PPMM #22: Highwater Risk Analysis & [Forest Cover] Change Detection
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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 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ppmm-22-highwater-risk-analysis-forest-cover-change-detection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Sanctuary from the storm
Hidden at the end of a pathway that breaks off from Mao Tse Tung Boulevard in Phnom Penh is a temple of a different kind, where seances are sacrosant and French writer Victor Hugo – author of Les Miserables – is considered a saint. Worshippers there practise Caodaism, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sanctuary-from-the-storm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Amelia Woodside and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-storm
Japanese aid
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Japanese military members observe as Cambodian sailors attach a neck brace to a patient during a Pacific Partnership knowledge exchange in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Photo by U.S. Pacific Fleet, taken on 21 June 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0Japan, through its official development branch called Japan <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/japanese-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
NGOs call for open budget process
A group of NGOs yesterdAy cAlled for more detAiled informAtion on nAtionAl budgets to be mAde public before their ApprovAl, mAintAining thAt the public hAd A right to know About And comment on the expenditures thAt would ultimAtely Affect their dAy-to-dAy lives. Tek VAnnArA, director of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/ngos-cAll-for-open-budget-process/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-call-open-budget-process
Rubber firm guard sought over shooting
Military police in Mondolkiri province say they are searching for a guard working for a local rubber company who allegedly injured three villagers Saturday when he fired a bullet in their direction that ricocheted off a rock, prompting questions about the firm’s use of armed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-firm-guard-sought-over-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-guard-sought-over-shooting-67647/
Garment factory floor collapse injures 4 in Cambodia
Four Cambodian garment workers were slightly injured on Tuesday after part of the floor in a garment factory collapsed into a pond built underneath, a local police chief confirmed. The incident occurred at 10:00 a.m. (local time) at Nishiku Enterprise in Bati district of southern Takeo <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-factory-floor-collapse-injures-4-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-10/21/c_133731886.htm
Slight increase in 2020 forest crime cases
The Forestry AdministrAtion sAid yesterdAy thAt forestry crime, mostly timber And wildlife, hAs increAsed 19 percent in 2020 compAred to the sAme period in 2019. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/slight-increAse-in-2020-forest-crime-cAses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50793602/slight-increase-in-2020-forest-crime-cases/
Up to 20 Myanmar enterprises are reportedly relocating to Kampong Speu province
The crisis in Myanmar has proven beneficial for Kampong Speu as at least 20 entities have relocated to this province. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/up-to-20-myanmar-enterprises-are-reportedly-relocating-to-kampong-speu-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50852986/up-to-20-myanmar-enterprises-are-reportedly-relocating-to-kampong-speu-province/
Floods affected 45,000 families in 17 provinces
Floods over the past four months in the Kingdom affected more than 45,000 families across 17 provinces, the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) said. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/floods-affected-45000-families-in-17-provinces/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chhun Sunly
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50969277/floods-affected-45000-families-in-17-provinces/
CHRC, OHCHR discuss human rights situation in Cambodia
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) yesterday met Roeuida El Hage, Representative of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to Cambodia to assess the human rights condition in Cambodia and to strengthen the cooperation between the two human rights organisations. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chrc-ohchr-discuss-human-rights-situation-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501089869/chrc-ohchr-discuss-human-rights-situation-in-cambodia/
Cambodian Foreign Minister rejects accusations concerning Ream naval base
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn has dismissed the recent news spread by some media outlets concerning Ream Naval Base. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-foreign-minister-rejects-accusations-concerning-ream-naval-base/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501090080/cambodian-foreign-minister-rejects-accusations-concerning-ream-naval-base/
Kantha Bopha Hospital faces blood supply woes
At KAnthA BophA HospitAl, the need for blood hAs grown while the number of blood donors hAs decreAsed since MAy. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/kAnthA-bophA-hospitAl-fAces-blood-supply-woes/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501343547/kantha-bopha-hospital-faces-blood-supply-woes/
$952 million construction projects approved in five months
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) has approved 1,679 construction projects nationwide on 2.2 million square metres at about $952 million in the first five months of this year. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/952-million-construction-projects-approved-in-five-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501099984/952-million-construction-projects-approved-in-five-months/
Trapaing Sangke community wins two ASEAN ecotourism awards
The Trapaing Sangke Community of Kampot province has received two awards from the aSEaN Community, the aSEaN Standard Tourism Community award and the aSEaN Standard Tourism Community Guesthouse award. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trapaing-sangke-community-wins-two-asean-ecotourism-awards/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501241630/trapaing-sangke-community-wins-two-asean-ecotourism-awards/
Cambodia’s policy toward China remains unchanged, says PM
In the new mandated government, Cambodia’s policy toward China remains unchanged, based on the spirit of traditional friendship, mutual trust and win-win cooperation. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-policy-toward-china-remains-unchanged-says-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501332389/cambodias-policy-toward-china-remains-unchanged-says-pm/
Hydrodam, solar power stations are approved
The government last week approved the construction of a hydroelectric dam and supplemental solar power stations with a total electrical capacity of 220MW, as the Kingdom continues battling a national electricity shortage. according to Prime Minister Hun Sen, Cambodia is currently facing a 400MW power <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hydrodam-solar-power-stations-are-approved/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hydrodam-solar-power-stations-are-approved
No union for workers in food biz
After the Ministry of LAbour denied A food service union officiAl registrAtion, A union officiAl is crying foul, Asserting thAt Authorities Are discriminAting AgAinst her group &ndAsh; A chArge the government denies. The CAmbodiAn Food And Service Worker FederAtion (CFSWF), A 4,000-member union representing workers in <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/no-union-for-workers-in-food-biz/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-union-workers-food-biz
In northeast, one company controls nearly all illegal logging: Report
A new report on illegAl logging in CAmbodiA’s northeAstern forests portrAys A single compAny with essentiAlly A monopoly on the illicit trAde. Tek VAnnArA, executive director of NGO Forum, sAid the report could be A tool to find A solution to combAt deforestAtion. “We <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/in-northeAst-one-compAny-controls-neArly-All-illegAl-logging-report/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/in-northeast-one-company-controls-nearly-all-illegal-logging-report/2934773.html
Preah Vihear blaze razes timber
A blAze Authorities hAve Attributed to A forest fire ripped through A neArly 4,000-cubic-metre timber stockpile on A sociAl lAnd concession in PreAh ViheAr’s Kulen district on the weekend, Although the compAny yesterdAy sAid it suspected A cAse of Arson. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/preAh-viheAr-blAze-rAzes-timber/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-blaze-razes-timber
Chinese firm snaps up $49.2M in local assets
Shanghai-listed Guangzhou Yuetai Group will purchase $49.2 million in assets in Cambodia by buying a 45 percent stake in a local property development firm and a 19 percent stake in a Cambodian import-export company, the company said in a filing yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-firm-snaps-up-49-2m-in-local-assets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firm-snaps-492m-local-assets