On 09 June 2021, the Australian Embassy in Cambodia was pleased to announce a new landmark initiative to electrify villages in Cambodia that are not connected to the grid.​ In partnership with Ministry of Mines and Energy Cambodia, Électricité du Cambodge, and Electricity Authority of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/launch-of-new-australian-support-for-renewable-energy-mini-grids/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is excited to announce a full-day training session set on 22 December 2023, in Phnom Penh. The session touches on the business registration process, digital literacy, and digital security, targeting informal economies and SMEs, including women and indigenous peoples, and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/join-us-training-opportunity-for-smes-and-informal-economy-participants/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) and the Institute of Science and Technology of Cambodia (ISTC) in Preah Vihear, focusing on collaborative efforts in education and research, the Prayuters Library Program is excited to announce the opening of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/call-for-application-research-grant-for-bachelors-degree-students-to-write-thesis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The goal of the annual ASEAN Water Platform (AWP) is to build capacity in research on water natural resource management (WNRM) within the partner countries’ institutions. The purpose of AWP is to gather together researchers with different backgrounds in order to have an exchange of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/asean-water-platform-awp-6th-14th-july-2018-at-can-tho-university-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

2023 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy. Photo by Ricardo Rivera, taken on 05 April 2023. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.Open Development Cambodia’s team attended the 2022 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy in Lucerne, Switzerland. The Forum is world’s largest gathering devoted to participatory href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/global-forum-on-modern-direct-democracy-democracy-in-switzerland-and-the-use-of-technology-to-improve-citizen-participation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “SDG 1 No poverty”, which is one of the 17 goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through ODC’s new topic pages on SDG 1, you will get href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-sdg-1-no-poverty/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

ODC has published a new page on Ground water in Cambodia, outlines the general overview, ground water extraction in Cambodia, threats and challenges, and policy response and future prospects in two languages, Khmer and English. There is also included the graphic of “Wells with undrinkable href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-has-published-a-new-page-on-ground-water/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Mekong River Commission (MRC) will forgo an opportunity to voice opposition to the Xayaburi dam project – which member state Laos began building in November – when it meets for its annual council meeting next week. Surasak Glahan, communications officer with the MRC secretariat, confirmed href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/xayaburi-dam-not-on-agenda/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Foreign Trade Bank of Cambodia (FTB) and Tong Yang Securities (Cambodia) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding on financial consultation services and trade co-operation that is hoped to expand banking and securities business in the country. The MoU should bring the bank and the securities firm into href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ftb-signs-mou-with-tong-yang/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Sri Lankan agricultural group Lankem Ceylon PLC says it plans to plant 20,000 hectares of rubber in Cambodia as part of a diversification strategy. Lankem chairman A Rajaratnam disclosed the strategy in the company’s annual report for the year to March, 2012, released by the company href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sri-lankan-company-to-plant-20000-hectares-of-rubber-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s production of paddy rice is forecast at about 9.3 million tonnes this year, unchanged from last year’s estimate but up from 8.8 million tonnes in 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said Thursday. In its latest quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation report, the UN href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-output-forecast-to-be-similar-to-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh is one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia. It added nearly 500,000 people between 2000 and 2010, for a total of 1.4 million. That has meant a lot of changes in a short period: more congestion, more markets, more housing. And, newcomers href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/growing-pains-as-capital-keeps-expanding/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Informal workers, a class that includes beer promoters, tuk tuk drivers and farmers, are among those who stand to benefit most from the upcoming trade-union law, observers say – and workers say it can’t come soon enough. Dave Welsh, country director of the American Center for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/workers-waiting-for-a-bargain/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A senior agricultural official is concerned by the prevalence of fake fertilizers that cause stunted rice crops and reduce farmers’ profits. Ngin Chhay, director of the Rice Crops Department in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry, told the Development Research Forum in Phnom Penh yesterday the products were href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fake-potash-reduces-rice-profits-and-farm-output/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The ASEAN Infrastructure Fund, the largest pooling of financial resources among Southeast Asia’s 10-member bloc, held its first board meeting in Manila last week, but the extent to which Cambodia will borrow from the non-concessional fund has yet to be determined, experts said. ASEAN countries and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/newest-asean-fund-may-be-out-of-reach-for-cambodian-govt/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Access to the region’s largest collective financial resource, the ASEAN Infrastructure Fund, could be easier than expected for Cambodia, according to an Asian Development Bank economist. Initiated in May, the fund is expected to lend up to US$4 billion and leverage up to $13 billion for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-infrastructure-fund-could-be-within-cambodias-reach/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

An estimated 600 people will travel to parts of the Cardamom Mountains in Koh Kong province to investigate illegal logging and commemorate the death of slain environment activist Chut Wutty tomorrow. Communities from eight provinces that have been affected by deforestation will travel to Koh Kong href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/leader-lost-but-activists-fight-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Fuelled by downward pressure on internet pricing, state-owned Telecom Cambodia had dramatically increased its fibre-optic link with Vietnam, officials and experts said. The new 10-gigabyte connection would further lower prices and boost the speed of Cambodian internet connections in a market where demand for bandwidth was driven by href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bandwidth-boost-underway/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has urged Laos to halt construction of the controversial Xayaburi hydro dam project in the country’s north, a letter obtained by the Post yesterday reveals. “Preliminary construction on Xayaburi dam has continued despite the lack of regional agreement,” Minister of Water Resources and Cambodia National Mekong Committeechairman Lim href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/water-minister-urges-laos-to-halt-xayaburi/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A Ford assembly plant in Preah Sihanouk province will supply Cambodia’s limited but growing car market, the American carmaker’s local representative RMA Cambodia announced yesterday. The US$3 million investment, wholly owned by RMA, has a capacity of up to 6,000 vehicles per year, and is expected href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ford-plant-opens-in-sihanoukville/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...