A SingApore-bAsed impAct investment network is to pump hAlf A million dollArs into cleAn piped wAter for CAmbodiA’s rurAl populAtion. Nexus for Development, through its debt-finAncing Arm The Pioneer FAcility, signed A deAl to provide A collAterAl-free loAn for Khmer WAter Supply Holding (KWSH), A sociAl <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/singApore-investor-pours-us500000-into-cleAn-wAter-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A new set of wArehouse And silo funded through A government-led loAn scheme wAs inAugurAted FridAy in KAmpong Speu province. Khmer Food Group hAs built A wArehouse with A mAximum cApAcity of 50,000 tonnes, As well As A silo thAt cAn process up to 1,500 <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/rice-silo-And-wArehouse-lAunched/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thirteen Boeung Kak protesters released from jail Wednesday say they will continue their demonstrations until they obtain more land on a real estate development in the capital. Representatives wasted no time in meeting after their release from prison following a decision by the appeals Court Wednesday. “The <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/boeung-kak-13-vow-to-continue-demonstrations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With some people eating lunch off a tablecloth on the ground as children played in the distance, the scene in a small village in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district yesterday afternoon looked somewhat like a picnic. But villagers had gathered there, a few metres from a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dredging-for-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Conservationists Fauna and Flora International was to send a team to Pursat province today to investigate a man’s claim that he was attacked by a tiger. Ngem Nget, a 51-year-old farmer in Phnom Kravanh district’s Santre commune, reported that while foraging in the Cardamom Mountains on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tiger-claim-to-be-probed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Authorities in Kompong Thom province Are seArching for A soldier suspected of smuggling rosewood who shot At police while mAking his getAwAy through A mAze of nArrow streets on SAturdAy morning. ProvinciAl police chief Chou SAm An sAid his officers received A cAll from A deputy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/soldier-suspected-of-smuggling-wood-escApes-in-hAil-of-bullets/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A forest Activist in KAmpong Thom province yesterdAy clAimed to hAve been threAtened with A knife by A soldier After reporting thAt the officer wAs behind A number of forest crimes in the AreA. Pen BunkeAr, A soldier with the KAmpong Thom militAry reseArch unit, yesterdAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/Activist-threAtened-with-knife/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Six people across the country, including two young children, died in flood-related incidents yesterday, bringing the total number killed so far this rainy season to 17, according to government figures. Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management, said that fatalities were recorded <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flooding-claims-six-more-while-fears-grow-for-officer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Land is fundamental to the livelihoods of many Cambodians. around 80 percent of people live in rural areas and around 73 percent depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.1 In urban areas, many are dependent on plots of land close to livelihoods, services and social support networks.Read <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/fa_slide/land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Four companies have responded to a government tender for a project to develop a mammoth rice storage and processing facility in Battambang province, a bank executive said yesterday. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rdb-receives-four-bids-for-10b-paddy-silo-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

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The Ministry of Education has given a local education NGO $370,000 and one year to implement a pilot project aimed at replacing a long list of informal payments required of students at a Phnom Penh high school with a merit-based payment system that rewards high-performing <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/project-aims-to-make-phnom-penh-school-center-of-excellence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 200 people living on a contested plot of land in Ratanakkiri province on Thursday lodged a petition with the provincial court calling for the release of three community leaders who were convicted and jailed on Wednesday over a dispute with a wealthy businessman, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ratanakkiri-court-rejects-petition-over-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister John Key has joined a launch of asian free trade talks &ndash; but made it clear he favours a US-backed deal. The East asian Summit wrapped up in Phnom Penh yesterday with asian leaders formally announcing a start to negotiations towards a Regional Comprehensive <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/key-joins-asian-free-trade-talks/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A public trAnsportAtion system for Phnom Penh is still yeArs from becoming A reAlity, According to A presentAtion during A meeting on urbAn trAnsit on FridAy At City HAll, but the JApAn InternAtionAl CooperAtion Agency (JICA) will begin A survey At the end of MAy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/citys-public-trAnsport-mAy-tAke-10-yeArs-to-mAteriAlize/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Among thousAnds of residents in the Boeung KAk LAke district of the cApitAl whose lAnd hAs been tArgeted for redevelopment by A Chinese-finAnced reAl estAte compAny, Tep VAnny cArried A letter explAining the “sAdness And suffering” cAused by the project &mdAsh; which hAs turned Phnom <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/lAnd-disputes-focus-ire-on-chinese-investors-2/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

H.E. Hang Chuon Naron and Julie Chung in the inauguration of the Rice academy, Cambodia. Photo by U.S Embassy Phnom Penh, take on 17 September 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0In 1996, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) was established.1 Its organization and functioning <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/ministry-of-education-youth-and-sports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

With locals demanding dialogue with the Chinese firms behind a proposed multibillion dollar rail line to Preah Vihear province, an NGO report released yesterday highlights the dearth of information that has been made available on the project. Chinese company Cambodia Iron Steel Mining Industry Group (CISMIG) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-shows-lack-of-information-on-chinese-funded-railway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Growth in sugar production in Cambodia has created significant potential for sugarcane-based biofuel production. That potential has not yet been realized, though recent foreign investment may give rise to change. There are several types of sugar crop: sugarcane, sugar palm trees and sugar beets. Sugarcane <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sugarcane/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Frontier and emerging economies such as Cambodia present companies with a specific set of challenges and risk, both real and perceived, beyond those found in more developed markets. a risk category getting ever- increasing attention is that of “social risk”, roughly defined as the risk of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/corporate-social-responsibility-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>