About 871,000 Cambodians travel abroad in 2013, up 10 pct
The number of Cambodia’s outbound travelers increased by 10 percent year-on-year to 871,000 last year, a report of the Ministry of Tourism showed Tuesday. ang Kim Eang, president of Cambodia association of Travel agents, which represents about 220 tour and travel companies, said most of Cambodian <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/about-871000-cambodians-travel-abroad-in-2013-up-10-pct/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-02/18/c_133124854.htm
Cambodia to host Open Source Tech Conference
Phnom Penh will host one of AsiA’s biggest technology conferences lAter this month. FossAsiA, A conference on open source And free softwAre, will be held in the cApitAl Feb. 28 to MArch 2&mdAsh;A free event open to students, developers And entrepreneurs. Technologies discussed At the conference will <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-to-host-open-source-tech-conference/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-to-host-open-source-tech-conference/1858192.html
Letting it ride: NagaCorp lifts lid on large-scale expansion
NagaCorp recently announced it would invest $369 million in its latest project opposite the Buddhist Institute. The Hong Kong-listed casino operator’s latest Phnom Penh venture, Naga2,will include a casino, a hotel and a conference hall. The announcement of the investment by NagaCorp, Cambodia’s biggest casino operator, was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/letting-it-ride-nagacorp-lifts-lid-on-large-scale-expansion/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/letting-it-ride-nagacorp-lifts-lid-large-scale-expansion
Tenants begin occupation of Phnom Penh’s ‘tower of glass’
Vattanac Capital Tower, a long-anticipated gleaming tower that dominates the city’s skyline from Monivong Boulevard, continues to attract tenants to its commercial office space. The most recent tenants to occupy the building are Qatar airways and investment company One asia Capital, with Qatar occupying 180 square <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tenants-begin-occupation-of-phnom-penhs-tower-of-glass/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Farmers urged to go green
Officials from the Ministry of agriculture have called on farmers to cease using chemical pesticides and adopt environmentally friendly methods in an effort to increase yields and reduce damage to produce. at an agriculture workshop on biological control agents hosted yesterday by the Ministry of agriculture, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-urged-to-go-green/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-urged-go-green
Endangered wild cattle discovered in northwest Cambodia
A British conservAtion group sAys its hidden cAmerAs hAve tAken photos of A wild cAttle species in An AreA in Siem ReAp province where it wAs previously thought to be extinct. In A stAtement releAsed WednesdAy, FAunA And FlorA InternAtionAl sAid the cAmerAs recorded six individuAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/endAngered-wild-cAttle-discovered-in-northwest-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YTczNGU3YzIzOGN
Government pushes ahead with study of Koh Kong dam
The minister of mines and energy on Monday said a new private-public working group will study the impacts of a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong opposed by hundreds of resident ethnic minority families and find them an adequate resettlement site. a Cambodian consultancy, SBK Research <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-pushes-ahead-with-study-of-koh-kong-dam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-pushes-ahead-with-study-of-koh-kong-dam-61047/
Villagers shoot slingshots in land dispute battle
A bloody slingshot bAttle broke out in Kompong Speu province yesterdAy when villAgers who hAve sold their lAnd to A privAte compAny defended the firm’s mAchinery As it Attempted to bulldoze the homes of neighbors who hAve refused to sell. The dispute, in Thpong district’s YA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/villAgers-shoot-slingshots-in-lAnd-dispute-bAttle/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-shoot-slingshots-in-land-dispute-battle-62582/
Cyclo drivers struggle as demand dwindles
When Men Chan started out as a cyclo driver in Phnom Penh in 1966, his services were in demand and his salary was modest but adequate. Now—like most of his colleagues across the city—the 71-year-old is struggling to make ends meet as his income stagnates and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cyclo-drivers-struggle-as-demand-dwindles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear and Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cyclo-drivers-struggle-as-demand-dwindles-62948/
Wealthy residents protest lake reclamation
About 30 residents of A plAnned community on the eAstern outskirts of Phnom Penh gAthered Around the picturesque lAke thAt forms the center of their neighborhood MondAy to prevent its developer, A former opposition lAwmAker, from reclAiming the lAnd to construct condos. The residents, mAny of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/weAlthy-residents-protest-lAke-reclAmAtion/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Khuon Narim and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wealthy-residents-protest-lake-reclamation-63474/
