Growth in sugar production in Cambodia has created significant potential for sugarcane-based biofuel production. That potential has not yet been realized, though recent foreign investment may give rise to change. There are several types of sugar crop: sugarcane, sugar palm trees and sugar beets. Sugarcane href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sugarcane/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sheltering under a blue tarpaulin amid dense woodland in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, Nhean* sits and waits for night to fall after a long day scouring the protected forest for luxury timber. He says he works for a broker who is a supplier to one of Cambodia’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/caught-up-in-the-middle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian economy is demonstrating signs of a recovery in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and the following periods, according to new statistics released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s (MEF) General Department of Policy which have predicted the country’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mef-bullish-on-medium-term-growth-amid-diversification/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The ODC mapping kit has been created as a low-tech, user-friendly way for viewing and customizing maps and sharing them online or printing them for fieldwork. More advanced functions include uploading geotagged photos and annotated maps so that they can be accessed online. Users should href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/mapping-kit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government had designated the Western Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary and Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary as one protected area, which is officially named as “Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary”. The newly designated area of 133,707.73ha spans across Santepheap, Thma Keo and Prek Meas communes in Stung Treng href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wildlife-sanctuary-redesignated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The energy exploration and production company said in a statement on Tuesday that its associate company CPHL (Cambodia) has signed a drilling environmental impact assessment (EIA) contract with two environmental consulting firms The firms, the International Environmental Management Company Limited and SAWAC Consultants For Development Company href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mirach-energy-aims-for-green-light-to-start-drilling-cambodia-offshore-d/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers in Kompong Thom province set out yesterday on a three-day patrol of Prey Long forest in search of illegal logging, their second since the April 26 shooting death of conservationist Chut Wutty. who was the organizer of the first patrols. Soem Sean, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-restart-prey-long-forest-patrol-for-illicit-activity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Fund for Nature and World Wide Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF) have called on authorities to step up night and day patrols of dolphin conservation areas and prevent illegal fishing, as a third Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin carcass was discovered in the span of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/third-mekong-river-dolphin-found-dead-in-a-single-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and Chinese ambassador Wang Wentian on January 2 broke ground for the construction of a new bridge which will span the Mekong River in Kratie province. The bridge is expected to bring “rapid economic development” to the people of Cambodia’s northeastern href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-work-begins-on-mekong-river-bridge-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of PlanningODC and the Ministry of Planning has formed a collaborative partnership with an effort to engage CSOs in and strengthen the implementation and review process of the country-specific goals of the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development.Read moreMinistry of Education, Youth and SportOpen href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/about/partnerships/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 14 March 2022, the Ministry of Commerce issued a press release on the result of the workshops and roundtable for the dissemination and training on law on combating the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Ad-Hoc Sub-Committee for the Implementation of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/result-of-the-workshops-and-roundtable-for-the-dissemination-and-training-on-law-on-combating-the-financing-of-proliferation-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 16​ July 2024, the Accounting and Auditing Regulator issued a press release regarding the dissemination forum on “Procedures for annually financial statements submission via online system (E-filing)” for enterprises and Not-for-profit entities on 16th July 2024 on their official social media site.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ According to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-dissemination-forum-on-procedures-for-annually-financial-statements-submission-via-online-system-e-filing-for-enterprises-and-not-for-profit-entities-2024on-16th-july/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phum Doung Bridge over the Tatai River. Photo by Robert Tyabji, taken on  9 December 2010. Licensed under  CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Bilateral aid is assistance given by a government directly to the government of another country or to a local NGO. The Royal Government of Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/bilateral-development-assistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Maina Kiai speaking with journalists outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh. Photo by Maina Kiai, taken on 6 February 2014. Licensed under CC BY 2.0The first humanitarian international non-governmental organizations arrived in 1989. After the 1993 election, more and more internal organizations href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/private-non-profit-development-assistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in collaboration with Open Data Communities, Open Data Activists, Open Source Enthusiast and Educator, representative of the Advocate for Free Culture & Open Knowledge in Cambodia and CSOs in both national and international, the organizer team members team is enthusiastic href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/open-data-day-2018-you-are-invited-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Open Data Day is a global event that brings together enthusiastic citizens in open data, seeking to connect and apply open public data to build solutions to social issues. 2020 marks the tenth year that Open Data communities all over the world celebrate this href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/open-data-day-2020-you-are-invited/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

According to the Kingdom of Cambodia’s 2019 general population census, the total Cambodian population is 15,552,211 (51.31% of females).105 By 2021, the population increased to 16,589,023.106 Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams and other minorities also live in the country. Indigenous ethnic groups known as “Khmer Loeu” live href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/ethnic-minorities-and-indigenous-people/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has spent an estimated $3 billion constructing roads across the country spanning more than 3,000km over a period of 10 years, in addition to expressway and railway projects which are currently underway, according a five-year master plan issued by the government. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-builds-3000km-of-roads-in-10-years-minister/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Members of the Kuoy ethnic minority, part of the Prey Lang community network (PLCN) spanning Kratie, Stung Treng, Preah Vihear and Kampong Thom provinces, will perform a tree ordination ceremony next month. This annual event commemorates forests, accompanied by heartfelt prayers for their protection and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cultural-tradition-tree-ordination-in-prey-lang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

PPMM #22: Highwater Risk Analysis & [Forest Cover] Change DetectionPlease consider yourself invited!In honor of the recent Water Festival, let’s re-celebrate it in our own geeky way – via mapping. WaterSHED Cambodia and 1001 Fountaines took a raincheck but expressed an interest in giving a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ppmm-22-highwater-risk-analysis-forest-cover-change-detection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...