Four face charges in incitement case
Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday summonsed three well-known rights workers and a journalist to appear for questioning next week over years-old incitement charges in connection with a long-standing land dispute. In a summons signed by deputy provincial prosecutor Chea Sopheak, the court ordered Radio Free Asia journalist Sok Ratha, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-face-charges-in-incitement-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Press release responses to a news article posted by the VOD last Friday
On 14 December 2020, the General Department of Agriculture released a press release responding to the VOD’s news article posted on 11 December 2020, entitled “Vegetables left to spoil on Kandal farms as farmers can’t find buyers“. According to the announcement, the Agricultural General Department href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-responses-to-a-news-article-posted-by-the-vod-last-friday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
General Department of Agriculture
Foreign investment in Cambodia
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a profile page on “Foreign investment in Cambodia”. This bilingual profile page gives a quick overview of foreign investment in Cambodia, together with related content, such as the definition of foreign investment, the reasons investors invest in Cambodia, priority sectors, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/fa_slide/happy-water-festival-2018/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Community fisheries
Community fishery refuges, Battambang, Cambodia. Photo by Alan Brooks/WorldFish, taken on 2 November 2011. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Fishing practices in Cambodia are classified into three broad categories: small-scale or family fishing, medium-scale and large-scale or commercial fishing.In 2001, aware of the need to safeguard href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/community-fisheries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Land transfers
Land transfers in Cambodia assume a variety of forms involving both public and private entities. The right to transfer property to another and to be protected from forced transfer is essential to land tenure security. Land transfer capacity is a source of value for landowners, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/land-transfers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Prey Lang protection
Prey lang protection East West Management Institute (EWMI) worked alongside communities since 2007. They began resourcing activities and forest community members across the forest. They supported the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) for several years.Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB) in Cambodia (November 2012 to November 2016) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/?wp-feature-box=prey-lang-protection ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Strategic environmental assessment in Mekong countries
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) was thrilled to host a panel discussion on “Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in Mekong countries” at the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment: Resilience through impact assessment and Leadership on 10th May 2023 at Borneo Convention Centre href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/strategic-environmental-assessment-in-mekong-country/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hun Sen aims to attract more Japanese money
Japan’s Sumi Wiring Systems Co Ltd launched production of automobile wiring this month, a company official said yesterday. Japanese companies such as Sumi and Minebea, a ball-bearings maker, have helped Cambodia’s manufacturing industry diversify away from garments, the country’s main manufacturing product and export, and Prime Minister Hun Sen href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hun-sen-aims-to-attract-more-japanese-money/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Follow-up IPOs still on track
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, one of two state-owned companies slated to list on the Cambodia Securities Exchange this year, yesterday called the price decline in the country’s first publicly traded company worrisome. The eight-day slide in price that neared Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority’s initial public offering href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050956046/Business/follow-up-ipos-still-on-track.html
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “Red Cross”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Red Cross”. This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of Cambodia Red Cross (CRC).=>Please click here to go to “Red Cross”. References1. Rainforest Rescue. “Cambodia: Our rainforest needs protection.” Accessed 1 November 2016. https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/907/cambodia-our-rainforest-needs-protection2. May href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-red-cross/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia updates a new topic page on “Extractive industries”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a topic page on “Extractive industries”. This bilingual topic page gives a quick overview of Extractive industries in Cambodia.=>Please click here to go to “Extractive industries”. References1. Rainforest Rescue. “Cambodia: Our rainforest needs protection.” Accessed 1 November 2016. https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/907/cambodia-our-rainforest-needs-protection2. May Titthara. “Prey href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-a-new-topic-page-on-extractive-industries/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “Forest protection"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Forest protection”. This bilingual topic page gives a quick overview of Forest protection in Cambodia.=>Please click here to go to “Forest protection”. References1. Rainforest Rescue. “Cambodia: Our rainforest needs protection.” Accessed 1 November 2016. https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/907/cambodia-our-rainforest-needs-protection2. May Titthara. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-forest-protection/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Jatropha
Jatropha, known in Cambodia as “Lhong Kwong”, is commonly grown in the Kingdom. Jatropha mainly grows in the mountainous regions of the north and central parts of Cambodia but is not restricted to those areas. It can be found in Battambong, Pursat, Kampong Speu, Sihanouk, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/jatropha/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Expropriation
The Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Land Law of 2001 both guarantee an individual’s right to property protection. Though part of the Government’s policy framework since 2002, not until 2010 did a legal framework exist to govern the process by which the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/expropriation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Imports
The total value of Cambodia’s international trade amounted to $35.8 billion in 2020, a 2.5 percent increase on the $34.9 billion in 2019 even after the Covid-19 pandemic slowed global trade, according to Ministry of Commerce (MoC) reports from 2020. The main sources of Cambodia’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/imports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
PPMM#16 - Polling Station Density Maps and 'Election Page' Project
ODC Senior Mapper Mean Naro presented polling station density maps.On May 28, the ODC team hosted a monthly Phnom Penh Mapping Meet-up (PPMM), in which ODC, Urban Voice of Cambodia, and John Weeks presented on recent project updates and results. Urban Voice presented results from href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ppmm16-polling-station-density-maps-and-election-page-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes three new datasets on "Result of the 4th mandate of commune/sangkat council election 2017"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published 3 new datasets on “Result of the 4th mandate of commune/sangkat council election 2017” in both Khmer and English. These datasets shows the official result of the recent commune election at provincial level by three classifications: (1) number and percentage href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-three-new-datasets-on-result-of-the-4th-mandate-of-communesangkat-council-election-2017/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Disasters
Storms, flooding and drought are the disasters that affect the largest number of people in Cambodia, and they also bring the highest cost. Climate change is likely to make things worse, with drier dry seasons predicted and more rainfall and violent storms in the wet href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/disasters/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Forest policy and administration
Logging truck in Mondulkiri protected forest , Cambodia. Photo by Global Water Forum, taken on 23 February 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Cambodia is deeply concerned about deforestation. While the country seeks fast economic development, forests represent a tremendous national treasure. In order to help href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/forest-policy-and-administration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Administration
Cambodia’s sub-national administration consists of three tiers: capital city/province, municipality/district and sangkat/commune. Phnom Penh is the capital, and there are 24 provinces, 159 districts (including 26 municipalities and 12 khans), 1406 communes and 227 sangkats. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/administration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
