On​ 27​ October​ 2023,​ the​ Minister​ of​ Foreign​ Affairs​ and​ InternatiOnal​ CooperatiOn​ of​ the​ Kingdom​ of​ Cambodia​ received​ a​ courteous​ call​ from​ the Deputy​ Minister​ of​ Foreign​ Affairs​ of​ the​ Socialist​ Republic​ of​ Vietnam.​ H.E.​ Minister​ warmly​ welcomed​ the​ Vietnamese​ delegatiOn​ and​ expressed​ his​ cOngratulatiOns​ ...

Mr. Norbert KLEIN, also one of ODC’s original advisory board members, is a patriarch of the Internet community in Cambodia, having been instrumental in setting up Cambodia’s Internet system in the 1990s. Norbert was also a founder and long-term head of the Internet Society of ...

Some 1.8 billion Khmer riel and US dollar digital transactions valued at $492 billion were recorded in 2023, which rose over 600 million from 1.1 billion transactions in 2022, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) said on March 29. This significant increase, an economist opined, ...

Senior official of Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) said on 16 January 2024 that as the host of Ottawa Conventionin 2024, Cambodia is ready to welcome delegates from 164 country and other international institutes in November at Siem Reap province. ...

Cambodia is actively working to establish the Cambodia-Japan Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to attract more Japanese investment, given its current status as a key trade and investment partner, according to a press release from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). CDC first vice-president ...

In the age of digitalisation, banks play a crucial role in safeguarding the money and information of both people and businesses. However, as Cambodia embraces this digital revolution, the Kingdom also makes itself vulnerable to the constant danger of cyberattacks and breaches, putting financial data ...

The EU Ambassador to Cambodia, Carmen Moreno, shook hands with Prime Minister Hun Sen at Peace Palace on December 2, 2019. Photo from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page.European Union (EU) has been one of Cambodia’s biggest trading partners and a major development partner since ...

Cambodia’s strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen has confirmed his impoverished country will accept refugees from Australia in a controversial agreement condemned by human rights and refugee advocates. In his first public comments on the agreement, Mr Hun Sen said Cambodia will be “heart-felt and generous towards ...

Many Cambodian women arrive in South Korea or China for marriage, only to find themselves being chosen as mistresses, say labour rights activists. While young Cambodian men, who travel to Thailand to work on fishing boats, often fall prey to drug abuse. Loss of land, debt, ...

The Cambodian government expects U.S. oil major Chevron Corp. CVX +0.77% to begin developing the country’s first offshore oil field early next year, and hopes the nation will become a regional hot spot for oil and gas investment, a government official said Wednesday. Cambodia has vast untapped oil and gas resources ...

On 30 August 2021, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release On His Excellency Sok Chenda Sophea, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, and His Excellency Masahiro Mikami, Ambassador Extraordinary and ...

Senior Data Research & GIS Officer /Capacity Building Coordinator Pisith works as a Senior Data Research & GIS Officer /Capacity Building Coordinator at Open Development Cambodia (ODC). He satisfactorily completed Engineering’s Degree of Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Engineering (GGE) from the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) ...

Managing EditorVENG Seang Hai has joined Open Development Cambodia (ODC) since 2023 in the role of Managing Editor, providing both operational and technical assistance to the Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief and to the ODC team as a whole. He works closely together with ODC’s Editors team to ...

The third ring road has been named “Xi Jinping Boulevard”, 60 years after a major thoroughfare in Phnom Penh was named Mao Tse-Tung Boulevard by King Norodom Sihanouk in honor of the iconic Chinese leader. ...

Social Development Editor – ResearcherChanphalla is a Social Development Editor – Researcher of Open Development Cambodia. His main responsibilities are daily news summary, conducting research, producing social development related contents, translating, editing and other reporting tasks.Chanphalla is an International Relations (IR) graduate of Institute of ...

The Kingdom of Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy. The king is the head of state for his lifetime but does not govern. ...

Patients are registered during the outreach screening at Vien Health Center. Photo by Community Eye Health, taken in 2006. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0The Kingdom of Cambodia is an indivisible state.  The country’s administration at all levels and in all sectors falls under the same ...

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 ...

Although International Human Rights Day ended in the forceful eviction of protesters from outside the US embassy last night, monks and their supporters who spent days marching to the capital met with no opposition in the morning as they defied a ban on marching to ...

In order to reduce and contain the transmission of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and in line with the measures taken by ASEAN countries, the Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to impose, in addition to the recent travel measures of the Ministry of Health of ...