Press release on the outcome of the plenary session of the council of ministers
On 23 October 2023, the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia issued a press release on the ASEAN authorized economic operators mutual recognition arrangement (AAMRA) after the Customs Administration of the ASEAN Member States signed on 19 September 2023.AAMRA is an unbounded agreement href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-outcome-of-the-plenary-session-of-the-council-of-ministers-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia
GIS Workshop: Fundamentals of QGIS
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce a Geographic Information System (GIS) Workshop: Fundamentals of QGIS of the three series workshops each of which takes three days. This series workshop aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on geographic information system and using open-source GIS href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/gis-workshop-fundamentals-of-qgis-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia
Accused secessionist in Kratie to meet with the press
The man police allege was behind a so-called secession plan in Kratie province – an accusation used to justify a crackdown in which a teenager was killed last week – plans to hold a press conference to defend himself in the next two days, his href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/accused-secessionist-in-kratie-to-meet-with-the-press/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Tech start-up pitches sought
A group of Phnom Penh-based high-tech professionals are putting on the second annual Startup Weekend Cambodia from June 22 to 24 at Yellow Tower, across the Tonle Sap from the Riverside. Darren Jensen of Yoolk, a software company that builds content, sales and HR management systems href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tech-start-up-pitches-sought/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061156712/Business/tech-start-up-pitches-sought.html
Background
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is an ‘open data’ website, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The open data movement is based on the simple premise that data collected for public interest should be publicly available without restrictions. Information or data in the public href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/about/background/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Record Bad Medicine Haul
Police seized more than two tonnes of dangerous counterfeit medication on Saturday and arrested a Phnom Penh pharmacy owner in a sting officials say has netted the largest-ever haul of illegal medication in Cambodia. After nine days of surveillance, the Ministry of Interior’s Economic Police unit swooped href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/record-bad-medicine-haul/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Opportunities, challenges for ASEAN
Cambodia will face both challenges and opportunities when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) combines its 10 countries into a single market for economic development, a move intended for 2015, officials said during a round-table discussion yesterday. Sok Siphanna, an adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opportunities-challenges-for-asean/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Co-design workshop to strengthen ODC’s accessibility
As a part of its strategy to strengthen tools for sharing information about social accountability (for the Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia Project), Internews facilitated a Co-Design Workshop with Open Development Cambodia to improve its webpage on “Access to Public Service Information” in May.All href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/co-design-workshop-to-strengthen-odcs-accessibility/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia's rice output forecast to be similar to last year
Cambodia’s production of paddy rice is forecast at about 9.3 million tonnes this year, unchanged from last year’s estimate but up from 8.8 million tonnes in 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Thursday. In its latest quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation report, the UN href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-output-forecast-to-be-similar-to-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZmYxZmI5NTFjZWM
Resounding call to release human rights defender Koet Saray charged for incitement in Preah Vihear
About 50 civil society groups and unions called for the release of human rights activist Koet Saray, president of Khmer Student Intelligent League Association (KSILA), who has been placed in pre-trial detention. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/resounding-call-to-release-human-rights-defender-koet-saray-charged-for-incitement-in-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prisoners-utilised-in-violent-eviction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062557001/National-news/prisoners-in-eviction.html
Using ICT and Maps in promoting STEM Education for the public high school in Cambodia
The project Cambodian Civil Society Strengthening (CCSS), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the East-West Management Institute (EWMI), has been implemented by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, Youth href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/using-ict-and-maps-in-promoting-stem-education-for-the-public-high-school-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
GIS workshop: fundamentals of QGIS
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce a Geographic Information System (GIS) Workshop: Fundamentals of QGIS of the three workshops each of which takes three days. This workshop series aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on geographic information system and using open-source GIS platform href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/gis-workshop-fundamentals-of-qgis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia
National open data conference 2024: Open government data for inclusive development
The Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) and The Asia Foundation are partnering to organize the first "National Open Data Conference 2024: Open Government Data for Inclusive Development" on the 26th and 27th of March 2024, at the CADT Innovation Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/national-open-data-conference-2024-open-government-data-for-inclusive-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Anti-loggers held back by FA officials
Forestry Administration officials reportedly blocked vehicles in three provinces from travelling to Koh Kong town yesterday on their way to the site where prominent environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot last month. But hundreds of others from six provinces in a convoy of 27 vans made it href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-loggers-held-back-by-fa-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Asean declaration allows Cambodia to flout human rights, warn campaigners
Human rights groups in Cambodia fear a new south-east Asian declaration of human rights could conversely offer the government in Phnom Penh a figleaf to clamp down on dissent. Cambodia signed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) human rights declaration on Sunday, two days href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-declaration-allows-cambodia-to-flout-human-rights-warn-campaigners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mini-grants for bachelor research support opportunity
In building research capacity for students and supporting their thesis writing and under the collaboration between Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and Department of Natural Resource Management and Development (NRMD) of the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Open Development Cambodia will provide financial support for students href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/mini-grants-for-bachelor-research-support-opportunity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia
Kingdom shows narrow but strong FDI growth
Foreign direct investment flows continued to see strong growth across the 10-member ASEAN bloc in 2014, with most countries in the Lower Mekong region reporting higher levels of inflows given their rising infrastructure needs and manufacturing activities, according to a new report jointly produced by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-shows-narrow-but-strong-fdi-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-shows-narrow-strong-fdi-growth
Basic of GIS and QGIS training 2023
Training workshop on the basics of Geography Information System (GIS) and the use of QGIS (Quantum Geographic Information System) was announced on the Open Development Cambodia (ODC)’s platform and social media on 13th July 2023 to call for the participants to attend the workshop on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/basic-of-gis-and-qgis-training-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Study: Impacts of ELCs on the forest and livelihoods & SCW's action
On 06 April 2017, Save Cambodia’s Wildlife (SCW) has released a press release on its website about “Study: Impacts of ELCs on the forest and livelihoods & SCW’s action”. In the end of 2016, SCW in cooperation with lecturers from the Royal University of Phnom href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/study-impacts-of-elcs-on-the-forest-and-livelihoods-scws-action/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Save Cambodia's Wildlife