Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Cambodian population and poverty rate 2015 in both Khmer and English. Together with the detail information of total population, total family and poverty rate in Cambodia in 2015 in levels of commune, district and province.=>Please <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-published-new-dataset-of-cambodian-population-and-poverty-rate-2015/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Villagers along the Koh Kong province’s coastline have been relocated by a Chinese development company as they have not been granted access to their farm land which falls within the development area and are running short of food. 20 tons of rice have been delivered <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-struggle-in-face-of-chinese-tourism-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has given a Chinese mining company the right to extract gold from 28 square km of land in Kratie province’s Sambor district, a provincial official said yesterday. On July 5, the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy granted Hing Yuan Hanng Yeak Co Ltd <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-company-given-license-to-go-for-gold-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Speaking at the UN General assembly in New York on Monday, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong backed the Palestinians’ bid for full UN membership and called for the lifting of a decades-old US embargo on Cuba, one of the countries backing Cambodia’s bid for a seat <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/foreign-minister-backs-full-un-membership-for-palestinians/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia’s education sector needs a complete overhaul in order to reduce unemployment and successfully diversify the economy beyond garment manufacturing, according to a World Bank report released today. The report’s release came after investors and economists said at a trade and investment conference in Phnom Penh <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/education-overhaul-needed-to-grow-economy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An AustrAliAn nAtionAl Airline would lAunch dAily direct flights between CAmbodiA And AustrAliA eArly next yeAr, the SecretAriAt of StAte of Civil AviAtion sAid yesterdAy. The Airline hAd conducted A feAsibility study And A mArket survey in co-operAtion with A CAmbodiAn technicAl teAm, Long Chheng, deputy <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/AustrAliAn-Airline-will-lAunch-direct-flights-to-kingdom/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Daun Penh district deputy governor Sok Penhvuth said yesterday that he had ent Phnom Penh Municipality a time line of events at a Vattanac Properties construction project that has severely damaged buildings along Phnom Penh’s Sisowath Quay. The report was sent ahead of the creation <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/city-to-assess-damage-to-riverside-buildings/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Families protesting encroachment onto their land by a tycoon who is expanding a road in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district filed a complaint to the Prime Minister’s cabinet and the Municipal Court on Tuesday. On Friday, employees working for tycoon Thong Sarath demolished fences on eight <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/residents-tell-tycoon-to-back-off/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Moody’s Investors Service announced yesterday  it had downgraded the credit rating of aCLEDa Bank, citing the departure of two of  the bank’s major investors in as many years. The loss of a second big sharehol-der in the first half of this year had led to <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/major-bank-downgrade/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a landmark ruling, the Siem Reap Municipal Court yesterday ordered a luxury hotel to reinstate 67 sacked workers &ndash; a legally binding decision that unionists have hailed as a great moment for the judicial system. The decision comes after more than two months of protests, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-lands-court-ko/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The dispute that grounded a Tonlesap airlines plane on Tuesday and stranded more than 200 passengers in Siem Reap and Taipei, Taiwain, continued yesterday, as plane owner Far Eastern Transport upped the sum it claimed Tonlesap owed for fuel. Far Eastern grounded a plane it had <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/airline-ups-stake-in-fuel-fight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Free Trade Union (FTU) President Chea Mony yesterday wrote to Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema, reiterating a request to set a date for talks over the construction of a statue honoring his assassinated brother, the late FTU leader Chea Vichea. Permission to build the statue was <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/union-leader-asks-governor-to-set-statue-discussion-dates/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday urged the economic leaders of the asean bloc to go through with a plan to double a bailout pool, funded largely by China, Japan and South Korea, to prevent future financial crises in the region. Opening the asean Finance <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-urges-action-to-double-regions-bailout-fund/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has urged all relevant departments to use the Criminal Code to prosecute brick kiln owners who use child labour. and the owner of a Kandal facility at which a young girl lost her arm will be among the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/criminal-code-to-be-used-in-brick-kiln-child-labour-cases/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Despite multiple road safety campaigns this year, the number of accidents rose by an alarming 32 percent and the death toll jumped by 27 percent, a police report published yesterday showed. The Kingdom’s roads are notoriously deadly, with an average of five people dying per day <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/alarming-increase-in-road-accidents-and-deaths/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The rural southwestern province of Koh Kong, previously off the international community’s radar screen, has drawn the global spotlight. That’s because a massive runway stretching approximately 3,200 meters appeared suddenly at a resort being developed by a Chinese company in this otherwise out-of-the-way province, about a <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-and-workers-carry-on-as-chinese-transplants-drive-up-land-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian Bar association has refuted a scathing critique of its independence and ethics by the International Bar association (IBa) that questioned Cambodia’s membership in the global group, calling the assessment an unfounded “insult.”Following a visit to the country by a team of legal experts, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/iba-denies-political-influence-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The trip to the hills of eastern Cambodia had all the makings of a luxurious getaway: delicious fresh fruit fed by hand, a dip in a refreshingly cold watering hole and a relaxing massage. at the Mondulkiri Project, it’s not the people who call the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/elephants-get-love-and-care-in-cambodia-with-tourists-help/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia is seeking a budget of $800 million to develop an automated gateway transit (aGT) system following the completion of a year-long feasibility study by the Japan International Cooperation agency (JICa), said Minister of Transport Sun Chanthol yesterday. “The feasibility study of the aGT project conducted <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/800-million-for-mass-transit-system/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In the aftermath of the 2013 election, Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered his colleagues in the ruling CPP to stand before a mirror and cleanse themselves of the sins that had almost allowed a united opposition led by Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha to sweep <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/for-reform-agenda-cpp-takes-cues-from-cnrp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>