His Excellency Chhieng Yanara held a meeting with the representatives of European Union and European partners in Cambodia
On 11 January 2021, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on His Excellency Chhieng Yanara held a meeting with the representatives of European Union and European partners in Cambodia. On Monday afternoon, 11 January 2021 at the Council for the ...
Council for the Development of Cambodia
Press release on the outcome of the meeting between the PM and the Ambassador of the EU to the Kingdom of Cambodia
On 28 August 2023, the spokesperson of the Prime Minister’s Office issued a press release on the results of the meeting between His Excellency Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and Her Excellency Maria Dal Carmen Moreno EU Ambassador to the ...
Prime Minister's Office
Press release on courtesy meeting with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
On 16 September 2022, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on courtesy meeting with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).On September 16th, 2022 at the Palais du Gouvernement, His Excellency Rith Vuthy, Deputy Secretary General of Cambodian Rehabilitation and Development Board ...
Council for the Development of Cambodia
Responsible business in Cambodia
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Given that most business models are profit-driven, the need for accountable and responsible businesses plays a significant role in minimizing its adverse effects on the environment and society contributing to sustainable development. Based on this basis, the concept of conducting business responsibly goes beyond profit ...
Economic policy and administration
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After the first general election in 1993, the government prepared and implemented a comprehensive micro- and macroeconomic policy and structural reform program to integrate Cambodia’s economy into the region and the world as well as stimulate its economic growth.89 In the two decades following that ...
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) updated an existing profile page on “Forest cover”
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) updated an existing profile page on “Forest cover” adding forest cover dataset 2023 in Cambodia. => Please click here to go to profile page on “Forest cover”. ...
Made in Cambodia: Foreign Industry Calls on Cambodia as the Next “Low-Cost” Alternative in All Things Manufacturing
About a decade ago, global manufacturing firms staged a mass exodus to Asia in search of low-cost alternatives to increasing domestic wage demands and operational costs. The consensus was the continued development of a regional supply chain that had formed in countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, ...
Mystery Surrounds Ratanakkiri’s First Special Economic Zone
Construction of a special economic zone (SEZ) near the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province’s eastern O’Yadaw district is on track, but who exactly will avail of the facility and its services remains a mystery—even for senior provincial officials. The latest announced venture of agro-industry land concession ...
Bavet City garment strikes gain momentum
Trade unions may have failed to get a stay-at-home strike for higher wages off the ground after the Khmer New Year earlier this month. But a strike for bonus pay is picking up steam in Svay Rieng Province, where some 20,000 garment workers protested at ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bavet-city-garment-strikes-gain-momentum-57447/
Pandemics
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Pandemics are disease epidemics that spread from person to person as a result of human-to-human transmission. Many medical texts do not define the term “pandemic”. However, some key characteristics of pandemics, including wide geographic spread, disease movement, novelty, severity, high attack rates and explosiveness, minimal ...
National Open Data Conference concludes: Paving the way for an inclusive future
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The National Open Data Conference in Cambodia ended on 27 March 2024, with the dedication to expanding the open data network, fostering collaboration, and pushing for accessibility of government data for better public services, education, and sustainability development in the future. The last day of ...
Poverty policy and regulation
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As a fast-developing nation, Cambodia has always found poverty one of its main challenges. The Rectangular Strategy states that eradicating poverty has long been one of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (RGC’s) highest priorities.245 Since the country’s first major post-civil war election in 1993, Cambodia ...
His Excellency Sok Chenda Sophea, Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, and His Excellency Masahiro Mikami, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Cambodia, chaired the 22nd Meeting of the Cambodia-Japan Joint Committee
On 30 August 2021, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on His Excellency Sok Chenda Sophea, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, and His Excellency Masahiro Mikami, Ambassador Extraordinary and ...
Council for the Development of Cambodia
Head of state
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The Kingdom of Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy. The king is the head of state for his lifetime but does not govern. ...
ODC’s third GIS workshop: GIS application in land management and education
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In the second GIS workshop, ODC received 21 participants who successfully attended and awarded in the three-day workshop with theme focusing on “data collection and application of GIS”. This time, “GIS application in land management and education” are in the center.Welcoming remark by Mr. Phy ...
Thanks for giving me the best memories – Than Davit
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During my three-month internship at ODC as a Research Intern, I worked closely with the Economy Researcher-Editor to assist the editor team in conducting research, producing more topics, collecting publication documents and data for publishing and uploading onto ODC’s platform. ...
Try Pheap Firm in Talks to Replicate Timber Deal
Well-known timber magnate Try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. The Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/try-pheap-firm-in-talks-to-replicate-timber-deal-48511/
Evicted railway families await ADB’s help
In 2011, Oeun Phirun took out a $450 loan from the Asian Development Bank, using half to buy a used motorbike and spending the rest on a small flock of ducks and chickens he hoped to raise. His family and about 1,000 others have been evicted ...
Zsombor Peter and Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/evicted-railway-families-await-adbs-help-56128/
Farming’s primacy ‘hinders’
Cambodia’s economic productivity is in trouble, struggling with an inability to turn a youthful population into a skilled workforce and stunted by an over-reliance on agriculture, according to a new World Bank report. In Cambodia and Vietnam, diversification of labour from the farming sector contributed to ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/farming%E2%80%99s-primacy-%E2%80%98hinders%E2%80%99
Types of state-protected areas
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Flooded forest in Cambodia. Photo by Andrea Kirkby, taken 11 May 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.A 1993 royal decree designated 23 protected areas covering about 3,273,300 ha, equal to around 18% of the country’s total land area, and brought them under the jurisdiction of the Ministry ...