Authorities suspect that a new case of H5n1, or bird flu, has emerged in Mondulkiri province after more than 60 villagers’ chickens fell ill.Sok Kheang, chief of the provincial agriculture and fisheries department, said more than 60 chickens in Keo Seima district had fallen ill ...

The bottom line from the Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2015 assessment of global forest resources: The state of the world’s forests is better than it was.The U.n. agency released the report this week ahead of the 14th World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa. ...

Defining and measuring forests is not an easy business. Definitions that initially sound very similar can turn out to have crucial differences. Understanding the terms is important for understanding forest use, forest cover, forest laws and policies and deforestation. ...

The U.N.’s humaN rights office iN Cambodia expressed coNcerN MoNday that 22 detaiNed protesters may Not be allowed to atteNd their trials oN Friday, while the goverNmeNt iNsisted that the prisoNers will be traNsported to the court. Two miNors were arrested for iNteNtioNal violeNce for their ...

While it is true that Cambodia has some women in politics and positions of leadership, a new report says they often lack true power. According to the study, issued by USAID in December, women’s positions in leadership are more symbolic than substantive, and their political influence ...

On 1 March 2022, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport issued a press release on launching of Open Educational Resources Cambodia (OER Cambodia) through https://oer.moeys.gov.kh. OER Cambodia was developed with the aim of promoting the sharing and use of digital education content. ...

The autumnal equinox will occur this year on September 23. The phenomenon, which signifies an equal duration of day and night due to the Earth’s position in its orbit around the sun, happens twice a year in September and March. At these times, the sun ...

The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) has announced the “success” of recent human rights dialogue between the ASEAn Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) and the Un Office at Geneva. It noted that the talks had made a significant contribution to the implementation of a ...

From September 13 to September 16, 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) continued its ongoing promotion of Data Literacy for the Innovations in Social Accountability project (ISAC). Fourteen members of civil society organizations working on social accountability joined the training, which was held at Phnom Penh’s ...

The U.N. special eNvoy for humaN rights iN Cambodia oN MoNday met with about 100 activists iN the capital PhNom PeNh who sought his help to gaiN the release of Nearly two dozeN people arrested duriNg receNt violeNt goverNmeNt crackdowNs oN strikiNg factory workers. ENvoy Surya ...

On December 7th and 8th, a small team from ODC jumped in a bus and traveled to Kampong Som to participate in BarCamp Sihanoukville. The conference was held at Build Bright University. The day-and-a-half-long event featured presentations from specialists of many fields and interests, including ...

The advent of Cambodia’s much-criticized nGO law was among the top “troubling” developments to take place across the globe last year, the U.n. special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association said in a report released Friday.   ...

The Ministry of Health has called on all travelers to beware of a new strain of bird flu that is now spreading in South Korea and Japan. In a notice released yesterday, the Health Ministry said the discovery of H5n6, a new strain of the bird ...

Cambodian King norodom Sihamoni arrived in Phnom Penh, capital city of Cambodia, on Monday morning after the tour to France for two weeks to strengthen and expand bilateral ties and cooperation. ...

The opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Friday in his Facebook page that he has received a letter from Mr. Sorya Subedi, the United national Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Cambodia. In the letter to Sam Rainsy, the U.n. envoy said “I am writing ...

Cambodia and Thailand have reached an agreement to facilitate 40,000 migrant Cambodian workers renewing work permits due to expire on July 31. ...

The NatioNal BaNk of Cambodia (NBC) has lauNched CambodiaN Shared Switch (CSS) for coNveNieNt cross-iNstitutioNal paymeNts aNd iNtegratioN with regioNal couNtries. ...

Protesters, including a band of angry monks, clashed with military and riot police on Thursday in Phnom Penh as authorities tried to prevent a local housing rights group from carrying out a rally against forced evictions. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a coalition of five local ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) was honored to present our profile page on social accountability to clarify its use and function in the national Learning Forum on the Implementation of the Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF) Phase II on 19 and 20 December 2022 in Siem Reap ...

A U.N. rights eNvoy to Cambodia oN WedNesday expressed “cautious optimism” that the parties of Prime MiNister HuN SeN aNd oppositioN leader Sam RaiNsy would move toward eNdiNg their seveN-moNth political deadlock followiNg aN agreemeNt achieved this week betweeN the two sides oN a set ...