Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce two two-day training workshops on “The Basics of Data-Driven Journalism”. The courses focus on all steps of data journalism, including the search for a topic and the right data, the analyzes and preparation of datasets, data visualization, ...

Briefing on Investment Law (Khmer)Briefing on Investment Law (English)Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just released a new briefing page, in both Khmer and English languages, on Cambodian Investment Law which it mainly provides the insight of Cambodia’s legal framework on investment sector. (Please visit: http://archive.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/briefing/briefing-on-investment-law/)This ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a new online resource detailing on clean water supply coverage in Phnom Penh in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the map illustrates the coverage of clean water supplied by Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) in Phnom Penh ...

Rural energy cooperative in Cambodia. Photo by Nomade Moderne, taken on 23 March 2006. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The electricity distributed in Cambodia is partly generated within the country and partly imported. For many years, local generation was on a relatively small scale, and was ...

UN’s Bali Climate Change Conference. Photo by Oxfam International, taken on 4 December 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Climate change is a continuing problem. In Southeast Asia, Cambodia is one of the countries that is most affected and underprepared. As it is a developing country, ...

Arbitration Council in session, Cambodia. Photo by ILO (Asia and the Pacific), took on 8 June 2012. Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 GenericThe Arbitration Council was established by the 1997 Labor Law. However, the Arbitration Council just opened its doors to serve employers, employees, workers and ...

In Southeast Asia, Cambodia is one of the countries rich in natural resources—gemstones, gas, oil, phosphates, manganese, iron ore and timber.96 Since the early 2000s, many companies like Thailand’s PTT, Petro Vietnam and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) have searched for possible oil reserves ...

The Prayuters Library Program is delighted to announce a scholarship opportunity for Grade 12 students in Preah Vihear province. The application opens for students holding a high school diploma or an equivalent certificate for pursuing a bachelor’s degree. Additionally, students who did not pass the ...

In 2020, COVID-19 severely impacted both the global and Cambodia economies. The banking system in Cambodia is also affected but at a moderate and manageable level.140 The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), Cambodia Microfinance Association, and other relevant institutions pointed out the rate of the ...

It’s 1am and, as Phnom Penh sleeps, the haunting squeals of distressed animals are all that can be heard in the darkness of a field in Russey Keo district. Pigs in open-air sheds have sensed what’s coming: Hundreds of them are about to be slaughtered for ...

Riun Pau ran out of food last week. For the 13-year-old and her family, that moment was the culmination of weeks of distress caused by flooding that had already ravaged their Battambang home and farmland. Pau’s neighbours are experiencing similar problems. In Battambang, 67.3 per cent ...

The rights to freedom of association are protected under Cambodia’s laws. Article 36 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia provides that ‘Khmer citizens of both sexes shall have the rights to create unions and participate as its members’. Thus, under the 1997 Labor ...

On 20 December 2018, The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)  released a briefing note on business and human rights entitled “Preventing, Mitigating and Remedying Land-Related Rights Violations in the Kingdom of Cambodia” on its website in both Khmer and English versions.​ As part of its business and ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has recently updated three existing topics under the landing page of the Environment and natural resources and Land. Those topics are “Environmental impact assessments“, “Overview of policy and legal framework” and “Special economic zones“.With the content updating, the public now not ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new profile page on “COVID-19” in Cambodia. On the new bilingual page, the public can access to an informative dashboard where all the COVID-19 cases​ found in Cambodia are visualized as an info-graph, classifying the cases by type, province, ...

At a congressional hearing in Washington on Tuesday that scathingly rebuked Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling CPP, a U.S. lawmaker called for legislation to cut American aid to Cambodia following the national election on July 28. Representative Steve Chabot, who chaired the House Subcom­mittee ...

In Cambodia, alternate periods of drought and heavy rains bring challenges for water management. The current trends show increasing annual rainfall and temperature throughout Cambodia, with a likelihood that both flooding and droughts will increase in frequency, severity and duration162. Water management involves issues of ...

Building on the successful experiences of previous years, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to host the “Open Data Day 2020” in the first week of March. This year, we will focus on the global open data day theme: Open Data for Equal Development. As part ...

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 ...

Maina Kiai speaking with journalists outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh. Photo by Maina Kiai, taken on 6 February 2014. Licensed under CC BY 2.0The first humanitarian international non-governmental organizations arrived in 1989. After the 1993 election, more and more internal organizations ...