Beyond Chea Vichea, Many Cases Lack Accountability, Justice
Ahead of the 10-year anniversary on Wednesday of the assassination of Free Trade Union (FTU) President Chea Vichea, police said Monday that despite their inability to bring anyone to justice for the high-profile slaying, the case remains open. However, Chea Mony, the brother of Chea Vichea, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khy Sovuthy and Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-ambassador-distances-local-delegation-from-resolution-50914/
11 Activists Arrested for Views That ‘Impact Public Order’
Eleven political activists were pulled off the street by helmeted security guards Tuesday morning during a peaceful march to foreign embassies to deliver petitions calling for an end to government violence and the release of 23 imprisoned activists and strikers. The 11 protesters—10 land rights activists ss='cambodia-color'>...
Phorn Bopha and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eleven-activists-arrested-for-views-that-impact-public-order-50934/
Youths heed city's siren call
When 29-year-old store manager srey Mom sent her mother in Takeo province some money to pay young people to help with the rice planting, her mother told her it was no use – the young people had abandoned the village to seek their fortunes in ss='cambodia-color'>...
HENG Huy Eng
IT and Website AdvisorHuy Eng graduated with a double major in Computer science from Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), and International study from Institute of Foreign Language (IFL). she has been working for ODC since it was firstly established in 2011. With several years ss='cambodia-color'>...
Forest cover
Cambodian forest cover has reduced dramatically in recent decades. In 1973 there were 13.1 million hectares of total forest, but by 2014 the total cover had fallen to 8.7 million hectares. ss='cambodia-color'>...
EU Under Fire for Policy Linked to Land Grabbing in Cambodia
KAMPONG SPEU PROVINCE&mdaSh; Three yearS ago, Pao had a farm and a charcoal Stove near a Stream in a community called Omlaing in weStern Cambodia. The farm gave her rice, charcoal SaleS gave her extra income and the nearby foreSt provided edible and medicinal plantS. Pao SS='cambodia-color'>...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine Staff
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Open Development Cambodia updates a dataset on "Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a dataset on “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)” by adding new interactive map layers of forest cover in Cambodia from 2015-2021. This dataset gives data focused on Cambodia’s annual forest cover range from 2015 to 2021.=> Please click here to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Fashion retail enters the online era
SOURSDEY FaShion occupieS a Small Shopfront near the RuSSian Market. It lookS Similar to many of the Small boutiqueS Sprouting up acroSS Phnom Penh, packed with&nbSp; the lateSt in faShion aimed at young, trendy conSumerS. But the Shop&rSquo;S buSineSS plan differS from that of many SS='cambodia-color'>...
Land Titles Needed to Drive Investment in Agriculture
The issue of using land titles to encourage banks to boost their lending to the agriculture sector was raised at the “Empower Your Business: Riding on Cambodia’s Growth” seminar in Phnom Penh on July 21. “seventy percent of the population is undertaking agriculture as their ss='cambodia-color'>...
TNT expands Asia Road Network
TNT Express linked its Chinese day-definite domestic road services into its Asia Road Network. This has created the only scheduled day-definite road network covering China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and singapore, said the operator. CEO Marie-Christine Lombard said: “With the integration of TNT’s two ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.ifw-net.com/freightpubs/ifw/index/tnt-expands-asia-road-network/20017904622.htm
Cambodia to fall short in rice exports due to flooding
Phnom Penh–Cambodia’s rice exports to foreign countries this year will fall short from the amount that was expected earlier, due to the flooding, said President of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Millers Association Phou Puy on Tuesday. The flooding has hit the country since August, will ss='cambodia-color'>...
Protest for union trio continues
Workers and managers at Cambo Handsome 1 garment factory were continuing discussions last night after a fourth day of protest in which union leaders said more than 20 employees were injured in a confrontation with police. The workers are protesting against the suspension of three union ss='cambodia-color'>...
Battambang families seek land-dispute aid
Representatives of more than 300 families in Battambang province’s Bavel district yesterday urged government officials to intervene in a land dispute with provincial authorities and a businessman. Representative Thuy Ry said the 305 families had lived on the 3,638 hectares of land in Ampil Pram Doeum ss='cambodia-color'>...
Villagers take case to capital
Representatives from five communes in Koh Kong province engaged in a long-running land dispute with a private Chinese firm urged the government to issue them proper land titles during a press conference in the capital yesterday. Representative Chhai Beng Hout asked the government to instruct the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Protesters successful; water prices decrease
Authorities in Prey Veng province yesterday agreed to cut the price of water from 1,800 riel to 1,200 riel a cubic metre after more than 1,000 people blocked National Road 11 for the fourth consecutive day. Acting provincial police chief Dim Yarum said yesterday an ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia expects 7 pct GDP growth in 2012
Cambodia’s Finance Minister Keat Chhon said Monday that the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is expected at 7 % this year. The forecast is higher than that of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank — all forecast at ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://en.ce.cn/World/Asia-Pacific/201203/12/t20120312_23150134.shtml
Vietnamese Goods on Sale in Cambodia
The second Cambodia-Vietnam Trade and Investment Fair opened in Kampot, Cambodia on August 24. The fair has attracted more than 50 Vietnamese and Cambodian businesses to display their high quality products, such as garment, footwear, food, chemicals, electronics, plastics and handicraft products. The aim is to help ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://vietnambusiness.asia/vietnamese-goods-on-sale-in-cambodia/
Private firms plan CSX IPOs
A logistics firm and two garment manufacturers planned to list on the Cambodia securities Exchange during the second half of 2012, underwriter Phnom Penh securities said yesterday. The companies are the first known private businesses to confirm their intentions of listing on the Kingdom’s still-dormant bourse. Manufacturing ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110352509/Business/private-firms-plan-csx-ipos.html
Floods abate, but villagers still isolated
Although floodwaters are receding, an unknown number of villages in several provinces remain accessible only by boat, and the extent of the damage has yet to be fully assessed, according to aid workers and the latest “situation update” from the United Nations Disaster Management Team. “In ss='cambodia-color'>...