A man apprehended by participants at a rally in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on sunday after he was spotted carrying a concealed pistol, signed himself into Calmette Hospital by listing his occupation as “samdech Bodyguard,” in apparent reference to one of the three leaders of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The privately-operated International Ship RegiStry of Cambodia (ISROC), a South Korea-baSed company that ownS the rightS to regiSter foreign veSSelS under the Cambodian flag, told Ship ownerS laSt year that it waS not monitoring their obServance of international maritime lawS, and that it waS their SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy is expected to maintain the robust growth of over 7 percent this year even though the country is still trapped in political dispute and recovering from the aftermath of recent floods, senior officials and bankers said. But some analysts predicted that political trouble, coupled ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since her huSband waS arreSted in June and thrown in provincial priSon to await trial, Soam Chantha, 32, haS given birth to a baby boy. At the Same time the men have been locked up, police have failed to arreSt former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith, SS='cambodia-color'>...

An increasing number of Cambodians see themselves faring worse, a Gallup polls suggests. In a global survey released earlier this month, the Us-based firm ranked Cambodia near the very bottom in terms of life satisfaction, and it found that 34 percent of surveyed Cambodians consider themselves ss='cambodia-color'>...

SA&rSquo;ANG DISTRICT, Kandal province &ndaSh; A little over a month after SupporterS of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen forced the cancellation of an oppoSition party rally here, CNRP leaderS Sam RainSy and Kem Sokha returned to addreSS followerS and promiSe that the change that Swept away SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced three men of six suspects to prison terms for their role in the september 15 clashes on Monivong Bridge between police and stone throwing youths, during which a man was killed and several were wounded by police ss='cambodia-color'>...

Recent arrests by Thai authorities of groups of suspected Uighur refugees along the Cambodian border have experts convinced that Cambodia has once again become a transit hub for members of the minority group fleeing religious and political persecution in China. Last week, 14 Uighurs were reportedly ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 09 June 2020, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a joint press announcement on the signing on Cambodia-Germany Technical Cooperation Agreement 2019. The signed Agreement on Technical Cooperation provided a total amount of 13.5 million EUR, equivalent to 14.6 million UsD, in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has updated the dataset and map layer of Community protected areas (2006-2019) in Cambodia​ by adding another 13 community protected areas in both Khmer and English. You can find the dataset in various format such as sHP, KML, GeoJsON, CsV and JPEG.=> ss='cambodia-color'>...

The minimum wage for workers in Cambodia’s billion-dollar garment sector will rise to $200 a month next year, a $6 raise that unions said was insufficient while employers raised concerns about profits and regional competitiveness. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education, Youth, and sport has initiated a campaign to elevate the standard of model schools by implementing digital education for students in selected secondary schools in Phnom Penh. The initiative aims to enhance student achievement and is set to expand across the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rural energy cooperative in Cambodia. Photo by Nomade Moderne, taken on 23 March 2006. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The electricity distributed in Cambodia is partly generated within the country and partly imported. For many years, local generation was on a relatively small scale, and was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Participants are having group photo ​after the presentation.On May 25-26, 2018 the ODC team joined the Banteay Meanchey BarCamp. Being the second BarCamp conference organised in 2018, and the first time the event was taken place at the Meanchey University of the Banteay Meanchey province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly all of the ministries were established in 1995. A few ministries were only recently created in the post-2013 national election by a separation of one ministry into two. There are 28 government ministries and secretariats, and many national bodies. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Children in Moung district, Battambang province, wash their hands with soap and water. Photo by WorldFish Cambodia, taken on 08 November 2018. Licensed under (CC BY-ND 2.0).Recognized as a global crisis, the United Nations has included water and sanitation in sustainable Development Goal 6, ensuring ss='cambodia-color'>...

SDG 9 focuSeS on the development of SuStainable and reSilient infraStructure and induStrieS, including Small-Scale enterpriSeS. It encourageS Scientific reSearch and the upgrade of the technological capabilitieS of induStrieS. AcceSS to information and communicationS technology and affordable Internet acceSS are included. The goal haS 5 SS='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia in collaboration with the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) hosted a two-day training workshop in siem Reap. On 28 February and 1 March, 16 citizen journalists from across the country learned to write stories covering public services in their communities. ODC ss='cambodia-color'>...

Under Cambodia’s Constitution, all Khmer citizens have equal status before the law, regardless of wealth or station.174 This promotes a political principle called the rule of law,175 an ideal that all members of a society, both the people and the state, are held equally accountable ss='cambodia-color'>...