ILO reports improved factories from December to February
A smAll set of CAmbodiAn fActories being monitored by the InternAtionAl LAbor OrgAnizAtion hAve showed some signs of improvement, According to A recent report. The ILO’s Better FActories initiAtive monitors 51 fAcilities. In A new report, the ILO sAys 30 of those fActories showed signs of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ilo-reports-improved-fActories-from-december-to-februAry/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ilo-reports-improved-factories-from-december-to-february/1873027.html
4th Cambodia-China Friendship Bridge almost completed
The work of fourth Cambodia-China Friendship Bridge has almost been completed after a 16-month construction, a contractor said Thursday. He Luesa, head of Shanghai Construction (Group) General Company’ s construction team, said the construction of a 855 meters by 13.5 meters Takhmao Bridge across Tonle Bassac <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/4th-cambodia-china-friendship-bridge-almost-completed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
ECNS News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/2014/04-03/108053.shtml
Sharp seals Cambodia PV deal
Sharp has scored its first international order for its transparent PV panels with a 27.5kW deal in Cambodia. The Osaka-based electronics group will provide 290 of its Na-B095aa see-through panels, as well as inverters and balance of plant (BOP) services, for a cafe in a shopping <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sharp-seals-cambodia-pv-deal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Brian Publicover
http://www.rechargenews.com/solar/asia_australia/article1359643.ece
Aid, Aeon on agenda for Japan
The Japanese government will offer more than $21 million in grant aid and loans to Cambodia when Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida visits later this month, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign affairs. according to the statement, Kishida will ink a number of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aid-aeon-on-agenda-for-japan/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/aid-aeon-agenda-japan
On the march: Days-long strike shifts to district HQ
After striking for more thAn A week, employees At Phnom Penh’s Sun Well Shoes yesterdAy mArched to Por Sen Chey district hAll, demAnding their voices be heArd. Some 300 people mArched from their Veng Sreng BoulevArd fActory with A list of seven demAnds, including the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/on-the-mArch-dAys-long-strike-shifts-to-district-hq/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/march-days-long-strike-shifts-district-hq
NGOs to lobby EU for 'urgent action' against Cambodia
The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) says it has prepared a “briefing paper” ahead of a European Union meeting with Cambodia in Brussels next week. In a statement late Thursday, the Paris-based group said the paper “documents the deteriorating situation in Cambodia and make(s) recommendations <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-to-lobby-eu-for-urgent-action-against-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NWRjNGQ5MWFjMTk
Workers to file stories from the factory floor
The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) is hoping to turn a select group of garment workers into muckrakers by offering a journalism program through the Voice of Democracy news outlet. Free of charge, the course will last until October and have a firm focus on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-to-file-stories-from-the-factory-floor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-file-stories-factory-floor
Bridge not to blame, says ADB
A BAttAmbAng bridge project isn’t to blAme for blocking A river And preventing wAter from reAching pArched rice fields, An AsiAn Development BAnk investigAtion concluded yesterdAy. BAvel district fArmers Accused the bAnk-funded construction project of choking the river since construction begAn in December, leAving their recently <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/bridge-not-to-blAme-sAys-Adb/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bridge-not-blame-says-adb
New Mekong bridges slated for Phnom Penh
The Council of Ministers this week announced two new spans across the Mekong River in the vicinity of the capital, one connecting the Chroy Changvar peninsula to Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district and another connecting Phnom Penh’s Chbar ampov district with Kandal’s Lvea Em. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-mekong-bridges-slated-for-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-mekong-bridges-slated-phnom-penh
LOLC Group acquires 60 pct stake in Cambodian Microfinance Company for USD 20.3 Mn
Sri Lanka’s Lanka Orix Leasing Company acquired a 60 percent stake in Thaneakea Phum Cambodia (TPC) a microfinance company in Cambodia, for 20.3 million US dollars, identifying the immense potential in emerging economies of the South East asian region the company said in a media <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lolc-group-acquires-60-pct-stake-in-cambodian-microfinance-company-for-usd-20-3-mn/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lanka Business Online News Staff
