Houy Mai has lost everything to the global demand for cheap sugar and biofuel. The 54-year-old mother-of-eight has fought a years-long battle with Mitr Phol, Asia’s biggest sugar producer and one of three major suppliers to Coca-Cola. Her family was left homeless and without a sustainable ...

Inspired by Australian mining regulations, the Cambodian government is considering a raft of changes to the mineral resources mining law, including a rethink of the sector’s comparatively high tax rate. Citing discussions held with Western Australia state mining industry representatives last week, Meng Saktheara, secretary of ...

On 16 September 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a Joint Communiqué between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Government of the People’s Republic of China on their official website. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has paid an official visit to ...

On August 28, 2023, the National Social Assistance Fund (NCSF) issued an announcement on the 2nd Social Security pension payment in August 2023.The payment will be provided on Tuesday, the 13th Srapor, the year of rabbit, BE 2567, which is on August 29, 2023, at ...

Kandal village residents protested on Thursday against the filling in of land near their homes at the $1.5 billion airport development project, with a company official saying they were only filling the homes of three people who had agreed to leave the site. ...

On 16 March 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release after the courtesy call between H.E. Mr. Justin Kevin Whyatt, the new Ambassador of Australia to Cambodia, and H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and ...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is excited to announce a full-day training session set on 22 December 2023, in Phnom Penh. The session touches on the business registration process, digital literacy, and digital security, targeting informal economies and SMEs, including women and indigenous peoples, and ...

Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) and the Institute of Science and Technology of Cambodia (ISTC) in Preah Vihear, focusing on collaborative efforts in education and research, the Prayuters Library Program is excited to announce the opening of ...

Since this discovery of the existence of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the world has remarkably been forced changed in both macro and micro level ranging from policy making and implementing to daily life style. Since the end of March 2020, to cooperate with the government effort ...

Cambodian forest cover has reduced dramatically in recent decades. In 1973 there were 13.1 million hectares of total forest, but by 2014 the total cover had fallen to 8.7 million hectares. ...

On 23 February 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) launched its new profile page on Foreign Investment in Cambodia. The event was held at Sunway Hotel Phnom Penh in a hybrid format, in line with prevailing public health measures. A total of 58 participants joined the ...

Open Development Cambodia’s team regularly develops graphics and infographics to help visually represent data findings for its website, and also social media outreach.  For the development of its new profile page template under the Innovations in Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) project, the regular generation ...

For those who has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and is passionate about big data and data visualization, here's an exciting learning opportunity for you: Visualizing Open Data to Bring Out Global Issues by Margo & Alex, supporting by Transparency International Cambodia on Monday, January ...

Civil StatusCambodia has one of the youngest and fastest-growing populations in Southeast Asia, with a population of approximately 16 million in 2019.1 According to the World Bank, the country’s birth rate per 1,000 people decreased slightly, from 25.5 in 2010 to 22.4 in 2018.2 With economic ...

// // // // An Immigration Department official yesterday confirmed that foreigners requesting a long-term extension of their business visas would need to produce a work permit, with implementation of the rule starting September 4.    ...

The Cambodia Daily yesterday said it was under “siege” and continued to call the government’s targeting of the newspaper an attack on press freedom, as five radio station owners that had been ordered to shut stop attempted to resume their services. // //   ...

On 04 April 2023, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) officially launched the report on Data Protection in the Context of Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia. The event brought together 20 participants (06 females), including representatives from civil society organizations (CSOs) working on indigenous peoples (IPs), data protection ...

Illegal logging of staggering proportions abetted by military personnel is decimating stocks of luxury rosewood in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, while the conversation group tasked with protecting the area and its government counterparts deny the trade is even happening. In a period of several hours ...

Maybank launched yesterday its locally incorporated company in Cambodia, Maybank (Cambodia) Plc, and will also build a 10-storey corporate office with the aim of becoming one of the top five banks there by 2015. Currently ranked seventh in terms of assets among 33 banks operating ...