The Ministry of Environment​ is set to launch its third nationwide campaign to encourage proper “Waste Sorting” to make the environment cleaner. ...

Cambodia is poised to achieve its goal of exporting 1 million tonnes of rice annually by 2025, as indicated by the country’s rice exports reaching over 400,000 tonnes in the first eight months of the year. ...

A surge in land sales has helped tycoon Kith Meng’s Phnom Penh SEZ Plc (PPSP) to return to the black, posting $5.7 million net profit in the first quarter ended March 31 (Q1’23) after suffering a $680,743 net loss a year ago. ...

The Prime Minister of Cambodia, Dr. Hun Manet, stated that the vocational training policy for 1.5 million young people will focus on 10 areas and 38 professions. .. ...

Some 1.8 billion Khmer riel and US dollar digital transactions valued at $492 billion were recorded in 2023, which rose over 600 million from 1.1 billion transactions in 2022, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) said on March 29. This significant increase, an economist opined, ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated a dataset on “Special economic zone in Cambodia (2006-2023)” by added the one new map in point and polygon feature in Kampong Cham province from the sub-decree no. 78 on the establishment of Jiangsu Special Economic Zone on national road ...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia Prak Sokhonn had separate bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Gambia and Brazil to exchange views on promoting bilateral relations, in New York City, USA on Sept. 22, on the sidelines of ...

Recently, WCS’s wildlife monitoring team leads an educational campaign to raise awareness of the importance of wildlife and biodiversity conservation to local communities and students inside and around Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary. ...

The Vietnamese President will make an official visit to Cambodia this week – his second overseas trip since being elected in June – with analysts predicting cyber crimes, the Funan Techo Canal and the border will be on the table. ...

At least 10 people, one a 4-year-old child, were injured in a clash in the capital yesterday when security forces used electric batons to disperse about 300 villagers from Kratie province embroiled in a land dispute with a South Korean agribusiness. The villagers, from Kratie’s Snuol ...

Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) earnings recovered slightly during the second quarter of the year off the back of increased public water usage, officials said. In a filing to the Cambodia Stock Exchange last week, the PPWSA posted $2.7 million in profits for the second ...

A plan floated in Thailand to cut state educational support to migrant workers’ children has drawn the ire of rights groups, which say thousands of Cambodian youths could be denied their basic right to education. According to Thai media, Kamol Rodklai, secretary-general of the Office of ...

The Royal Palace has granted the prestigious title of oknha to politically connected businesswoman Keat Kolney, who has been locking horns for a decade with ethnic Jarai minorities in Ratanakkiri province over hundreds of disputed hectares. Kolney – who is married to Chhan Saphann, an official ...

In what could be the latest sign that authorities are pushing ahead with the Areng Valley hydropower dam, Vietnam Military Telecommunications Group has sent engineers into the valley in Koh Kong province to scout for locations where its local subsidiary, Metfone, could build mobile phone ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday defended his government, saying its reputation for corruption is undeserved, laying blame on the private sector for initiating the bribe process and calling out international development partners for applying double standards. Speaking at the Eighth Regional Conference of Anti-Corruption Intiative for ...

The head of the National Assembly’s top human rights commission has warned Banteay Meanchey’s provincial governor to settle a land dispute involving 230 disabled soldiers’ families from the province’s Malai district, saying he will be sacked if the matter is not settled within three months. After ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)”. This dataset contains data on eight types of protected areas in Cambodia (national park, wildlife sanctuary, protected landscape, multiple uses, natural heritage site, Ramsar site, biosphere reserve, and marine national park) ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Road detections from Microsoft- Maps aerial imagery”. This bilingual new dataset exists of all roads performing with Bing Maps imagery between 2020 and 2022, including Maxar and Airbus in Cambodia, and is publicly available to download ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a dataset on “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)” by adding new interactive map layers of forest cover in Cambodia from 2015-2021. This dataset gives data focused on Cambodia’s annual forest cover range from 2015 to 2021.=> Please click here to ...

After four days of waiting amid a mounting death count, Yat Meng got a call that his younger brother, Pheng, was found dead yesterday, buried under the concrete slabs of a collapsed condominium just north of Bangkok. Pheng, 20, was one of two dead Cambodian migrant ...