Micro-insurance needs revamp: UN
The UN urged government and financial organisations to stimulate Cambodia’s flailing micro-insurance industry yesterday, after a study found the country’s poor are vulnerable to indebtedness during a crisis. The United Nations Development Business (UNDB) hosted a working group yesterday at Phnom Penh’s Sunway Hotel launching the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/micro-insurance-needs-revamp-un/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/micro-insurance-needs-revamp-un
(English) Obfuscation reigns over ban on demonstration
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Kuch Naren and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/obfuscation-reigns-over-ban-on-demonstration-53621/
(English) Uneasy calm in Bavet as factories ordered shut
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Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uneasy-calm-in-bavet-as-factories-ordered-shut-57723/
(English) Flying squirrel and eyeless spider discovered in Greater Mekong
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Damian Carrington
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/flying-squirrel-and-eyeless-spider-discovered-in-greater-mekong?CMP=fb_gu
(English) Community Marks Fifth Anniversary of Violent Eviction
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Khuon Narim and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/community-marks-fifth-anniversary-of-violent-eviction-51017/
(English) Slight change of plans
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Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/slight-change-plans
Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup #17 - Photos and Presentations
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City poised for shopping mall boom
After spending $30 on clothes, ChAn PheAvy sAt down for lunch in the food court of SoryA MAll, plunking her shopping bAgs on the floor beside her. “It is very comfortAble to do shopping here,” PheAvy, 25, who works for A commerciAl bAnk in Phnom <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/city-poised-for-shopping-mAll-boom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/city-poised-shopping-mall-boom
CNRP Pray-In Gets Backing From Opposition Supporters
Opposition supporters have had varying reactions to the CNRP’s announcement Monday that a mass demonstration planned for this weekend would be framed as a day of prayer rather than protest, but said they would still turn out. and while the CNRP’s efforts to explain their decision, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/cnrp-pray-in-gets-backing-from-opposition-supporters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phorn Bopha and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-pray-in-gets-backing-from-opposition-supporters-41613/
Illegal Construction Rampant in Angkor Heritage Site
In the months leading up to Cambodia’s national election on July 28, authorities in the angkor archaeological Park allowed dozens of land owners to build new houses and develop plots of land inside highly protected areas of the world heritage site. Villagers interviewed last week said <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/illegal-construction-rampant-in-angkor-heritage-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Phorn Bopha and Simon Marks
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/illegal-construction-rampant-in-angkor-heritage-site-42860/
Challenging business for startups
The World Bank recently ranked Cambodia 184th out of 189 countries for ease of starting a business, but you wouldn’t have known it at Phnom Penh’s recent Startup Weekend. Pitches for Cambodia’s first commercial organic chicken farm and for an app to connect tuk-tuk drivers to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/challenging-business-for-startups/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Justine Drennan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/challenging-business-startups
Rainsy Amasses Support Ahead of Monday’s Rally
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Friday visited vendors in Phnom Penh’s Olympic and Russian markets and appealed to voters disgruntled by preliminary election results awarding a victory to the CPP to join a planned opposition rally at Freedom Park on Monday. as he toured both markets, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/rainsy-amasses-support-ahead-of-mondays-rally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/rainsy-amasses-support-ahead-of-mondays-rally-40743/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rainsy-amasses-support-ahead-of-mondays-rally
Opposition Lays Out Reform Demands at ‘People’s Congress’
Amidst An opposition boycott of the NAtionAl Assembly, CNRP leAders on SundAy Announced to About 10,000 supporters gAthered in Phnom Penh their tentAtive plAns to push the one-pArty CPP government to investigAte irregulArities in the July election And enAct A broAd slAte of reforms. As pAtchy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/km/news/opposition-lAys-out-reform-demAnds-At-peoples-congress/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/opposition-lays-out-reform-demands-at-peoples-congress-44450/
BHP Billiton Faces Bribery Charges After Abandoned Project
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the country’s financial regulator have informed australia-based mining giant BHP Billiton it could still be charged over allegations the company bribed overseas officials, which include claims of improper payments to members of the Cambodian government. Prime Minister Hun Sen <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/bhp%e2%80%88billiton-faces-bribery-charges-after-abandoned-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
UN Envoy Subedi Shares Concerns Over Post-Vote Violence
The U.N. human rights envoy to Cambodia, Surya Subedi, on Tuesday presented a report to the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva and expressed his grave concern about post-election violence and the failure of the government and National Election Committee to properly investigate widespread electoral <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/un-envoy-subedi-shares-concerns-over-post-vote-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/un-envoy-subedi-shares-concerns-over-post-vote-violence-43145/
(English) CNRP tries to balance foreign powers
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Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-tries-to-balance-foreign-powers-57074/
Prisoners 'utilised' in violent eviction
Twenty convicts in Preah Sihanouk Provincial Prison were employed by military and local authorities to tear apart a nearby village on land slated for a second prison compound, villagers and rights groups alleged yesterday. However, prison authorities denied that any incarcerated people were involved in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/prisoners-utilised-in-violent-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062557001/National-news/prisoners-in-eviction.html
Laos hydro dam upsets Mekong River neighbors
Laos began construction last week on a multi-billion dollar hydro dam project that is opposed by other countries along the Mekong River, and activists who say the project will significantly impact the environment and the economies of four countries that rely on the river for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/km/news/laos-hydro-dam-upsets-mekong-river-neighbors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>