Cambodia posted the sharpest increase in production among the world’s major rice producers between 2000 and 2010, the Food and Agricultural Organization said in a report released Wednesday. The 2013 edition of the UN agency’s Statistical Yearbook showed that Cambodia was the world’s 12th largest rice ...

Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temples, one of the world heritage sites, attracted 1.57 million foreign tourists in the first nine of the year, up 6 percent compared with the same period in a year earlier, a tourism report showed Monday. South Korea, China, Vietnam, Japan and Thailand ...

The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, Cambodia’s largest shipping facility, on Tuesday reported a 12 percent rise in cargo shipments in the first eleven months of 2013. The state-owned sea port had received 2.73 million tonnes of goods during the January-November period this year, up from 2.43 million ...

Cambodia is making headway on its 2015 Millennium Development Goal to improve maternal health and is ahead of its target to reduce its unDer-five child mortality rate, but it still lags behind neighbouring countries, the 2013 State of the World Population Report has revealed. Released yesterday, ...

Two of the leading microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia said yesterday that they have identified a relatively small fraction of borrowers who were affected by flooding and would provide relief on their repayment schedules if necessary. The comments come after both Prime Minister Hun Sen and ...

Siam Kubota Corporation (SKC), a leading farm truck maker, has partnered with Group Lease to enter the agriculture machine market in Cambodia. Mitsuji Konoshita, chief executive of Group Lease, said the partnership with SKC is a bid to extend leasing service to Kubota’s clients in ...

Rice exports to Thailand plummeted in the first four months of the year as a result of that country’s surplus, which reached record levels at the end of 2013. Between January and April, Cambodia exported just 1,550 tonnes of rice to Thailand, down 89 per cent ...

Officials involved in negotiating compensation offers between the developers of the Lower Sesan II dam and affected villagers have kept a portion of the money paid out to 12 families for themselves, according to an official. Duong Pov, Stung Treng provincial administration director, claimed that a ...

Battambang land prices have increased this year, according to a local real estate firm. Sorn Seap, general manager of Key Real estate, said land prices in Battambang city, capital of the province of the same name, have increased by around 12 per cent this year compared ...

The Education Ministry’s bid to rid the grade 12 national exam of cheating and bribery was hailed a success after the first day of testing Monday, with officials reporting only a few attempted cheats and no corrupted proctors. Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron, who spent ...

A feasibility study on waste-to-energy plant has been proposed to be conducted in Siem Reap province, aiming to convert waste to energy and keep the city clean. Proposed by China’s MIZUDA firm, the 12-megawatt waste-to-energy plant needs at least 210,000 tonnes of waste a year ...

The Ministry of Tourism plans to launch a travel bubble allowing transit between Cambodia and 12 other regional countries in a bid to resuscitate the tourism sector amid the crushing impact of the ongoing spread of Covid-19, Ministry of Tourism spokesman Top Sopheak told The ...

On 11 August 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued an announcement on Cambodia congratulated, highly appreciated for successfully hosting 55th AMM and related meetings from 29 July to 05 August 2022 in Phnom Penh.12 media outlets published the articles/analysis/comments related to ...

On 12 December 2022, the Ratanakiri Provincial Governor issued a notification on Demarcation, measurement, and judgment of indigenous communal land.Demarcation, measurement, and judgment of Kreung indigenous communal land in Svay village, Poy commune, O’Chum district, Ratanakiri province will take place from 19 December 2022 to ...

The first freshwater dolphin identification survey of 2023 was conducted from January 12-17, with the participation of international experts from the Sarasota Dolphin Research Programme, the US Marine Mammal Commission, and the specialist groups that constitute the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species ...

The financial standing of Cambodian borrowers has seen improvement over the years in many cases, as per data with the Cambodian Microfinance Association (CMA). ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a new dataset on “Mobile network coverage in Cambodia”. This dataset visually presents comprehensive maps Detailing the extent of the mobile network coverage of Cellcard, Metfone, and Smart across Cambodia. This network map shows the location of available networks in ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Major foreign investment projects in Cambodia” adding 52 new map features​ from Council for the Development of Cambodia and other sources. The foreign investment project dataset has been established to proviDe relevantly practical information within Cambodia’s ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) published a dataset on “Commune/Sangkat budget in 2023”. This dataset shows the expenditures and revenues in 2023 of each commune in the targeted communes/Sangkat unDer the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC).=> Please click here to go to “Commune/Sangkat budget ...

After Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) successfully organized a launching workshop on “Digital Educational Resources in Indigenous Languages for Primary School StuDents” on October 27, 2023, at the Kampong Cham Provincial Department of Education, Youth, and Sport, the ODC team commenced on-site promotional activities on ...