Over the past three days, the CNRP conducted one of the most significant campaigns of mass demonstrations against Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government in years. For three days, more than 20,000 people packed into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for daily appearances from opposition leaders Sam Rainsy ...

In one corner of the cavernous traInIng centre, a woman patIently strIps the baby blue sheets off a queen-sIze bed, removIng the flower-patterned pIllowcases and foldIng them neatly to one sIde. Under the watchful eye of an Instructor, she then remakes the bed, carefully fluffIng the ...

Well-known timber magnate Try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. The Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ...

If you were gIven all the money In the world to Invest In a stock from the stock exchanges of Laos and CambodIa, whIch stock would you choose? You mIght not actually get a lot of choIces – both exchanges are stagnant two years after ...

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: ...

One of the highlights of last year’s edition of the​ 5th Mekong iCT Camp 2017 hosted by Open Development Cambodia was the “Seed Grant innovative Award”, endowed with 3,000$ for each of the five awarded teams. About half a year after the grant receivers were ...

Cambodian fish farmer checking on fish quality. Photo by U.S. Agency for international Development (USAiD), taken on 16 October 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia’s inland capture fisheries are among the largest in the world. The fishing industry encompasses subsistence, commercial and recreational fishing, as ...

Nineteen onshore blocks have been delineated for possible oil exploration. Contracts have been awarded for three. No oil is currently extracted in Cambodia. ...

Two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen warned that an opposition boycott of Parliament would result in his Cambodian People’s Party gobbling up all 123 seats in the National Assembly, analysts said yesterday that the CPP lacked the legal grounds and the political legitimacy to ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Tuesday he refused to believe King Norodom Sihamoni had officially announced the date he will open the National Assembly later this month, despite the King having signed a letter announcing he would convene the inaugural session on September 23. Speaking to ...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on a U.N. special envoy to press the country’s opposition to rejoin parliament and negotiate an end to the country’s political stalemate since disputed July elections, an official said Wednesday. Hun Sen met with U.N. special envoy for human ...

A few years ago this scene would have played out in China. More specifically, it would have played out in a Chinese coastal region to which millions of rural folks had arrived looking for work. A huge hangar, piles of fabrics of all colors at both ...

A land concession is a grant of rights over an area of land for a specific purpose. in Cambodia land concessions can be granted for various purposes, including agribusiness, redistribution of land to the landless and land-poor, infrastructure development, mining and fishing. They have been ...

Defining and measuring forests is not an easy business. Definitions that initially sound very similar can turn out to have crucial differences. Understanding the terms is important for understanding forest use, forest cover, forest laws and policies and deforestation. ...

Open Data for Development Asia Hub (D4DAsia) is currently seeking independent, country-level researchers (individual or institution) for the following 14 countries:indonesia; Philippines; Singapore; Cambodia; Lao PDR; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; Sri Lanka; india; Nepal; Bangladesh; Taiwan; and Japan.Selected researchers will act as national researchers for the ...

Fish farmers operating cage culture, Cambodia. Photo by O. Joffre/WorldFish, taken on 3 October 2009. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Aquaculture production has grown significantly. in 2012 it stood at 74,000 tonnes, or almost 11 percent of total fishery production. By 2016 it had grown to ...

Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, the men wrongfully sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2004 murder of Free Trade Union (FTU) leader Chea Vi­chea, were exonerated Wednesday by the Supreme Court of the crime. Responding to the acquittal, Chea Vichea’s brother, Chea Mony, ...

Like most millennium-old structures discovered in the forests of Cambodia, the locals had known all along about this one. Jarai minority villagers in this remote spot in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district not only knew about it, but they revered the red-brick temple, using it as a ...