From 30 August to 02 September 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) continued its work to promote Data Literacy for the Innovations in Social Accountability Project (ISAC). Fifteen members of civil society organizations joined a four-day training held at Diakonia Center.Following ODC’s May Data Literacy training, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/data-literacy-training-a-training-in-august-was-successfully-held-for-civil-society-organizations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is delighted to share our participation in an event organized by the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) project on May 9, 2024, in Battambang province. The event, a Social Accountability Digital Tools exhibition, provided a platform for ODC href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/building-social-accountability-through-digital-tools/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In January 2019, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in partnership with East-West Management Institute (EWMI) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the purpose to strengthen MoEYS’ efforts to become a “clearinghouse for education resources and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/about/partnerships/ministry-of-education-youth-and-sport/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce the 3rd workshop on “GIS Application in Land Management and Education”. This course focuses on two parts. The first part deals with the use of GIS in the land planning and management sector. The second part emphasizes href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/3rd-workshop-gis-application-in-land-management-and-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A company owned by a board member of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce has been accused of illegally destroying more than 80 houses in Kampot province’s Chhouk district, a claim vigorously denied by the firm and local authorities. Chan Pheng, a villager from Chi Bak village href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/destroyed-houses-spark-debate-in-kampot/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Nautisco Seafood Manufacturing, once Cambodia’s premier seafood-processing company, will not undergo government-brokered restructuring after a Cambodian appeals court yesterday declared the company solvent. The ruling was a first test for the law on corporate restructuring and insolvency. The decision sounds positive for the company. But now the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/court-rules-nautisco-solvent/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia vehemently denied that it has supported Japan‘s plan to enhance its military role, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. “The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation wishes to strongly reject the recent publications of Kyodo href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-denies-backing-japans-plan-to-enhance-military-role/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A waterfall has been blasted less than two kilometres from the Cambodian-Lao border, beginning work on another unapproved hydroelectric dam on the Mekong river, environmental group International Rivers claimed yesterday. Pianporn Deetes, the Thailand campaign coordinator for International Rivers, said she had learned of the excavation work, near href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lao-dam-breaks-ground/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia needed to invest in women to aid its development and integration into the ASEAN economic community, United Nations Under Secretary-General Noeleen Heyzer said yesterday. Heyzer, executive secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(ESCAP), met with Minister of Women’s Affairs Ing Kantha href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-invest-in-women/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Workers who have been told they have been sacked for striking at the co-owned Tai Yang and Camwell factories will forget about their seniority bonuses – for now – if they are reinstated, unions and an advocacy group said yesterday. In an attempt to end one href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/strike-may-end-if-deal-holds-union/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Southeast Asia is showing stronger signs of resilience to global turbulence than the rest of Asia as buoyant domestic spending offsets struggling exports, while low debt levels give governments more room than their cash-strapped counterparts in the West to deliver stimulus. On Thursday, the Philippines became href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/southeast-asias-solid-economic-growth-rides-over-global-woes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of government and opposition supporters have hit the streets in Cambodia to drum up last minute support ahead of this Sunday’s election. Election monitors are fanning out across the country to ensure a free and fair vote. Koul Panha, Director of Comfrel Cambodia’s Committee for Free href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-weekend-elections-will-be-the-least-fair-in-history/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Outspoken female MP takes battle to Hun Sen’s ruling party as Cambodia goes to the polls. She is brave, eloquent and defiant in a country where government critics have been detained, imprisoned and sometimes killed for speaking out. Now Mu Sochua, Cambodia‘s leading female opposition MP, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-opposition-power-figure-mu-sochua-relishes-election-fight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The setting is familiar – a garment factory in Kandal province that supplies Levi’s and Gap – and so is the number of people involved, but a strike that has raged at Yung Wah Industrial II factory since Monday has a twist: it’s worker versus worker and union versus href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-skirmish-using-factory-as-battleground/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new study has determined that cost and space are the biggest constraints to setting up canteens in Cambodia’s garment factories. The findings were presented on Monday night at a cocktail party attended by Cambodia’s former ambassador to the US, Roland Eng, the Swedish Ambassador Anne href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/better-worker-food-needed-survey/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with the core members of the ICT4D Cambodia Network, InSTEDD and the East West Management Institute (EWMI) held a half-day ICT4 Social Advocacy Network Meeting, funded by the SPIDER – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions, on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ict4-social-advocacy-meeting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economic productivity is in trouble, struggling with an inability to turn a youthful population into a skilled workforce and stunted by an over-reliance on agriculture, according to a new World Bank report. In Cambodia and Vietnam, diversification of labour from the farming sector contributed to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmings-primacy-hinders/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 15 June 2021, Australia’s Chargé d’Affaires Mr Luke Arnold met H.E. Cham Prasidh, Senior Minister at the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MISTI) to advance bilateral collaboration on access to clean piped water in Cambodia’s provinces. Mr Arnold presented the findings of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/australian-commissioned-analysis-on-expanding-access-to-piped-water-through-public-private-partnerships/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 16 August 2023, His Excellency PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, extended congratulations to Her Excellency Carmen MORENO, departing Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Cambodia, for her exemplary efforts and success in her diplomatic tenure in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-cambodia-eu-applaud-the-remarkable-evolution-of-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...