabbed-dolphin-zone-fishing
Public lot on riverside eyed for major project
Plans appear to be in the works to develop a central stretch of prime riverfront real estate currently owned by a state-run enterprise into a sprawling commercial development, according to sources involved with the landowner, though key government officials professed to be in the dark <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/public-lot-on-riverside-eyed-for-major-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/public-lot-riverside-eyed-major-project
Cambodia earns UN economic council seat
The Foreign AffAirs Ministry yesterdAy sAid thAt CAmbodiA hAs been elected to become A non-permAnent member of the United NAtions Economic And SociAl Council for A durAtion of one yeAr. A ministry stAtement sAid thAt At the UN heAdquArters in New York on WednesdAy, 183 of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-eArns-un-economic-council-seAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50501343/cambodia-earns-un-economic-council-seat/
Japanese luxury chain to open hotel in capital
Japanese-owned Hotel Okura Co. Ltd. on Monday reached an agreement with TEHO Development Cambodia Pte. Ltd. – a subsidiary of Singapore-listed TEHO International – to develop and manage a luxury hotel in Phnom Penh as the company as part of its expansion in aSEaN, a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-luxury-chain-to-open-hotel-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21155/japanese-luxury-chain-to-open-hotel-in-capital/
Cambodia needs ‘genuine’ dialogue to avert crisis: Opposition spokeswoman
Cambodia needs a genuine “culture of dialogue” between its political parties to avert a descent into crisis, Monovithya Kem, the daughter of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha and a spokeswoman for the country’s opposition party, told The Diplomat Tuesday in an exclusive interview in Washington <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-needs-genuine-dialogue-to-avert-crisis-opposition-spokeswoman/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Prashanth Parameswaran
http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/cambodia-needs-genuine-dialogue-to-avert-crisis-opposition-spokeswoman/
Time to outgrow garment manufacturing, gov’t advisor says
As the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) rAises CAmbodiA’s profile As A member of one of the world’s lArgest trAde zones, investors Around the world Are considering CAmbodiA As A gAtewAy to the region And it should tAke AdvAntAge of this opportunity by diversifying its economic <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/time-to-outgrow-gArment-mAnufActuring-govt-Advisor-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21466/time-to-outgrow-garment-manufacturing--gov---t-advisor-says/
Chinese ‘looking closely’ at kingdom’s agriculture sector
Increasingly closer ties between Phnom Penh and Beijing are spurring a rise of Chinese investment into the Kingdom, with businesses from the world’s second-largest economy now taking a closer look at Cambodia’s agricultural sector, Chinese officials said during a press tour last week to the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-looking-closely-at-kingdoms-agriculture-sector/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24476/chinese----looking-closely----at-kingdom---s-agriculture-sector/
CRF wants to track rice loans
The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has submitted a proposal to the government for the setting up of a joint executive financial committee to ensure that the $27 million emergency loan to rice millers to purchase paddy rice from farmers, in a bid to prevent rice <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/crf-wants-to-track-rice-loans/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30381/crf-wants-to-track-rice-loans/