Facebook insights training
Open Development Cambodia regularly posts social accountability information on its website and shares relevant updates on this topic via social media. in particular, Facebook has high mobile usage and impact in Cambodia overall.To strengthen ODC’s outreach for its work in the innovations for Social Accountability ...
Advanced Google Analytics training
Following internews’ 2021 class for ODC on Google Analytics, further Advanced Google Analytics training was developed for the third year of participation in the innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) project. Eight ODC team members joined the training facilitated by Elshad Gojayev of internews’ ...
Statement from the Federation of Khmer Chinese in Cambodia
On 24 August 2022, the Federation of Khmer Chinese in Cambodia (FKCC) released a statement that disputed international media characterizations of the country as a haven for criminal syndicates. Unofficial translations in English and Khmer are accessible and downloaded in PDF format. ...
Federation of Khmer Chinese in Cambodia
US embassy welcomes PM to strengthen bilateral ties
US Ambassador W. Patrick Murphy welcomed Prime Minister Hun Sen to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh in a move that aims to strengthen bilateral relations into 2023. It added that the United States has welcomed Cambodia’s leadership of ASEAN during a year of “global ...
Marissa Carruthers
https://kiripost.com/stories/us-embassy-welcomes-pm-to-strengthen-bilateral-ties
ODC staff trained on podcast production for social accountability
On 25 October 2023, ODC and Internews collaborated to deliver traInIng on podcast production for social accountability under a project titled “Innovations for Social Accountability In Cambodia (ISAC)“. The traInIng was designed to build the capacity of the ODC team to produce high-quality podcasts that ...
Silk Road Art event held to mark 65 years of Cambodia-China ties
As part of the celebrations to mark 65 years of China-Cambodian diplomatic ties, the Embassy of China hosted Silk Road Art Performance at Cambodian Secondary School of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh on Friday. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501401267/silk-road-art-event-held-to-mark-65-years-of-cambodia-china-ties/
NBC calls for more salary payments in Riel
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Governor Chea Serey encouraged businesses in the Kingdom to prioritize internal policies to pay staff salaries in Khmer Riel (KHR) as opposed to the US dollar (USD), especially in regards to businesses involved in the garment, textile and footwear ...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501465505/nbc-calls-for-more-salary-payments-in-riel/
Multilingual Education Students had a great time watching and learning from the Digital Educational Resources in Indigenous Languages
After Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) successfully organized a launching workshop on “Digital Educational Resources in indigenous Languages for Primary School Students” on October 27, 2023, at the Kampong Cham Provincial Department of Education, Youth, and Sport, the ODC team commenced on-site promotional activities on ...
Women sceptical of ASEAN
Cambodian women have the most to lose from the planned 2015 ASEAN integration, a coalition of more than 100 Cambodian women said yesterday at the Cambodian Women Forum. Because Cambodian women are so poorly educated, when the job market opens up, competition from other countries like ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032255194/National-news/women-sceptical-of-asean.html
Landmines kill 41 Cambodians, injuring 121 others in 10 months
Cambodia on Monday recorded 162 landmine casualties in the first ten months of this year, down 4 percent from 155 casualties at the same period last year, showed a report from the Cambodian Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Victim information System. The report said that ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/03/c_132016467.htm
Abuse allegations dog latest oknha honouree
A wealthy tycoon who stands accused of savagely abusing two teenage maids for nearly a decade has been anointed with the sought-after honourific of oknha. in a royal decree dated July 26 and obtained yesterday, Veng Lyphytech – who, along with his wife, Ly Pov, faces ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/abuse-allegations-dog-latest-oknha-honouree
NGOs push for boost in female candidates
More than 50 per cent of candidates nominated by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party in the upcoming provincial and district council elections should be women, a coalition of 12 civil society groups said in a letter on Thursday. ...
Vong Sokheng and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-push-boost-female-candidates
Obama announces new education effort to 'Let Girls Learn'
Saying every girl “has value,” President Barack Obama announced a more focused government effort Tuesday to help tens of millions of girls around the world attend and stay in school. Michelle Obama said she’s heading to Japan and Cambodia later this month to promote it. ...
ABC News Staff
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-lady-plans-mid-march-visit-japan-cambodia-29346795
Michelle Obama to visit Cambodia to promote girls’ education
First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Cambodia as part of a tour later this month to promote a Peace Corps initiative for the education of girls. ...
Ten Soksreinith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/michelle-obama-to-visit-cambodia-to-promote-girls-education/2665930.html
The first district website to have its domain officially registered and served for promoting budget transparency
Located at Banteay Meanchey province, Ou Chruv district lies in the west of the province and is also one of the nine districts of the province. Bordering with Thailand makes Ou Chruv a border crossing point that is home to one of the busy districts. ...
Staff poaching spurs bank action
Cambodia’s banking sector is looking to establish a collective fund to help recoup staff training expenses lost from competitors poaching employees off one another, Grant Knuckey, CEO of ANZ Royal said yesterday. Speaking at the launch of ANZ Royal’s business confidence index in Phnom Penh yesterday, ...
Eddie Morton and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/staff-poaching-spurs-bank-action
ODC Google Analytics training
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has been working closely with internews for the innovations in Social Accountability project. To strengthen the ODC team’s site measurement capabilities, internews facilitated training on Google Analytics for six staff and one CSO observer.The training was conducted by a local Google ...
ODC hosted a training program on “Data Literacy for Journalists” for Cambodian journalists
Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with internews, organized a training program on “Data Literacy for Journalists” that brought together 11 journalists, of whom 2 are female, from Cambodia’s capital and provinces. The training program is part of the innovation for Social Accountability (ISAC) project ...
Workshop on ODC website and information on access to public services
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 ...
Government salaries to no longer be paid in cash
The wages of 400,000 civil servants from 39 government ministries are to be paid via a new electronic banking system due to be rolled out next month. Secretary of State for the Ministry of Economy and Finance Chu Kim Leng announced the new payroll system on ...
Chan Muy Hong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-salaries-no-longer-be-paid-cash