Among thousands of residents in the Boeung Kak Lake district of the capital whose land has been targeted for redevelopment by a Chinese-financed real estate company, Tep Vanny carried a letter explaining the “sadness and suffering” caused by the project — which has turned Phnom ...

On 13 March 2020, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport released a press release on online learning (E-Learning) to support students in grades 9 and 12 suspended studies at public and private schools in Siem Reap city, Siem Reap province to prevent the spread ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “Urban land reclassification”. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some area in Phnom Penh, Kandal, Takeo, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Speu, Pursat, ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated a dataset on “Reclassifying natural protected areas in Cambodia” by added the size before reclassifying of natural protected area. This dataset collected the data on the reclassifying of protected areas in Cambodia taken from government sub-decrees. The coordinate system, WGS ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “Urban land reclassification”. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties in some areas in Phnom Penh, Kandal, Takeo, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Speu, Pursat, ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “Urban land reclassification” by adding four new map layers on land reclassification in Phnom Penh. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties in ...

Bird eye view of a local market in Phnom Penh. Photo by Roberto Trombetta, taken on 8 May 2015. Photo licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 GenericThe development and administration of Cambodia’s urban areas has struggled to keep pace with urban population growth. For example, ...

responsAbility Social Investments AG, a Swiss for-profit company that operates four microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs), recently reported to MicroCapital that it has invested USD 13.5 million in microfinance institutions (MFIs) Equity Bank of Kenya and VisionFund Cambodia. The investments have been made through three MIVs: ...

On 17th and 18th of February 2016, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training has organized the Annual Report Conference 2015-2016 on the implementations of strategic plan for Development of Labour and Vocational Training 2014-2018. In summary, the ministry has offered career choices and job ...

The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts that Cambodia’s rice crop this year will equal but not exceed last year’s record yield. In its July rice market monitor report, issued quarterly, the FAO said that weather conditions meant this year’s rice crop would not reach ...

More than 10 percent of children in the country aged between 5 and 17 work as laborers, with more than 5 percent engaged in “hazardous labor,” a situation that must be addressed by the government, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report released ...

Energy demand in Southeast Asia is expected to increase by more than 80 per cent by 2035, fuelling some $240 billion in oil spending, a new report from the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) shows. In its “Southeast Asia Energy Outlook” published yesterday, the Paris-based IAEA ...

Cambodia’s energy minister allayed concerns in parliament over inadequate compensation offered to villagers who face relocation for a proposed China-backed dam on a Mekong River tributary, saying the government has allocated to villagers more than four times the area taken over for the project. Minister of ...

“From my view, I don’t want to have it, but it is development, we can’t stop them,” says Srekor’s village chief, Leang Saroeurn. Cambodia’s impressive yearly GDP growth rates of 7 percent for the last decade have come, in part, through a ravenous consumption of the countries ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) Saturday announced the establishment of working groups to monitor, review and evaluate the implementation of the development plans and strategic policies of the ministries and institutions based on the slogan ‘Strengthen and Organise Individual Home’.   ...

Cambodia has knocked off Ivory Coast to become Vietnam’s biggest supplier of raw cashew nuts. Earlier it was the African nation that held the position. The General Department of Customs of Vietnam made the announcement on Saturday.   ...

A senior official at the Ministry of Labour said that as of June, 2024, there were approximately 1.3 million Cambodian migrant workers living abroad, with most of them located in Thailand and South Korea. ...

The Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia was officially promulgated by Royal Kram on 24 September 1993. Image designed by Open Development Cambodia (ODC), 10 September 2021. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.The 1993 Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia is the supreme law of the ...

On 11 September 2023, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted an enriching training session titled “Data visualization in journalism,” attended by a group of 14 journalists (2 females) from various locations such as Phnom Penh, Kratie, Siem Reap, Battambang, Stung Treng, and Mondulkiri.With our “Data visualization ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 6 new map features in Koh Kong, Preah Sihanouk, and Phnom Penh. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties ...