About 200 farmers protested in front of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday and submitted a petition requesting changes to a draft law on the management of agricultural land, which rights groups have said could effectively legalize land grabs from poor farmers. The government says the ...

Cambodia launched Tuesday the second phase of cassava development project under the support of China and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Cambodia and China signed a Protocol on the Exports of Cambodian Cassava to Chinese Market in December 2010, under which China allowed Cambodia ...

On 26 September 2023, the General Department of TaxatiOn issued a press release On the collectiOn of tax On capital gains.According to the press release, the tax On capital gains is not new and has been put in place since 1994. The government is working ...

On 18 October 2017, the ODC team ended the week with an exciting workshop under a project theme of “Public Awareness of and Engagement in Government Service Delivery” funded by Swedish Program for ICT in Developing RegiOns (SPIDER), at MekOng Dolphin Hotel in Kratie province. ...

Last week, the ODC team ended the week with an exciting workshop under a project theme of “Public Awareness of and Engagement in Government Service Delivery” funded by Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), at Angkor Hotel Siem Reap, just a short tuk-tuk ...

Rice futures jumped the most permitted by the Chicago Board of Trade, advancing to a one- month high, as flood damage to crops in Southeast Asia boosted prospects for U.S. exports. Storms since September damaged 12.5 percent of paddies in Thailand, the world’s largest exporter, and ...

Cambodia called Tuesday for the newly elected Thai government to resume talks on resolving claims to a 27,000-square-kilometre stretch of seabed considered rich in oil and gas. The Cambodian National Petroleum Authority, a government body, said it had ‘a firm commitment to finding an equitable ...

Over three years after Shukaku Inc started filling Boeung Kak lake with sand to make way for a CPP Senator’s massive real estate project, Google Maps has now completely erased the image of the lake, which the municipality’s year-end report says is now 95 percent ...

The head of the underwriting team that will launch Cambodia’s first IPO April 18 is Han Kyung Tae, Managing Director of Tongyang Securities (Cambodia) PLC and a South Korean stock market specialist. Tongyang Securities (Cambodia) Ltd. is the Cambodian subsidiary of Tongyang Group, a South ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Education and training” under Social development in both Khmer and English.=>Please click here to get into Education and training topic page. ...

The China Machine-Building International Corporation (CMIC) – affiliated to Sinomach subsidiary CNEG – has signed a cooperation agreement with Cambodia’s SNTP Company on providing electricity in Preah Sihanouk province, according to a company press release. ...

On 18 March 2019, the Electricite Du Cambodge (EDC) in Cambodia issued a press release to express the current status of electricity supply during the dry seasOn. Due to the high temperature and unusual water shortage, the demand for electricity in 2019 has been rising ...

On 29 May 2019, the Ministry of EcOnomy and Finance issued a press release On the cancellatiOn of the One percent Minimum Tax which was announced by the Prime Minister Hun Sen in Cambodia’s investment envirOnment seminar held in Japan. This Minimum Tax will be ...

On May 09 2018, the undersigned of 79 civil society groups, cOndemn the latest blow to press freedom in Cambodia, with the opaque sale of The Phnom Penh Post, and the new owner’s immediate interference in the paper’s editorial independence, which compelled 13 senior staff and reporters to ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new profile page on “Environmental impact assessments”. This page shows completed environmental and social impact assessment reports (EIAs). The reports contain information such as company profile, address, registered investment capital, company registration date and code, contract duration, project size, ...

On July 28 2018, the Cambodian Centre for Independent Media (CCIM) expressed grave cOncern over the blocking of at least 17 websites by the Cambodian government ahead of the electiOn day. AmOng the 17 websites which were blocked are prominent media institutiOns, such as CCIM’s ...

On 11 February 2019, The EU has today started the process that could lead to the temporary suspensiOn of Cambodia’s preferential access to the EU market under the Everything But Arms (EBA) trade scheme. EBA preferences can be removed if beneficiary countries fail to respect ...

A prominent forest monitoring group on Monday urged the government to combat illegal logging and poaching in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, which it claimed had seen a drastic increase in forestry crimes during the first five months of this year. The Prey Lang Community ...

The Cambodia minister and other senior officials from the other countries Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) will gather this week for the 20th GMS Ministerial Conference to explore ways to boost infrastructure investment and development, said the press release of the ASIAN Development Bank. ...

If nothing changes, Russian Prime Minister H.E. Dmitry Medvedev will pay a visit to Cambodia on Nov. 23-24, 2015, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen said this morning. ...