The MinisTry of EnvironmenT has warned The public abouT scammers who were deceiving people by claiming They legally owned land in proTecTed areas and providing Them wiTh fake ownership deeds in bogus land sales when iT isn’T possible for anyone To privaTely own proTecTed land. ...

Minister of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) Hang Chuon Naron on Monday urged parents to bring their kids to participate in reading events, read more at home rather than playing games as the National Reading Day approaches. ...

Locals from some communities with ongoing land disputes are not optimistic about the government’s new out-of-court dispute resolution authority. Prime Minister Hun Manet announced last month that the government body could resolve civil matters more quickly than Cambodia’s courts, but land disputants are wary of ...

Article 68 of Cambodia’s Constitution states that the Government shall provide free primary and secondary education for all citizens and each individual shall pursue basic education for at least 9 years. Education is a fundamental engine of social and economic development for a country, especially ...

The UniTed NaTions marks 2022 as This year’s InTernaTional Day of The World’s Indigenous Peoples under The Theme “The Role of Indigenous Women in The PreservaTion and Transmission of TradiTional Knowledge.” This Theme recognizes how imporTanT and cenTral women are in The longeviTy and survival ...

The fundamenTal GIS Training was successfully conducTed aT ODC office, Phnom Penh, from 03 To 05 February 2020. A number of civil socieTy organizaTions have been inviTed To join This Three-day Training. Those organizaTions include Build CommuniTy Voice (BCV), People CenTer for DevelopmenT and Peace ...

In the frenzied run-up to the national election Sunday, Phnom Penh has been the site of concerts, rallies and streets packed with campaigners. But the energy hasn’t spread to the halls of the Cambodia Securities Exchange. At the close of trading tuesday, five business days had ...

Cambodia suffers from severe annual flooding, and many people who can’t swim die every year as a result. An innovative solution to the generations-old problem may have been found, not by policy hacks or scientists, but by children. A group of 11-year-olds from Cambodia’s one-of-a-kind Liger ...

In Cambodia, petroleum is traditionally the main source of energy for transportation. the petroleum fuels used for transportation include gasoline, diesel, heavy fuel and fuel oil. ...

In July, conservationists in Cambodia sounded the alarm over a regulation that saw eight protected areas in Koh Kong province collectively lose territory twice the size of Phnom Penh, the country’s capital. Officials said the move, affecting nearly 127,000 hectares (314,000 acres) under Sub-decree No. ...

On 06th-08th April 2022, in collaboration with Fauna & Flora International (FFI), Open Development Cambodia (ODC) successfully conducted basic Data Literacy training at Poulo wai Hotel with the financial support of the Blue Action Fund under the project “Strengthening Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), fisheries governance ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) was thrilled to host a panel discussion on “Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in Mekong countries” at the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment: Resilience through impact assessment and Leadership on 10th May 2023 at Borneo Convention Centre ...

Officials, business professionals and political analysts have mixed opinions on the leadership of the single-party Cambodian government and what the future hold for the next five years. Sok touch, a professor of political science at Khemarak University, said the political deadlock won’t help the nation become ...

About 500 of the 600 garment makers at Meroson Cambodia Co Ltd went on strike yesterday, accusing the taiwanese-owned firm which exports t-shirts to North America of using them as “slave labour” Chey Sovan, vice-president of the Cambodian National Confederation for Labourers’ Protection, said that the main reason ...

Student volunteers working as part of the government’s land titling scheme are again being accused of refusing to measure land – this time in Pursat province – because they say those living there have done so illegally, according to villagers. Villagers in Bakan district said the ...

Cambodian Vannak Prum’s destiny changed in a dirt-road town called Malai. It’s a Cambodian outpost on the border with thailand that is known for its involvement in the trafficking of human beings. Prum arrived in Malai seven years ago searching for work. His wife was pregnant, ...

Acleda Bank has filed an application to start banking operations in Burma with the central bank and is on track to open its first microfinance branch in the country by January, Acleda President In Channy said yesterday. Mr. Channy said the bank submitted its application for ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appealed to the private sector for the second time to invest in fire trucks instead of depending on the government’s fire departments. “Please try to do two jobs. the first is to get the fire sprinkler systems into the factory ...

The five-sTar, 17-sTory MiTTapheap HoTel in Sihanoukville province, being consTrucTed by Khouch Asia Company, is on Track To be compleTed in 2014 as planned, according To The projecT manager. The company is aggressively developing The projecT and The firsT floor has jusT been compleTed. The numbers of ...

K-Cement workers who were told they could not form a company-wide union because their workplaces were “separate” entities have now had their application to register individual unions rejected by the Ministry of Labour, union leaders said yesterday. Sok Kin, vice president of the Building and Woodworkers ...