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. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/michelle-obama-to-visit-cambodia-to-promote-girls-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than a dozen international advocacy groups wrote to National assembly President Heng Samrin asking him to withdraw a controversial draft law on NGOs and associations. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/host-of-groups-call-for-scrapping-the-ngo-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Two foreigners were let off with a warning yesterday after flying a camera-equipped drone near Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house in central Phnom Penh. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flight-control-foreigners-told-not-to-drone-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Facing an opposition boycott and a European Union threat over foreign aid, the government plans to vote into law today a controversial draft law restricting NGOs. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/assembly-to-approve%e2%80%8b-ngo-curb-law-today/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Officials in Kratie province are insisting that a small group of families involved in a local land dispute register with the Interior Ministry or be “punished.” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kratie-families-feel-effects-of-ngo-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Kheo Tha was driving outside Phnom Penh yesterday when she received a frantic phone call from her friend, a sex worker who works near Wat Phnom. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arrests-of-sex-workers-surge/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The fundamental GIS training was successfully conducted at ODC office, Phnom Penh, from 03 to 05 February 2020. a number of civil society organizations have been invited to join this three-day training. Those organizations include Build Community Voice (BCV), People Center for Development and Peace <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/gis-training-for-improved-natural-resources-management-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Nean Narin, a humble man and father of three children, says his family is going hungry. Narin lives in the village of Boeung Kak, situated on the edge of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. For years, he and other villagers relied on the Boeung Kak Lake <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-is-life-and-its-slipping-away/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

If you’ve applied for a mortgage recently, you know how hard it can be. The bank demands all kinds of obscure documents and wants proof of almost every asset you own. But an innovative mortgage program halfway around the world will evaluate your application without <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/new-mortgage-program-helps-cambodias-poor-find-better-homes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The elusive Mekong giant catfish, which the U.S.-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called “one of the world’s largest and rarest freshwater fish,” can reach up to three meters (10 feet) and weigh up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds). The Xayaburi dam would prove an “impassable barrier” <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mekong-dams-threaten-extinction-of-giant-catfish/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Rights groups on Monday urged the government to drop its incitement charges against four people arrested last week and accused of plotting to topple the government by handing out yellow roses to security forces and urging them to turn their guns against Prime Minister Hun <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-say-rose-revolution-case-is-baseless/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Logging tycoon Try Pheap has come under fire from two separate reports alleging that he is using his vast network of concessions and licences to decimate protected forests across Cambodia. One of the reports, an exhaustive four-month investigation by a local NGO, also looked at the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/logging-mogul-blasted/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

When the ruling Cambodian People’s Party promised civil servants a pay rise earlier this year, some suggested it was also trying to give them a reason to vote for it in July’s national election. The 20 per cent increase came amid the opposition Cambodia National Rescue <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rise-of-the-bureaucrats/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia has no control over Cambodian-flagged ships complicit in illegal activities on the high seas as the government sold the authority to register ocean-going vessels, under Cambodia’s national flag, to a company in South Korea for $6 million, a Council of Ministers official claimed Thursday. On <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-sold%e2%80%88national-ship-registry-rights/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The high-ranking government officials and global clothing brand representatives who took part in a meeting in Phnom Penh on Wednesday both raised concern​s​ about the media coverage of last month’s lethal repression of a nationwide strike by garment workers and its aftermath. The meeting was called <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/govt-criticizes-media-coverage-of-strike-violence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

For breakfast, it’s rice. For lunch, it’s rice again, and for dinner &ndash; rice. Sometimes, Cambodian Un Koy says, her mother will prepare some beans or carrots, and on very special days even fish or pork. across asia, rice is the most widely consumed staple. That’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-tests-super-rice-to-fortify-its-children/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Briefing on Investment Law (Khmer)Briefing on Investment Law (English)Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just released a new briefing page, in both Khmer and English languages, on Cambodian Investment Law which it mainly provides the insight of Cambodia’s legal framework on investment sector. (Please visit: http://archive.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/briefing/briefing-on-investment-law/)This <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/briefing-on-investment-law-is-now-available-online/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 3 March 2023, the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh issued a statement on the Kem Sokha verdict. The United States is deeply troubled by the conviction of respected Cambodian political leader Kem Sokha. The multi-year process to silence Kem Sokha, based on a fabricated conspiracy, is <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/statement-from-u-s-embassy-phnom-penh-on-the-kem-sokha-verdict/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

On 26 October 2023, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) and the Ministry of Culture and Fine arts (MCFa) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation for verify.gov.kh, set up the infrastructure, and established an internet connection”. Based on the content of the <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-signing-ceremony-of-the-mou-on-cooperation-between-the-ministry-of-posts-and-telecommunications-and-the-ministry-of-culture-and-fine-arts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Although there is currently no commerciAl-scAle production of gold cArried out in CAmbodiA, explorAtion by mAny compAnies is underwAy, with some promising find reported. Subject to government ApprovAl, commerciAl production could begin in 2016 or 2017. Gold is found in A number of <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/topics/gold/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>