Monitoring group blames rise in forest crimes on authorities turning blind eye
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 fisheries crimes total 38 cases Jan-Mar
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'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-fisheries-crimes-total-38-cases-jan-mar
Environment ministry plans large-scale seedling nursery in Phnom Kulen National Park
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'>...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-plans-large-scale-seedling-nursery-in-phnom-kulen-national-park
Caught up in the middle
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'>...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/caught-middle
MEF bullish on medium-term growth amid diversification
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'>...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501520198/mef-bullish-on-medium-term-growth-amid-diversification/
Wildlife sanctuary redesignated
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'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wildlife-sanctuary-redesignated
Mirach Energy Aims for Green Light to Start Drilling Cambodia Offshore D
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'>...
Villagers Restart Prey Long Forest Patrol for Illicit Activity
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'>...
Third Mekong River dolphin found dead in a single week
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'>...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/third-mekong-river-dolphin-found-dead-single-week
Construction work begins on Mekong River bridge in Kratie
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'>...
Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/construction-work-begins-mekong-river-bridge-kratie
Kingdom builds 3,000km of roads in 10 years: minister
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'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-builds-3000km-roads-10-years-minister
Cultural tradition: Tree ordination in Prey Lang
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'>...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cultural-tradition-tree-ordination-in-prey-lang
More Than 160 Now Infected With HIV in Battambang
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'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-160-now-infected-with-hiv-in-battambang-74832/
New Tuol Kok Mall to Add to District’s Growth
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'>...
Joshua Wilwohl and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/new-tuol-kok-mall-to-add-to-districts-growth-49777/
Villagers in capital to protest development
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'>...
Historic US aid project
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'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011120153090/National-news/historic-us-aid-project.html
Loans from China Still Welcome, Hun Sen Says
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'>...
Five canals to be expanded in Preah Sihanouk province to mitigate against flooding
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'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/five-canals-be-expanded-preah-sihanouk-province-mitigate-against-flooding
Angkor Air forecasts first loss
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'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030661776/Business/angkor-air-forecasts-first-loss.html
New study reveals catastrophic loss of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands
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'>...
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-reveals-catastrophic-loss-cambodia-tropical.html