Project Aims to Make Subsistence Farms Profitable
BATI DISTRICT, TAkeo province &ndAsh; At A fArming school here lAst week, 150 poor AgriculturAl workers gAthered to celebrAte grAduAting A two-month trAining course. The new group of educAtors will now set out with their newly Acquired skills to help trAnsform the country’s poorest rurAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/project-Aims-to-mAke-subsistence-fArms-profitAble/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/project-aims-to-make-subsistence-farms-profitable-39081/
Unionists' jailing compared with Bandith
Since her husband was arrested in June and thrown in provincial prison to await trial, Soam Chantha, 32, has given birth to a baby boy. at the same time the men have been locked up, police have failed to arrest former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unionists-jailing-compared-with-bandith/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Shane Worrell and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unionists-jailing-compared-bandith
CNRP Touts Success on Second Day of Demonstrations
As leAders from the CPP And CNRP sAt down for A round of top-level negotiAtions Aimed At breAking the country’s prolonged politicAl impAsse on MondAy, opposition supporters once AgAin poured into Phnom Penh’s Freedom PArk for the second dAy of demonstrAtions AgAinst Alleged frAud in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cnrp-touts-success-on-second-dAy-of-demonstrAtions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-touts-success-on-second-day-of-demonstrations-42529/
Cambodian PM Claims Opposition Acknowledged Ruling Party Victory
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday threatened to release an audio recording in which opposition leader Sam Rainsy purportedly acknowledged a ruling party election victory during a meeting between the two leaders aimed at ending a political deadlock. Sam Rainsy’s Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pm-claims-opposition-acknowledged-ruling-party-victory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/recording-09262013165941.html
Increasingly, Cambodians Say They are ‘Suffering’: Poll
An increAsing number of CAmbodiAns see themselves fAring worse, A GAllup polls suggests. In A globAl survey releAsed eArlier this month, the US-bAsed firm rAnked CAmbodiA neAr the very bottom in terms of life sAtisfAction, And it found thAt 34 percent of surveyed CAmbodiAns consider themselves <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/increAsingly-cAmbodiAns-sAy-they-Are-suffering-poll/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Vannarin Neou
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/increasingly-cambodians-say-they-are-suffering/1819008.html
Cambodia’s eight-month political deadlock shows hints of ending
Talks between Cambodia’s ruling party and the opposition to resolve the impasse over last year’s election have been deadlocked for months. The two sides disagree on a number of issues, most significantly reform of the National Election Committee (NEC). But signs of a thaw have <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-eight-month-political-deadlock-shows-hints-of-ending/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodias-eight-month-political-deadlock-shows-hints-of-ending/1884765.html
Sar Kheng Accuses CNRP of Launching ‘Constitutional Coup’
Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng became the latest senior member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP government to accuse the opposition CNRP of attempting to “topple” the government though what he claimed is a “constitutional coup.” In a posting to the Interior Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/45322/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sar-kheng-accuses-cnrp-of-launching-constitutional-coup-51186/
Protest ban firmly in place on Women’s Day
Freedom Park was placed under lockdown and a march by land rights activists was blocked Saturday morning as Phnom Penh’s security officials were out in force to ensure that peaceful rallies on International Women’s Day could not go as planned. Prime Minister Hun Sen on February <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protest-ban-firmly-in-place-on-womens-day/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protest-ban-firmly-in-place-on-womens-day-53745/
Land deals? Leave the Red Cross out of it: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly castigated the Kampong Thom provincial governor in a speech on Saturday for allegedly claiming a large portion of land and saying it was needed for the local office of the Cambodian Red Cross, an agency lead by Hun Sen’s wife, Bun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-deals-leave-the-red-cross-out-of-it-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Open Development Cambodia updated dataset and added two new features to the map layer of Management zones of natural protected areas
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has updated dataset and added two new features (Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary and Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary) to the map layer of Management zones of natural protected areas in Cambodia in both Khmer and English. You can find the dataset in various format such as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updated-dataset-and-two-new-features-to-the-map-layer-of-management-zones-of-natural-protected-areas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Boeung Kak women kept away from NGO, reporters
Imprisoned Boeung Kak lake villagers, some crying, motioned to human rights representatives and Post reporters through a chain-link fence at Prey Sar prison on Tuesday. Their efforts to talk to the visitors were futile, however, as two guards stopped anyone from approaching the 13 women sentenced <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-women-kept-away-from-ngo-reporters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056483/National-news/silent-treatment-at-prey-sar.html
Open Development Cambodia has updated the dataset and map layer of Community protected areas (2006-2019)
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has updated the dataset and map layer of Community protected areas (2006-2019) in Cambodia by adding another 13 community protected areas in both Khmer and English. You can find the dataset in various format such as SHP, KML, GeoJSON, CSV and JPEG.=> <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-has-updated-the-dataset-and-map-layer-of-community-protected-areas-2006-2019/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Workshop on using open EIA reporting to drive accountable and transparent environmental governance in Cambodia
On 01 October 2020, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) hosted a half-day workshop on “Using Open EIa Reporting to Drive accountable and Transparent Environmental Governance in Cambodia”. The event brought together 35 participants coming from various institutions, including local and international NGOs, grassroots organizations and media <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/workshop-on-using-open-eia-reporting-to-drive-accountable-and-transparent-environmental-governance-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
NGO Forum Breaks Silence on 'Warning'
NGO Forum confirmed yesterday it had received a “warning letter” from the Ministry of Foreign affairs over its advocacy on behalf of communities affected by a railway rehabilitation project funded by the asian Development Bank (aDB) and ausaID. The warning to the umbrella group of 88 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-forum-breaks-silence-on-warning/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Largest-ever Cambodian solar project launched
Cambodia’s biggest solar power initiative to date – expected to provide electricity to 12,000 households in off-grid areas – will be completed on January 31, according to officials involved with the project. Yiang Tal, chief of administration at the Rural Electrification Fund, said more than 10,000 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/largest-ever-cambodian-solar-project-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia's Developers Again Aim at Stars
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s low-rise capital city is reaching for the sky—again. Long known as one of the last major asian cities without a skyline, Phnom Penh embarked on a high-rise building boom in the middle of the last decade, only to see it derailed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-developers-again-aim-at-stars/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203315804577207352952177994.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
More than 40 faint as firm denies exit
More than 40 workers had fainted at a garment factory yesterday after officials prevented them leaving the building when four of their co-workers collapsed, a labour department official said. The mass fainting occurred at the Nanguo Garment Co Ltd factory in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nub <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-40-faint-as-firm-denies-exit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kingdom awaits US trade law
The US House of Representatives has renewed a trade law experts said could have a substantial effect on Cambodia’s exports to the United States, as well as the future of the Kingdom’s manufacturing sector. The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program waived tariffs on about US$13 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-awaits-us-trade-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011091251593/Business/kingdom-awaits-us-trade-law.html
Another power deal for senator
The opposition has raised conflict-of-interest concerns over another agreement headed to the National assembly today guaranteeing the government will buy electricity from a power plant to be constructed by a company owned by ruling party Senator Lao Meng Khin. However, it was unclear yesterday whether the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/another-power-deal-for-senator/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>