The Koh Kong Provincial Court questioned four villager representatives Tuesday over alleged violence and property damage in an ongoing land dispute with CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Koh Kong Special Economic Zone company. ...

Child labor has been a problem plaguing Cambodia for years, and a new agreement between the International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) is the latest effort to eradicate it. “The agreement emphasizes collaboration between BFC and ...

The International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) signed an agreement on Thursday to jointly eliminate child labour in the garment industry. ...

Election watchdog Comfrel said yesterday that the National Assembly was not doing enough to solve Cambodians’ problems despite the opposition party having joined in August. The group said that numerous land disputes, the use of lethal force on protesters by authorities in January last year ...

The Koh Koh Provincial Court has summoned an environmental activist living in the Areng Valley for questioning over allegations that he felled trees in a forest in order to build a community center, rights workers said Sunday. ...

One of the country’s foremost election rights advocates wrote to the Constitutional Council on Tuesday requesting that it annul two articles in the proposed new national election law that he says violate constitutional rights to participate in election campaigns. ...

The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP made a rare show of fraternity Wednesday morning in unanimously passing the country’s first tobacco control law—which bans sales to minors, smoking in public and most advertising—in a bid to combat related illnesses. ...

Thousands of students and fresh graduates gathered on Diamond Island this weekend for the 11th edition of the annual Career Forum. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) met with the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) to discuss the audit of the 2019 voter list. While Comfrel presented evidence of name repetition on the voter list, it confirmed the list was almost 100 per ...

On 08 October 2020, the UNDP Cambodia issued a press release of a policy brief that assesses the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in Cambodia. It was launched yesterday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) through careful consultation with the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) ...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) is welcoming new investments in one of the Kingdom’s pillar industries as new variants and outbreaks lead to a string of downgrades in economic projections. ...

The government-funded Khmer Enterprise (KE) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (AmCham) have forged a partnership that will centre on building and promoting a sustainable and workable ecosystem for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and entrepreneurs in the Kingdom.   ...

In collaboration with STAR Kampuchea, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted and facilitated a virtual workshop on commune/sangkat citizen budget template to commune and district officials in Ou Chrov and Malai district in the morning of the 12th and 14th of July, 2021 respectively. This workshop ...

Minister of the council of Ministers Bin Chhin has requested that Australia provide funding to the national side of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC). ...

The government has decided to extend tax exemptions to sectors ravaged by the Covid-19 outbreak, to allow businesses breathing space for recovery and boost economic growth amid a lingering uncertainty over the convergence of crises brought on by the pandemic. ...

The Indonesian Chargé d’affaires in Phnom Penh Lauti Nia Astri and the Economic Section have visited Battambang Province to collect economic intelligence data and explore opportunities and economic cooperation, especially in food security. ...

Following the labour ministry’s announcement of a 2024 minimum wage set at $204 per month, the employers’ association has voiced their support, while trade union representatives and civil society organisations (CSOs) expressed their disappointment. ...

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres praised the Pentagonal Strategy introduced by the Cambodian government for being consistent with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...

The government and the US-based International Labour Organisation (ILO) have agreed to continue their cooperation and renew their MOU that will extend the “Better Factories Cambodia” (BFC) 2023-2027 programme. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) was honored to present our profile page on social accountability to clarify its use and function in the National Learning Forum on the Implementation of the Social Accountability Framework (I-SAF) Phase II on 19 and 20 December 2022 in Siem Reap ...