Companies and organizations from six countries along the Mekong River have established a business alliance, with a view to build a platform for cross-border e-commerce. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/business-alliance-eyes-cross-border-e-commerce-along-mekong-river/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Police arrested five activists from labour-rights group Clean Clothes Campaign yesterday outside the e Garment factory in Kandal province. Neuv Sakhan, deputy director of the Kandal provincial immigration police, told the Post four women and one man, from Norway, Belgium, england and Austria, had been taken ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-activists-detained/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

H.E. ChEang Vun, thE hEad of thE 5th Commission, rEaffirmEd that, as a tradition, aftEr rEcEivEd any draft law from thE Royal GovErnmEnt of Cambodia and assignEd by thE Standing CommittEE of thE National AssEmbly for studying and giving opnions on thE tExts, spEcial Commissions Ef='https://opEndEvElopmEntcambodia.nEt/announcEmEnts/h-E-chEang-vuns-rEsponding-lEttEr-to-thE-rEquEst-by-ccc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Investors have turned their eyes to the e-commerce sector in Cambodia as more people in the Southeast Asian nation have access to the Internet, businessmen and commerce officials say.​ ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-seeing-e-commerce-grow-due-to-more-access-to-internet/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is excited to announce a full-day training session set on 22 December 2023, in Phnom Penh. The session touches on the business registration process, digital literacy, and digital security, targeting informal economies and SMes, including women and indigenous peoples, and ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/join-us-training-opportunity-for-smes-and-informal-economy-participants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has no control over Cambodian-flagged ships complicit in illegal activities on the high seas as the government sold the authority to register ocean-going vessels, under Cambodia’s national flag, to a company in South Korea for $6 million, a Council of Ministers official claimed Thursday. On ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-sold%e2%80%88national-ship-registry-rights/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

US and Cambodian governments have presented a united front calling for the country’s agriculture industry to diversify, modernise and commercialise. US ambassador William e Todd and the Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development Yim Chhay Ly led an ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-weigh-up-us-technology/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The enactment of the new investment law, along with the success of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, is creating an ever-growing pool of rewarding investment opportunities in the Kingdom, according to Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) secretary-general Sok Chenda Sophea. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-e-timor-plan-to-forge-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Some 200 Koh Kong farmers locked in a long-running land dispute with two sugar plantations met Tuesday with a representative of the Thailand-based owners for the first time since the land dis­pute began in 2006. Khamrom Phochai, a Thai national and representative of Thai­land’s Khon Kaen ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thai-representative-meets-with-koh-kong-blood-sugar-families/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In its first official response to a highly critical resolution on Cambodia from the european Parliament, the government has rejected all criticism and instead accused the Parliament in Brussels of playing politics and interfering in Phnom Penh’s affairs. In its resolution approved October 26, the european ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-accuses-europe-of-interference/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Women entrepreneurs Association (CWeA) said that e-Commerce in Cambodia is set to grow rapidly with the ease of doing business in the Kingdom. entrepreneurs explained that the e-commerce sector has boomed in the country in recent years thanks to the rapid development of ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/e-commerce-market-critical-to-cambodia-cwea-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The european Union’s ambassador to Cambodia yesterday urged the government to heed the advice of the U.N.’s visiting human rights envoy, who has come under increasing rebuke from officials for his unflattering reports. Addressing a crowd of about 3,000, mostly garment factory workers, at Phnom Penh’s ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-ambassador-says-listen-to-envoys-advice/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) will call an e-auction on April 10 on work to renovate damaged tracks connecting Thailand with Cambodia at the Aranyaprathet-Poipet crossing, Transport Minister Chadchat Suttipan said on Tuesday. The railway agency estimated the project will cost 2.8 billion baht. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bids-called-on-cambodia-rail-link/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of environment on Monday has approved five small-scale eco-tourism development plans in Preah Monivong Bokor National Park. These new eco-tourism projects in Kampot province’s Prek Tnort commune will create more employment opportunities for the local population, offering sustainable livelihoods and improving the local ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/moe-plans-bokor-eco-tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Researchers are celebrating the discovery of a large number of wildlife and rare plant species, as well as waterfalls in the Phnom Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri. ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wealth-of-wildlife-and-plants-discovered-in-mondulkiri-says-moe/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In March, Internews facilitated a ‘Data Scraping’ e-Workshop for the Open Development Cambodia team. The aim of the workshop was to strengthen ODC’s technical capability to collect ISAC-relevant data from government websites, for public sharing on the developing Social Accountability web page. The Workshop was conducted ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/e-workshop-on-data-scraping/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As ASEAN continuEs to grapplE with Covid-19 casEs and an uncErtain rEcovEry, its Economic ministErs havE committEd to conducting a study on a rEgion-widE digital Economy pact by 2023. Ef='https://opEndEvElopmEntcambodia.nEt/nEws/asEan-slatEd-to-start-talks-for-blocs-2025-E-Economy-accord/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The european Union’s ambassador to Cambodia raised issues of judicial reform, land reform and the upcoming national elections in a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday morning. The european Commission’s directorate-general for trade is currently reviewing a report by the U.N.’s human rights envoy ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-and-eu-ambassador-talk-elections-land-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

“The agriculture sector today is still playing significant role in promoting local production growth, job creation, and contributing to the poverty reduction of the people.  At the same time, the agriculture sector will continue the basic role for economic growth and socio-economic development in Cambodia in ef='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/agriculture-contributes-to-helping-cambodias-economic-growth-pm-hun-sen/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...