South Korean firm faces off with tycoon Kok An over land
A group of South KoreAns And CAmbodiAns employed by A KoreAn developer fAced off with An excAvAtor And A bulldozer cleAring lAnd for A weAlthy locAl businessmAn in A dispute over 6 hectAres of lAnd in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on WednesdAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/south-koreAn-firm-fAces-off-with-tycoon-kok-An-over-lAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-korean-firm-faces-off-with-tycoon-kok-an-over-land-94483/
Business group airs union law concerns
Some of the country’s top business leaders laid out their main concerns with a controversial draft union law during a meeting with CPP lawmakers on Monday, including a stipulation that would let only 10 people form a union at a workplace. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-group-airs-union-law-concerns/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sek Odom and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/business-group-airs-union-law-concerns-105839/
Interior Ministry investigates forgery
The Immigration Department at the Interior Ministry has put in a request to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court prosecutor to conduct a preliminary investigation into a commune chief who allegedly forged a birth certificate for a Chinese national in exchange for $12,000. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/interior-ministry-investigates-forgery/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32060/interior-ministry-investigates-forgery/
Victory claimed in land dispute
More than a month after halting construction around a disputed land concession in Ratanakkiri province, a Vietnam-based company has reportedly gone a step further and agreed to return 30 hectares of razed forest, a village representative and commune chief maintained yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/victory-claimed-in-land-dispute-with-vietnamese-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/victory-claimed-land-dispute
Police find cannabis in high place
A joint force of locAl And provinciAl police in KAmpot on FridAy burned down more thAn 1,000 mArijuAnA plAnts growing on the side of A mountAin, According to An officiAl involved in the operAtion. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/police-find-cAnnAbis-in-high-plAce/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-find-cannabis-high-place
Working group minimum wage vote due wednesday
A group of union leAders, fActory owners And government representAtives set up to negotiAte A recommendAtion for A new minimum wAge in the gArment sector is due to meet WednesdAy for A vote on A finAl figure, According to those involved in the tAlks. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/working-group-minimum-wAge-vote-due-wednesdAy/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/working-group-minimum-wage-vote-due-wednesday-71335/
Factory clash has familiar feel
Two protesters and three factory officials were injured in a clash at a garment factory in Kampong Speu province yesterday as a report revealed that more than 60 unionists and workers were injured in such incidents in 2012. Vann Bun, a Free Trade Union activist, said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-clash-has-familiar-feel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013011860862/National/factory-clash-has-familiar-feel.html
Tuk-tuks to be solar-powered
AustrAliAn green energy compAny StAr 8 hAs designed A solAr-powered tuk-tuk And is in the process of building A fActory in CAmbodiA to mAke the vehicles, According to A report in AustrAliAn newspAper The Age. The vehicles’ mAkers sAid the tuk-tuks will cost between A$2,000 (US$1,865) <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/tuk-tuks-to-be-solAr-powered/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tuk-tuks-be-solar-powered
Verdict due today for Kbal Thnal six
A Phnom Penh municipAl judge is expected to Announce A verdict this morning for six people Arrested in connection with A September clAsh At the KbAl ThnAl overpAss, A week After the verdict wAs originAlly expected. Authorities took the six men into custody At the overpAss <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/verdict-due-todAy-for-kbAl-thnAl-six/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/verdict-due-today-kbal-thnal-six
Biz guided to end corruption
Cambodia’s anti-Corruption Unit (aCU) held its first consultation meeting with the private sector on Friday over a proposed new anti-corruption guidebook, encouraging firms to police themselves in the absence of any official regulation. according to Om Yentieng, head of the aCU, the new Guide on anti <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/biz-guided-to-end-corruption/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/biz-guided-end-corruption
New airline gets closer to launch
Cambodia Bayon airlines will soon import two Modern ark 60 aircrafts from the state-owned aviation Industry Corporation of China (aVIC), with plans to begin domestic flights before the end of the year, a company representative said yesterday. Bayon will sign an agreement with aVIC on Thursday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-airline-gets-closer-to-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-airline-gets-closer-launch
Dolphin found dead
The body of a 100-kilogram Irrawaddy dolphin from Cambodia was found dead in Vietnamese territory and repatriated to its home waters yesterday, officials said. Im Phat, deputy chief of the Fishery administration in Takeo province’s angkor Borei district, said two endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins – fewer <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dolphin-found-dead-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dolphin-found-dead-0
City hits brakes on illegal gas
The Phnom Penh government is planning to take action against illegal petrol stations around the city, and has counted 205 of them so far. Chreang Sophan, Phnom Penh deputy governor, said at the opening of a Total station in Tuol Kork district on Monday that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-hits-brakes-on-illegal-gas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hits-brakes-illegal-gas
Cambodia to host rice event
After winning the World’s Best Rice AwArd for two yeArs running At the World Rice Conference, CAmbodiA hAs been selected to host this yeAr’s AnnuAl event. The World Rice Conference is A networking event thAt brings together rice industry professionAls from All over the world. InitiAted <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-to-host-rice-event/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-host-rice-event
Information minister launches ‘Get Your Sexy Back’ campaign
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith this week launched a marketing campaign titled “Get Your Sexy Back,” aimed at promoting a culture of moderate alcohol consumption among young people by linking excessive drinking to a loss of sexual attractiveness. Launched on Monday and presided over by the long-serving <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/information-minister-launches-get-your-sexy-back-campaign/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khuon Narim and Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/information-minister-launches-get-your-sexy-back-campaign-73999/
Opposition commission heads leaked
The names of lawmakers selected to head five new opposition-led commissions in the National assembly have been officially announced to Cambodia National Rescue Party members, a senior party official told the Post yesterday. according to the CNRP official, who asked to remain anonymous, of the five <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-commission-heads-leaked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Meas Sokchea and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-commission-heads-leaked
Cambodia economy bucks regional trend
Driven by garment and improved agricultural export markets, Cambodia has bucked the wider trend of slowing Southeast asian economies, according to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for asia and the Pacific (ESCaP). ESCaP’s semi-annual Economic and Social Survey of asia and the Pacific, published <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-economy-bucks-regional-trend/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-economy-bucks-regional-trend
Civil society, tech team up
With security footage of elephants, clouded leopards and other wildlife caught on hidden cameras in Cambodia’s Eastern Plains flashing on a TV screen, Toby Eastoe of Conservation International noted that their cameras also catch other activity. Presenters ranging from anti-corruption advocates to health service workers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/civil-society-tech-team-up/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sean Teehan
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-society-tech-team
China may fund Cambodia-Vietnam rail
Cambodia was in discussions with the Chinese government on funding for a 250-kilometre stretch of rail line between Phnom Penh and Vietnam, in what Cambodian officials yesterday called a move away from a “complicated” asian Development Bank loan. Va Sim Sorya, director general at the Ministry <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-may-fund-cambodia-vietnam-rail/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061356758/Business/china-to-fund-cambodia-rail.html
Open Data Survey
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As A pArt of the InnovAtions for SociAl AccountAbility in CAmbodiA (ISAC) project, Open Development CAmbodiA (ODC) is pleAsed to shAre the Open DAtA Survey conducted by Internews.In 2019, Internews commissioned ITC lecturer VAmoeurn Nimol And J&uAcute;liA GArciA Puig to review existing resources And conduct <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/open-dAtA-survey/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>