Grant Opportunities for Bachelor Research supportBackgroundOpen Development Cambodia (ODC) is an ‘open data’ website, the first of its kind in southeast Asia. The open data movement is based on the simple premise that data collected for public interest should be publicly available without restrictions. Information ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is the leading open data platform in Cambodia and envisions a sustainable, democratic and participatory development for the country. The mission of ODC is to ensure access to information and improve the data ecosystem by making up-to-date and reliable content on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minerals from Halpern Mineral Collection, san Francisco, Photo by Eric Hunt taken on October 21 2006. License under: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Many of Cambodia’s mineral resources are undeveloped, with most production concentrating on construction materials such as crushed stone, sand, gravel and limestone.1There is currently no ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The head of Cambodia’s largest demining operator cited Monday’s disposal of a pair of decades-old American bombs as part of the government’s mounting efforts to shame the U.s. into canceling the country’s ballooning war-era debt, which now stands at about $500 million. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten of Beehive Radio’s 22 employees protested outside the station’s headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Wednesday in a fifth day of strikes over owner Mam sonando’s decision not to pay last month’s wages to four staff members he claims failed to regularly show ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Four trade unions on Tuesday demanded that Cambodia’s garment and footwear manufacturers raise the minimum wage of their workers and provide them with additional benefits, threatening a nationwide strike and demonstrations if they do not comply. In a joint letter to the Van sou Ieng, president ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 19 August 2021, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, attended via videoconference the pledging conference to support AsEAN’s Humanitarian Assistance in Myanmar, on 18 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Citi Research, the strategy and analysis arm of Citigroup Inc, one of the world’s largest financial firms, has questioned NagaCorp’s VIP junket program in a recent report that also cites cross-border competition and tourism failings as potential threats to the program’s success. Citi Research’s analysis was ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government on Thursday announced a higher minimum wage of U.s. $80 per month for garment and footwear workers but they were not impressed, vowing to continue a strike until it is raised to U.s. $100. A tripartite meeting between the government, unions and Garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union’s delegation to Cambodia will almost triple its funding to the Kingdom over the next five years because the bloc’s aid policy has shifted its focus to least developed countries. Jean-François Cautain, ambassador for the European Union’s delegation to Cambodia, announced the EU would ss='cambodia-color'>...

A higher minimum salary for Cambodia’s garment and footwear worker is still not within sight after talks broke down Tuesday between unions representing the workers and their employers, officials said. The garment and footwear workers unions proposed to nearly double the current minimum monthly wage of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has witnessed a trade deficit of 1.41 billion U.s. dollars in the first eight months of the year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce on Monday. The country’s total import and export volume was valued at 10.45 billion U.s. dollars during the January-August ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has seen a trade deficit of 1.48 billion U.s. dollars in the first nine months of 2013, according to the Commerce Ministry’s data on Friday. The total import and export volume was valued at 11.82 billion U.s. dollars during the January-september period this year, up ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties have agreed to consider a 14-point election reform agenda aimed at ending months of political deadlock, including a contentious proposal to revamp the country’s main electoral body, representatives said Tuesday. The initial agreement was forged at the third round of talks ss='cambodia-color'>...

While 600 hectares of farmland has dried up in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thmar Puok district, as the region’s nearly month-long drought took its toll, local officials on Monday were optimistic that sunday evening’s rainfall will spare the rest of the district’s fields. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Increasing the tobacco retail tax — one of the world’s lowest at 10 per cent of unit price for domestically produced cigarettes — would deter smokers and increase government revenue while having minimal effect on tobacco producers, Ayda Yurekli, co-ordinator for the World Health Organization’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s relationship with China is at an all-time high, officials said on Wednesday, as authorities braced for the arrival of the country’s premier Xi Jinping today with the deployment of some 7,000 security personnel. During a meeting between China’s new ambassador to Cambodia, Xiong Bo, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition and ruling parties have completed 90 percent of a draft law to reform the country’s electoral body, officials said Monday following talks. Revamping the National Election Committee (NEC), which oversees the country’s elections, was a key component of a deal struck in July between ss='cambodia-color'>...