PM lauds support for vets as 200 plots gifted
Prime Minister Hun Manet announced that 200 veterans and their families have been awarded plots of land in Svay Rieng province. ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-lauds-support-for-vets-as-200-plots-gifted
Czech Republic provides development assistance to strengthen ties
The Czech Republic pledged to strengthen collaboration with Cambodia by providing development assistance in the sectors of health, education, and human resource development in order to foster better and stronger bilateral relations. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501491746/czech-republic-provides-development-assistance-to-strengthen-ties/
Cambodia earns $170 million from rice exports
In the first four months this year, Cambodia exported 248,491 tonnes of rice worth $170.2 million, a report by the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) showed yesterday. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501485203/cambodia-earns-170-million-from-rice-exports/
Cambodia, Australia launch digital platform for business registration
The Cambodian and Australian governments have jointly launched the first phase of a digital registration and licensing portal for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), handicrafts and industrial factories. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501515124/cambodia-australia-launch-digital-platform-for-business-registration/
Phnom Penh court issues six to eight years jail sentence on Mother Nature activists, four arrested outside
On Tuesday morning, four out of 10 Mother Nature activists were arrested shortly after the Phnom Penh Municipal Court dropped its verdict on them for insulting the King and plotting to overthrow the government. ...
Cambodia plays a significant role in promoting ASEAN’s external partnerships
Cambodia has played a crucial role in advancing ASEAN’s external partnerships, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sok Chenda Sophea in his ASEAN Day message on Thursday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501538525/cambodia-plays-a-significant-role-in-promoting-aseans-external-partnerships/
Oil refineries
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There is currently no oils refinery in Cambodia. Although a refinery has been planned, its construction has been delayed several times, reportedly over financing difficulties. ...
ODC launches a new knowledge-sharing portal called "Learning Platform"
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On 04 April 2023, ODC organized an official launch of the online Learning Platform at the Poulo Wai Hotel & Apartment, Phnom Penh, with the participation of 43 people (18 females) from 23 local, national, and international organizations, including cluster member organizations and non-members. Those ...
Forest cover 2015 - Present
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According to the report on Cambodia Forest Cover 2018 issued on December 2020 by the Ministry of Environment (MoE),1 Cambodia has conducted eight national forest assessments in 1958/65, 1992/93, 1996/97, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2018. The forest cover assessment from 1958-1965 has not ...
Announcement: Data literacy training
Open Development Cambodia (ODC), with financial assistance from USAID’s Cambodian Civil Society Strengthening project, is delighted to announce a series of Training on Data Literacy that consists of THREE training modules and a final workshop. Each phase is a 5-day workshop that will progressively equip ...
Open Development Cambodia
Health center budget
Access to information and open budgets is the first component of the Implementation Plan for the Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF).9 The other three components are citizen monitoring, facilitation and capacity building, and learning and monitoring.10 Three types of local services providers are at the focus: ...
Sugarcane
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Growth in sugar production in Cambodia has created significant potential for sugarcane-based biofuel production. That potential has not yet been realized, though recent foreign investment may give rise to change. There are several types of sugar crop: sugarcane, sugar palm trees and sugar beets. Sugarcane ...
Cambodian Opposition Leader Declares Political 'Stalemate'
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy said his country has reached a political “stalemate” and is calling for a halt in international aid to the Phnom Penh government. Rainsy spoke to VOA during a visit to Washington, where he is trying to convince U.S. officials and others ...
VOA Khmer News Staff
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-opposition-leader-declares-political-stalemate/1772674.html
Newspaper threatened over child labour story
A Thai-owned sugar company has threatened legal action against a newspaper that ran a story and video depicting the use of child labour at its Koh Kong province plantation, but advocates on the ground there say the children are indeed used as employees. The Bangkok Post yesterday reported ...
Sean Teehan and Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/newspaper-threatened-over-child-labour-story
Air Pollution—The Latest Threat to Angkor Park
Air pollution from vehicles and electric generators inside the Angkor Archeological Park and in Siem Reap City is soiling and darkening the monuments at the World Heritage Site, an official at the Apsara Authority, which is responsible for the park, said Friday. Options to decrease ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/air-pollution-the-latest-threat-to-angkor-park-48814/
Open Development Cambodia has updated profile page on "Public transportation" by adding 16 public bus lines
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has updated profile page on “Public transportation” under Access to public services by adding public bus lines to 16 lines together with the information in both Khmer and English of bus lines, operating hour, bus stop, and map.=>Please click here to get in to ...
Going offline? The threat to Cambodia’s newfound internet freedoms
On World Information Society Day, LICADHO releases its report “Going offline? The threat to Cambodia’s newfound internet freedoms,” describing the vital importance of the internet for freedom of expression in Cambodia and the imminent threat that this last bastion for independent voices now faces. ...
LICADHO
Press release: Thai Appeal Court set to rule on Southeast Asia’s first transboundary class action into human rights abuses on Friday, 31 July, 2020
On 30 July 2020, the Equitable Cambodia Organization issued a press release informing that on Friday 31 July 2020, the Bangkok South Civil Court will deliver a landmark decision on an appeal for class action status in the case of Hoy Mai & Others vs. ...
Equitable Cambodia Organization
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new profile page on "Sub-national infrastructure project implementation"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Sub-national infrastructure project implementation” in Cambodia. On the new bilingual page, the public can access to map layers which display the total number of actual expenditures and actual projects of sub-national infrastructure, and a data table ...
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Cambodia Gazetteer”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Cambodia Gazetteer” by adding a new resource in 2023. This Gazetteer shows the name list of provincial/municipal, district (Krong/ Srok/ Khan), commune (Khum/ Sangkat), and village in Cambodia. This data is extracted from the database of ...