Gov’t requests Chinese funding for rice warehouses
In a bid to stock 1.2 million tonnes of rice paddy, Cambodia has sent a draft memorandum of understanding to China asking the country for a $300 million loan to build more than 10 warehouses nationwide. The draft MoU was prepared by the Ministry of Economy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-requests-chinese-funding-for-rice-warehouses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-requests-chinese-funding-rice-warehouses
Amid overcrowding, prison numbers rise
Prison overcrowding continues to be a major issue plaguing Cambodia, Ministry of Interior officials said on Monday, as they revealed a 3 per cent increase in population at correctional facilities and prisons nationwide. In 2014, the number of prisoners rose from 14,702 in 2013 to 15,165 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/amid-overcrowding-prison-numbers-rise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Pech Sotheary and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/amid-overcrowding-prison-numbers-rise
Release plan ignores issue: org
Local rights group Licadho yesterday praised the government’s plan to release a number of incarcerated women who are pregnant or have their children with them in prison within the next week, but said deeper reforms are needed. In a statement, the NGO said it welcomed an <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/release-plan-ignores-issue-org/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Alice Cuddy and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/release-plan-ignores-issue-org
Cambodia on verge of transitioning from low-income to middle-income country: ADB chief
AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) President TAkehiko NAkAo sAid here TuesdAy thAt CAmbodiA is on the verge of trAnsforming from A low-income to A middle-income country. The middle-income nAtion is defined by the GDP (gross domestic product) per cApitA between 1,045 U.S. dollArs And 12,746 U.S. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-on-verge-of-trAnsitioning-from-low-income-to-middle-income-country-Adb-chief/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Eal4qY
Tourism licences to go online
The Ministry of Tourism launched a new online system yesterday to register tourism-related businesses and tour guides who need a licence, in order to ease the licence inspection process and boost government revenues, said a senior ministry official. Neb Samouth, director general at the Ministry of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourism-licences-to-go-online/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tourism-licences-go-online
Program aims to boost rice resilience to climate change
As climAte chAnge increAses the severity of droughts And floods Across the Kingdom, A push is being mAde for fArmers to Adopt more resistAnt rice vArieties. The Philippines-bAsed InternAtionAl Rice ReseArch Institute lAunched A USAID-finAnced project in Phnom Penh yesterdAy in A bid to “AccelerAte the <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/progrAm-Aims-to-boost-rice-resilience-to-climAte-chAnge/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/program-aims-boost-rice-resilience-climate-change
Kem Ley to form national party
Former analyst and researcher Kem Ley will register a new national-level political party with the Ministry of Interior in august to serve as a model of pluralistic “intraparty democracy”, the political aspirant said. Titled the Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP), Ley said the party would be the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kem-ley-to-form-national-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Bennett Murray
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kem-ley-form-national-party
NGO's plan for ethical land eviction of riverside community
The garbage-strewn, riverside area that contains Chrang Chamres commune may be unsightly, but the local Cham community fears that a future away from their niche in Phnom Penh’s far north would be far worse. It’s a common refrain. Over the years, numerous communities across Phnom <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-plan-for-ethical-land-eviction-of-riverside-community/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Bennett Murray
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/humane-model-land-eviction
Ministry pushes for safer use of industrial chemicals
The Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) and the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) yesterday discussed means of safely stocking industrial chemicals, with the hope of reducing environmental pollution in the region. at a conference on sustainable manufacturing practices, Sok Narin, the head of UNIDO <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-pushes-for-safer-use-of-industrial-chemicals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Japanese aid tabbed for health, roadwork
In a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation yesterday, the Japanese government officially granted aid of 974 million yen (about US$12.2 million) to the Cambodian government. The Honorable Masafumi Kuroki, Japanese ambassador to Cambodia, said his country had made the donation to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-aid-tabbed-for-health-roadwork-9/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Court charges union leader with making threat, extortion
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged an independent union leader with making a threat accompanied by extortion after he was arrested with 51 bamboo poles while leading a strike of about 100 garment workers on Tuesday. according to article 232 of the Criminal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-charges-union-leader-with-making-threat-extortion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-charges-union-leader-with-making-threat-extortion-77471/
Cambodia's rice output tipped to fall: FAO
The United Nations‘ Food and agriculture Organisation (FaO) predicts the paddy output in Cambodia this year will decline, according to its Rice Market Monitor (RMM) issued on Monday. Paddy output in asia is forecast at 661 million tonnes, or 441 million tonnes on a milled basis, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-output-tipped-to-fall-fao/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mizuho Bank lends $55M for electricity
Japanese lender Mizuho Bank Ltd will provide a $55 million loan to refinance a project for power transmission line operator Cambodian Transmission Ltd (CTL), it said in a press release on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mizuho-bank-lends-55m-for-electricity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mizuho-bank-lends-55m-electricity
One teen killed, four injured in UXO explosions
A boy wAs killed And four others sustAined injuries when A UXO And A lAndmine exploded in two sepArAte incidents in BAttAmbAng province’s SAmlot district And PursAt province’s VeAl Veng district. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/one-teen-killed-four-injured-in-uxo-explosions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50720609/one-teen-killed-four-injured-in-uxo-explosions/
WWF researchers spot herd of wild elephants in Mondulkiri sanctuary
WWF-Cambodia says researchers had a close encounter with a herd of wild asian elephants in Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province which is a positive sign conservation efforts are working. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wwf-researchers-spot-herd-of-wild-elephants-in-mondulkiri-sanctuary/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ministry calls for cashew nut processing factory
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries hAs urged A compAny thAt hAs been fArming cAshew nut trees in Siem ReAp, to invest in A processing fActory becAuse the government is considering estAblishing A cAshew nut reseArch centre. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ministry-cAlls-for-cAshew-nut-processing-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sorn Sarath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50734356/ministry-calls-for-cashew-nut-processing-factory/
Visits short for jailed Boeung Kak spouses
Boeung Kak villager Heng Tong has seen his wife, Heng Mom, for a total of 15 minutes since she was sent to Prey Sar prison after a three-hour trial on May 24. He has been granted three visits and has had to bring money to pay <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/visits-short-for-jailed-boeung-kak-spouses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Government to draft policy to boost pepper value
The government is now drafting a policy on pepper with the intention of scaling up a competitive advantage, attract investors and boost added-value to Cambodian pepper production, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Commerce. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-draft-policy-to-boost-pepper-value/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50768753/government-to-draft-policy-to-boost-pepper-value/
12 charged for violent protest in attempted land grab case
Kandal Provincial Court yesterday charged 12 men accused of stealing around one hectare of a villager’s land in Kandal province, forging a land deed and selling it to a land broker in 2019. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/12-charged-for-violent-protest-in-attempted-land-grab-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50815756/12-charged-for-violent-protest-in-attempted-land-grab-case/
Digital policy framework launched
The government has launched a 15-year policy framework for the Kingdom’s evolving digital socioeconomic environment to pave the way for a thriving digital economy, as a new engine of economic growth. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/digital-policy-framework-launched/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/digital-policy-framework-launched