Ministry official questioned over suspected illegal ELCs
A Mondulkiri provinciAl prosecutor questioned Lor RAksmey, An under-secretAry of stAte At the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest And Fisheries on WednesdAy over his Alleged involvement in illegAlly grAnting economic lAnd concessions (ELCs) covering 9,741hA to A privAte compAny. ProvinciAl court spokesmAn MeAs Bros told The <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-officiAl-questioned-over-suspected-illegAl-elcs/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-official-questioned-over-suspected-illegal-elcs
National budget for next year set at $7.66 billion
The government has planned a national budget of more than $7.66 billion for 2020, which will be divided by sectors across 39 ministries and institutions. a press release issued by the Council of Ministers on Friday following a plenary meeting said the government expects the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/national-budget-for-next-year-set-at-7-66-billion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/national-budget-next-year-set-766-billion
UN official urges government to reduce use of plastic
A senior environment officer for the United NAtions Environment ProgrAmme (UNEP) on MondAy urged the Ministry of Environment to prepAre A wAste mAnAgement system for plAstics And to strive for cleAn Air in the country, pArticulArly in Phnom Penh. Erik Solheim, the executive director of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/un-officiAl-urges-government-to-reduce-use-of-plAstic/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-official-urges-goverment-reduce-use-plastic
Prey Lang group receives award
The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) has received the prestigious 2019 Energy Globe award, a group representative said on Monday. The awards are known as “Nature’s Nobel Prize”. Ek Sovanna, a PLCN representative in Kratie province, told The Post on Monday that PLCN had won <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prey-lang-group-receives-award/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-lang-group-receives-award
Four villagers charged, while two freed in land clearing case
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Sunday charged four out of six villagers over the clearing of land in Stung Hav district, a rights worker said yesterday. Cheap Sotheary, adhoc’s provincial coordinator, said military police officers arrested six people who were on disputed land owned by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-villagers-charged-while-two-freed-in-land-clearing-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487673/four-villagers-charged-while-two-freed-in-land-clearing-case/
Civil servants file complaint over land dispute
The Industry Ministry is investigating a corruption case in Koh Kong province following a complaint filed by civil servants against their superior. according to the complaint sent to Industry Minister Cham Prasidh last week by five civil servants with the provincial industry department, 18 families <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-servants-file-complaint-over-land-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ven Rathavong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50500647/civil-servants-file-complaint-over-land-dispute/
Biggest solar project yet gets half billion in funding
The Gideon Group, a US-based global finance firm, yesterday announced its intention to invest $488 million in a 135-megawatt solar plant in Kandal province. In a statement issued yesterday, Gideon Group president and CEO Salman Khan said the Kandal solar project is being developed by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/biggest-solar-project-yet-gets-half-billion-in-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50573860/biggest-solar-project-yet-gets-half-billion-in-funding/
Environment Ministry launches green-growth plan for capital
The Environment Ministry on Thursday launched the Phnom Penh Sustainable City Plan 2018-2030 aimed at turning the capital into a clean and environmentally friendly city. The launching ceremony was presided over by Eang Sophalleth, a secretary of state on behalf of Say Samal, Environment Minister <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-ministry-launches-green-growth-plan-for-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50619546/environment-ministry-launches-green-growth-plan-for-capital/
Kampot councillors sent to court for forging land title
Kampot provincial police sent two councillors to court on Thursday for forging public documents to claim a villager’s land in Chhouk district. Provincial police chief Mao Chanmathurith said the unidentified officials, one of whom was a Chhouk district councillor and the other a Taken commune <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampot-councillors-sent-to-court-for-forging-land-title/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-councillors-sent-court-forging-land-title
Lack of transparency hinders budget progress
On Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced a new phase of the Public Financial Management Reform Program, a donor-assisted initiative established in 2004 to bolster the country’s ability to soundly manage its budget. In a speech at the launch event, he touted the government’s progress <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lack-of-transparency-hinders-budget-progress/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Tej Parikh and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lack-of-transparency-hinders-budget-progress-110437/
NGO gets UNICEF aid for speech therapy training
In an effort to address speech and communication disorders, which affect about one in 25 people countrywide, Unicef Cambodia awarded the organization OIC: The Cambodia Project a $42,000 grant on Wednesday to provide informal speech therapy training to Cambodians. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-gets-unicef-aid-for-speech-therapy-training/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-gets-unicef-aid-for-speech-therapy-training-97450/
Tuk-tuk association to lodge complaint against Licadho
The Cambodia Confederation Development association (CCDa), a well-known tuk-tuk and moto-taxi association, plans to lodge complaints against local rights group Licadho next week over a statement the NGO co-signed with 33 other civil society groups regarding the association’s involvement in a Saturday protest at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tuk-tuk-association-to-lodge-complaint-against-licadho/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21235/tuk-tuk-association-to-lodge-complaint-against-licadho/
GMS cross-border pact on hold
Though all countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) had signed a cross-border trade agreement (CBTa) 14 years ago to enhance the sub-region’s economic connectivity, the CBTa, however, is yet to be ratified in individual Mekong nations for its full implementation. This was revealed last <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/gms-cross-border-pact-on-hold/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28140/gms-cross-border-pact-on-hold/
Developer puts condo project The Bay on hold as supply glut looms
The Singaporean developer behind The Bay, a $500 million mixed-use real estate project on the capital’s Chroy Changvar peninsula, has announced it is putting the residential phase of the project on hold due to unfavourable market conditions – a move that could herald the first <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/developer-puts-condo-project-the-bay-on-hold-as-supply-glut-looms/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cam McGrath and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/developer-puts-condo-project-bay-hold-supply-glut-looms
Flooding from dam washes out homes, rice fields in southern Cambodia
Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flooding-from-dam-washes-out-homes-rice-fields-in-southern-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chandara Yang
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/flooding-from-dam-washes-out-homes-rice-fields-in-southern-cambodia-09162015162039.html
Workers at Japanese company launch strike
More than 100 workers from Japanese-owned quality control firm Kuwahara, whose office is located in the Cambodiana Hotel, gathered in a park across the street from the hotel yesterday morning to boycott their employer and demand they institute a litany of conditions that were born <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-at-japanese-company-launch-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21477/workers-at-japanese-company-launch-strike/
Fee to legally work in Thailand
Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand will have to pay 950 baht (about $27) to receive a travel card or Overseas Cambodian Worker Card (OCWC), the Labor Ministry announced yesterday. From September 26, workers will be able to apply for the documents, under a bilateral agreement signed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fee-to-legally-work-in-thailand/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29710/fee-to-legally-work-in-thailand/
Amid building boom, safety left dangling
Sroeun, 43, a former rice farmer from Kandal province, said he was sure there had never been any accidents at his construction site. “Small things happen. Scratches on our hands,” he said, declining to give his full name as a supervisor stood nearby during a break <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amid-building-boom-safety-left-dangling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aisha Down
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-building-boom-safety-left-dangling-122063/
Unions, government consult on new min wage law
The Ministry of Labour met with unions on Friday to gather input on a universal minimum wage law currently being drafted, union representatives and ministry officials confirmed yesterday. “The meeting is a forum for each party to review the draft and provide comments so the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-government-consult-on-new-min-wage-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-government-consult-new-min-wage-law
Open Development Cambodia published new topic page of Maternal and child health
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Maternal and child health in both Khmer and English. Together with the detail on Maternal mortality and health and Child mortality.=>Please click here to get in to Maternal and child health page. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-published-new-topic-page-of-maternal-and-child-health/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>