The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in cooperation with a number of organisations launched a new e-waste management project yesterday in Cambodia in a bid to recycle the country’s burgeoning electronic waste and to provide job opportunities, as Hurleypalmerflatt opened an office in Cambodia to provide jobs for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/e-revolution-equals-jobs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Most mornings, garment worker Vicheka buys food from the street vendors outside her factory in Kampong Chhnang province. The beef and pork dishes, she says, have a tendency to give workers a stomach ache – a reputation forged long before Vicheka and her co-workers at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mind-the-wage-gap/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) was officially launched on Jul. 11 there were no companies listed because of a drive to ensure that everything was above board. “We want to assure full transparency,” says Huot Pum, the deputy director-general of the Securities and Exchange href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-stock-exchange-to-push-transparency/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

They came from down the road and from across the country, trailing flags and portraits in their wake. They paused to pin thin black ribbons and coarse patches of cloth onto blazing white shirts. And, one by one, starting early yesterday morning, Cambodian mourners lined the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/a-nation-pays-respects/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

When Dr. Tith Hongyoeu opened Roomchang Dental and Aesthetic Hospital in a new 10-storey building on Street 184 just off Norodom Boulevard six months ago, it was the realisation of a dream come true for a poor boy from Kampong Thom province who grew up href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/expectations-exceeded-at-new-dental-hospital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An increasing number of Cambodians have access to the Internet due to ownership of smartphones, tablets and the expansion of wireless broadband to rural areas of Cambodia, but access does not mean freedom from restrictions, according to a new report by New York-based Freedom House. In href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/locals-internet-access-doesnt-equal-freedom/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s GDP growth was projected to reach 7 percent in equivalent to 15.65 billion U.S. dollars in 2013 despite a challenging global economic environment, the World Bank said Monday. Overall macroeconomic outlook remains positive, having sustained agricultural growth, continued strong performance of the tourism sector, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-economy-remains-robust-in-2013-amidst-challenging-global-economic-atmosphere-wb/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

One woman who has been actively involved in the development of Cambodia’s business climate is Janet Lueckenhausen of Functional Engineering. She’s been working closely with Cambodia’s biggest foreign-owned companies since 2008. Now she’s shifted in her role from executive director of International Business Chamber of Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/lueckenhausen-elected-at-ibc/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed Australia is working on an agreement with Cambodia that would see refugees currently on Nauru resettled there. But Human rights lawyer David Manne, who launched a successful High Court challenge to the former government’s proposal to resettle refugees in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/is-cambodia-engulfed-in-a-human-rights-crisis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The State Department on Tuesday cited abuses in Thailand’s huge fishing industry as part of an annual worldwide report on Trafficking in Persons. The report noted that men from Cambodia and Myanmar, also known as Burma, are trafficked aboard Thai ships and forced to work href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/illegal-fishing-molotov-cocktails-a-daring-escape-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia lacks the skilled labor force necessary to advance the economy and the government must find ways to create more valuable work as it faces fierce regional and international competition, according to a new report released Thursday by the World Bank. The report, “East Asia Pacific href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/report-shows-workforce-still-lacks-skills/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Earlier this week, Cambodia’s Ministry of Education Youth and Sports (MoEYS) held a second high school exam to provide a second chance for the over 70 percent of 93,000 high school students who failed to pass the first annual national high school exam, held in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/poll-shows-fighting-corruption-drives-support-for-education-reform-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Among thousands of residents in the Boeung Kak Lake district of the capital whose land has been targeted for redevelopment by a Chinese-financed real estate company, Tep Vanny carried a letter explaining the “sadness and suffering” caused by the project — which has turned Phnom href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-disputes-focus-ire-on-chinese-investors-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities unlawfully detain hundreds of drug users and others deemed “undesirable” in centers where they face torture, sexual violence, and forced labor, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch called for the immediate closure of the country’s eight detention href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-drug-centers-detain-abuse-undesirables-says-hrw/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

There was a shift of almost seismic proportions between January and November 2013 as the number of people who believe the country is being steered in the right direction fell sharply, while the number of discontented citizens rose, according to a new report. Launching its annual href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/growing-unease-over-direction-of-the-country-survey-finds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rangers paid by an internationally funded conservation organisation have been directly profiting for years from the very trade they are supposed to be preventing in southwest Cambodia, documents obtained by the Post allege. Former Conservation International (CI) staff members say when they spoke up about endemic href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/blind-eye-to-forests-plight/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has some 3,000 registered non-profit groups. Some work on highly sensitive issues such as violence against women and human trafficking. But there are few Cambodians formally trained for such work. That is now changing with the country’s first university-level degree program for social workers. When href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-school-educates-new-generation-of-social-workers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Siam Kubota Corporation Co Ltd is set to expand its business by opening subsidiaries in Cambodia and Laos as part of its preparation for the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. Siam Kubota has invested a total of Bt68 million in the two href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/siam-kubota-launches-cambodia-laos-units/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Cambodia A Mozilla/Aspiration Conference Open Web, Open Source, Open Knowledge 16-17 September 2011 Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh Friday 16 September 8:00-8:30 Registration – Grand Mekong Hall, First Floor 8:30-10:15 Interactive Plenary 10:15-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 Agenda Crowdsourcing: Session Development 12:00-1:00 Lunch – Provided at the Sun Café Restaurant, Ground Floor, Sunway Hotel 1:00-3:00 Break-Out I – Framing Sessions: href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/agenda/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks after the Kraol indigenous community set fire to an Environment Ministry station in Kratie, the ministry invited local authorities and indigenous people to a meeting on Wednesday and requested that the indigenous community apologize. Only one indigenous person invited attended. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-ministry-asks-kraol-indigenous-people-to-apologize-for-burning-down-building/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...