Over the past three days, the CNRP conducted one of the most significant campaigns of mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government in years. For three days, more than 20,000 people packed into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for daily appearances from opposition leaders Sam Rainsy <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrps-next-challenge-how-to-compromise/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In 2011, Oeun Phirun took out a $450 loan from the asian Development Bank, using half to buy a used motorbike and spending the rest on a small flock of ducks and chickens he hoped to raise. His family and about 1,000 others have been evicted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/evicted-railway-families-await-adbs-help/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just updated the economic land concession and developer information of Chhun Hong Rubber Better Co., and published an amendment contract between the company and the Ministry of agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (MaFF). Published with comprehensive documentation, the profile page is accessible <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-has-updated-economic-land-concession-information-and-published-contract-of-chhun-hong-rubber-better-co-with-maff/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The first outbreak of COVID-19 was reported in China in late 2019 and on 30 January 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).1 The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the global economy and the growing crisis <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/profiles/socio-economic-impact-of-covid-19-on-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Pandemics are disease epidemics that spread from person to person as a result of human-to-human transmission. Many medical texts do not define the term “pandemic”. However, some key characteristics of pandemics, including wide geographic spread, disease movement, novelty, severity, high attack rates and explosiveness, minimal <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/pandemics/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

National budget on uptrendIn the last three years, Cambodia’s national budget has seen significant growth of around US$ 1.6 billion, from US$ 3.4 billion in 2014150 to US$ 5 billion in 2017.151 This is an average annual increase of almost 14%. The increase can be <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/profiles/access-to-public-service/budget-and-public-procurement/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Students gathering around 3D printed models at a construction expo in Phnom Penh. Photo by aRC Hub PNH, taken in December 2014. Used with permission from aRC Hub PNH.Cambodia has achieved considerable economic and social progress in the last few decades, but the country does <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/science-and-technology/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

UN’s Bali Climate Change Conference. Photo by Oxfam International, taken on 4 December 2007. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Climate change is a continuing problem. In Southeast asia, Cambodia is one of the countries that is most affected and underprepared. as it is a developing country, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/adaptation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Forest cover is the area of land covered by tree canopy. Measuring and reporting this can show the different types of forest that exist and the areas of each, and how these areas change over time. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/forest-cover-reporting/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The opening of the Cambodian economy in the 1990s and the new Investment Law (2021) encouraged investment in development projects in a range of sectors, including extractive industries, physical infrastructure, agriculture, hydropower, and ecotourism, among others. These sectors are obligated to carry out the Environmental <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/environmental-impact-assessment-eia-importance-and-opportunity-to-engage-the-local-community/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 23 November 2017 at the office of Open Development Cambodia (ODC), Phnom Penh, ODC team has organized a workshop on “ODC Website and Information on access to Public Services”, funded by Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (SPIDER), under a project theme of “Public awareness of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/workshop-on-odc-website-and-information-on-access-to-public-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A JApAn energy compAny yesterdAy sAid it plAnned to build A rice mill fuelled by rice husks in CAmbodiA’s TAkeo province. New Energy And IndustriAl Technology Development OrgAnizAtion yesterdAy signed A memorAndum of understAnding with the Kingdom’s Ministry of Industry, Mines And Energy (MIME) confirming cooperAtion <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/renewAble-energy-to-power-tAkeo-milling-plAnt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A teenAger wAs one of 13 girls locked inside A recruitment compAny’s offices in the cApitAl lAst yeAr After being promised work As A mAid in MAlAysiA, she told the Phnom Penh MunicipAl Court yesterdAy. The court yesterdAy tried three people over Alleged illegAl detention And humAn <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/mAid-brokers-on-the-stAnd/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Thousands of families along the Sekong river were evacuated last week after the collapse of a dam in Laos led to a deluge in the district. a member of the Kavet ethnic minority, Ms Doung and her family were among 15 other families in Santepheap <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/families-displaced-in-siem-pang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction ordered a committee on Tuesday to spend a week inspecting the legality and technical standards of all construction projects in Preah Sihanouk province. This follows the collapse of a seven-storey building in Sihanoukville on Saturday that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-orders-inspection-of-building-sites-in-preah-sihanouk/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two men have been placed in pre-trial detention for “fishing using electric shock devices” in a Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin conservation zone in Kratie province. a 104kg, 1.98m male dolphin was found dead in the same preservation area on Sunday after its flipper became entangled <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/men-nabbed-for-dolphin-zone-fishing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Plans appear to be in the works to develop a central stretch of prime riverfront real estate currently owned by a state-run enterprise into a sprawling commercial development, according to sources involved with the landowner, though key government officials professed to be in the dark <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/public-lot-on-riverside-eyed-for-major-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Foreign AffAirs Ministry yesterdAy sAid thAt CAmbodiA hAs been elected to become A non-permAnent member of the United NAtions Economic And SociAl Council for A durAtion of one yeAr.​ A ministry stAtement sAid thAt At the UN heAdquArters in New York on WednesdAy, 183 of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAmbodiA-eArns-un-economic-council-seAt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Japanese-owned Hotel Okura Co. Ltd. on Monday reached an agreement with TEHO Development Cambodia Pte. Ltd. &ndash; a subsidiary of Singapore-listed TEHO International &ndash; to develop and manage a luxury hotel in Phnom Penh as the company as part of its expansion in aSEaN, a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-luxury-chain-to-open-hotel-in-capital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia needs a genuine “culture of dialogue” between its political parties to avert a descent into crisis, Monovithya Kem, the daughter of deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha and a spokeswoman for the country’s opposition party, told The Diplomat Tuesday in an exclusive interview in Washington <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-needs-genuine-dialogue-to-avert-crisis-opposition-spokeswoman/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>