Research travel grants
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'>...
Jobs: ICT in Education Project Officer
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 and mineral products
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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'>...
US envoy says rights discussed at summit
The top U.S. envoy to ASEAN Said on WedneSday that deSpite trade and Security iSSueS being at the cen&Shy;ter of laSt week&rSquo;S U.S.-ASEAN Sum&Shy;mit, U.S. PreSident Barack Obama alSo uSed the Setting to addreSS the region&rSquo;S human rightS problemS. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/108955-108955/
Old US bombs revive dispute over $500m war-era debt
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'>...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/old-us-bombs-revive-dispute-over-500m-war-era-debt-126478/
Beehive radio employees on strike; Sonando defiant
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'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/beehive-radio-employees-on-strike-sonando-defiant-79551/
ACLEDA awarded credit upgrade by ratings agency
ACLEDA Bank (CSX: ABC)&rSquo;S Standalone credit profile haS been upgraded by global ratingS agency, Standard & Poor&rSquo;S (S&P) from &lSquo;bb-&rSquo; to &lSquo;bb&rSquo; with the bank&rSquo;S overall credit rating liSted aS a B+. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50795387/acleda-awarded-credit-upgrade-by-ratings-agency/
Cambodian Unions Call for Doubling of Minimum Wage for Factory Workers
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'>...
Radio free Asia
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/wages-11262013151923.html
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 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'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
NagaCorp VIP program questioned
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'>...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nagacorp-vip-program-questioned
Cambodia Ups Minimum Wages for Workers
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'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/wages-03212013185628.html
EU funding to the Kingdom rises threefold
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'>...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-funding-kingdom-rises-threefold
Wide Gap Hampers Cambodian Wage Talks
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'>...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/wages-02262013140215.html
Cambodia reports 1.41 bln USD trade deficit in first eight months
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'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/16/c_132725537.htm
Cambodia sees 1.48 bln USD trade deficit in 9 months
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'>...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-10/25/c_132830753.htm
Cambodian parties agree on 14-point agenda for election reform talks
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'>...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/talks-03182014191159.html
Rain cuts Banteay Meanchey drought
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'>...
Oung Dane
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rain-cuts-banteay-meanchey-drought
Tobacco tax increase likely
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'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091858767/National-news/tobacco-tax-increase-likely.html
Ahead of Xi visit, relations with China at level ‘never seen before’
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'>...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ahead-xi-visit-relations-china-level-never-seen-119221/
Cambodia completes '90 percent' of draft of electoral body reform law
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'>...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/draft-10272014172013.html