Economy and commerce
Counting money. Photo by Aaron Gilson, taken on 5 April 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia re-opened for international trade in the 1980s, opened up to foreign investment in 1994, joined ASEAN in 1999, and became a member of the WTO in 2004. Its bilateral ...
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people
According to the Kingdom of Cambodia’s 2019 general population census, the total Cambodian population is 15,552,211 (51.31% of females).84 By 2021, the population increased to 16,589,023.85 Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams and other minorities also live in the country. Indigenous ethnic groups known as “Khmer Loeu” live ...
SDG 15 Life on land
SDG 15 focuses on the sustainable use of terrestrial (land-based) biodiversity and ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, deserts and mountains and their interaction with freshwater systems. It aims to protect and restore their ecological function. The work includes applying sustainable land and forest management practices and ...
Taking ODC's Data Collection Ethos to BarCamp Phnom Penh
Penhleak providing a “walk” through the ODC websiteOn Saturday, October 19, ODC Research & Volunteer Coordinator Chan Penhleak gave an interactive presentation session on “How to Locate, Fact-Check, and Share Cambodia’s Development Data” at the BarCamp Phnom Penh, which was held at the Institute of Technology of ...
Community forest
The Forest Law of 2002 provides a legal basis for rural communities to use and help manage forests through community forestry. ...
Data literacy training to cluster members
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted data literacy training for Civil Society Support-Cluster members and their networks on 04th July 2023. The training course is designed to improve participants’ understanding of data, data standards, and interactive visualization. We also trained participants data visualization skills. This skill ...
Fieldwork on mining operation activities in selected communities
The Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) team conducted a seven-day field trip from December 06-12, 2023, focusing on mining activities around the Prey Lang area within four provinces: Kratie, Stung Treng, Preah Vihear, and Kampong Thom Province. During the trip, ODC held meetings with various ...
Water policy and administration
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 duration204. Water management involves issues of ...
Forest protection
Deforestation has always been a problem in Cambodia since the 1970s, and it has aggravated in203;the last decade. Some protected areas have been deforested. Between 2001 and 2018, Cambodia had lost 557,000 hectares (11.7%) of forest cover in protected areas.233 This loss has had an ...
Thai PM's Cambodia Visit May Restore Mutual Trust, Investment
PHNOM PENH–Cambodian analysts believe that the visit of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to Cambodia on Thursday this week could restore mutual trust and trade and investment relations between the two countries. “From my point of view, the meeting of the two PMs will probably focus ...
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Notification on how to authenticate vehicle identification card, driving license, certificate and technical inspection of vehicles and number plates with QR CODE
On 25 September 2017, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport issued a notification on how to authenticate vehicle identification card, driving license, certificate and technical inspection of vehicles and number plates with QR CODE to make it more convenient to verify and prevent fraud ...
Ministry of Public Works and Transport
Canal restoration in Preah Sihanouk set to be done in three months
Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol said at the start of the restoration of five canals in Preah Sihanouk province on Monday that the work had to be completed in three months to avoid further flooding. A report by the Ministry of Public ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/canal-restoration-preah-sihanouk-set-be-done-three-months
NagaCorp raises $156 million from top-up placement
NagaCorp, a gaming and entertainment hotel complex operator in Cambodia, has raised HK$1.21 billion ($156 million) from a top-up placement, after fixing the price at the bottom of the indicative range. The deal was launched at around 6pm yesterday in Hong Kong time, and the ...
http://www.financeasia.com/News/336436,nagacorp-raises-156-million-from-top-up-placement.aspx
Labour orders issued by PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday issued extensive orders to unions, factories, workers and authorities to rid the garment industry of violent strikes, roadblocks and rights violations he says are threatening public order. “There have been many strikes and demonstrations at factories recently, and, in some cases, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032964789/National/labour-orders-issued-by-pm.html
Government Mulls Issuing Sovereign Bonds
Cambodia is considering offering sovereign bonds to raise more revenue for the national budget and move away from its dependence on overseas aid, a senior central bank official said Sunday. National Bank of Cambodia director-general Nguon Sokha said the Ministry of Economy and Finance was currently ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/government-mulls-issuing-sovereign-bonds-21989/
Withdrawals top hundreds of millions
More than $600 million flooded out of Cambodia’s entire banking system during the third quarter of this year, as fears of post-election chaos set off panic and mass withdrawals, new figures from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) reveal. The figures, obtained yesterday, were the first ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/withdrawals-top-hundreds-millions
Garment Workers Block Road, Protest for Higher Wages
There were major traffic delays along Phnom Penh’s Veng Sreng Boulevard in Pur Senchey district Wednesday after about 200 garment workers from the Alim Cambodia Co. Ltd. garment factory formed a gated roadblock and protested for higher wages. A line of halted container trucks stretched for ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/garment-workers-block-road-protest-for-higher-wages-46954/
Standard & Poor's says outlook stable as Cambodia ratings affirmed
Standard & Poor’s affirmed Thursday its ‘B’ long and short-term sovereign credit ratings for Cambodia, adding that the outlook for the long-term rating remained stable. At the same time, the US rating agency affirmed its ‘axBB-‘ long-term and ‘axB’ short-term ASEAN regional-scale ratings on the country. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZjFhZTkwM2YxZjJ
Hun Sen’s Son Says CNRP Is Paying Protesters
Hun Manith, the second son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has suggested that the large turnout at the CNRP’s eighth consecutive day of marches through Phnom Penh on Sunday was the result of paying protesters to show up. An estimated 30,000 people gathered at Freedom Park ...
Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-son-says-cnrp-is-paying-protesters-49624/