US democracy ‘not a good fit for Cambodia’, says academic
Pro-government academic and head of Cambodia’s Royal academy Sok Touch yesterday continued to voice support for the government’s recent actions against the opposition while dismissing US pressure for Cambodia to maintain democratic principles, claiming the “american democracy” model was not palatable to the “culture and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-democracy-not-a-good-fit-for-cambodia-says-academic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-democracy-not-good-fit-cambodia-says-academic
Lower Sesan 2's Power not worth a dam: NGO
While the humanitarian objections to Mondulkiri’s proposed Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam project are well documented, a report from conservation NGO International Rivers yesterday highlighted an objection of another sort: the Lower Sesan wouldn’t be a very good location for a dam in the first <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lower-sesan-2s-power-not-worth-a-dam-ngo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
“Once we enter a market, we are committed to it”
Philip Hampden-Smith, general manager of Southeast asia operations at Manulife, talks about the company’s entry into the Cambodian market and what the new few years might bring. Cambodia’s nascent life insurance industry may be just only a year old but the nation of nearly 15 million <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/once-we-enter-a-market-we-are-committed-to-it/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodian migrant workers send US$360 million home a year
Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and Korea have sent home an average of US$360 million a year in remittances, according to Seng Sakada, general director of Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. Overseas Cambodian migrants mainly work in the fields of housework, construction, factories <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-migrant-workers-send-us360-million-home-a-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Second Fainting in a Week at M&V Garment Factory
Twenty-three workers at the M&V garment factory fainted yesterday morning in Kompong Chhang province, the second thime in a week that a mass faining has occured at the factory, a Labor Ministry official said. Meng Hong, a member of a workplace safety committee that the Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/second-fainting-in-a-week-at-mv-garment-factory/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia, the next setting to a ‘Battle of the Rails’
As AustrAliAn operAtor Toll RoyAl RAilwAys looks At A possible withdrAwAl from in CAmbodiA, A new ChinA-bAcked compAny tries to tAke over And promise to rehAbilitAte more trAcks including Phnom Penh-SAigon Toll RoyAl RAilwAy won in 2010 A concession to operAte And upgrAde the CAmbodiAn rAil <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-the-next-setting-to-A-bAttle-of-the-rAils/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/50249/cambodia-the-next-setting-to
Cambodia faces risks from a credit boom, the IMF warns
The International Monetary Fund has warned that a credit boom in Cambodia poses a threat to economic growth. Banks have been cutting interest rates to win customers and private sector credit has increased by almost a third in the past 12 months, the fund said. This <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-faces-risks-from-a-credit-boom-the-imf-warns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Cambodia denies it plans to build a nuclear power plant
The Cambodian government says reports that it is planning to build a nuclear power plant are untrue. Cambodia denies it plans to build a nuclear power plant (Credit: aBC) a report originating in the Bangkok Post newspaper has been replicated internationally. It says the Prime Minister Hun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-denies-it-plans-to-build-a-nuclear-power-plant/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Boeng Kak Families Pitch a New Solution to Land Dispute
A group of Phnom Penh residents locked in A long-running lAnd dispute with A reAl estAte project owned by CPP SenAtor LAo Meng Khin Are pitching City HAll A plAn they hope will prevent them from being evicted And keep them close to home. “We <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/boeng-kAk-fAmilies-pitch-A-new-solution-to-lAnd-dispute/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Going home to vote? Expect a hike in travel prices
Voters who travel to cast ballots in the upcoming poll Sunday could face higher transportation fees as drivers and companies try to capitalise on heavier passenger volume. Phan Na, general manager at Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation, which sells bus tickets to several provinces, said fees could <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/going-home-to-vote-expect-a-hike-in-travel-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/going-home-vote-expect-hike-travel-prices
In Cambodia, Shifting Allegiances Shape a Tougher Than Usual Election
