The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) plans to offer free healthcare to new target groups under a new programme. The first and largest group includes vendors and those who work in related informal jobs, like street vendors. He added the other target groups include digital <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nssf-health-coverage-for-more-groups/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia exported more than 6.13 million tonnes of agricultural products in the first half of 2024, an increase of 57 percent compared to the same period in 2023, earning more than $2.8 billion, according to a report of the General Directorate of agriculture posted by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-posts-57-rise-in-agricultural-exports-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)” adding 1 new map feature in Stung Treng Province from Sub-decree no. 197 on the establishment of Stung Treng Protection Landscape. This dataset contains data on eight types of protected <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-odc-updated-an-existing-dataset-on-natural-protected-areas-in-cambodia-1993-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” by adding sixteen new map layers on land reclassification in Phnom Penh, Preah Sihanouk, Kampong Speu, and Kep province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-an-existing-dataset-on-state-land-reclassification-4/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” by adding twelve new map layers on land reclassification in Phnom Penh, Preah Sihanouk, Kampong Speu, and Kep province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-an-existing-dataset-on-state-land-reclassification-5/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” by adding four new map layers on land reclassification in Preah Sihanouk, Kep, and Siem Reap and renamed the dataset’s title from Urban land reclassification to State land reclassification. This dataset contains information <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-an-existing-dataset-on-state-land-reclassification/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Major foreign investment projects in Cambodia” adding 52 new map features​ from Council for the development of Cambodia and other sources. The foreign investment project dataset has been established to provide relevantly practical information within Cambodia’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-odc-updated-an-existing-dataset-on-major-foreign-investment-projects-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia’s team took some time this September to review its ongoing work to develop a Social accountability profile page for the Innovation for Social accountability in Cambodia (ISaC) project.ITC lecturer and web developer Vamoeurn Nimol chaired a “Usability Lab’ session, reviewing ODC’s work <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/usability-lab-for-odcs-social-accountability-page/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Singapore-listed firm HLH Group is planning to expand its presence in Cambodia with 90,000 hectares of corn, rice and soybean plantations planned over the next decade in Kompong Speu and Koh Kong provinces, an official at the company said yesterday. HLH Group came under scrutiny <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hlh-to-expand-with-corn-rice-plantations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police in Kompong Chhnang Province arrested four men and confiscated two bulldozers Tuesday for illegally clearing more than 10 hectares of national forest in the Toek Phos district, officials said yesterday. District Police Chief Kim Sareth said that police apprehended the four laborers in Chorng <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-men-arrested-for-illegal-clearing-of-national-forest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The deaths of four more Cambodian over the past two weeks brings to 11 the number of people killed by Thai soldiers so far this year while illegally logging across the border. The death toll is fast approaching the 15 Cambodians killed in the entirety <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/11-cambodian-loggers-killed-in-two-months/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Opposition SRP has asked the government to halt plans to proceed with the next hydropower dam slated for Koh Kong, saying that experiences with dams currently in construction in the province suggest the government has been unable to control the attendant illegal logging. In <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opposition-party-highlights-illegal-logging-near-dam-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Japanese ambassador Masafumi Kuroki yesterday said he hoped the government arrests the gunman behind the Feb. 20 triple shooting of protesting workers in Svay Rieng province, and that safety must be ensured for investors in the special economic zone (SEZ) where the incident took place. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-ambassador-airs-concerns-over-sez-shooting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen defended the government’s plan for Strung Treng province’s 400-megawatt Lower Sesan 2 dam project in a letter to an SRP lawmaker, and accused opposition parties, NGOs and the media of exaggerating the negative impacts of hydropower dams. In the six-page letter <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/premier-defends-sesan-dam-says-critics-are-scaremongering/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In response to the vision of land policy in Cambodia, which is to administer, manage, use and distribute land in an equitable, transparent, efficient, and sustainable manner in order to contribute to achieving national goals of poverty alleviation, ensuring food security, national resources and environmental <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/comprehensive-land-policy-is-under-construction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Environment Minister Mok Mareth yesterday asked China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to provide more details on the environmental impact of its project, though he said that exploration for oil and gas would likely begin later this month. at a meeting at the Ministry of Environment, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-ask-for-more-info-ahead-of-drilling/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 45,000 hectares of land in Preah Vihear province were granted to five companies for rubber plantations on July 6 after the government reclassified the land from state public to state private land on the same day, according to the five sub-decrees signed by <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/july-sub-decree-lists-preah-vihear-grants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A combined tAsk force of ThAi soldiers And nAtionAl pArk officiAls yesterdAy Arrested 38 CAmbodiAn villAgers who encroAched on the PAnom Dong RAk Wildlife SAnctuAry in ThAilAnd’s Si SA Ket province, which borders OddAr MeAnchey province. ThAi NAtionAl PArks, Wildlife And PlAnt ConservAtion DepArtment chief DAmrong <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/thAis-Arrest-38-cAmbodiAns-on-chArges-of-illegAl-logging/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia is importing hundreds of tons of silk from China and Vietnam to compensate for a fast-declining domestic industry, which is suffering due to producers opting to grow other crops instead or raising silk worms, according to silk producers. Men Sinoeun, director of the artisans’ association <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imports-fill-the-gap-as-domestic-silk-production-dwindles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>