After Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP) candidates for the upcoming commune elections took their seats inside the leafy grounds of the party headquarters in Phnom Penh for a pre-election congress on Thursday, they rose to their feet and bowed their heads in remembrance of their founding ...

The Preah Vihear Provincial Agriculture Department on Monday ordered its staff to help farmers by buying up invasive golden apple snails that are currently destroying their rice fields, according to the head of the department. ...

On 08 August 2017, the Phnom Penh Capital Hall issued a guideline for managing public order On the streets as a key factor to deal with traffic issues, promote natiOnal hOnors, and reduce street anarchism. The Capital Hall decided to select 11 main roads as a model priority ...

On 12 September 2017, the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) adjusted the calculatiOn to the previous formula and is reimbursing the repayment to the customer in two optiOns as follows:OptiOn 1: Customers can come and receive the cash directly at any of PPWSA’s counter during ...

Cambodia and Bangladesh have finalised terms on a massive rice deal that could see up to 1 million tonnes of rice purchased from the Kingdom over the next five years, with the first shipment due to begin by November, a source close to the deal ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Civil Society” under Social development in both Khmer and English.=>Please click here to get into Civil Society page. ...

Tbong Khmum provincial officials have announced a crackdown on illegal checkpoints along the Vietnamese border, possibly in response to a purported warning issued by Prime Minister Hun Sen to provincial Governor Ly Leng to monitor the transport of timber in the province. Local media reports contend ...

On 20 February 2018, the Office of the United NatiOns High CommissiOner for Human Rights in Geneva has posted a news release to express the grave cOncern of their experts regarding the proposed changes to Cambodia’s COnstitutiOn which impose far-reaching limits On democracy a head ...

Brick prices in Cambodia have risen sharply in the last year, a trend that has accelerated over the first two months of this year due to growing demand from the rapidly developing coastal town of Sihanoukville. The price of 10,000 bricks hovered around $180 early ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Civil status” under Access to public services in both Khmer and English including: Birth record and certificate, Marriage record and certificate, and Death record and certificate. =>Please click here to get in to Civil status page. ...

Dozens of Laotian soldiers started building a post on a disputed tract of land along the border on Thursday, breaking a deal made just a day earlier between Laos and Cambodia to withdraw forces until after the Khmer New Year. ...

At the Peace Palace on 20 July 2017,  Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia,​ Hun Sen, met with Mr. Nguyen Huu Dung, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Both parties have discussed on a number of issues, including the South China Sea.After ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has updated profile page on “Public transportation” under Access to public services by adding public bus lines to 10 lines. Together with the information in both Khmer and English of bus lines, operating hour, bus stop, and map.=>Please click here to get ...

An ambitous 10-year plan to boost the country’s industrial development is “90 percent” on track and has earned the approval of Prime Minister Hun Sen, government representatives said yesterday.​ ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng announced yesterday that he would introduce an amendment to the Constitution banning individuals from doing “anything to impact the national interests” of Cambodia, singling out ex-opposition figure Kem Monovithya as an example. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on monks to join hands in educating people to respect traffic laws and avoid drug use in order to reduce traffic deaths and drug problems. During a building inauguration at Chey Mongkul pagoda in Kampong Cham province, Mr Hun Sen ...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy announced that 88 percent of villages nationwide will be electrified by the end of the year, setting the government on its way to achieve its goal of connecting every village in the country to the national grid by 2020. ...

About 600 garment factory workers continued their strike in Phnom Penh yesterday, setting car tires alight to protest what they said were unfair salary cuts but factory representatives and labor officials described as a normal tax on income. “The factory told us that they cut our ...

More than 20 garment workers were injured yesterday in Svay Rieng province when a truck in which they were traveling overturned, a police official said. Fifty-seven workers were on board an open-backed truck in Chantrea district when the driver lost control on a road that had ...

The amount of cargo entering Cambodia through the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port increased 14.92 percent over the first 10 months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, a port official said yesterday. “We are seeing that the major imports are construction equipment ...