Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 3 new map features in Koh Kong and Preah Sihnouk province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-odc-updated-an-existing-dataset-on-state-land-reclassification-5/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) seeks to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”.1 The goal encompasses a wide range of mortality rates, infection numbers for many diseases, tobacco use, suicide rates, road deaths, and access to essential health services <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg-3-good-health-and-well-being/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) together with the ICT4D Cambodia Network are the local partners in Cambodia to implement the aSEaN Digital Innovation Program, which is supported by the aSEaN Foundation and the Microsoft. We are delighted to be organizing the Training of the Trainers (TOT) <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/training-of-the-trainers-tot-on-digital-skills-and-computer-science/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Bauxite reserves in Mondolkiri province abandoned by australian mining form BHP Billiton in 2009 are now being explored by China’s Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Holding Group, the same firm that is behind the controversial development of Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh. Kong Pisith, director of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/b-kak-firm-seeks-bauxite-in-mondolkiri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Foreign AffAirs Ministry met with to non-governmentAl groups yesterdAy And Accused them of inciting fAmilies to oppose the rehAbilitAtion of the CAmbodiAn rAil system, ordering the  NGOs to “reAdjust” their workForeign AffAirs spokesmAn Koy Kuong sAid his ministry invited Bridges Across Borders CAmbodiA And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/foreign-ministry-tells-ngos-to-reAdjust-their-Actions/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Ruling party Senator Ly Yong Phat has kept a promise to stop his company’s dredging operations on Koh Kong province’s Tatai river, relieved business owners and residents living along the waterway said yesterday. But provincial officials confirmed that as the senator’s dredging boats moved on to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dredging-ends-effects-linger/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia could borrow US$1.1 billion from other countries in 2012, 75 per cent more than this year, to help repair infrastructure damaged in flooding and support efforts to increase rice exports to one million tonnes by 2015, a senior official said yesterday. Cheam Yeap, chairman of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fund-raising-kingdom-may-borrow-more-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 3,000 factory workers protested yesterday at the Manhattan Quing Dao Textiles Corp in Kompong Cham Province’s Kompong Siem District to demand that the factory owner abide by an arbitration Council Ruling issued in late 2010, a union representative said yesterday. The factory web site <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-protest-at-factory-linked-to-manhattan-sez/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Inflation in Cambodia rose 5.8 per cent year-on-year in January, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics. Rising fuel costs had spurred the inflation, which was felt largely in the price of food, officials said. Data showed food and non-alcoholic beverage prices in January increased <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-inflation-rises-on-oil-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The potential for investment in Cambodia certainly appears to be there, as the country’s location in Indochina affords much opportunity for cross-border trade with Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, says Mark Mobius. Mr Mobius, who oversees more than US $40 billion worth of investments as executive chairman <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-potential/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of families claiming to have lost contact with relatives working overseas has seen a significant increase in recent months, three human rights groups said Thursday. Local rights groups adhoc and Licadho and the legal aid association Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC), said that the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-migrant-workers-losing-contact-ngos-say-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The ruling CPP is misusing state properties to further its political agenda, said the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) in a report that will be released today. The report said Comfrel monitors had documented 200 instances in which state properties and resources had been <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cpp-abusing-state-property-election-body-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s central bank is looking to tighten monetary policy to slow an inflation rate that could hit 8 to 9 percent this year, National Bank of Cambodia Director General and Spokeswoman Nguon Sokha said yesterday. Increases in commodity prices and petroleum has led to rising prices <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/central-bank-mulls-its-inflation-response/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Union leaders gathered in the capital yesterday to discuss strategies to curb the garment industry’s widespread use of temporary contracts for hiring workers, saying employers were using them to discourage unions and ensure their workforce remained docile and easy to exploit. They also accused employers of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-cry-foul-on-temp-contracts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian border officials urged their Thai counterparts not to shoot Cambodians who cross into Thailand illegally during a special meeting in Siem Reap city yesterday to cement border relations. The request comes as Thai soldiers have already fatally shot 11 Cambodians this year who illegally <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/border-officials-ask-thailand-to-stop-shooting-at-loggers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The number of families claiming to have lost contact with relatives working overseas has seen a significant increase in recent months, three human rights groups said Thursday. Local rights groups adhoc and Licadho and the legal aid association Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC), said that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-migrant-workers-losing-contact-ngos-say/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The decreasing amount of farmers harvesting soybeans last year has limited supply and raised prices at the markets roughly 42 percent to 4,000 riel per kg, or about $1, according to an agricultural official and farmers. Cheam Chan Sorphaon, director of the provincial agriculture department in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/soybean-prices-increase-as-farmers-move-away-from-crop/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has already granted roughly 300,000 hectares in economic land concessions (ELC) so far this year, according to data released by a local rights group yesterday. The figure, which amounts to 40 percent of the total land concessions granted in all of 2011, has <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-surges-full-speed-ahead-with-land-concessions/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 26 April 2018, the World BAnk’s BoArd of Executive Directors Approved US$90 million in finAncing to support CAmbodiA’s efforts in improving the quAlity of higher educAtion And reseArch in the country And broAdening Access to higher educAtion for disAdvAntAged students. Over the next six yeArs, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/Announcements/new-finAncing-will-support-cAmbodiA-in-improving-higher-educAtion-for-industriAl-development/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>