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, ...
Women targeted at protests, Rapporteur says
The U.N.’s special rapporteur oN freedom of assembly aNd associatioN, MaiNa Kiai, has seNt his third thematic report to the U.N. HumaN Rights CouNcil followiNg trips to various couNtries, iNcludiNg a three-day visit to Cambodia iN February. The report focuses oN groups that Mr. Kiai, a ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/women-targeted-at-protests-rapporteur-says-58735/
Multilingual Education Students had a great time watching and learning from the Digital Educational Resources in Indigenous Languages
After Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) successfully organized a launching workshop on “Digital Educational Resources in Indigenous Languages for Primary School Students” on October 27, 2023, at the Kampong Cham Provincial Department of Education, Youth, and Sport, the ODC team commenced on-site promotional activities on ...
ODC presents at the Bantheay Meanchey BarCamp
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. ...
CNRP Calls for Paris Peace Agreement Signatories to Intervene
CNRP vice presideNt Kem Sokha oN Thursday reNewed the oppositioN party’s calls for the 18 sigNatories of the 1991 Paris Peace AgreemeNt to iNterveNe iN Cambodia, sayiNg that the more thaN two-decades-old agreemeNt had still Not beeN properly implemeNted. The oppositioN has aNNouNced that October 23—the ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-calls-for-paris-peace-agreement-signatories-to-intervene-44432/
Associations
[[“Actors”,”Expertise/purposes”,”Website”,”Facebook”],[“Federation of Associations for Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FASMEC)“,”FASMEC is a nonprofit organization working to enhance SMEs’ promotion and development, and lobbying for a good business environment. FASMEC provides representation and protection of SME-related rights assured by Cambodian law. “,””,”Link“],[“Cambodia Chamber of ...
Avian flu outbreak in Kampot confirmed
The first outbreak of H5N1 this year was coNfirmed iN Kampot proviNce oN May 10, health officials said yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/avian-flu-outbreak-kampot-confirmed
Peacekeeper dies from malaria in Mali
A Cambodian soldier serving as a U.n. peacekeeper in the West African nation of Mali died on Monday after contracting malaria, an official said Tuesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/peacekeeper-dies-from-malaria-in-mali-94335/
More montagnards arrive in Phnom Penh
Eleven more Montagnard asylum seekers arrived in Phnom Penh this week, bringing to 85 the number waiting to apply for refugee status, the U.n. said Tuesday. ...
Chris Mueller and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-montagnards-arrive-in-phnom-penh-84895/
Cambodia reports 17th human case of bird flu this year
A six-year-old boy from Cambodia’s southern Kandal Province has been confirmed for the H5n1 virus, bringing the number of the cases to 17 so far this year, a joint statement by the World Health Organization and Cambodian Health Ministry said Wednesday. “The boy has now ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2013-08/21/c_132651265.htm
Ministry warns against spread of swine flu
The Ministry of Health has appealed to the public to protect itself from the H1n1 swine flu virus in a video posted on Facebook yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21784/ministry-warns-against-spread-of-swine-flu/
Forest cover
Cambodian forest cover has reduced dramatically in recent decades. In 1973 there were 13.1 million hectares of total forest, but by 2014 the total cover had fallen to 8.7 million hectares. ...
UN Report Says Law Marginalizes Sex Workers
Police targeting of sex workers for arrest has made them vulnerable to contracting or spreading HIV, according to a U.n. report released yesterday. The U.n. report, Sex Work and Law in Asia and the Pacific-Laws, HIV and human rights in the context of sex work, states that ...
Huge drop in rate of open defecation, report says
The open defecation rate in Cambodia has dropped by 42 percent since 1990, according to a new U.n. report, but the country’s urban poor still have limited access to improved sanitation. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/huge-drop-in-rate-of-open-defecation-report-says-87094/
Hun Sen thanks UN for maps; opposition CNRP not satisfied
Prime Minister Hun Sen thanked the U.n. on Sunday for providing maps that he said prove that the government had upheld the law in its work demarcating the country’s border with Vietnam. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-thanks-un-for-maps-opposition-cnrp-not-satisfied-92386/
In Cambodia, Cyber Casinos Fall Into a Legal Gray Area
In 2010, the Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort, a casino investment on Kampot province’s border with Vietnam that included luxury karaoke rooms and suites, launched with high hopes of attracting Vietnamese gamblers. At the end of December, Ha Tien Vegas closed down. To the north, in ...
UN expert urges senate to reject NGO law
U.N. humaN rights expert MaiNa Kiai oN Thursday urged Cambodia’s SeNate Not to pass a coNtroversial NGO law that the NatioNal Assembly approved this week, warNiNg that the legislatioN could have “disastrous” effects. ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-expert-urges-senate-to-reject-ngo-law-88701/
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a new dataset on “Reclassifying natural protected areas in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a new dataset on “Reclassifying natural protected areas in Cambodia.” This dataset collected data on the expansion of protected areas in Cambodia taken from government Sub-decrees. The coordinate system, WGS 84, Zone 48n, is used to determine this geographical data, ...
National Election Committee Dismisses Criticism of Reform
At the ceremony yesterday making the official start of the national Election Committee’s new mandate, nEC chairman Im Suosdey criticized the U.n. human rights envoy to Cambodia for taking an exceedingly harsh view of the country’s much derided electoral system. In a July report to the ...
UN Confirms Logging in Carbon Trading Zone
The U.N. has said it is coNcerNed about deforestatioN iN Oddar MeaNchey proviNce iN aN area where it has lauNched a carboN tradiNg scheme aNd coNfirmed that it is workiNg with the goverNmeNt iN order to “rectify the situatioN.” IN aN email oN Friday, the ...
Kuch Naren and Abby Seiff, P. 1