Some 62 civil Society organizationS (CSOS) including Licadho, Cambodian Center for Human RightS (CCHR), and local communitieS have urged the authoritieS to allow Sahmakum Teang Tnaut&rSquo;S (STT) photo exhibition to reSume after it waS Shut down two weekS ago. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Manet has pledged almost $450 million to strengthen the country’s social protection system, with experts advising that transparency is essential in its delivery. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Manet has invited Chinese investors to invest in infrastructure projects in Cambodia as the government sees this as key to the country’s socio-economic development. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Approximately 35 per cent of Cambodia’s 250,000 construction workers are women, according to sok Kin, president of the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia (BWTUC). ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid growing threats worldwide, Prime Minister Hun Manet urged all police personnel to strengthen their capacity to ensure security which is crucial for the Kingdom’s continued development. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Consumer loans increased by 12 percent in the first half of 2024 compared to the previous year’s figure of 10.5 percent, said Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) Chairman and MayBank CEO Rath sophoan at the Cambodia Banking Conference 2024, on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Next year’s minimum wage for the garment, footwear, and travel goods industries has been set at $208 per month, an increase of $4 from this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has been working closely with Internews for the Innovations in social Accountability project. To strengthen the ODC team’s site measurement capabilities, Internews facilitated training on Google Analytics for six staff and one CsO observer.The training was conducted by a local Google ss='cambodia-color'>...

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At 11:30 a.m. Saturday, municipal Security guardS and men in plainclotheS, wielding Steel barS, metal pipeS, batonS, StickS and axeS, forcibly cleared hundredS of demonStratorS from Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Freedom Park, where the oppoSition CNRP haS been proteSting againSt the government of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen SS='cambodia-color'>...

On December 7th and 8th, a small team from ODC jumped in a bus and traveled to Kampong som to participate in BarCamp sihanoukville. The conference was held at Build Bright University. The day-and-a-half-long event featured presentations from specialists of many fields and interests, including ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups on Monday urged the government to drop its incitement charges against four people arrested last week and accused of plotting to topple the government by handing out yellow roses to security forces and urging them to turn their guns against Prime Minister Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven NGOS have raiSed their concernS that the government iS uSing the law, media and Internet to further Stifle freedom of expreSSion, ahead of Cambodia Submitting itS firSt UniverSal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rightS to the U.N. The UPR iS the proceSS through which Geneva&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

Seven NGOS have raiSed their concernS that the government iS uSing the law, media and Internet to further Stifle freedom of expreSSion, ahead of Cambodia Submitting itS firSt UniverSal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rightS to the U.N. The UPR iS the proceSS through which Geneva&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

While fears have been raised over the imminent construction of the Don sahong dam in Laos, environmentalists on Monday said Cambodia should not forget that it has a project of its own that would be equally as disastrous to the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands ss='cambodia-color'>...

Declaring that it has “zero tolerance” towards land grabbing, Coca-Cola has agreed to investigate a long running case in Cambodia where villagers are seeking court action against a company accused of seizing their land to make way for plantations linked to the supply of sugar ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior announced Tuesday in a last minute meeting that it would allow the opposition CNRP to take 1,000 people through the streets of Phnom Penh to deliver a petition to the U.N. and eight foreign embassies during its three-day mass demonstration that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just weeks after the country’s only independent teachers’ association staged a strike for higher wages, Phnom Penh’s education chief told teachers this week that they must stop taking bribes to comply with the government’s promised reform agenda. speaking to about 500 educators, mainly school directors, from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Briefing on Investment Law (Khmer)Briefing on Investment Law (English)Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just released a new briefing page, in both Khmer and English languages, on Cambodian Investment Law which it mainly provides the insight of Cambodia’s legal framework on investment sector. (Please visit: http://archive.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/briefing/briefing-on-investment-law/)This ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has said that the rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways will not be at the expense of those who live along the lines and has pledged to address the issue. Resettlement has been a problem for the rehabilitation but a new plan ss='cambodia-color'>...