On 25 February 2024, Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) organized a comprehensive training session as part of the project “Strengthening Informal Economies and SMEs in Cambodia through Open Data and Digital Literacy,” funded by the Center of International Private Enterprise (CIPE). The training took place href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-attracted-local-people-in-mondulkiri-to-join-a-training-on-business-and-digital-literacy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has drafted an entirely new Land Law (the draft law), more than 20 years after the promulgation of the 2001 Land Law. Acknowledging the importance of participation from civil society, local communities, and indigenous peoples (IPs), Open Development Cambodia (ODC) formally sought href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/civil-society-participation-in-the-draft-land-law-dialogue-for-land-rights-protection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) hosted a full-day training session on December 22, 2023, in Phnom Penh, gathering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and participants from informal economies, which a total of 28 individuals attended, including 16 females and one indigenous participant. This session was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/smes-and-informal-economies-gathered-together-learning-about-business-and-digital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published new profile page of Indigenous Communities into Khmer and English languages. Together with the website’s map explorer web tool, this profile page aims to provide the most up-to-date information of the country’s Registered Indigenous Communal Land using data visualizations.Please href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-publishes-indigenous-communities-profile-page/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

ODC has just updated and translated on topic page of “Land” in Cambodia. This Land page is included of Land policy and classifications, Land tenure rights, Land transfer and public land lease, Land dispute resolution, and also map of “Families with less than 1 hectare href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-updates-land-page/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s family has amassed a “vast fortune”, with stakes in at least 114 domestic companies spanning most of the Kingdom’s key sectors, including major energy, telecoms, mining and trading firms, according to an investigation by Global Witness, which accuses the Hun href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/inside-the-hun-familys-business-empire/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

TK Garment Co Ltd, a leading Thai original equipment manufacturer for fashion lines in Thailand, is relocating its largest production site to Cambodia to escape high wage costs, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday. According to Ken Loo, secretary general of the Garment Manufacturers Association in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-cheap-labour-attracts-interest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

There was a sense of déjà vu at the Peace Palace yesterday as a week of largely closed-door ASEAN meetings kicked off in earnest with the same contentious issue that so dominated April’s ASEAN Summit: a code of conduct for the South China Sea. With China href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/south-china-sea-centre-of-asean-talks-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Little more than a week after garment workers were granted a US$10 monthly increase in allowances and bonuses, thousands of workers at a number of factories joined strikes with a clear message yesterday: they need more. Workers rallied outside factory gates and some marched to the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-workers-hold-out-for-more/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The two US-backed media outlets and a local NGO’s news service whose broadcasts in Khmer were yanked off the airwaves by government officials before Sunday’s elections aren’t staying silent about the effect of such a move, with one calling it a giant step backward for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arbitrary-decision-decried-by-silenced-outlets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Four workers have gone missing after the collapse of an in-progress hydropower dam in Western Cambodia, apparently due to a leak in the structure. The Associated Press reports that the Saturday collapse occurred at the Stung Atay Hydroelectric Project, a $255-million dollar dam on the Atay href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dam-collapse-in-cambodia-leaves-four-workers-missing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday denied hiring a group of 10 “gangsters” to beat and injure workers as they protested. Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) official Ney Bunthoeun said a gang of thugs hired by Haiyun garment factory bosses href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-allegedly-hires-thugs-to-hurt-strikers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A resolution reached on Monday in the wake of a violent strike at two SL Garment factories that supply Levi’s and Gap resulted in employees returning to work yesterday – for the second time in days. Ek Sopheakdey, a Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sl-employees-back-to-work-after-resolution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union had provided more than US$265,000 to a land reform project that aimed to shift political will and opinion towards land and human rights in Cambodia, development partners said yesterday. The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights will spearhead the Cambodian Land Law Reform Project, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-assists-land-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Old Place Seafood, a Chinese restaurant that cost $4 million, has opened in Phnom Penh. A representative of the restaurant, which is opposite the Chinese embassy, said the growing number of Chinese people in the Kingdom had justified such an investment. Luu Meng, president of the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/4m-restaurant-reflects-growing-chinese-presence-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are among the six countries whose bird species will suffer, in the future, from the effects of climate change, according to a research conducted by two British scientist institutions. The document, published by Global Biological Change magazine, assesses a future distribution href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/climate-change-threatens-asian-birds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

There is currently no oils refinery in Cambodia. Although a refinery has been planned, its construction has been delayed several times, reportedly over financing difficulties. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/oil-refineries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Barcamp ASEAN 2018 took place on October 20-21, at Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This BarCamp ASEAN 2018 broke the world’s largest BarCamp record having over 8,000 participants, 60 exhibitors, over 95 speakers on 85 topics and 1,000 companies and organizations. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-participated-in-barcamp-asean-2018/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Passerelles Numeriques (PN) is a non-profit IT training center. PN has programs in France, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. PN Cambodia was launched in 2005. The sponsorship are supported by Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), SUPINFO, CISCO, Microsoft, HP, Accenture, Steria, and Osiatis. The href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/championing-girls-in-it-passerelles-numeriques-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In October 2020, tropical storms LINFA and NANGKA struck Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. The storms resulted in at least 48 fatalities, 15 missing people and more than 830,400 affected citizens, as reported by the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on disaster management (the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/floods/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...