Food production accounts for almost one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a study published last week by the agricultural research organisation CGIaR. Food systems, from growing crops and raising livestock to storage and transportation, contribute 19 to 29 per cent of global <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/farming-implicated-in-climate-change/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

THE AustrAliAn FederAl Police will reopen corruption inquiries into mAjor AustrAliAn compAnies OZ MinerAls And CochleAr, After seAring criticism thAt it wAs lAx in its investigAtions. OZ MinerAls will be tArgeted following discussions with the OECD About the AFP’s previous investigAtion of Alleged foreign <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/police-reopen-oz-cochleAr-bribery-cAses/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The area of cassava under cultivation fell by 11.5 per cent across the country this season, while the price of cassava chips remained the same as last season’s price. Officials blamed an unstable price during the previous season (from april to april) for the drop. according <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cassava-production-dropped-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The De Castle Royal Condominium project, which has been on hold for some time, has announced that it will go back on the market after gaining $28 million in loans from Canadia Bank, which will allow for the completion of the 32-storey-building. The general manager of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/de-castle-royal-to%e2%80%8bbe%e2%80%8b-completed-by-2014/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand and Vietnam have called for strict controls to be placed on the international trade of rosewood in an attempt to prevent the luxury wood species from be­ing logged to extinction. Cambodia currently exports thousands of cubic meters of the wood to China each year, and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thailand-vietnam-seek-controls-on-rosewood-trade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged people to resolve their own land disputes to aid the progress of an ambitious land-titling project announced earlier this month. Speaking at an event in Kompong Cham province’s Kroch Chhmar district to mark National Fish Day, Mr. Hun Sen thanked <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ahead-of-titling-hun-sen-urges-swift-resolution-to-land-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Mekong River Commission has released a comprehensive risk analysis of the transport of dangerous goods and issued recommendations to prevent oil spills, industrial waste and other emerging threats from navigation. Developed by the MRC Navigation Programme in Phnom Penh, the risk analysis finds that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/mekong-river-threatened-by-transport-of-dangerous-goods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is considered “the most promising country” in the aSEaN community where Thai business entrepreneurs could set up trade and investment projects, according to a noted Thai academic and economist. Roongrote Benjamasuthin, director of the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce’s aSEaN Business &amp; Economic Center, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/news-analysis-cambodia-viewed-as-best-investment-venue-for-thais/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The 2013 China’s Zhejiang and Cambodia matchmaking symposium was held here on Tuesday to seek opportunities to expand business ties between China and Cambodia. Gong Zheng said the Chinese firms are doing businesses in the fields of agriculture, infrastructure development, construction and real estate, mineral <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-chinese-entrepreneurs-meet-to-seek-business-chances/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Ninety&ndash;nine per cent of Cambodians have a television set in their home, according to data compiled by Indochina Research. “We know everybody watches television,” said General Manager Laurent Notin. “Television is the most trusted media channel for Cambodians.” The saturation of television is only one of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/research-shows-cambodian-entrepreneurship-tendency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 families in Preah Sihanouk province were forcefully removed from their homes yesterday morning by at least 100 armed police officers  who dispersed the crowd by firing shots into the air from aK-47 rifles and spraying villagers with water cannons, accoring to provincial <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/hundreds-of-preah-sihanouk-families-forced-from-homes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has publicly issued lists showing the costs of fees that businesses must pay to authorities for various services, in an effort to help companies avoid making informal payments made illegal by the anticorruption law. The lists were drafted during the past year after Cambodia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/ministry-lists-fees-to-help-firms-avoid-graft-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When tales emerge from the retail supply chain, they’re usually tragic, like the alleged sweatshop conditions at the Foxconn (HKG:2038) plants that churn out apple (NaSDaQ:aaPL) products, or the 112 Bangladeshi workers who died when their factory, where clothes for Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Sears Holdings (NaSDaQ:SHLD), <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/wal-mart-and-hm-pay-200000-to-cambodian-workers-in-historic-settlement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Thailand’s recent announcement of a 20 per cent price cut within the government rice-pledging scheme will have little impact for Cambodian exports, but farmers may feel the effects, say industry insiders. In an article published in the Bangkok Post on June 19, Thailand’s cabinet had agreed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/thai-rice-cuts-pose-problems/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Monks residing in Koh Kong’s remote Areng VAlley hAve begun rAising funds online to renovAte their locAl temple, despite plAns in store for A lArge Chinese bAcked hydropower dAm thAt would leAve the site completely inundAted. The 108-MW hydropower dAm, to be built by <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/fAcing-chinese-dAm-monks-fight-for-temple/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

After the fourth Joint TrAde Commission (JTC) recently, Commerce Minister Boonsong TeriyApirom sAid thAt ThAilAnd And CAmbodiA hAd the potentiAl to drive two-wAy trAde up by 30 per cent, due to strong growth in 2012. LAst yeAr, bilAterAl trAde grew by 40.5 per cent yeAr on <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/thAilAnd-And-cAmbodiA-to-forge-closer-trAde-tAlks/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/firms-timber-trade-decried/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Newly-designated ambassador of China to Cambodia Bu Jianguo on Thursday vowed to help further deepen all rounds of cooperation with Cambodia for the benefits [sic] of the two countries and peoples. Paying a courtesy call on Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, Bu <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/new-chinese-envoy-pledges-to-further-enhance-ties-with-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday clarified that Prime Minister Hun Sen did not express willingness to see international involvement in an independent investigation into election irregularities, after state media incorrectly reported to the contrary. State news service agence Kampuchea Presse (aKP), which operates out of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/akp%e2%80%88corrects-report-on-call-for-international-vote-probe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday inaugurated a rubber processing plant here, saying the factory would contribute to developing the country’s fast-growing rubber sector. The 7 million U.S. dollar plant, invested by Cambodia’s Sopheak Nika Investment agro-Industry Company, was built on the area of 9 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cambodian-pm-inaugurates-rubber-processing-plant-in-far-northern-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>