Cambodia has gained the investments of 178 million U.S. dollars from its ASEAN member states in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia said this week. From January to June this year, the country granted ...

Cambodia’s charismatic opposition leader Sam Rainsy arrived in his home country on Friday morning after spending nearly four years abroad in self-imposed exile to avoid an 11-year prison sentence on charges of disinformation and destruction of public property. Hun Sen said his request to the ...

Tep Bopha Prasidh, a wealthy businesswoman and wife of Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh, has been anointed with the sought-after royal title of oknha. According to an August edition of the Royal Gazette, King Norodom Sihamoni signed off on the new title on July 11. Roughly translated as tycoon, oknha is a ...

The Cambodian government must immediately and unconditionally release the 21 garment workers and human rights defenders who have been detained since early January, FIDH and its member organizations Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) and Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human ...

The management of the 32-storey De Castle Royal condominium project in BKK1 has announced that the The Place, widely regarded as Phnom Penh’s only independent five-star gym, will manage the development’s fitness centre. This means the air-conditioned De Castle Royal gym will be fully fitted out ...

On 11 November 2020, the Ministry of Health has posted an announcement regarding the change of travelling conditions entering into Cambodia, implementation of health and quarantine measures. This change aims to facilitate travel into Cambodia include investors, company staff, experts, insured technicians or general foreign ...

Cambodia exported 11,200 tonnes of organic milled rice to international markets in 2020, a slight 1.2 per cent increase over 2019, according to the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). While the milled-rice export sector by and large chalks up 2020’s lacklustre growth performance to the ongoing ...

On 11 January 2022, AEON MALL (CAMBODIA) CO., LTD. issued a press release on the new initiatives in the Kingdom of Cambodia.AEON MALL (CAMBODIA) CO., LTD. will establish a wholly-owned subsidiary named “AEON MALL (CAMBODIA) LOGI PLUS CO., LTD”. located in Sihanoukville Port Special Economic ...

The Minister of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected 11.402100 trillion riel ($2.781 billion) in tax revenue in 2021, 24% more than the plan of $538 million. However, this revenue is slightly less when compared to the same period of year 2020 ...

On 28 February 2022, the Anti-Corruption Unit issued a notification on the ninth meeting of the third mandate of the National Anti-Corruption Council.The National Council for Anti-Corruption held its ninth meeting of the third mandate with a total of 10 out of 11 members, chaired ...

Mr. Thy Try, Executive Director/Editor-in-Chief of Open Development Cambodia, was selected to attend the Paris Peace Forum 2019 on 12–13 November.Mr. Thy Try is standing in front of the Grande halle de La Villette where the Paris Peace Forum was celebrated.The Paris Peace Forum is ...

The percentage of Cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72 per cent in 1973 to only about 46 per cent in 2013, satellite image data released yesterday shows. A series of animated maps that Open Development Cambodia (ODC) produced from NASA satellite images detail ...

Briefing on Investment Law (Khmer)Briefing on Investment Law (English)Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just released a new briefing page, in both Khmer and English languages, on Cambodian Investment Law which it mainly provides the insight of Cambodia’s legal framework on investment sector. (Please visit: http://archive.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/briefing/briefing-on-investment-law/)This ...

On 11 January 2021, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on His Excellency Chhieng Yanara held a meeting with the representatives of European Union and European partners in Cambodia. On Monday afternoon, 11 January 2021 at the Council for the ...

After walking and camping in the jungle for more than a week, Tha Sros and hundreds of other villagers finally reached the winding red dirt road that lead to the rubber plantation of Vietnamese-owned CRCK company, which has cleared a vast 6,000-hectare swathe out of ...

England promised to invest in Cambodian around US$ 2.22 billion make total investment projects in country during 7 month of the year increased up to US$ 5.5 billion, Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC)’s reported to the media. According to the report, in the first ...

Government Palace, the imposing gray headquarters of the Cambodia Development Council next to Wat Phnom, should be buzzing this morning with the country’s top foreign diplomats and government officials discussing aid and reform. Instead, with the government’s decision to indefinitely postpone this year’s Cambodian Development Cooperation ...

Police and military officials were searching for six missing Cambodians yesterday who villagers believe were shot dead by Thai soldiers on Saturday night after entering the Khun Han district of Thailand’s Si Saket province in search of luxury timber. Neth Hing, who lives in Oddar Meanchey’s ...

On 09 March 2016 a joint declaration on “Setting formulas for editing on retail price of gasoline in Cambodia” was signed to officially implemented by Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Economy and Finance, and Ministry of Mines and Energy, which has been accomplished with 11 clauses. ...

More than 2,000 garment factory workers protested Saturday and plan to strike today in support of union organizers who face prosecution in court for alleged “incitement” over demonstrations at the plant, a union representative said yesterday. The workers at Ocean Garment factory began demonstrating on Aug. ...