Real wages for Cambodia’s semi-skilled construction workers fell during the past five years, according to a recent report from market research firm BDLINK Cambodia. A 36 per cent increase in the Kingdom’s consumer price index during the period put semi-skilled workers’ real wages last year href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/semi-skilled-builders-see-wages-drop-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni arrived in Phnom Penh, capital city of Cambodia, on Monday morning after the tour to France for two weeks to strengthen and expand bilateral ties and cooperation. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-king-returns-from-visit-to-france/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia remains on a watch list at the US State Department, for failing to do enough to combat human trafficking. In its annual Trafficking in Persons report, the State Department kept Cambodia a “tier 2” country. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-remains-on-us-watch-list-for-trafficking/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new lottery company, Naga Lottery owned by the same company that operates Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld, will launch its first product on June 8, an official press release said yesterday. The company was licensed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance in October last year said executive director href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/naga-lottery-to-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The year 2012 has seen a number of changes of personnel within different companies in Cambodia, particularly in the telecommunications sector, but also in the insurance and banking industry. According to In Channy, ACLEDA Bank’s CEO and vice chairman of the International Business Chamber Cambodia, the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tough-times-for-telecom-bosses-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government will drop subsidies for high electricity use, after the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) reported losses of US$3 million between January and May this year. Households consuming more than 200 KW/h per month will no longer receive a 100 to 200 riel per KW/h href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-cut-power-subsidies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

After the first general election in 1993, the government prepared and implemented a comprehensive micro- and macroeconomic policy and structural reform program to integrate Cambodia’s economy into the region and the world as well as stimulate its economic growth.1 In the two decades following that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/economic-policy-and-administration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sustainable Development Goal 6 has 8 targets and 11 indicators, which will be used to drive action towards achieving universal access to safely managed water and sanitation and appropriate management of water resources.107 SDG 6 recognizes that sustainably managing water goes beyond providing a safe water href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sdg-6-clean-water-and-sanitation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rural energy cooperative in Cambodia. Photo by Nomade Moderne, taken on 23 March 2006. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The electricity distributed in Cambodia is partly generated within the country and partly imported. For many years, local generation was on a relatively small scale, and was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/electricity-infrastructure/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of mothers who died in labour has nearly halved over four years, from 182 fatalities in 2011 to 100 in 2015.188​ Deaths among children have also dropped, although they remain comparatively high, and the prevalence of underweight newborns is high compared to many href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/maternal-and-child-health/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Participants are having group photo ​after the presentation.On May 25-26, 2018 the ODC team joined the Banteay Meanchey BarCamp. Being the second BarCamp conference organised in 2018, and the first time the event was taken place at the Meanchey University of the Banteay Meanchey province. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-presents-at-the-bantheay-meanchey-barcamp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

RationalIn 2018, the total number of registered Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) was 155,745. More than 90 percent of registered firms in Cambodia are SMEs. However, despite being vital to the socio-economy, 95 percent are not registered yet. By 2025, 80% and 95% of small and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/profiles/small-and-medium-enterprises-smes-information-toolkit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

From Cape Town to Helsinki, between Wellington and Sao Paulo: Some 400 events took place during this year’s Open Data Day. Of course, Open Development Cambodia was part of the global event. For the Cambodian edition of the annual celebration of the international open data, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/open-data-day-2018-open-contracting-for-sustainable-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Deforestation has been one of the most significant changes the Cambodian landscape has undergone in recent decades. Key drivers of this process have been land concessions and subsequent land conversion, and large-scale illegal logging. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/deforestation-drivers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and the Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP Cambodia) jointly hosted the first training workshop on Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) under the Shared Resources Joint Solutions (SRJS) program supported by the Netherlands Committee for IUCN. The two-day training was held on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/first-training-workshop-on-strategic-environment-assessment-sea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has recently published 2 new topic pages on “SDG 13 Climate action” and “SDG 15 Life on land”, which are two among the 17 goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through these two href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-has-published-2-new-topic-pages-on-sdg-13-climate-action-and-sdg-15-life-on-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new dataset of an interactive web-based dashboard hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, to visualize and track reported Corona virus COVID-19 global cases in real-time.=> Please click here to get href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-web-based-dashboard-dataset-of-coronavirus-covid-19-global-cases-by-johns-hopkins-csse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About half of the land concessions granted since 1994 are in the hands of Chinese companies, according to data released yesterday by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Ouch Leng, CCHR land reform project coordinator, said that from 1994 to 2012, the Cambodian government granted 4,615,745 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-reaps-concession-windfalls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

While AirAsia, one of the world’s largest low-cost airline, is gearing toward an expansion in the region, the company’s chief executive said that serving Cambodia was expensive due to high airport fees. Airport charges are high and restrictive, as are over-flight fees, compared to other countries in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fees-too-high-airasia-ceo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

For political economist Sophal Ear, this view is more nuanced. In his book ‘Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermined Democracy‘, published by the Columbia University Press (2012), years of dependency are not showing positive results in the rehabilitation of Cambodia, its democracy and war href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-scholar-suggests-pernicious-effects-of-aid-dependence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...