Tigers and black bears look nothing alike, but their identical names in some Khmer dialects left some thinking that one of Cambodia’s most endangered species may be attacking people in the Cardamom Mountains. Sitting outside his Santre commune home in Pursat province’s Kravanh district, with bandages <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tiger-falls-prey-to-linguistics/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Fuelled by poverty and debt, more than a quarter of Cambodian adults migrate, and, in the process, many are leaving behind their children, a new report finds. Part of a four-year research project on child labour, the Cambodian Independent Research Institute’s The Impacts of adult Migration <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/migrants-kids-at-risk-cdri/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Community activists and conservationists commemorating slain environment activist Chut Wutty on the weekend used the occasion to shed light on what they allege are the shadowy practices of a logging company in the southwestern Cardamom forests. activists amongst the hundreds of people who travelled to Koh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chut-wutty-slaying-puts-timbergreen-logging-in-spotlight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Europe’s largest manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles, Italy’s Piaggio, will return to Cambodia in September, being absent since the Khmer Rouge takeover. Vespa Cambodia Co Ltd, part of Narith Long’s Narita group, signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Piaggio last month to distribute its Piaggio scooters, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/piaggio-to-return-to-cambodia-with-legendary-vespa-scooters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

If it were a Group of 180 nations meeting, Cambodia would be invited. But the Kingdom’s chances of attending the so-called G20 summit, which brings together the world’s largest economies, are unlikely, says Mey Kalyan, a government adviser who last week became the first Cambodian to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-prepares-for-g20/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Electricity price and coverage areas in Cambodia in both Khmer and English. Together with the information of electricity licensees, coverage areas and prices.=>Please click here to get in to the dataset page of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-published-new-dataset-of-electricity-price-and-coverage-areas-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite challenges, Cambodia has potential for the establishment and expansion of social businesses, participants of the Microfinance &amp; Social Business Conference in Phnom Penh said yesterday. While social business in Cambodia is still in an early phase compared to micro-finance  “Cambodia is a promising land” for such <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-has-potential-for-social-businesses/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Tonle Sap lake reflections. Photo from Mariusz Kluzniak. Uploaded on 1 January 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Despite severe droughts striking the country frequently, Cambodia possesses substantial water resources, mostly contained in the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap great lake and river. The lake <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/rivers-and-lakes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Royal Government of Cambodia has acknowledged the potential of the tourism industry as a source of Cambodia’s socio-economy growth, including job creation and poverty reduction. Tourism has been considered one of Cambodia’s key economic pillars, both international and domestic. In the early 2000s, the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/tourism/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dr. Tan Reasmey, researcher and lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Food Technology at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia. Photo taken from the​ USaID​ asia​ on august 18, 2016. Licensed under CC BY-NC-Sa 2.0.Relevant national policy frameworksFrom the perspective of the government as <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/women-in-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cassava farm in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Photo by CIaT, taken on 09 December 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC-Sa 2.0The drought that Cambodia experiences is a shortage of water that is typically caused by:late onset of the rainy season (which normally occurs from May/June to October and <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/drought/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Increasing discrimination by factories against unions and continued poor wages in Cambodia’s garment sector have resulted in a rise in the number of worker protests, according to a report released yesterday by the International Labor Organization (ILO). according to its periodic synthesis report on working <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-shows-rise-in-garment-labor-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy called Friday for election officials to declare his party and Prime Minister Hun Sen’s party joint victors in recent polls saying the move would be a first step toward resolving a deadlock over the disputed election. With the opposition Cambodia National <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sam-rainsy-wants-ruling-and-opposition-parties-declared-joint-winners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 100 people on Thursday protested and stopped a bulldozer belonging to businessman Try Pheap from clearing their land next to a rubber plantation he owns in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district, villagers and local officials said. Oeun Sitha said he was among more than 100 <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/protesters-stop-try-pheap-tractor-from-clearing-land-in-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sergei Polonsky, a Russian fugitive and former billionaire real estate magnate who was recently released from prison in Cambodia, has grand plans for a string of islands off the coast of Sihanoukville. Less than a month after the Supreme Court refused to extradite him to Russia <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/as-free-man-polonsky-plans-tourism-mecca/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On the sidelines of a government event marking International Labor Day, Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng on Thursday blamed recent strikes in Bavet City on unnamed provocateurs, but said efforts were underway to resolve the dispute. He also said that a government-ordered shutdown of the 30-plus <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labor-minister-says-solution-to-bavet-strike-in-the-works/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Dozens of ethnic minority Kreung villagers protested outside the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court on Monday, demanding the release of a fellow Kreung man presently in pretrial detention for setting fire to a pile of wood on land the community sold in 2007 but claims it was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kreung-protest-for-release-of-charged-arsonist/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s garment exports exceeded US$1 billion during the first quarter of 2012, yet many factories are failing to pay workers proper maternity leave benefits or address issues of fainting, a labour report says. The International Labour Or­ganization-Better Factories Cam­bodia’s Twenty Eighth Syn­­­thesis Report on Working Conditions <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factories-still-skimping-ilo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has updated profile page on “Public transportation” under access to public services by revising the 13 Phnom Penh city bus routes and 874 bus stops together with the information in both Khmer and English of distance, operating hour, and map.=>Please click here to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-has-updated-profile-page-on-public-transportation-by-revising-the-13-phnom-penh-city-bus-routes-and-795-bus-stops/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a rare admission, the asian Development Bank has surprisingly acknowledged its own shortcomings following a controversial railway rehabilitation project in Cambodia that sparked complaints from thousands of displaced local residents affected by forced resettlements, insufficient compensations and neglect of their human rights. The concerns were confirmed by the Compliance <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/adb-admits-mistakes-over-controversial-railway-project-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>