‘Political Inheritance’ a Brewing Problem, Rights Activist Says
Cambodia needs to build new leaders to take over the country in the next generation, a leading rights activist says. “This means the party is ready to let their children take over, family style,” he [Cambodian Center for Human Rights head Ou Virak]. “But this younger <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/political-inheritance-a-brewing-problem-rights-activist-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Men Kimseng
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/political-inheritance-a-brewing-problem-rights-activist-says/1804399.html
Villagers in a drawn-out land fight summonsed
Five Tumpuon villagers have again been summonsed for questioning by the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court in a lengthy dispute after private firm Ly Sokim Co Ltd accused villagers of destroying its property. In the latest summons, dated July 30, villagers are warned that failing to show up <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-a-drawn-out-land-fight-summonsed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-drawn-out-land-fight-summonsed
Recovery in large economies gives exports a boost
Aided by the recovery of lArge economies in the United StAtes, the EuropeAn Union And JApAn, CAmbodiA’s exports jumped more thAn 20 per cent during the first hAlf of the yeAr compAred with the sAme period in 2012. Ministry of Commerce dAtA releAsed At the end <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/recovery-in-lArge-economies-gives-exports-A-boost/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/recovery-large-economies-gives-exports-boost
Trade With Indonesia up but Logistics a Hurdle
Trade and tourism between Indonesia and Cambodia is growing but the two countries can still increase cooperation in those fields, according to participants in the 7th Indonesian Trade and Tourism Promotion exhibition on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich on Sunday. The sale of Indonesian pharmaceuticals, food products <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trade-with-indonesia-up-but-logistics-a-hurdle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
George Styllis
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/trade-with-indonesia-up-but-logistics-a-hurdle-46146/
Outsider party urges CNRP to ‘take a seat’
The head of the tiny Khmer Economic Development Party (KEDP), which failed to win a single seat in the July 28 elections, yesterday called on the opposition to take its 55 seats at the National assembly and form a coalition with the ruling Cambodian People’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/outsider-party-urges-cnrp-to-take-a-seat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/outsider-party-urges-cnrp-%E2%80%98take-seat%E2%80%99
Maternal health gets a boost in 3 provinces
About 300,000 women of reproductive Age will receive higher-quAlity emergency obstetric And newborn-cAre services thAnks to A sizeAble hAndover of medicAl equipment And supplies to government heAlth centres And hospitAls in KAmpong Thom, KAmpot And Kep provinces. Through A pArtnership seeking to improve the sociAl heAlthcAre <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAternAl-heAlth-gets-A-boost-in-3-provinces/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/maternal-health-gets-boost-3-provinces
Staying at home not a strike, factories say
The Garment Manufacturers association in Cambodia (GMaC) warned garment workers on Thursday that they risk losing their jobs if they extend their Khmer New Year vacation by joining a stay-at-home strike. aiming to avoid police suppression of street protests for a higher garment sector minimum wage, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/staying-at-home-not-a-strike-factories-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/staying-at-home-not-a-strike-factories-say-56440/
Preah Vihear overnight tourist stays a hard sell
Despite a noticeable increase in daily tourist arrivals in Preah Vihear province – home of the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple – overnight stays remain low, tourism officials and guesthouse owners say. Preah Vihear tourism department figures show that from January to March, foreign tourist arrivals reached <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-vihear-overnight-tourist-stays-a-hard-sell/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/preah-vihear-overnight-tourist-stays-hard-sell
Sesan II reservoir a laundry for illegal timber
Filthy trucks loaded with luxury timber rule the red-earth roads in this heavily deforested district. Each day, dozens of 10-wheelers bounce along the pot-holed roads, carting logs of the much-sought Thnong timber. and while some of the cargo is legal, much of it is not. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sesan-ii-reservoir-a-laundry-for-illegal-timber/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Matt Blomberg and Phann Ana
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sesan-ii-reservoir-a-laundry-for-illegal-timber-60575/
Data provides illustration of a constantly changing Cambodia
Cambodia is changing fast. Over the past decade, the capital city, Phnom Penh has expanded exponentially: its bodies of water have been filled in and green spaces diminished. Rural to urban migration has changed the shape of the countryside. Great shifts are under way and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/data-provides-illustration-of-a-constantly-changing-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/data-provides-illustration-constantly-changing-cambodia
