Total lightning deaths lower so far this year
Rainstorms and lightning strikes killed a combined 43 people and injured 79, while damaging 2,735 homes in the first five months of the year, according to a report by the National Committee for Disaster Management. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/total-lightning-deaths-lower-so-far-this-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/total-lightning-deaths-lower-so-far-year
‘Life Skills’ course in the works
A new school course would teAch children from grAdes 5 to 12 for the first time About LGBT issues, sex And gender-bAsed violence, As pArt of A proposed Ministry of EducAtion curriculum. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/life-skills-course-in-the-works/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Leonie Kijewski and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-skills-course-works-1
HAGL goes bananas with fruit exports
Vietnamese conglomerate Hoang anh Gia Lai (HaGL) has shipped a total of over 9,000 tonnes of Cambodian bananas destined for the Chinese market since the firm first started exporting in July, a company representative said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hagl-goes-bananas-with-fruit-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hagl-goes-bananas-fruit-exports
Garment factory shutters, leaving hundreds unpaid
Garment workers at the Benoh apparel factory in the capital’s Meanchey district returned to work this week after a two-month suspension to find the building abandoned, prompting a protest demanding compensation from the government. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-factory-shutters-leaving-hundreds-unpaid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Yon Sineat and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/garment-factory-shutters-leaving-hundreds-unpaid
Kampot’s seaport to break ground in March
With the bidding process for the project coming to an end, the construction of a new seaport for tourist vessels in Kampot will begin in March, a representative of Kampot’s tourism department told Khmer Times. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kampots-seaport-to-break-ground-in-march/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102228/kampots-seaport-to-break-ground-in-march/
UN’s IFAD examines farming programs
A UN AgriculturAl development body presented A report evAluAting their commitment of over 20 yeArs And $189.5 million to CAmbodiA’s rurAl fArmers yesterdAy, finding both positives And negAtives in their pArtnership with the government. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/uns-ifAd-exAmines-fArming-progrAms/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/uns-ifad-examines-farming-programs
Kenya eyes Cambodia's rice and flight sectors
Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Ministerand ambassador of Kenyadiscussedan initiative to connect Phnom Penh and Nairobi through a direct flight to boost tourism and economic activities as well as the conclusion of a rice export deal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kenya-eyes-cambodias-rice-and-flight-sectors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia's top legislator to visit Vietnam, Laos
The President of Cambodia’s National assembly, Heng Samrin will make a two nation tour to Vietnam and Laos from July 20-30 to further enhance bilateral ties, according to a press release from the National assembly on Wednesday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-top-legislator-to-visit-vietnam-laos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-07/18/c_131722850.htm
Garment workers back to table for more talks
The workers and management of the Chiang Sou undergarments factory in Kampong Speu failed to reach a resolution yesterday despite hours of attempted negotiations, only a day after nearly 200 employees went on strike demanding better working conditions. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-workers-back-to-table-for-more-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Tycoon to get $200 million for pig farm
To capitalise on a rising demand for pork, a state-owned Chinese company is pouring $200 million into ruling party senator and tycoon Mong Reththy’s pig farm in Preah Sihanouk province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tycoon-to-get-200-million-for-pig-farm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tycoon-get-200-million-pig-farm
ELC guards ‘Keep NGOs off property’
Security guards from a Chinese development firm in Koh Kong province have allegedly prevented civil society groups from gathering data they planned to use for a petition asking for compensation for evictees. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/elc-guards-keep-ngos-off-property/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elc-guards-%E2%80%98keep-ngos-property%E2%80%99
Make park free again, urges CNRP
Elected opposition lawmakers will today call on Interior Minister Sar Kheng to lift the ban on gatherings at Freedom Park and release the results of a government investigation into deadly violence at a garment protest in early January. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/make-park-free-again-urges-cnrp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/make-park-free-again-urges-cnrp
Workers ill after fainting at factory
A lingering odour in A Sixplus Industry gArment fActory is AggrAvAting the AlreAdy-frAgile heAlth of its workers, 100 of whom fAinted lAst weekend, And hAs forced the fActory to send mAny of them bAck to heAlth centres. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/workers-ill-After-fAinting-At-fActory/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/workers-ill-after-fainting-factory
Hun Sen suit ‘needs evidence’
A prosecutor At the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court hAs urged A youth orgAniser to provide the court with more evidence in his lAwsuit AgAinst Prime Minister Hun Sen, promising to heAr the cAse if Ample proof is brought. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/hun-sen-suit-needs-evidence/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-suit-%E2%80%98needs-evidence%E2%80%99
Insecticides blamed for faintings
Nearly 100 garment workers employed by the New Wide garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district have fainted since Tuesday evening after company representatives’ allegedly sprayed insecticide throughout the factory, a local official and a worker said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/insecticides-blamed-for-faintings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/insecticides-blamed-faintings
Wing Star workers to end strike
Employees at the Kampong Speu shoe factory where a ceiling collapse killed two workers last May are headed back to work today after more than a week on strike, but will take their demands to the arbitration Council. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wing-star-workers-to-end-strike/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wing-star-workers-end-strike
Factory at center of January strikes under review
The Yakjin Trading Corporation, a South Korean company whose factory was at the center of major demonstrations earlier this year, has begun a review of its operations. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-at-center-of-january-strikes-under-review/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/factory-at-center-of-january-strikes-under-review/2439828.html
Ruling party begins conference with an eye toward reform
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party began a three-day conference on Friday, to discuss party policies and restructuring. The party is expected to adopt a new five-year plan at the end of the three-day congress. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ruling-party-begins-conference-with-an-eye-toward-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kong Sothanarith and Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ruling-party-begins-conference-with-an-eye-toward-reform/2620638.html
Women saved from sex work before boarding plane for Malaysia
Phnom Penh anti-human trafficking police prevented an accused sex trafficker from boarding a plane on Saturday along with five women—including a teenager—she was planning to sell into the sex trade in Malaysia, officials said Sunday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/women-saved-from-sex-work-before-boarding-plane-for-malaysia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/women-saved-from-sex-work-before-boarding-plane-for-kuala-lumpur-78887/
Villagers implicate officials in logging
Three environment officials in Mondulkiri province are being sued by ethnic minority villagers for allegedly using a permit to build two ranger stations as a pretence to illegally log more than 4,000 cubic metres of luxury wood. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-implicate-officials-in-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/villagers-implicate-officials-logging