The U.S. State Department’s annual Human Rights Report, released on Wednesday, highlights poor treatment of Cambodia’s political opposition in 2015, and raises concerns about the judiciary’s “broad interpretation” of the crime of incitement.   ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” by adding one new map layer on land reclassification in Tboung Khmum​ province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as State public properties and the reclassification to State private properties ...

Structures considered to be encroaching on state-owned beach areas in Sihanoukville will be demolished, according to a letter sent on Sunday from the Minister of Land Management to the Committee for Cambodia Coastal Management and Development. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Special economic zone in Cambodia” by adding 1 new map feature of Grand Bokor SEZ in Preah Sihanouk province. This dataset describes the information of special economic zone (SEZ) in Cambodia from 2006 to 2024. The ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 01 new map features in Phnom Penh. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as State public properties and the reclassification to State private properties of some area in Phnom ...

Youth organizations and civil society organizations are calling on the Ministry of Health to push ahead with a proposed law regulating the sale of alcohol, saying that alcohol is damaging the country’s development.   ...

A former cowherd from Kampong Chhnang province attracted public attention recently when he posted several pictures of himself with US President Joe Biden and his grandmother at his recent graduation ceremony from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland – in part due to the ...

On August 12, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the U.S. Embassy to provide Information and Communications Technology (ICT) training to Cambodian schoolchildren in support of the Royal Government of ...

The state-run Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank has been confirmed to bring forward their opening date to earlier this year than previously planned, stated a senior government official yesterday at the Council of Ministers. ...

On 05 October 2020, Cambodian Ambassador and Permanent Representative Sokkhoeurn AN stated at the 45th session of the human right council, responding on 12 points of the report of the secretary general on role and achievements of the OHCHR in Cambodia such as the relation ...

Dangerous political instability in Cambodia could put asylum seekers at grave risk, a leading academic has warned, as Immigration Minister Scott Morrison gave his strongest indication yet that refugees may be resettled there. University of NSW emeritus professor Carl Thayer said he was shocked the government would ...

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) yesterday held a presentation in front of local authorities on a project that aims to tackle the waste crisis Cambodia is facing. ...

Two years ago, seven Cambodian cities committed to a sustainable city strategic plan to address environmental issues, with waste management being one of the highest -priority issues among most of the cities, according to a Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) 2019 annual report.​ ...

Hun Sen’s Cambodia has been shaped by the collection of illegal timber dollars, profiting a politically connected elite and in turn ensuring the ruling party’s grip on the state apparatus, a leading Australian researcher has said. Sarah Milne, a research fellow at the Australian National University, ...

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has decided to relocate the Royal University of Fine Arts from its central Phnom Penh location to the outskirts of the city to allow for an expansion of the National Museum, officials said Thursday. ...

Officials from the government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) yesterday appeared to lay the blame for the delayed establishment of an independent rights body at the feet of civil society. ...

PRASAC Microfinance Institution, Cambodia’s biggest MFI by outstanding loans, has received a US$2 million loan from the Netherlands Development Finance Company ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen describes climate change as the single worst threat humanity faces today, predicting that – contrary to popular belief – the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict will end eventually through compromises. ...

Showing a shift in mindset, more Cambodians are now taking loans from microfinance institutions (MFIs) over home needs than for farming. ...

A series of contracts have been implemented by 40 communities and six production groups, including a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a microfinance institution to guarantee payment at harvest time to 2,236 farming families. ...