Compensation for culled poultry is a catch-22
Since its emergence in the region more than a decade ago, the governments of Southeast asia have been fighting to contain the human avian influenza virus through surveillance programs, rigorous inspections and widespread culling of infected birds. In Cambodia last year, 13 people died of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/compensation-for-culled-poultry-is-a-catch-22/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Simon Henderson and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/compensation-for-culled-poultry-is-a-catch-22-52485/
For gay and transgender, a struggle for equality
In the past, Chhoeurng Rachana had a boyfriend, but now she loves a woman instead. The 27-year-old says she just realized who she really loved, after trying to figure out her own feelings toward men four years ago. “Back in 2010, I tried having a boyfriend <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-gay-and-transgender-a-struggle-for-equality/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Say Mony
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/for-gay-and-transgender-a-struggle-for-equality/1920328.html
Creating a common language for nation’s deaf
By the age of 17, Chan Chonreasmey was yet to have a conversation with another person—not with her mother, not with her father, and certainly not with any other children. Two years ago, Ms. Chonreasmey was enrolled in the Maryknoll Deaf Development Program’s (DDP) education <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/creating-a-common-language-for-nations-deaf/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Holly Robertson and Ouch Sony
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/creating-a-common-language-for-nations-deaf-67639/
Oil plunge a boon for developing nations: WB
Oil-importing nations such as Cambodia should be first in line to benefit from the oil-price decline provided they swiftly enact reforms to reinvest savings into strengthening fiscal policy and human capital, according to the World Bank. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/oil-plunge-a-boon-for-developing-nations-wb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oil-plunge-boon-developing-nations-wb
A solution to the capital’s transit woes?
Some say City Hall’s scheme to improve public transport with a bus line is failing. One architect has a new plan, tried and tested throughout the developing world With the capital growing and incomes on the rise, rush hour in Phnom Penh is only getting worse <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-solution-to-the-capitals-transit-woes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Bennett Murray and Vandy Muong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/solution-capital%E2%80%99s-transit-woes
Drivers told to work or take a hike
About forty public bus drivers who protested over wAges At the weekend were told yesterdAy to work or resign. The bus drivers clAim Phnom Penh City HAll promised them sAlAries of between $300 And $350 per month beginning in September, but were still pAying them only <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/drivers-told-to-work-or-tAke-A-hike/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/drivers-told-work-or-take-hike
A short fuse at City Hall, activists say
Boeung Kak community activists yesterday accused Phnom Penh Municipal Hall administrative director Mean Chanyada of rudely cutting short a meeting with their group, a charge the official denied. Boeung Kak representative Chan Puthisak characterised Chanyada’s allegedly storming out of the meeting as evidence of the city’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-short-fuse-at-city-hall-activists-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/short-fuse-city-hall-activists-say
Central Bank seeks to give Riel a boost
Cambodia’s central bank will use its upcoming Second Macroeconomic Conference to discuss how best to promote the use of the riel and hasten de-dollarisation in the economy, according to an official release yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/central-bank-seeks-to-give-riel-a-boost-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/central-bank-seeks-give-riel-boost
New WWF chief says Cambodian tigers a priority
The new director-general of the international environmental group WWF, Marco Lambertini, met Tuesday with Environment Minister Say Sam al to raise concerns over development projects that could have harmful environmental impacts, and one in particular that could derail plans to reintroduce tigers to Cambodia. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-wwf%e2%80%88chief-says-cambodian-tigers-a-priority/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-wwf%E2%80%88chief-says-cambodian-tigers-a-priority-79478/
IFC gives Acleda a $110M loan boost
The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank, and the Global agriculture and Food Security Program (GaFSP) announced Thursday that they will provide acleda Bank with a $110 million loan to finance rural and micro-businesses, especially agricultural enterprises. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ifc-gives-acleda-a-110m-loan-boost/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ifc-gives-acleda-110m-loan-boost