Candidates for a government program that sends Cambodians to work in South Korea can file paperwork closer to home this year, as applications will now be distributed in 13 provinces. Applications will be available until Friday in provincial labour offices in Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kampong ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced its Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation Program that will improve the livesof mothers and young children by teaching better nutrition and hygiene practices and increasing the use of latrines. The five-year, $16 million project will benefit ...

The Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday released a draft policy to strengthen the agriculture sector by educating farmers on how to gain greater access to markets and increase their productivity by using sustainable farming methods. The Agriculture Extension Policy, drafted in cooperation with USAID, aims to ...

Approximately 1,500 young Cambodian people on Saturday performed the “Madison,” a popular dance during Khmer wedding receptions and New Year celebrations, here in order to call for an end of violence against women and girls, an organizer said. Inala Fathimath, a gender program specialist at the ...

Cambodia is set to receive $965 million in financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to promote development in priority areas and create programs that seek to rehabilitate and spur economic growth. ...

The Executive Committee of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) approved Sunday a program of activities and agenda for the 43rd general assembly – the first face-to-face gathering since 2019. ...

The poverty rate in Cambodia had declined to 16.6 percent in 2022 from 36.7 percent in 2014, according to a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report on Thursday. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a new dataset on “Road and railway networks in Cambodia (2012 & 2023)”. This dataset included road networks generated by Open Street Map in 2023 and railway lines in 2012 provided by Save Cambodia’s Wildlife Atlas Working Group in Cambodia ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “ASTER global digital elevation model (ASTER GDEM)​ in Cambodia”. This dataset of ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model (ASTER GDEM) places great emphasis on topographic information of the global terrain. As the ASTER was created with global ...

The $800 million to $2 billion COVID-19 stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Hun Sen last month will only be given to those businesses that are legally registered and are formally verified, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has said. ...

Impending COVID-19 health measures and high levels of micro debt pose a serious concern for the approximately 2.4 million Cambodians with a combined outstanding debt of $8 billion, according to a World Bank report released this week. ...

The Cambodian League for the Protection and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) is today releasing to the public its land concession dataset and urges the government to follow suit by publicly disclosing details of all land concessions granted in Cambodia. The information released is the ...

On 24 March 2021, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) issued a press release on the provision of a $7 million grant which aims to promote Information and Communications Technology (ICT) capacity for regional teacher training centers and lower secondary education. The major thrust of ...

On 10 February 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the reminder of the third dose or booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine from the Ministry of Health.To continue to fight and prevent the spread of the new Omicron virus, especially ...

On 01 June 2023, the National Election Committee has posted an announcement on the training course for NEC trainers and officials on “Elections, Ballot Counting and Announcement of Election Results” for the 7th National Assembly Election 2023 on their official website.According to the announcement, the ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated a dataset on “Allocated land for social land concession” by added the one new map features in Kampong Chhnang from the sub-decree no. 124​ issued on 07 June 2023. This dataset shows information about the land concession implemented by The ...

Since 2007, the Human Resources Unit of the South Korean Ministry of Employment and Labour has conducted “EPS-TOPIK” tests 16 times in collaboration with the Manpower Training and Overseas Sending Board (MTOSB), a government-to-government system designed specifically to regulate the sending of Cambodian workers to ...

Cambodia and Japan discussed cooperation and tourism promotion between the two countries on the provision of scholarships to train human resources. ...

Cambodia and Morocco have vowed to further promote training and visit exchange both bilaterally and within the framework of multilateral cooperation. ...

ODC has updated the Special Economic Zone page in Cambodia, adding interactive map and data visualization on province based SEZ in respond to the latest SEZ dataset on ODC website.Click here to access the page ...