ASEAN plans to set up disease prevention centres in Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Dr Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), announced the establishment of centres to respond to future epidemics and infectious diseases. ...

Kampong Thom provincial governor Nguon Ratanak recently led the planting of over 60 young tree saplings in Stung Sen garden, situated along the namesake river. The new trees are expected to beautify the provincial town and attract more domestic and international visitors. ...

Minister of Information of Cambodia Neth Pheaktra has called on Cambodian and Chinese journalists to work together to protect the integrity of international news by combating fake news and information interference to promote the building of a Community of Common Destiny for humanity. ...

Tea Seiha, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, called on all countries involved in current conflicts to employ a culture of dialogue and diplomatic mechanisms to resolve their disagreements, rather than the threat or use of force. ...

Cambodia and the Philippines have expressed their commitment to further strengthening cooperation to enhance labour rights and social security for the benefit of the people of both nations, as part of their partnership as ASEAN member states. ...

An estimated 225 representatives from organizations representing more than 30,000 older people from 25 capital and provinces, participated in the third “National Older People Forum” themed “Older People and Supporting Policies”, in Battambang City Hall on Oct 27. ...

Australia has supported the IndoPacLab program across Cambodia, Laos, and Papua New Guinea (PNG) to strengthen laboratory capacity for HIV, TB, malaria, and COVID-19 testing, said the Australian Embassy in Cambodia in a news release Friday. ...

The Cambodian embassy in Seoul now offers passport and consular services to citizens residing and working in South Korea, thereby eliminating the need for travel to their home country for renewal. ...

Following the announcement that The Phnom Penh Post, and Post Khmer, its Khmer language sister paper, will cease publication in print form on March 29, several social observers, government officials, intellectuals and readers were prompted to share their thoughts at the end of more than ...

Former Prime Minister Hun Sen, president of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), appealed to his ASEAN and Russian counterparts to communicate with all sides in order to uphold regional peace, stability and development, in the face of competition between superpowers.  ...

Director of Quality Management and Grain Supply of Bühler Groupis interested in expanding the company’s investment by bringing modern technology to develop agriculture in Cambodia, from the process of cultivation and harvesting to processing for exporting abroad. ...

Australia reaffirms its commitment to further strengthen cooperation with the Kingdom in several areas especially in the fields of economy, investment, trade, agriculture and climate change, supporting the socio-economic development response to the regional and global crisis. ...

Access to information and open budgets is the first component of the Implementation Plan for the Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF).1 The other three components are citizen monitoring, facilitation and capacity building, and learning and monitoring.2 Three types of local services providers are at the focus: ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published 3 new datasets on “Result of the 4th mandate of commune/sangkat council election 2017” in both Khmer and English. These datasets shows the official result of the recent commune election at provincial level by three classifications:  (1) number and percentage ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Special economic zone in Cambodia” adding 1 new map feature in Koh Kong. This dataset describes the information of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Cambodia from 2006 to 2023. The total number of 49 SEZs are ...

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The Open Development Cambodia (ODC) team was delighted to host the recent board meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Phnom Penh on 10 October 2021. It was the first time the board members and the ODC management team had a physical gathering since the ...

Election ballots, Cambodia. Photo by Daniel Littlewood, taken on April 20, 2004. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0History of Cambodia’s electionsCambodia saw consecutive civil wars for more than 20 years after the coup in 1970. In 1991, parties in the conflict reached agreement to end the ...

Phum Doung Bridge over the Tatai River. Photo by Robert Tyabji, taken on  9 December 2010. Licensed under  CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Bilateral aid is assistance given by a government directly to the government of another country or to a local NGO. The Royal Government of Cambodia ...

US president Donald Trump has expressed the US’ commitment to respecting Cambodia’s sovereignty and invited Prime Minister Hun Sen to attend the US-Asean summit in the US next year. Trump made the pledge and invitation in two separate letters addressed to Hun Sen early this ...