PPMM #22: Highwater Risk Analysis & [Forest Cover] Change Detection
PPMM #22: Highwater Risk Analysis & [Forest Cover] Change DetectionPlease consider yourself invited!In honor of the recent Water Festival, let’s re-celebrate it in our own geeky way – via mapping. WaterSHED Cambodia and 1001 Fountaines took a raincheck but expressed an interest in giving a ...
Building from the wells up
In the small village of Lengean in Kampong Cham, you can still make out the acronym CVRDT carved into an old concrete well. ...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17023/building-from-the-wells-up/
PM: No seaweed plantations
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said he has rejected proposals for investment in seaweed plantations in Preah Sihanouk and Kep provinces. ...
Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079417/pm-no-seaweed-plantations/
Police arrest five, seize nearly 3kg of drugs, $100K
Police arrested five people in drug raid in Tuol Kork district, and seized nearly 3 kg of drug and about US$100,000. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/police-arrest-five-seize-nearly-3kg-of-drugs-100k-7740
Gov’t offers bursaries for poor
The government will provide scholarships to poor public school students in grades 1 through 12 in an effort to curb drop-out rates. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-offers-bursaries-poor
Raging storm hits Kampong Thom
Storms in Kampong Thom’s Stung Sen town this week resulted in four injuries and damage to 55 homes, local authorities said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/raging-storm-hits-kampong-thom
Record year for arbitral cases
The independent dispute resolution body established to help workers and employers in Cambodia resolve labor disputes had its busiest year ever in 2014. ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12605/record-year-for-arbitral-cases/
Report calls out Pheap
Logging tycoon Try Pheap’s rapidly expanding land empire, criticised by rights groups for displacing families and encroaching on protected forest areas, has grown to almost 70,000 hectares in size and is helping to facilitate a cross-border illegal logging operation, a report released today alleges. The Cambodian ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-calls-out-pheap
Cambodian NGOs Threaten to Expose More Illegal Logging
A group of Cambodian NGOs threatened on Monday to expose more cases of forestry crime involving businessmen and the police, saying they were unshaken by a defamation suit filed by top tycoon accused of illegal logging and land-grabbing. Representatives of the five organizations told reporters Monday ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/logging-11252013185559.html
Kingdom factory goes for the gold
Cambodian garment makers are filling orders for the 2012 London Olympics in what insiders say is the first time the country has supplied the Games. ShenZhou International Group Holdings Ltd, one of China’s largest apparel exporters, makes shirts and other sportswear for Adidas that will supply ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011101952197/Business/kingdom-factory-goes-for-the-gold.html
Asia’s Newest Stock Market Is Risk to Investors, Sam Rainsy Says
Investors in Cambodia, tied with Yemen as the world’s 164th-cleanest country for doing business, face risks in a planned stock market because of ineffective financial and legal systems, the country’s exiled opposition leader said. “Among the little dragons of Southeast Asia, Cambodia is the least encouraging,” ...
20-year-old GMS plans new phase of investment
The Greater Mekong Sub-region development scheme, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is moving forward with a new generation of investment aimed at strengthening connectivity, competitiveness and community over the next decade. The GMS will play a strategic role in connecting Southeast Asia with South ...
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/20-year-old-GMS-plans-new-phase-of-investment-30190259.html
Survey Says Cambodia Lacks Fiscal Transparency
The government has failed to improve transparency of its finances, according to a global report released yesterday, which ranks Cambodia among the worst countries in the world for openness over budgets. The Washington-based International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey 2012- conducted in Cambodia by NGO Forum- ...
At Fuel Pumps, Price and Quality Are Anybody’s Guess
PHNOM PENH – Cambodia imports all of its fuel from abroad, but little regulation in the sector means everyday Cambodians see all kinds of prices at the pumps. Prices are high in Phnom Penh, while sometimes cheaper on the outskirts of the capital and even ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/at-fuel-pumps-price-and-quality-are-anybody-guess/1619374.html
Million-tonne goal still a challenge
It has been more than two years since the Cambodian government issued a rice export policy in June 2010, aiming to export a million tonnes of milled rice by 2015. However, a shortage of capital to buy unmilled rice, known as “paddy”, together with high ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Special-Reports/million-tonne-goal-still-a-challenge.html
Wagering on warm fronts
A busty woman with a scratchy voice shrieks into an intricate set up of radios, microphones and walkie-talkies, her tone not unlike that of a breathless Flemington race-caller. The woman is in continuous contact with up to 100 men peppered over rice fields fringing Battambang, analyzing the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/1848-wagering-on-warm-fronts
Cambodia's government takes back land
The government has slashed about 250,000 hectares of land from 79 economic land concessions (ELCs), forest concessions and wildlife protection concessions and will return it, replete with land titles, to “poor people”, January’s Royal Book says. The publication, issued on January 17 and obtained yesterday, says ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020761237/National/cambodia-s-government-takes-back-land.html
The CSX at six months
Every day, thousands of people drive past a big electronic billboard showing market data from the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), the first securities market in the Kingdom’s history. While waiting for the traffic light, those Cambodians who are interested can get a glimpse of the ...
Villagers pin big hopes on little dam
In the past four years, families in Anlong Chrey village, in Kampong Speu provinces’s Thpong district, have watched a small multipurpose dam being built at their back doors. For village chief Soung Pao, 59, who gave up two hectares for the dam – one of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013031361911/National/villagers-pin-big-hopes-on-little-dam.html
Luxury Motor Show takes on Used Car Market
At Cambodia’s first ever international motor show over the weekend, top-end car manufactures including Mercedez-Benz, BMW and Ford presented their luxury range of SUV’s, sedans pickup trucks and motorbikes. Vehicle imports to Cambodia, which include cars, trucks and motorcycles, more than doubled to 1.9 million ...