On 08 November 2017, regarding to the recent Instruction No.035 signed on 20 October 2017 by Ministry of Interior on Correction and Cancellation of Civil Registration List, the General Department of Identification of Ministry of Interior has released an announcement to urge the public, who ...

On 09 June 2021, the Australian Embassy in Cambodia was pleased to announce a new landmark initiative to electrify villages in Cambodia that are not connected to the grid.​ In partnership with Ministry of Mines and Energy Cambodia, Électricité du Cambodge, and Electricity Authority of ...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is excited to announce a full-day training session set on 22 December 2023, in Phnom Penh. The session touches on the business registration process, digital literacy, and digital security, targeting informal economies and SMEs, including women and indigenous peoples, and ...

Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) and the Institute of Science and Technology of Cambodia (ISTC) in Preah Vihear, focusing on collaborative efforts in education and research, the Prayuters Library Program is excited to announce the opening of ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) was thrilled to host a panel discussion on “Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in Mekong countries” at the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment: Resilience through impact assessment and Leadership on 10th May 2023 at Borneo Convention Centre ...

The goal of the annual ASEAN Water Platform (AWP) is to build capacity in research on water natural resource management (WNRM) within the partner countries’ institutions. The purpose of AWP is to gather together researchers with different backgrounds in order to have an exchange of ...

Cambodia’s education system is structured into a 6+3+3 formula -students spend their first 6 years in primary school (grades 1–6), followed by 3 years in secondary school (grades 7–9)  and 3 years in high school (grades 10–12) before sitting the diploma examination.1 Cambodian students are ...

The garment industry has rooted in Cambodia earlier than the footwear industry. As a result of trade privileges given by the U.S. and EU, both industries have blossomed. As of 2013, the garment and footwear industries were accountable for about 80 percent of Cambodia’s total ...

National budget on uptrendIn the last three years, Cambodia’s national budget has seen significant growth of around US$ 1.6 billion, from US$ 3.4 billion in 201453 to US$ 5 billion in 2017.54 This is an average annual increase of almost 14%. The increase can be ...

Though there are multiple forms of communal property, the rights associated with indigenous communal property are subject to significant legal and socio-economic issues. Indigenous communities are culturally very different from the rest of Cambodia, and the law provides them with the opportunity to obtain collective ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “SDG 1 No poverty”, which is one of the 17 goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through ODC’s new topic pages on SDG 1, you will get ...

ODC has published a new page on Ground water in Cambodia, outlines the general overview, ground water extraction in Cambodia, threats and challenges, and policy response and future prospects in two languages, Khmer and English. There is also included the graphic of “Wells with undrinkable ...

A senior agricultural official is concerned by the prevalence of fake fertilizers that cause stunted rice crops and reduce farmers’ profits. Ngin Chhay, director of the Rice Crops Department in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry, told the Development Research Forum in Phnom Penh yesterday the products were ...

Fuelled by downward pressure on internet pricing, state-owned Telecom Cambodia had dramatically increased its fibre-optic link with Vietnam, officials and experts said. The new 10-gigabyte connection would further lower prices and boost the speed of Cambodian internet connections in a market where demand for bandwidth was driven by ...

Cambodia has urged Laos to halt construction of the controversial Xayaburi hydro dam project in the country’s north, a letter obtained by the Post yesterday reveals. “Preliminary construction on Xayaburi dam has continued despite the lack of regional agreement,” Minister of Water Resources and Cambodia National Mekong Committeechairman Lim ...

A London court on Friday convicted three British men of conspiracy to commit fraud following an investigation by the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into a British biofuel firm that swindled investors in its Cambodian venture. Gary West, the former director of Sustainable Agro Energy (SAE); James ...

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings will team with Toshiba to manage power grids in Cambodia, hoping to secure a new earnings source as the utility grapples with soaring cleanup costs for the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. ...

About 50 civil society groups and unions called for the release of human rights activist Koet Saray, president of Khmer Student Intelligent League Association (KSILA), who has been placed in pre-trial detention. ...

Beginning in 2002, the World Bank, Germany, Finland and Canada began a joint-program to promote land tenure security in Cambodia by providing financial and technical support to land titling efforts. Following the eviction of residents of the Boeung Kak Lake area of Phnom Penh due ...

In early of August 2019, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has successfully hosted a group of young Chinese research students to do study visit on Chinese investment impacts in Cambodia. This research program is organized by the China House,  a social enterprise that sends young people from China ...