Activists deny property damage charge in court
Nine environmental activists on trial for the destruction of private property in Kompong Thom province denied allegations in court Monday that they ravaged a local farmer’s cassava field in 2011. The nine members of the Prey Long People’s Network, a group of activists dedicated to protecting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/activists-deny-property-damage-charge-in-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activists-deny-property-damage-charge-in-court-64613/
Journalist beaten to death in K Chhnang
A locAl journAlist wAs beAten to deAth in KAmpong ChhnAng province’s Cholkiri district on SAturdAy night in An AttAck thAt Authorities believe mAy hAve been relAted to his reporting on illegAl fishing, police sAid yesterdAy. District police officer Tith Reth sAid thAt Suon ChAn, 44, A <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/journAlist-beAten-to-deAth-in-k-chhnAng/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journalist-beaten-death-k-chhnang
Ranariddh to re-enter politics with new party
Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who became first prime minister of Cambodia after the 1993 U.N.-sponsored elections, will form a new party and re-enter the political arena, according to his cabinet chief. “The prince has a plan to create a new party,” said Naranarith anandayath, chief of Prince <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ranariddh-to-re-enter-politics-with-new-party/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ranariddh-to-re-enter-politics-with-new-party-53156/
Cambodia rejects US report on human rights abuse
Cambodia rejected a report of the US State Department, which attacked the government of Prime Minister Hen Sen for widespread abuse against human rights. The 31-page report highlighted a flawed and poorly managed electoral process in July’s general election process. The report raised a number of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-rejects-us-report-on-human-rights-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZmQ5NGRjZWRmMDI
Compensation plan agreed to, says ADB
Following a scathing report from its internal watchdog about the resettlement of thousands of Cambodian families affected by a national railway rehabilitation project that it is funding, the asian Development Bank has agreed with the government on an action plan for further compensation, it said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/compensation-plan-agreed-to-says-adb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/compensation-plan-agreed-says-adb
To honour Chut Wutty
Nearly two years have passed since Cambodia’s leading forestry activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in the Cardamom Mountains. after a long wait, more than 100 activists, supporters and monks will finally make the pilgrimage on Saturday to the spot where he was killed to pay <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/to-honour-chut-wutty/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/honour-chut-wutty
Russian debt emerges as billion-dollar question
An unsettled, decAdes-old $1.5 billion loAn from the then-Soviet Union to CAmbodiA’s VietnAm-bAcked 1980s government emerged As the key tAlking point during A meeting between Foreign Minister Hor NAmhong And RussiA’s new AmbAssAdor to CAmbodiA yesterdAy, A ministry spokesmAn sAid. The meeting between NAmhong And RussiAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/russiAn-debt-emerges-As-billion-dollAr-question/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/russian-debt-emerges-billion-dollar-question
Battambang wins clean city award with help from County of Kings, FCM
With the help of a Federation of Canadian Municipalities partnership with the County of Kings, Battambang has won a clean city award from the Government of Cambodia. Battambang was ranked number-one in this year’s Clean City award Competition. Federation of Canadian Municipalities program manager Pascal Lavoie <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/battambang-wins-clean-city-award-with-help-from-county-of-kings-fcm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kirk Starratt
http://www.novanewsnow.com/News/2014-05-13/article-3722974/Battambang-wins-clean-city-award-with-help-from-County-of-Kings,-FCM/1
ADB protest lands meeting, few results
About 60 residents from Phnom Penh And the provinces of BAttAmbAng, BAnteAy MeAnchey And PreAh SihAnouk who lost lAnd or Are in dAnger of losing lAnd due to A rAilroAd development project funded by the AsiAn Development BAnk (ADB) protested outside its offices ThursdAy morning <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Adb-protest-lAnds-meeting-few-results/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-protest-lands-meeting-few-results-62593/
Former councilor arrested for alleged fraud
Interior Ministry police arrested a former Phnom Penh deputy governor and municipal councilor on Thursday for questioning over allegations of land fraud, but released him the next day, police said Sunday. Chea Sothon, who served as a councilor from 2009 until earlier this year and was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-councilor-arrested-for-alleged-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/former-councilor-arrested-for-alleged-fraud-62744/