A prominent forest monitoring group on Monday urged the government to combat illegal logging and poaching in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, which it claimed had seen a drastic increase in forestry crimes during the first five months of this year. The Prey Lang Community href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monitoring-group-blames-rise-in-forest-crimes-on-authorities-turning-blind-eye/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Battambang provincial Fisheries Administration apprehended perpetrators of 38 fishery crimes and confiscated fishing nets spanning a total of 18,560m in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/battambang-fisheries-crimes-total-38-cases-jan-mar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment has finalised a feasibility study and plans to build a large-scale nursery in Preah Jayavarman-Norodom Phnom Kulen National Park, spanning three hectares, which can produce three million seedlings per year. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-ministry-plans-large-scale-seedling-nursery-in-phnom-kulen-national-park/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sheltering under a blue tarpaulin amid dense woodland in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, Nhean* sits and waits for night to fall after a long day scouring the protected forest for luxury timber. He says he works for a broker who is a supplier to one of Cambodia’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/caught-up-in-the-middle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian economy is demonstrating signs of a recovery in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and the following periods, according to new statistics released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s (MEF) General Department of Policy which have predicted the country’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mef-bullish-on-medium-term-growth-amid-diversification/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government had designated the Western Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary and Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary as one protected area, which is officially named as “Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary”. The newly designated area of 133,707.73ha spans across Santepheap, Thma Keo and Prek Meas communes in Stung Treng href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wildlife-sanctuary-redesignated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The energy exploration and production company said in a statement on Tuesday that its associate company CPHL (Cambodia) has signed a drilling environmental impact assessment (EIA) contract with two environmental consulting firms The firms, the International Environmental Management Company Limited and SAWAC Consultants For Development Company href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mirach-energy-aims-for-green-light-to-start-drilling-cambodia-offshore-d/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers in Kompong Thom province set out yesterday on a three-day patrol of Prey Long forest in search of illegal logging, their second since the April 26 shooting death of conservationist Chut Wutty. who was the organizer of the first patrols. Soem Sean, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-restart-prey-long-forest-patrol-for-illicit-activity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Fund for Nature and World Wide Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF) have called on authorities to step up night and day patrols of dolphin conservation areas and prevent illegal fishing, as a third Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin carcass was discovered in the span of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/third-mekong-river-dolphin-found-dead-in-a-single-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and Chinese ambassador Wang Wentian on January 2 broke ground for the construction of a new bridge which will span the Mekong River in Kratie province. The bridge is expected to bring “rapid economic development” to the people of Cambodia’s northeastern href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-work-begins-on-mekong-river-bridge-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has spent an estimated $3 billion constructing roads across the country spanning more than 3,000km over a period of 10 years, in addition to expressway and railway projects which are currently underway, according a five-year master plan issued by the government. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-builds-3000km-of-roads-in-10-years-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Members of the Kuoy ethnic minority, part of the Prey Lang community network (PLCN) spanning Kratie, Stung Treng, Preah Vihear and Kampong Thom provinces, will perform a tree ordination ceremony next month. This annual event commemorates forests, accompanied by heartfelt prayers for their protection and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cultural-tradition-tree-ordination-in-prey-lang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An official said Wednesday that more than 160 villagers have now tested positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune in an outbreak that has baffled health officials and international experts, who are now conducting a survey to determine how the virus was spread. Soeum Chhom, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-160-now-infected-with-hiv-in-battambang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new open-air mall sporting high-end luxury shops and restaurants in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district is the latest expansion of the suburban neighborhood, though widespread commercialization of the area could still take years, property executives said Monday. The mall, called TK Avenue, opened Friday at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-tuol-kok-mall-to-add-to-districts-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from five communes in Koh Kong province are scheduled to hold a press conference in the capital today, appealing for government intervention in a land dispute with a Chinese development company that has spanned nearly four years. Lov Hov, a representative from Thmar Sar commune, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-in-capital-to-protest-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new USAID-funded malaria project in Myanmar will draw on prevention, treatment and containment models developed in Cambodia, and underscores the emergence of closer relations between Washington and Naypyitaw, health officials said yesterday. The US$24 million project will expand the effort to contain drug-resistant malaria, which href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/historic-us-aid-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Chinese government is considering loaning an unspecified amount of money to cover the cost of constructing 20 new national roads, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Speaking at the inauguration of 128-km stretch of National Road 62 linking Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear provinces, also primarily funded by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/loans-from-china-still-welcome-hun-sen-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Preah Sihanouk provincial authority plans to clear and expand five canals spanning some 26km starting on Monday, to mitigate city flooding which had previously affected areas in their vicinity. Provincial governor Kuoch Chamroeun asked the relevant authorities to inform and advise people to demolish href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/five-canals-to-be-expanded-in-preah-sihanouk-province-to-mitigate-against-flooding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

AFTER finishing in the black every year since its launch in 2009, Cambodia’s flagship airline is forecasting a loss for the first time, in a situation that an industry analyst has described as “not necessarily typical”. Cambodia Angkor Air’s (CAA) loss is projected to span two href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/angkor-air-forecasts-first-loss/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Around half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The seasonally flooded grasslands around the Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, are of great importance for biodiversity and a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-study-reveals-catastrophic-loss-of-cambodias-tropical-flooded-grasslands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...