Cambodia has the ambition to transform and digitalize the government system and its economy. The overarching determination comes after the country’s ambitious economic goal of 2050, the readiness to keep up with the region’s science and technology development, and the global megatrend, the fourth industrial <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/science-and-technology-policy-and-administration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Garment workers waiting in line to get food. Photo by International Labour Organisation, taken on 14 July 2015. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia has the highest labor force participation rate in the Southeast asia/Pacific region, with 82.7 percent of the working population aged 16-64 employed <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/labor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A senior officiAl of the Posts And TelecommunicAtion Ministry wAs Arrested for corruption yesterdAy, According A locAl newspAper. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/senior-telecommunicAtion-officiAl-Arrested-for-corruption/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The cabinet has approved a plan for a Thai-Cambodia railway bridge to achieve Southern Economic Corridor connectivity. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cabinet-approves-the-thai-cambodia-railway-bridge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Extractive industries include mining and mineral sectors, natural gas and oil exploration, petroleum refineries, and quarrying for construction resources such as sand, stone, and gravel. Cambodia’s extractive resources have gone largely untapped, while these resources are geographically identifiable.The government considers extractive industries a potentially important <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/profiles/public-revenues-from-extractive-industries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, and other Cambodian Ministers were at the aid for Trade Global Review 2019. Photo by World Trade Organization (WTO), taken on 03 July 2019. Licensed under CC BY-Sa 2.0.after two decades of strong economic performance, Cambodia moved into the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Damage to Cambodia’s rice crop from widespread flooding earlier this year will likely cause economic growth to fall below 6 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which yesterday offered the lowest gross domestic product (GDP) prediction so far In a statement, the IMF chose <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imf-cuts-2011-growth-outlook-to-below-6/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Economy and Finance Minister Keat Chhon yesterday urged consumers to limit their gasoline consumption in the face of rising prices, saying the Cambodian government would not boost the hundreds of millions of dollars he claimed it already offered in fuel subsidies. Speaking at the Ministry of <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdoms-consumers-told-to-save-gas/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Poor education and a lack of skills are still major challenges for Cambodian women and a recent meeting in Phnom Penh with the Ministry of Women’s affairs and the United Nations Development Program set out to validate an action plan on women’s economic empowerment that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/meeting-sets-out-action-plan-for-womens-economic-empowerment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Widely different interpretations of the government’s land policy were voiced at a conference on Land Security and Housing Rights on Thursday in Phnom Penh, with civil servants defending mass relocations, while rural evictees spoke of being forced into poverty due to loss of their land. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/official-says-resettlement-sites-are-good-for-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Venerable Sann Leang, executive director of NGO Environmental More than 500 villagers held a march in eastern Cambodia Friday to protest a controversial dam project on the Mekong River in Laos they say is undergoing construction despite a pledge to halt progress while officials <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hundreds-protest-lao-dam-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodians for Resource Revenue Transparency (CRRT) wrote a letter to Ms. Elizabeth M. Murphy, Secretary of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 7, 2012 to back up PWYP’s recommendations and to encourage the Commission to define the “Project” in relation to each lease, license <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-transparency-organization-applauds-us-rule-on-oil-gas-and-mining-payments-disclosure/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The village in Kratie province where a teenage girl was shot dead by government security forces on Wednesday remained completely sealed off to independent observers on Friday, drawing concerns from human rights workers that the government had imposed a state of martial law in the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/no-access-to-kratie-village-after-killing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Just days ahead of Sunday’s commune elections, Prime Minister Hun Sen again broke his pledge to remain silent during his party’s campaign period and sought to ease the concerns of communities whose livelihoods have been threatened by land disputes. Speaking to villagers through a mobile telephone, <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ahead-of-vote-hun-sen-breaks-silence-to-make-land-promises/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Price levels picked up during the first half of 2012 but will likely cool down in the second half of the year due to changes in energy prices and major food related items. Therefore, the inflation rate has been upwardly adjusted by 30 basis points to 4.8 percent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prices-and-monetary-developments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Soldiers should not have been deployed in support of a warrant to arrest land dispute protesters in Kratie province in May&mdash;an operation that led to the killing of a 14-year-old girl by armed forces, a Japanese human rights group said in a new report. The report <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngo-says-dispatch-of-troops-against-protesters-unjustifiable/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

As questions linger over the fAte of the independent Beehive RAdio stAtion in the wAke of its owner’s Arrest, A government officiAl yesterdAy insisted there were no plAns to stop it from broAdcAsting, despite its often criticAl stAnce towArd the ruling pArty. “No plAn to shut <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/no-plAn-to-shut-beehive-rAdio-govt-sAys/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Climate change will have a significant effect on major industrial and food crops in the Lower Mekong basin countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, says a new study. The study, conducted by the Mekong adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change Project for the U.S. agency <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/climate-change-to-affect-mekong-production/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 120 families in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district sent a letter on Monday to the district governor asking for his help in addressing the flooding problem that has seen some of their homes collapse and has forced many to seek temporary accommodation elsewhere, villagers <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-say-homes-being-purposely-flooded/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Prime Minister Hun Sen warned thousands of villagers yesterday that his most popular initiatives, including his far-reaching land-titling scheme, will simply disappear if he is not re-elected in July’s national election &ndash; amid suggestions his campaigning has unofficially begun. In a marked shift from his apparent <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/largesse-and-threats-ahead-of-election/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>