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On 10 March 2020 the Ministry of Health has issued an announcement addressing the COVID-19 positive case on a 65 years old English lady who is a passenger on Viking Cruise Journey  in Kompong Cham province. The ship sailed from My Tho habour of Ho href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-of-the-ministry-of-health-on-the-positive-covid-19-case-of-a-65-years-old-english-woman-who-is-a-passenger-of-the-viking-cruise-journey-in-kompong-cham-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) recently conducted a successful two-day training workshop on Fundamental QGIS for civil society organizations (CSOs) in Phnom Penh on October 21-22, 2024. The workshop was organized as part of the “Strengthening CSOs to Take Action on Economic Governance (SCAEG)” project, co-funded href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-strengthens-coastal-csos-through-qgis-mapping-and-geospatial-training/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Ministers from the six Mekong region nations concluded a two-day meeting yesterday in which they solidified plans for an economic strategy that would span a decade and require billions in investment. Speaking at Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace at the annual ministerial meeting, Minister of Commerce href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/economic-plan-for-mekong-region-gets-finalized/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The latest in a series of land concessions granted in protected forests has cut nearly 10,000 hectares from Cambodia’s largest wildlife sanctuary – home to the Kingdom’s critically endangered national bird, the Giant Ibis. A September 7 sub-decree, released on Monday evening, reclassified 9,237 hectares of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rare-giant-ibis-loses-habitat/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A prominent forest monitoring group on Monday urged the government to combat illegal logging and poaching in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, which it claimed had seen a drastic increase in forestry crimes during the first five months of this year. The Prey Lang Community href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/monitoring-group-blames-rise-in-forest-crimes-on-authorities-turning-blind-eye/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Battambang provincial Fisheries Administration apprehended perpetrators of 38 fishery crimes and confiscated fishing nets spanning a total of 18,560m in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report.   href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/battambang-fisheries-crimes-total-38-cases-jan-mar/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment has finalised a feasibility study and plans to build a large-scale nursery in Preah Jayavarman-Norodom Phnom Kulen National Park, spanning three hectares, which can produce three million seedlings per year. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/environment-ministry-plans-large-scale-seedling-nursery-in-phnom-kulen-national-park/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Growth in sugar production in Cambodia has created significant potential for sugarcane-based biofuel production. That potential has not yet been realized, though recent foreign investment may give rise to change. There are several types of sugar crop: sugarcane, sugar palm trees and sugar beets. Sugarcane href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/sugarcane/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sheltering under a blue tarpaulin amid dense woodland in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, Nhean* sits and waits for night to fall after a long day scouring the protected forest for luxury timber. He says he works for a broker who is a supplier to one of Cambodia’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/caught-up-in-the-middle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian economy is demonstrating signs of a recovery in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and the following periods, according to new statistics released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s (MEF) General Department of Policy which have predicted the country’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mef-bullish-on-medium-term-growth-amid-diversification/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The ODC mapping kit has been created as a low-tech, user-friendly way for viewing and customizing maps and sharing them online or printing them for fieldwork. More advanced functions include uploading geotagged photos and annotated maps so that they can be accessed online. Users should href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/mapping-kit/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government had designated the Western Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary and Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary as one protected area, which is officially named as “Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary”. The newly designated area of 133,707.73ha spans across Santepheap, Thma Keo and Prek Meas communes in Stung Treng href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wildlife-sanctuary-redesignated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The energy exploration and production company said in a statement on Tuesday that its associate company CPHL (Cambodia) has signed a drilling environmental impact assessment (EIA) contract with two environmental consulting firms The firms, the International Environmental Management Company Limited and SAWAC Consultants For Development Company href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mirach-energy-aims-for-green-light-to-start-drilling-cambodia-offshore-d/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers in Kompong Thom province set out yesterday on a three-day patrol of Prey Long forest in search of illegal logging, their second since the April 26 shooting death of conservationist Chut Wutty. who was the organizer of the first patrols. Soem Sean, a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/villagers-restart-prey-long-forest-patrol-for-illicit-activity/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Fund for Nature and World Wide Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF) have called on authorities to step up night and day patrols of dolphin conservation areas and prevent illegal fishing, as a third Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin carcass was discovered in the span of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/third-mekong-river-dolphin-found-dead-in-a-single-week/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen and Chinese ambassador Wang Wentian on January 2 broke ground for the construction of a new bridge which will span the Mekong River in Kratie province. The bridge is expected to bring “rapid economic development” to the people of Cambodia’s northeastern href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/construction-work-begins-on-mekong-river-bridge-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of PlanningODC and the Ministry of Planning has formed a collaborative partnership with an effort to engage CSOs in and strengthen the implementation and review process of the country-specific goals of the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development.Read moreMinistry of Education, Youth and SportOpen href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/about/partnerships/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phum Doung Bridge over the Tatai River. Photo by Robert Tyabji, taken on  9 December 2010. Licensed under  CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Bilateral aid is assistance given by a government directly to the government of another country or to a local NGO. The Royal Government of Cambodia href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/bilateral-development-assistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 14 March 2022, the Ministry of Commerce issued a press release on the result of the workshops and roundtable for the dissemination and training on law on combating the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Ad-Hoc Sub-Committee for the Implementation of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/result-of-the-workshops-and-roundtable-for-the-dissemination-and-training-on-law-on-combating-the-financing-of-proliferation-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...