Road traffic accidents are killing more Cambodians per year than those who died annually as a result of war during their country’s more than two decades of armed conflict, Prime Minister Hun sen said Monday. speaking in Battambang province’s Bavel district at the inauguration of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fishermen bring their boats to shore, pack away their traps and hand over the day’s catch to their awaiting families on the banks of the Mekong River in Kratie province’s Chitra Borei district. “When my husband arrives home each day, we eat some of what he ss='cambodia-color'>...

Yesterday a Reuters news story, “Insight: China gambles on Cambodia’s shrinking forests,” which also ran in today’s Phnom Penh Post and Cambodia Daily, mentioned Open Development Cambodia, and suggested that we are partnering with a local advocacy group to track concessions. This is not accurate. Like ss='cambodia-color'>...

Siv Mao, 25, juSt had a caeSarian operation. She feelS Some diScomfort but iS Smiling. Her newborn baby iS Sleeping fitfully beSide her and She SayS: “They Saved our liveS and I&rSquo;m happy.” MS. Mao encountered complicationS in her pregnancy and doctorS knew She could not SS='cambodia-color'>...

Santa Clara UniverSityLegal ReSearch Intern, Jun &ndaSh; Jul 2013Matt iS from Santa Clara UniverSity School of Law in the USA. He came to ODC after hiS firSt year, and he prepared a draft briefing paper on Cambodia&rSquo;S legal framework for inveStment, aS well aS a SS='cambodia-color'>...

A small gathering to mark World Teachers’ Day at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park briefly descended into chaos sunday when a crowd of rally-goers wrested a concealed gun from a man working for the Ministry of Information after he forced his way to the front of ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 10 July 2020, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned that snaring of animals has become a crisis that poses a serious risk to wildlife in southeast Asia and could spawn the transmission of zoonotic diseases to humans. An estimated 12.3 million snares threaten ss='cambodia-color'>...

Data on forest cover is essential for effective forest management and conservation. It enables policymakers to make informed decisions about forest management, such as identifying conservation areas, tracking changes in forest cover, and identifying areas at risk of deforestation. The forest cover profile page contains ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Women’s Affairs. Photo taken from the Ministry’s Facebook Page, taken on 17 september 2016.EstablishmentUnder Royal Decree No. Ns/RKM/0197/22, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs was formally established on 24 January 1996. The Ministry became the Ministry of Women and Veteran’s Affairs under the Royal ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea&rSquo;S Yonhap newS agency reported yeSterday that Cambodian officialS have agreed to aSSiSt in the inveStigation of a Scandal ridden South Korean SavingS bank with inveStmentS in the Kingdom. A South Korean inveStigation haS revealed that bank executiveS and ShareholderS uSed depoSitS to SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is focusing on lending to the agriculture, education, finance, water supply and transport sectors in Cambodia as part of its three year Country Partnership strategy, worth $500 million. $377 million will be allocated to 12 projects in the five mentioned ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two protestors of CPP senator’s project to develop Boeng Kak Lake have been arrested after a breakdown in negotiations between city hall and the 1,500 lakeside families who were protesting. The negotiations were concerning the sort of onsite housing the families would receive as compensation ss='cambodia-color'>...

US diplomatic cableS releaSed by WikiLeakS have Shown a poSitive light towardS two high-profile court caSeS in Cambodia. One caSe concernS the trafficking and phySical abuSe of an 11 year old girl and waS Cambodia&rSquo;S firSt caSe of human trafficking to be proSecuted. The cableS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Illegal Thai mobile phone services have been ordered by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications to cease their services inside of Cambodia. The services are being relayed as far as 100km within the border of Cambodia through a series of illegally constructed cell towers. qb ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port haS Seen an increaSe of 520 percent in the amount of conStruction machinery being imported. According to Chea Sambath, director of the port&rSquo;S planning and StatiSticS department, the increaSe iS aS a reSult of the increaSed inveStment in roadS, hydropower damS and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Angkor Beer drivers forced their way through a blockade formed by beer promoters protesting the company’s failure to respect them and follow an Arbitration Council ruling that they should be paid $2 more on the weekends. 200 protestors had planned to attend but only 30 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s property sector is said to be recovering from the global financial crisis according to experts. There has been a 10 percent increase in the number of transactions since 2009 with foreign investment a key aspect of the growth. The formation of anti-corruption laws has ss='cambodia-color'>...

H.E. Aun Pornmonirath, Secretary of State of the MiniStry of Economy and Finance of Cambodia and Mr. Sang Wang Byun, Executive Director of Export-Import Bank of the Republic of Korea, on September 21 Signed $21 Million Loan Agreement for Cambodia&rSquo;S Rural RoadS Improvement Project. “The SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian crocodile farmers have blamed the falling price of the reptile on flooding, which they say has turned away Thai and Vietnamese buyers – the market’s cornerstone. Prices for young crocodiles have dropped 25 per cent since August, Kandal breeder Kaing sarin said. His reptiles fetched ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom needs Us$270 million to expand its three airports if the country is to meet its growing demand as a tourist destination, Cambodia Airport CEO Emmanuel Menanteau said yesterday. The total number of visitors passing through the Kingdom’s airports will approximately double every 10 years, ss='cambodia-color'>...