Little Paris comes to Koh Pich
Construction on a four-year, $150 million commercial and residential development that will transform 70,000 square metres of land on Koh Pich into Parisian-style apartments with a replica of the Arc de Triomphe at the centre is reportedly scheduled to commence in the coming months. The Élysée, ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/little-paris-comes-koh-pich
Man protests ‘unjust arrests’, is detained
A man who intended to release birds at Freedom Park yesterday as a way of calling for those wrongfully imprisoned to be freed was himself detained on the way to the ceremony, rights group Adhoc said. The man, identified as Pheakdey, 35, was among nine people ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-protests-%E2%80%98unjust-arrests%E2%80%99-detained
Tragedy hits home
Seven Cambodians are now believed to have been killed and 14 injured by a falling beam at a construction site in Thailand on Tuesday, Foreign Affairs spokesman Koy Kuong said yesterday. “Cambodian embassy officials in Bangkok are working with the Thai police to find out the ...
Cheang Sokha and Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tragedy-hits-home
Directive aims to stop ELC abuses
Sacred burial grounds and community forests should be granted more protection under a new government proclamation issued this month, but rights groups and land-grab victims are wary that, without proper enforcement, it will amount to little in practice. An interministerial proclamation, or prakas, signed by ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/directive-aims-stop-elc-abuses
Chong villagers put festive spin on dam protest
Villagers from an ethnic minority community in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continued their blockade over the Khmer New Year holiday of an access road leading to the site of a proposed dam they say would destroy their way of life. Members of the ethnic ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chong-villagers-put-festive-spin-on-dam-protest-56708/
Thais hit Cambodia casinos to sidestep junta betting blitz
Desperate for a flutter during a junta crackdown on gambling at home, Thais are making a beeline for casinos in a seedy Cambodian border town — which has already been deluged by migrants also fleeing the kingdom. For over a decade Poipet, a scruffy, vice-ridden frontier ...
Business World Online News Staff
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=World&title=Thais-hit-Cambodia-casinos-to-sidestep-junta-betting-blitz&id=89616
‘People’s congress’ to test ban
Opposition leaders yesterday announced plans to hold a thousands-strong “people’s congress” in the capital’s Freedom Park on Sunday, despite a ban on gatherings at the site. Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy and vice-president Kem Sokha, following their return from overseas trips to Australia, New ...
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98people%E2%80%99s-congress%E2%80%99-test-ban
Fifty houses bulldozed overnight as S’ville land dispute escalates
Fifty families claiming ownership of 5ha in Koki village, Bit Traing commune, in Prey Nop district, Preah Sihanouk province, on Monday protested on the site over claims that Ouk Sineth and his associates illegally encroached on their land, bulldozing their homes and crops during the ...
Children gain opportunities but face risks in age of social media
A Children’s Fund (Unicef) report on the use of social media by children and adolescents in East Asia says that although access to such sites provides children with big opportunities, it also exposes them to the growing risks that accompany the platforms. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/children-gain-opportunities-face-risks-age-social-media
Chut Wutty slaying puts Timbergreen logging in spotlight
Community activists and conservationists commemorating slain environment activist Chut Wutty on the weekend used the occasion to shed light on what they allege are the shadowy practices of a logging company in the southwestern Cardamom forests. Activists amongst the hundreds of people who travelled to Koh ...
Report fingering tycoon in timber crime taken down
A national police spokesman yesterday said a report alleging that tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group was colluding with loggers to launder timber was mistakenly posted on the body’s official site by a “tired” employee who meant to share the information with local reporters but not ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-fingering-tycoon-timber-crime-taken-down
Large-scale Mekong River landfilling draws concern eco-system and water way
Almost every day for the past year about a dozen boats carrying thousands of cubic meters of sand dump their load at Koh Norea, a small tip of land where the Mekong spills into the Bassac river. According to workers at the site, the sand ...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/large-scale-mekong-river-landfilling-draws-concern-eco-system-and-water-way/
Excavation workers uncover UXO units at Kandal pagoda
Experts from the Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) have collected and safely disposed of 43 units of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from an excavation site near Sa’ang Phnom pagoda in Peam Sala village of Sa’ang commune in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district after a work crew excavating ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/excavation-workers-uncover-uxo-units-kandal-pagoda
Instruction to remind on the prevention of COVID-19 transmission
On 12 July 2022, the Ministry of Health has posted an instruction on the reminder to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 on its official social media site. Following the rise of COVID-19 positive cases in Cambodia and the discovery of the new COVID-19 strain BA.4 and ...
Ministry of Health
Kampot Int’l Tourism Port’s waterway set to be deepened: officials
The government is set to begin deepening of the Kampot International Tourism Port’s waterway and additional improvements “soon” to enable safer access for larger vessels, after the main construction work on the 4.25ha site was completed on June 30, according to Kampot provincial deputy governor ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kampot-intl-tourism-ports-waterway-set-be-deepened-officials
Announcement on the delisting of rural credit institutions from the list at the National Bank of Cambodia
On 12 April 2023, National Bank of Cambodia has posted an announcement on the delisting of rural credit institutions from the list at the National Bank of Cambodia on their official social media site. According to the announcement, National Bank of Cambodia has delisted 108 credit ...
National Bank of Cambodia
Statement by Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union's perspectives on the report on freedom of association in the Garment, Footwear and Travel Products Sector in Cambodia by Central (in collaboration with C.CAWDU and CATU)
On 06 June 2024, Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCAWU) issued a statement of their perspective on the report on freedom of association in the Garment, Footwear and Travel Products Sector in Cambodia by Central (in collaboration with C.CAWDU and CATU) on their ...
Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)” adding 1 new map features in Pursat Province from sub-decree no. 144 on the establishment of Bakan protected landscape. This dataset contains data of eight types of protected areas in ...
Success story of data literacy training program: LY Vichheka
In Cambodia, data-driven storytelling is almost non-existent and still a very new concept to most journalists, media branches, newsrooms and CSOs. In the newsrooms, data journalism is rarely produced due to limited data literacy.The project aimed to train people in data-driven storytelling. While there is ...
Din Liseinet: Reflecting on my internship experience with ODC
I had been a frequent visitor to the Open Development Cambodia (ODC) website in search for Cambodian news and information as well as for academic purpose. I had wondered if there was any possibility of trying here since I had rarely encounter the job or ...