Primary and secondary education
<p>Article 68 of Cambodia’s Constitution states that the Government shall provide free primary and secondary education for all citizens and each individual shall pursue basic education for at least 9 years. Education is a fundamental engine of social and economic development for a country, especially ...p>
Climate change
<p>Voice from Cambodia–Time is running out. photo by Oxfam International, taken on 21 October 2009. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Climate change is the long-term change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns. While the climate of the earth has always gone through periods of change, modern scientific evidence ...p>
ODC Presents at BarCamp Battambang!
<p>ODC Mapper Loch Kalyan, ODC Intern Atif Choudhury, ODC Research & Volunteer Coordinator Chan penhleak, ODC Senior Mapper Mean NaroA four-member delegation from the Open Development Cambodia team attended the two-day international technology conference BarCamp, held in Battambang. Through its theme “Empowering Youth through Technology”, ...p>
Swift action on mass faints
<p>prime Minister Hun Sen ordered Ministry of Labour officials to quickly investigate and resolve problems leading to recent mass faintings at factories in Kampong Chhnang and phnom penh during meeting with the Council of Ministers on Friday. Last week around 300 workers fainted at M&V ...p>
May Tithara, P. 2
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/swift-action-mass-faints
New financing will support Cambodia in improving higher education for industrial development
<p>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, ...p>
The World Bank
Announcement on the approval for Cambodian oil and gas concession requested by Angkor Gold Corp.
<p>On 13 August 2019, Mr. Stephen Burega, Chief Executive Officer at Angkor Gold Corp. announced that Angkor, through its subsidiary EnerCam Resources Co. Ltd. (“EnerCam”), had received the approval of the Royal Government of Cambodia on its application for a 7300 square kilometre oil and gas concession in Cambodia. The ...p>
Angkor Gold Corp.
Linking villagers to health services
<p>On the day 55-year-old Leangkim Theng was selected as a village health volunteer, she was not sure she could do it. The work required her to educate women on maternal and newborn health in Serei Sokha village of Kratie province. While she did not feel she ...p>
Khmer Time Team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29910/linking-villagers-to-health-services/
Three new natural protected areas established to be under the management and conservation of Ministry of Environment
<p>On 13 September 2016, the Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to establish three new Natural protected Areas with a total land area of 27 941.06 hectares to be under the management and conservation of Ministry of Environment. Those three Natural protected Areas include of ...p>
Ministry of Environment
Exchange of notes for Japan’s grant assistance
<p>On Friday 23 September 2016, in response to a request from the Royal Government of Cambodia and the World Food programme (hereinafter referred as “WFp”), the Government of Japan has agreed to extend a Grant Assistance of two hundred and twenty million Japanese Yen (¥220,000,000), ...p>
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over Cambodia's position on South China Sea
<p>On 09th July, 2016, after the permanent Court of Arbitration set 12 July 2016 as the date to issue its final award over the arbitration case submitted by the philippines against China on South China Sea dispute, the ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an announcement ...p>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Anti-money laundering plan
<p>With the deadline for a second review by a global task force of the government’s efforts to combat money laundering and terrorism financing fast approaching, the Kingdom’s central bank yesterday conducted a workshop with banks, financial institutions and state agencies to flesh out a strategy ...p>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28845/anti-money-laundering-plan/
Gov’t: drive safe, pay workers
<p>The Interior Ministry is hoping last year’s relative decrease in traffic accidents and deaths during the pchum Ben holiday is a sign of things to come and asked citizens again this year to drive safely as they crisscross the country to celebrate the holiday. In a ...p>
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29891/gov---t--drive-safe--pay-workers/
The 2nd Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting
<p>The second Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 23 December 2016, attended by H.E. prak Sokhonn, Senior Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingsom of Cambodia, H.E. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the ...p>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Press release on agreement on the cooperation on projects of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund
<p>On 21 December 2017, at the Ministry, H.E. Senior Minister prak Sokhonn and H.E. Xiong Bo, Ambassador Extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the people’s Republic of China to the Kingdom of Cambodia, will sign the Agreement on the Cooperation on projects of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special ...p>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Cambodia exposed to large fiscal risks from disasters
<p>Cambodia, Laos and the philippines are the three Southeast Asian countries most heavily exposed to fiscal risks from disasters, the World Bank warned Wednesday. In its annual economic update on East Asia and the pacific, the bank said the region was the most disaster-stricken in ...p>
The Cambodian Herald Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NzMyZGM3M2ZiN2Y4ODU1ZDM0ODJjYmI5NDQwMTM3
Directive aims to stop ELC abuses
<p>Sacred burial grounds and community forests should be granted more protection under a new government proclamation issued this month, but rights groups and land-grab victims are wary that, without proper enforcement, it will amount to little in practice. An interministerial proclamation, or prakas, signed by ...p>
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/directive-aims-stop-elc-abuses
Chong villagers put festive spin on dam protest
<p>Villagers from an ethnic minority community in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continued their blockade over the Khmer New Year holiday of an access road leading to the site of a proposed dam they say would destroy their way of life. Members of the ethnic ...p>
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chong-villagers-put-festive-spin-on-dam-protest-56708/
Cambodia at UN To Defend Rights Record
<p>Cambodia’s opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, is currently in Geneva, where the UN Human Rights Committee is reviewing the country’s rights record.
Cambodian government officials are defending their rights record for the second time in four years at the Universal periodic Review.
Sam Rainsy, who heads the Cambodia ...p>
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-at-un-to-defend-rights-record/1839449.html
Cambodian parties expect draft election law by month’s end
<p>Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties expect to finalize a draft of the nation’s new election law by the end of the month as the centerpiece of key reforms promised in a July agreement that ended a nearly one-year political crisis, an official said Monday.
“The two ...p>
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-09082014171348.html
Joint statement regarding the Oddar Meanchey authorities’ continued illegal conduct towards Equitable Cambodia’s staff
<p>We, the undersigned civil society groups, condemn the actions of the Oddar Meanchey authorities who have, since September 2014, been engaged in the obstruction, harassment, intimidation, and assault of rights workers (see Annex 1: Timeline of Events). Most recently, a four-person team from Equitable Cambodia (“EC”) was in ...p>
Joint Organizations
