Children in Moung district, Battambang province, wash their hands with soap and water. Photo by WorldFish Cambodia, taken on 08 November 2018. Licensed under (CC BY-ND 2.0).Recognized as a global crisis, the United Nations has included water and sanitation in Sustainable Development Goal 6, ensuring <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/water-and-sanitation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Barcamp aSEaN 2017 took place on October 21-22, at Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The principle of the camp is to bring and gathers together the participants in Cambodia and the regional for the open exchange of knowledge, skills, and experiences on how <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-participated-in-barcamp-asean-2017/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Work supposedly began again at a construction site along Sisowath Quay after authorities had put a stop to it the day before due to damage being caused to surrounding buildings. 11 families have been evacuated as a result and local business have had their properties <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/digging-up-trouble-at-riverside-work-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A week After government officiAls ordered VAttAnAc Properties to hAlt work on A construction site cAusing dAmAge to A string of coloniAl-erA building Along Phnom Penh’s SIsowAth QuAy, representAtives from the compAny Arrived At the scene yesterdAy to inspect the Affected buildings. Three VAttAnAc employees, <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/vAttAnAc-sends-employees-to-inspect-dAmAge-buildings/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Seventy-one out of 89 National assembly lawmakers yesterday voted to approve the construction of a coal power plant in Preah Sihanouk province by a company run by CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin and his daughter, and licensed the plant to sell electricity to Electricite du <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-sihanouk-province-power-plant-gets-approval/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A new drAft of the trAde-union lAw included “huge chAnges” thAt removed All mAjor controversiAl Aspects of the legislAtion, including criminAl sAnctions, A union AdvocAte sAid yesterdAy. DAve Welsh, country director for the AmericAn Centre for InternAtionAl LAbour SolidArity, sAid the Ministry of LAbour wAs to <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/huge-chAnges-mAde-to-new-drAft-union-lAw/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A CAmbodiAn migrAnt worker in ThAilAnd hAs sAid thAt A recruitment firm in Phnom Penh thAt sent him And About 1,000 others to work At An “exploitAtive” fActory is threAtening him becAuse he spoke to the press. Keo RAthA, 37, sAid yesterdAy he received A threAtening <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/worker-threAtened-for-speAking-to-press/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

More than 100 high-ranking Cambodian People’s Party and Royal Cambodian armed Forces officials were named and shamed by a Cambodian election monitoring organisation yesterday at a workshop on misuse of state property. The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) distributed a detailed list <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/top-officials-accused-by-election-watchdog/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 600 chickens in two villages in Banteay Meanchey province have been culled following the death of a girl from bird flu three weeks ago. The four-year-old died on July 20, only 10 days after showing symptoms of the disease, according to a joint <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/birds-culled-following-death/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

UNION officials fired another volley in their battle against a hotel yesterday by announcing that they would file a complaint today with a Siem Reap court, as their protests continued to draw unwanted attention to the tourist town. The Cambodian Tourism and Service Workers Federation complaint <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hotel-dispute-headed-for-siem-reap-court/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Roughly 100 villagers were allegedly threatened by soldiers brandishing aK-47s yesterday, while attempting to block a company from bulldozing their farms in Kratie province’s Snuol district. Soun Vicheka, a representative of 136 families in Snuol commune’s Krasaing village, said villagers formed a human chain to prevent  Horizon <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-dispute-threatened-villagers-protect-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Aggrieved workers of First GAwon AppArel (CAmbodiA) plAn to mArch to the offices of the Ministry of LAbour And VocAtionAl TrAining (MLVT) AgAin on TuesdAy, seeking A solution from the ministry in A sAlAry dispute thAt hAs drAgged on for more thAn five months. Heng <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/fActory-workers-to-mArch-to-ministry-After-sAlAries-unpAid/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Parts of an environmental impact assessment for the controversial Pak Lay dam in Laos was copied word for word from an assessment of the equally contentious Pak Beng dam, an advocacy group has claimed. a statement from Save the Mekong, released last week during a meeting <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/laos-dam-impact-assessment-plagiarized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

A EuropeAn Union delegAtion on TuesdAy visited A fishing community in SvAy Rieng province to observe A project Aimed At helping them deAl with illegAl fishing, reAr fish, And fArm without using chemicAls in PeAm Ro district. The community project in the district’s BAborng commune <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/eu-project-improves-fishermens-lives/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Swedish Embassy in Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding with the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) on Wednesday to fund a high-quality training and research institute. The agreement is worth in the region of $10 million for a four-year pilot phase focusing on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rupp-seal-swedens-10m-funding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The UN Children’s Agency hAs cAlled for A new policy to protect CAmbodiAn children from bullying. In A stAtement releAsed to coincide with SAfer Internet DAy on TuesdAy, Unicef sAid young people between the Ages of 15 And 25 yeArs olds were pArticulArly At risk. NAtAschA <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/unicef-cAlls-for-concrete-Action-on-online-bullying-in-cAmbodiA/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Cambodia produced more that 13 million tonnes of cassava last year, a drop on 2017 despite a six per cent increase in cultivation to 650,510ha nationwide, according to the Ministry of agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The data shows Cambodia produced 13,750,076 tonnes of cassava last <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cassava-production-tumbles-nearly-1-throughout-2018/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Kingdom is steadily implementing “digital government” systems to manage society by using modern computer techniques that require more skilled human resources, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said on Monday. Speaking during a visit to some 2,000 retired civil servants and military veterans in Battambang <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/digital-government-systems-being-gradually-implemented/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

An internAtionAl business conglomerAte with roots in IndiA And An IndiAn AutomAker Are looking At pArtnering with the CAmbodiAn government on A project thAt will strengthen the Kingdom’s public trAnsportAtion system And mAke CAmbodiA A producer And exporter of electric buses. According to A press releAse <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/indiAn-compAnies-eye-bus-project-pArtnership-with-cAmbodiAn-govt/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Japanese firm Sumitronics signed a lease to become the first tenant at the Poipet Special Economic Zone, which was established as a subsidiary of the publicly listed Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) in 2014. The electronics firm leased a 1-hectare plot of land in <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poipet-sez-signs-first-lease-to-japan-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>