Researchers have discovered a new population of banteng (Bos javanicus), a species of wild cattle, in northwestern Cambodia. The discovery was announced June 4, 2014 by Fauna and Flora International (FFI), and efforts are underway to implement conservation initiatives to protect the area and its newfound banteng, ...

Techo Startup Centre (TSC), under the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the association of banks in Cambodia, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation to promote financial technology systems in Cambodia. ...

Cambodia has launched its new 14-year plan on digital policy, saying the sector is a new model of economic growth, which can respond and keep pace with rapid changes in the economy as it recovers from the financial dip caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.​ ...

The Ministry of Interior plans to establish new communes before the 2022 commune council elections to make it easier for local people to access public services.   ...

Fifty-one families, equivalent to 87% of the total number  of households in Phat Sanday commune, Kampong Svay district, Kampong Thom province, have applied to establish a new community in the Stung Sen Ramsar site for the protection and conservation of natural resources by local villagers ...

Australian Ambassador Pablo Kang and Industry Minister Cham Prasidh jointly launched a water treatment facility in Battambang yesterday and the “Provincial Investment Plan for Piped Water Supply in Cambodia (PIP)” study. ...

Kandal village residents protested on Thursday against the filling in of land near their homes at the $1.5 billion airport development project, with a company official saying they were only filling the homes of three people who had agreed to leave the site. ...

A decade-old rubber plantation project beset with disputes with local residents has had its 9,000 hectares relocated to an intact forest in Stung Treng. ...

Phnom Penh’s business community gathered on Thursday for a forum hosted by EuroCham Cambodia on “Unpacking the Law on Taxation”, with the aim of breaking down the new regulations introduced in May. ...

Cambodia has added three new initiatives to the Siem Reap-Angkor Action Plan 2025-2029, addressing the issues of gender, environment, and improvised anti-personnel mines. These additions reflect the country’s commitment to upholding the Ottawa Convention. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “SDG 4 Quality education”, 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 page on SDG 4, you will get ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” in both Khmer and English languages, together with the detail on the transition from MDGs to SDGs in Cambodia, localization of the SDGs, global means of implementation, national means of implementation, ...

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 ...

The U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith will make her first official visit eight-day in Cambodia. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new profile page on “Access to public services.” Together with a plenty of information on transportation, health services and centers, public schools, civil status and data: services and fees.=>Please click here to get in to Access to public services profile page. ...

ODC has published 6 new sub-pages of Aid and development such as Private non-profit development assistance, Development policies and administration, Multilateral development assistance, Bilateral development assistance, Japanese aid and Chinese aid in two languages, Khmer and English.=> Click here to get access to Aid and ...

True to its New Years resolution to enforce stricter traffic laws, the government pulled over a total of almost 25,000 drivers in the three days after the law came into effect. Though many drivers were sent off with a warning rather than a fine, the ...

After a mass escape of 70 inmates from the notorious Prey Speu centre on Sunday, the government said they would take mentally ill people rounded up off the streets and house them on the same site as a Kandal orphanage.   ...

Large volumes of cigarettes are being smuggled from Cambodia to Vietnam as the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday approaches, despite Vietnamese authorities’ efforts to deter the situation. ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng defended plans to create “pay-to-stay” luxury prisons yesterday, claiming the scheme would also help poorer prisoners by reducing overcrowding. ...