Software licenses debated
Open source software is an important way forward and a useful impetus for development in Cambodia, according to attendees of the Kingdom’s first software conference this weekend. The conference, which centred on TYPO3, an open source content management system (CMS), was held this past weekend href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/software-licenses-debated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Companies lag on listing rules
Adding its name to a rapidly growing list of private companies, Tonlesap Airlines is gearing up for an initial public offering on the Cambodia Securities Exchange. And like many of these companies, the listing is still years off as Tonlesap prepares the tax and financial information href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/companies-lag-on-listing-rules/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012083058376/Business/companies-lag-on-listing-rules.html
Chinese bank loans seek to aid rice millers
China’s Export-Import Bank officials proposed to provide loans of up to US$70 million for rice milling in an effort to aid Cambodia’s efforts to export a million tonnes of rice by 2015, government officials said yesterday. The bank’s officials visited Cambodia last week to met with Cambodian href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-bank-loans-seek-to-aid-rice-millers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Data Literacy Training: A training in September was successfully held for Civil Society Organizations
From September 13 to September 16, 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) continued its ongoing promotion of Data Literacy for the Innovations in Social Accountability project (ISAC). Fourteen members of civil society organizations working on social accountability joined the training, which was held at Phnom Penh’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/data-literacy-training-a-training-in-september-was-successfully-held-for-civil-society-organizations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
ODC hosted a training program on “Data Literacy for Journalists” for Cambodian journalists
Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with Internews, organized a training program on “Data Literacy for Journalists” that brought together 11 journalists, of whom 2 are female, from Cambodia’s capital and provinces. The training program is part of the Innovation for Social Accountability (ISAC) project href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-hosted-a-training-program-on-data-literacy-for-journalists-for-cambodian-journalists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Statement: Suspend development projects destroying the Tompoun/Cheung Ek wetlands
On 27 July 2020, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), Equitable Cambodia (EC) and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) jointly issued a report revealing human rights abuses and environmental devastation as private developments threaten to flood href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/statement-suspend-development-projects-destroying-the-tompoun-cheung-ek-wetlands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
Domestic revenue is an increasingly important source of development financing in Cambodia, says a new report
On 16 July 2021, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) issued a press release on launching a report estimating the financing available for the country’s development through to 2025, entitled “Cambodia’s Development Finance Assessment (DFA).”This report analyze the compositions and trends of all Cambodia’s financial inflows, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/domestic-revenue-is-an-increasingly-important-source-of-development-financing-in-cambodia-says-a-new-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
UN Development Programme
Press release: Cambodia continues to pursue an independent rule-based foreign policy that upholds its core interests, guarantees sovereignty and peace and boosts economic ties
On 1 February 2023, at the meeting of the Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia on “Cambodia’s Foreign Policy in the New Context of World Order” at the National Assembly, His Excellency PRAK href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-cambodia-continues-to-pursue-an-independent-rule-based-foreign-policy-that-upholds-its-core-interests-guarantees-sovereignty-and-peace-and-boosts-economic-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Announcement Workshop on Cambodia's digital economy and business web portal
On October 20 2022, Techo Startup Center has posted an announcement workshop on Cambodia’s digital economy and business web portal on their official social media site. The primary purpose of the workshop is to disseminate to the public and private sectors information related to essential web href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-workshop-on-cambodias-digital-economy-and-business-web-portal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Techo Startup Center
Call for national researchers for the Global Data Barometer – Asia Region
Open Data for Development Asia Hub (D4DAsia) is currently seeking independent, country-level researchers (individual or institution) for the following 14 countries:Indonesia; Philippines; Singapore; Cambodia; Lao PDR; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; Sri Lanka; India; Nepal; Bangladesh; Taiwan; and Japan.Selected researchers will act as national researchers for the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/call-for-national-researchers-for-the-global-data-barometer-asia-region/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian worker alleges Thai police of humiliating treatment, abuse
A Cambodian migrant worker has alleged that he and dozens of fellow migrants were arrested, beaten, stripped naked and shaved bald by Thai police, who then extorted money from them just because they did not have the correct location on their working visas. The allegation is href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-worker-alleges-thai-police-of-humiliating-treatment-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia Home to Frenchman in Bo Xilai Drama
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Throughout the drama this spring revolving around the dismissal of the ambitious Chinese official Bo Xilai and the investigation of his wife as a murder suspect, the most mysterious figure has been a French architect named Patrick Henri Devillers. When Mr. Bo href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-home-to-frenchman-in-bo-xilai-drama/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Women slow to climb Cambodia's market
Women’s economic roles in Cambodia have made slower progress than in many other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, World Bank economists said yesterday. The region as a whole has seen tremendous gains in the way of gender equality during the past 20 years, but increasing wages href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/women-slow-to-climb-cambodias-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061956865/Business/women-not-on-top-in-market.html
Bangladesh, Cambodia seek new areas of cooperation
Bangladesh and Cambodia have decided to set up a “joint commission” to promote bilateral ties as the two countries eye to deepen cooperation for regional peace, stability and prosperity. According to a joint statement issued after the talks between the two prime ministers in Dhaka on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bangladesh-cambodia-seek-new-areas-of-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
bdnews24.com
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/06/18/bangladesh-cambodia-seek-new-areas-of-cooperation
Trading volume drops on new Cambodia Securities Exchange
The Cambodia Securities Exchange has seen a sharp decrease in action this week, with trading volume yesterday falling to 3,453 shares, down nearly 100 per cent from Monday. Despite the drop, which was accompanied by a strong shift from institutional to retail investors, experts have stressed the time href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trading-volume-drops-on-new-cambodia-securities-exchange/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012042755811/Business/trading-volume-drops-on-new-csx.html
Climate Change Poses Major Threat to Cambodia’s Rural Poor
The Cambodian economy faces major problems for its predominantly rural population in the event of more erratic climate shifts, according to the United Nations Development Programme’s 2011 Cambodian Human Development Report. “This is an agrarian economy that depends very much on weather. And we are among the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/climate-change-poses-major-threat-to-cambodias-rural-poor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
FFI Data Literacy Training was a success
On 06th-08th April 2022, in collaboration with Fauna & Flora International (FFI), Open Development Cambodia (ODC) successfully conducted basic Data Literacy Training at Poulo wai Hotel with the financial support of the Blue Action Fund under the project “Strengthening Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), fisheries governance href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ffi-data-literacy-training-was-a-success/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The launching event of the improving the delivery of public services through ICT project
In morning of 28 July 2017, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) cooperated with STAR Kampuchea (SK) and Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM), organized a launching event on project of "Improving the Delivery of Public Service through ICT " to target stakeholders at Romeas Haek district, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/the-launching-event-of-the-improving-the-delivery-of-public-services-through-ict-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Prayuters Library opening in Preah Vihear
On Saturday, September 16th, 2023, Open Development Cambodia Organization’s Open Development Library Initiative formally launched Prayuters Library in Preah Vihear province. Located in Hmor Seth Village, the Library is the culmination of five years of fundraising and planning and aims to promote reading, digital connectivity, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/prayuters-library-opening-in-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
CCHR releases a briefing note on business and human rights entitled "Preventing, Mitigating and Remedying Land-Related Rights Violations in the Kingdom of Cambodia"
On 20 December 2018, The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) released a briefing note on business and human rights entitled “Preventing, Mitigating and Remedying Land-Related Rights Violations in the Kingdom of Cambodia” on its website in both Khmer and English versions. As part of its business and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cchr-releases-a-briefing-note-on-business-and-human-rights-entitled-preventing-mitigating-and-remedying-land-related-rights-violations-in-the-kingdom-of-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