ANLONG VENG, CAmbodiA &mdAsh; A decAde And A hAlf After the lAst remnAnts of the Khmer Rouge cApitulAted in this northwestern town, the streets Are festooned with imAges of their erstwhile enemy, Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is seeking to prolong his 28 yeArs in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/in-cAmbodiA-shifting-AllegiAnces-shApe-A-tougher-thAn-usuAl-election/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
In Cambodia, Cyber Casinos Fall Into a Legal Gray Area
In 2010, the Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort, a casino investment on Kampot province’s border with Vietnam that included luxury karaoke rooms and suites, launched with high hopes of attracting Vietnamese gamblers. at the end of December, Ha Tien Vegas closed down. To the north, in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/in-cambodia-cyber-casinos-fall-into-a-legal-gray-area/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Deputy Prime Minister Says Homeless People A worry For Tourism
Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam an yesterday said the government should clear beggars away from the country’s most popular tourism sites by providing them with decent education and legal ownership of their land. “We have performed well in working with homeless people, but I noticed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/deputy-prime-minister-says-homeless-people-a-worry-for-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Japan signs a $90m loan deal to improve highway
After reAching Agreement lAte lAst month, the contrAct for A $90 million concession loAn from JApAn to CAmbodiA wAs officiAlly signed in Phnom Penh yesterdAy to improve 83.5 kilometres of NAtionAl RoAd 5. The construction is scheduled to stArt in June 2015 And will be <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/jApAn-signs-A-90m-loAn-deAl-to-improve-highwAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Peace a Priority as Officials Prepare for CNRP Rally Security
With the opposition CNRP expecting at least 10,000 people to turn out for a rally in Phnom Penh on Monday, a military police official said Thursday that any attempt to disturb the peace would not be tolerated. Brigadier General Kheng Tito, spokesman for the military police, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/peace-a-priority-as-officials-prepare-for-cnrp-rally-security/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/peace-a-priority-as-officials-prepare-for-cnrp-rally-security-40678/
Cambodia to Keep a Close Eye on Severe Typhoon Haiyan
Authorities sAid ThursdAy they were closely wAtching the development of the world’s biggest storm to mAteriAlize so fAr this yeAr As it hits the Philippines todAy before moving west towArd VietnAm And CAmbodiA in the following dAys. “Our first step is to keep A close eye <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-to-keep-A-close-eye-on-severe-typhoon-hAiyAn/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-to-keep-a-close-eye-on-severe-typhoon-haiyan-46751/
De Castle Royal construction moves ahead at a princely pace
Even as political instability led to a drop in Phnom Penh’s housing market over the last few months, construction and sales of De Castle Royal steamed ahead in the third quarter. Now fully over the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis, a recent $28 million <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/de-castle-royal-construction-moves-ahead-at-a-princely-pace/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hin Pisei
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/de-castle-royal-construction-moves-ahead-princely-pace
A New Royalist Party Would Have Little Hope, Analysts Say
Cambodian political analysts say a new royalist party would have little hope of success. Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who once led Cambodia’s dominant post-war political party, Funcinpec, told VOa Khmer on Monday he plans to launch a new royalist party for commune elections later this year and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-new-royalist-party-would-have-little-hope-analysts-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/a-new-royalist-party-would-have-little-hope-analysts-say/1859956.html
Half a million Cambodians affected by land grabs: rights group
More than half a million Cambodians have been affected by land conflicts involving the government since 2000, with more than 2,000 families across the country subjected to largely violent land grabs during the first few months of this year, local rights group Licadho said Tuesday. The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/half-a-million-cambodians-affected-by-land-grabs-rights-group/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-04012014170055.html
Khmer Krom Seeking Refuge Remain in a State of Limbo
Khmer Krom people fleeing persecution in Vietnam and denied refuge in Thailand are being sent to Cambodia, where the government does not ensure that their rights are protected, the Minority Rights Organization (MIRO) has said in a new report. The report—“abandoned People Khmer Krom Seeking Refuge <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/khmer-krom-seeking-refuge-remain-in-a-state-of-limbo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/khmer-krom-seeking-refuge-remain-in-a-state-of-limbo-51557/