Vietnam foreign ministry spokesperson on Thursday requests the Cambodian administration to “take effective measures to stop those wrongful actions of protesters, which are not in line with the traditional friendship and sound relationship between Vietnam and Cambodia.”​ href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vietnam-requests-cambodia-to-stop-wrongful-actions-of-protesters-spokesperson/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s just-concluded visit to China’s Nanning city for the 11th ASEAN-China Expo is a “success”, contributing to further enhancing Cambodia’s ties with China and ASEAN, a senior official said Tuesday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-pms-visit-to-nanning-a-success-senior-official/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng told an audience of university graduates on Tuesday that recent efforts to clean up the education system would extend to his ministry to combat claims that the civil service is plagued by nepotism. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/interior-minister-pledges-merit-based-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian human rights and democracy activists in the US have split opinions on the deal cut between the ruling party and the opposition in July, ending a political deadlock that had lasted since the July 2013 elections. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/us-activists-disappointed-with-opposition-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers marched through Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district on Saturday, handing out leaflets in an effort to inform the public about their land dispute with Thailand’s Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Limited (KSL). href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-hand-out-leaflets-in-fight-with-sugar-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Former parliamentary candidate and opposition information chief Meach Sovannara said yesterday that he would not appear in court today for questioning related to charges stemming from a violent opposition protest in July. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-official-to-skip-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two more Cambodian women who were trafficked to China as brides are being assisted by officials at the Kingdom’s embassy in Beijing and will soon be repatriated, the government said yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-china-brides-aided/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Global building footprints​ in Cambodia”. This bilingual new dataset of 3,874,425 building footprints in Cambodia is publicly available for download.=> Please click here to go to “Global building footprints​ in Cambodia”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-global-building-footprints-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Cambodia food prices”. This dataset provides Cambodian food price data from the World Food Programme price database. The World Food Programme price database includes corn, rice, beans, fish, and sugar prices.=> Please click here to go href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-cambodia-food-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) was honored to present our profile page on social accountability to clarify its use and function in the National Learning Forum on the Implementation of the Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF) Phase II on 19 and 20 December 2022 in Siem Reap href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/social-accountability-page-presented-at-the-isaf-ii-learning-forum/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Saturday brushed off protests from a group of students demanding he respond to claims that he had a series of extramarital affairs, telling CNRP faithful to prepare for next year’s commune elections.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kem-sokha-cnrp-must-turn-focus-to-commune-elections/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

 Tuy Sereivathana sits at his desk transfixed by the glow of his computer screen. On the walls of the environmentalist’s modest office are hung pictures of rare species of plants and animals found in the Cardamom Mountains, one of Cambodia’s few remaining wildernesses. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/former-goldman-prize-winner-on-bridging-business-environmentalist-divide/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese company has donated fire equipment to the Interior Ministry worth about $200,000, an official said yesterday. Neth Vantha, a fire department chief, said that Enterprise Limited of China is set to donate the equipment, including two fire trucks. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-donates-200000-in-fire-equipment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government has unveiled four strategies to eliminate malnutrition in the country, especially among children. Prime Minister Hun Sen is enlisting state institutes, partners and NGOs to join the fight to eliminate malnutrition as the country holds national nutrition day today. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/plan-to-defeat-hunger/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s telecommunications regulator has called on seven mobile network operators to give an assurance by September 1 that they have registered all their subscribers in accordance with a directive from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication and the Ministry of Interior. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/trc-wants-sim-guarantee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 50 migrant workers on Wednesday protested outside a branch of a recruitment agency in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district that they say duped them out of $260 they paid for a guarantee of employment in Thailand. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nearly-200-migrant-workers-duped-out-of-260/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Despite failing in its latest attempt to win the Philippine government’s bid to import rice, Cambodia will once again throw its hat into the ring when the offer is reissued, industry representatives said yesterday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-set-to-take-second-go-at-rice-bid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday arrested two reporters and a construction worker in Kampot City for their alleged role in extorting a deputy provincial governor, officials and a colleague of one of the suspects said Sunday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-arrests-reporters-and-construction-worker/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 workers from a Phnom Penh footwear factory got an early start on Tuesday on a cross-union campaign for a $177 minimum wage, set to start today, protesting in front of their factory over internal workplace grievances. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-start-wage-battle-a-day-early/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Defense Minister Tea Banh on Saturday said he would add some 700 additional soldiers to the ranks of the military’s Phnom Penh-based Brigade 70 next year so the unit can better help local military police quell protests. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tea-banh-says-more-soldiers-are-headed-for-phnom-penh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...