Cambodia’s porous borders are creating one of several headaches for health officials working to minimise outbreaks of avian influenza, officials revealed yesterday at a symposium on emerging infectious diseases in Southeast Asia. The border provinces of Takeo and Kampong Cham have been witness to the highest ...

Cambodian Prince norodom Ranariddh, a son of late King norodom Sihanouk, said Monday that his return to be the president of the royalist Funcinpec Party is to reunite the royalists and Sihanoukists. The prince also said that the party will work closely with Prime Minister Hun ...

Three New ZealaNd compaNies will leave their mark oN Kids City, a massive New family eNtertaiNmeNt complex iN Cambodia offeriNg 7000 square metres of iNdoor activities, shops, cafes aNd aN ice skatiNg riNk oN the top floor. WheN it opeNs iN March, visitors to the 12-story ...

This dataset contains data for mining concessions in Cambodia’s from 1995 to 2014. The data was collected from many sources by ODC’s mappers such as government, news, company profiles, reports and nGO agency in both pdf and shapefile format. Geographic data is encoded in the ...

Wang Wenbin, the newly appointed Chinese Ambassador Designate to Cambodia, has pledged to enhance cooperation between China and Cambodia, aiming to achieve greater accomplishments and benefits for the people of both nations. ...

From 10 to 13 May 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted a four-day data literacy training focused on local members of the press at the Polou Wai hotel, focused on the topic of Data Literacy for Social Accountability. It was the first press-specific data literacy ...

ODC Research & Volunteer Coordinator and ODC Design Team Leader at WorkFrom 24 to 25 August 2013, Research and Volunteer Coordinator Chan Penhleak and Design Team Leader Heng Huy Eng participated in the BarCamp event, a tech and entrepreneurship Conference, which was held in Kampong ...

Nearly a moNth after Cambodia’s secoNd uNiversal periodic review (UPR) of its humaN rights situatioN at the U.N. iN GeNeva, rights groups met iN PhNom PeNh oN Thursday to discuss how they caN work with the goverNmeNt to eNsure that the 163 recommeNdatioNs it accepted ...

A senior official of the Sambor Prei Kuk national Authority (SPKnA) said they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian government on a restoration project for Prison Temple – or Asram Moha Russei. ...

On 13 June 2018, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training released an announcement referencing to letter no.961 n.E.C singed on 12 June 2018 by the national Election Committee (nEC) to inform all owners, and employers of factory, manufacturing and all institutions to facilitate the ...

The global recognition given to the Angkor temple complex in Siem Reap—and other sites around the world that receive U.n. world heritage status—does as much to damage as it does to preserve the historical gem, according to a new research paper that was published in the ...

Thousands of Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans staged coordinated mass demonstrations in cities across the U.S. on Monday in support of opposition claims that Cambodia’s closely contested July election was rigged in favor of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his long-ruling CPP. In Long Beach and San ...

Despite a stubborn refusal by the government to act upon his electoral reform recommendations over the past two years, U.n. human rights envoy Surya Subedi walked away from his meeting with national Election Committee chairman Im Suosdey on Tuesday espousing optimism. “The process of reform is ...

The number of Cambodia’s outbound travelers increased by 10 percent year-on-year to 871,000 last year, a report of the Ministry of Tourism showed Tuesday. Ang Kim Eang, president of Cambodia Association of Travel Agents, which represents about 220 tour and travel companies, said most of Cambodian ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is providing financial and material support to the beleaguered Funcinpec Party to cover its rent, electricity, transportation and general administration expenses, as well as offering political training to its younger members, senior leaders of the royalist party said Wednesday. Funcinpec was ...

Prince norodom Ranariddh, who became first prime minister of Cambodia after the 1993 U.n.-sponsored elections, will form a new party and re-enter the political arena, according to his cabinet chief. “The prince has a plan to create a new party,” said naranarith Anandayath, chief of Prince ...

Cambodia welcomed 3.6 million overseas tourists in the first 10 months of 2014, up 6 percent compared to the same period last year, a tourism official said on Wednesday. Kong Sopheareak, chief of the statistics and planning department at the Ministry of Tourism, said the top ...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance has pledged to provide another $10 million in addition to a $83 million fund to purchase rice from farmers at a reasonable cost amid low prices​ to avoid selling to crooked dealers. ...

The pandemic has thrown additional hurdles to the media landscape as there is a quiet resignation of consuming news in the region, the head of a research centre said on Thursday, claiming people find news troublesome, problematic, and biased. ...

Cambodia has launched its first strategic plan on cooling, seen as one of the largest contributors to global warming, to steer the nation towards a greener and cleaner future. ...