The Free Trade Union (FTU) requested that the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) permit workers nationwide to take a weeklong holiday in order to participate in the opposition’s planned demonstrations, according to a letter sent by the FTU this week. Signed by union president Chea ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday morning granted bail to two of the 23 union activists and protesters jailed following the lethal suppression of garment worker strikes by military police on January 3. Municipal court presiding Judge Leang Samnatt held an unscheduled hearing on Friday ...

Cambodia spent more than $414 million on imported construction materials to meet increasing demand in the local construction and property sectors last year – a rise of 7 per cent compared to 2012. According to officials and industry insiders, the increased value of imports reflected steady ...

The U.N.’s human rights office in Cambodia expressed concern Monday that 22 detained protesters may not be allowed to attend their trials on Friday, while the government insisted that the prisoners will be transported to the court. Two minors were arrested for intentional violence for their ...

Phnom Penh’s first solar-powered building looks for all the world like a cube of colored Lego blocks dropped in a factory lot on the city’s industrial outskirts. Covered in some 1,350 solar panels — including large panes of multi-colored solar glass — the three-story building ...

Prak Sovannary tries to put on a brave face. She has just heard that two of 23 men arrested during a violent crackdown on garment worker protests in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, last month have unexpectedly been released on bail.Her husband, Vorn Pao, a prominent activist and union leader, is not ...

According to the ​​Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology announcement on 08 November 2020, the tropical depression in the South China Sea is heading west, increasing its impact on the 21st storm named ETAU on 10 November.​ The storm is forecast to weaken to a ...

On 21 April 2021, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the death of COVID-19 on five Cambodian people, a 63-year-old man, a 52-year-old, and a 61-year-old woman died at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, a 66-year-old woman died at Sihanoukville Provincial Referral Hospital, and another ...

On 21 January 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued an announcement on the seniority payment before 2019, in 2020 and in 2021 for manufacturing enterprises. In this announcement, the Ministry informed the owners/directors of factories/enterprises, workers/employees of manufacturing enterprises who used Unifexed ...

On 21 January 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcomes of the Telephone Conversation between His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and His Excellency Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles.His ...

On 6 April 2022, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training issued a notification on the progress of joint labor dispute resolution at NagaWorld as of 6 April 2022. The workers’ representatives and the NagaWorld representatives have not yet reached an agreement, so the ministry ...

Officials said the Stung Sen River water levels in Kampong Thom province have finally begun to drop after exceeding the alert level late last week, but warned of more rain in the coming days. He Koeun, director of the provincial Department of Water Resources and Meteorology, ...

Prime Minister Hun Manet has urged Kampot and Kep provincial authorities to diligently manage and preserve salt marshes to sustain and enhance salt production. Manet emphasised the necessity of managing and conserving salt marshes, given the government’s classification of the product as a strategic commodity, during ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Cambodia food prices”. This dataset provides Cambodian food price data from the World Food Programme price database. The World Food Programme price database includes corn, rice, beans, fish, and sugar prices.=> Please click here to go ...

A land concession is a grant of rights over an area of land for a specific purpose. In Cambodia land concessions can be granted for various purposes, including agribusiness, redistribution of land to the landless and land-poor, infrastructure development, mining and fishing. They have been ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 07 new map features in Preah Sihanouk, Mondul Kiri, Preah Vihear, Phnom Penh and Takeo province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 03 new map features in Koh Kong, Phnom Penh and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 03 new map features in Takeo, Battambang, and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 02 new map features in Mondul Kiri, and Preah Sihanouk province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Mining concessions in Cambodia (1995–2022)” by adding 1 new map feature of the mining concession of Angkor Resources Corp. in Oddarmeanchey province. This dataset contains data for mining concessions in Cambodia from 1995 to 2022. The ...