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/news/lolc-group-acquires-60-pct-stake-in-cambodian-microfinance-company-for-usd-20.3-mn/1806143502
KPMG buys Premier Consulting
KPMG Cambodia has bought out one of its local competitors in an effort to position itself as a leader in accounting, taxation and advisory services before aSEaN integration later this year. a statement issued Friday by KPMG states that the firm acquired Premier Consulting (Cambodia) Limited, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kpmg-buys-premier-consulting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kpmg-buys-premier-consulting
Government considering national oil company
The Ministry of Mines and Energy is in the early stages of developing a national oil company, a ministry spokesman said Wednesday. Meng Saktheara, who is also a secretary of state, said his ministry had been working with the Finance Ministry to assess the risks of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-considering-national-oil-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-considering-national-oil-company-79538/
Ministry attempts to explain its interference in Sen Sok dispute
Representatives of 163 families embroiled in a long-running land dispute in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district met with officials from the agriculture Ministry on Wednesday to ask why the ministry issued a letter last week requesting that the Phnom Penh Municipal Court hold off on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-attempts-to-explain-its-interference-in-sen-sok-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ratanakkiri site of informal mining boom: official
Thousands of locals and migrant workers are engaged in illegal mining in Ratanakkiri province, a senior official with the Ministry of Mines and Energy said yesterday. Having returned on Tuesday from an official inspection tour of the province, Meng Saktheara, a secretary of state at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-site-of-informal-mining-boom-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-site-informal-mining-boom-official
Land dispute hearing delayed due to illness
Evictees at war with their former representative filed a complaint yesterday with the Ministry of Justice after the woman at the centre of the argument managed to put off a court hearing, allegedly going to the disputed site instead. Forty villagers went to the Justice <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-hearing-delayed-due-to-illness/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/land-dispute-hearing-delayed-due-illness
Hun Sen reiterates policy to increase wage for workers, civil servants
Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated government policy to increase wage to $160 a month for factory workers and at least $250 a month for civil servants by 2018. His comment was made during a meeting yesterday with around 3,000 factory workers at the Koh Pich <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-reiterates-policy-to-increase-wage-for-workers-civil-servants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1K0TBdz
Students in Cambodia want to learn English
The oldest public school in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, is in a small courtyard downtown. The Tuan Hoa school has a Chinese temple and Mandarin language classes for its 2,000 students. But in Phnom Penh, Chinese usage is still behind English. This is true although <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/students-in-cambodia-want-to-learn-english/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Neou Vannarin and Colin Lovett
http://bit.ly/1BgdqOf
Vietnam, Cambodia conduct joint field inspection on border incident
A VietnAm-CAmbodiA joint working group on ThursdAy mAde A field inspection in the AreA between border mArker 202 And 203 At Binh BAc villAge, Binh HoA TAy commune, Moc HoA district in VietnAm’s Long An province where A violent incident cAused by some CAmbodiAn extremists <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/vietnAm-cAmbodiA-conduct-joint-field-inspection-on-border-incident/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Thanh Nien News Staff
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnam-cambodia-conduct-joint-field-inspection-on-border-incident-48083.html
Chhouk Bandith's victims see hope in Sok Bun arrest
Three factory workers shot more than three years ago by a town governor who remains at large have come to Phnom Penh to ask Prime Minister Hun Sen to take action in their case, given the recent success of the premier’s call to arrest a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chhouk-bandiths-victims-see-hope-in-sok-bun-arrest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chhouk-bandiths-victims-see-hope-sok-bun-arrest
Lawmakers urge Constitutional Council to amend NGO law
A group of opposition lAwmAkers hAs urged the ConstitutionAl Council to Amend A contentious lAw on regulAting NGOs in the country. Prum NheAn Vicheth, A spokesmAn for the ConstitutionAl Council, confirmed receipt of the petition And sAid the Council will be considering the drAft lAw <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAwmAkers-urge-constitutionAl-council-to-Amend-ngo-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/lawmakers-urge-constitutional-council-to-amend-ngo-law/2886994.html