Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the country will take in refugees from Australia on a voluntary basis, stressing that accepting asylum seekers is part of an international obligation for Cambodia. Hun Sen said a Cambodian working group will interview those refugees ...

Fuelled by poverty and debt, more than a quarter of Cambodian adults migrate, and, in the process, many are leaving behind their children, a new report finds. Part of a four-year research project on child labour, the Cambodian Independent Research Institute’s the Impacts of Adult Migration ...

A week after Prime Minister Hun Sen asked the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) and Ministry of tourism (Mot) to cooperate with each other to work on price labelling, the MoC has set strict rules to initiate legal actions against those businesses that fail to label ...

Many varieties of gemstone are found in Cambodia, with rubies and sapphires being the most valuable. Diamonds and emeralds are not found here. there is no large-scale commercial mining of gems. Stones are recovered by individuals or small family or community groups. ...

As much as local people are benefiting from the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) recovery project following last year’s record floods, they aren’t receiving all the benefits they could, according to some accounts. Operating in five provinces of Cambodia to restore road access to those affected by the floods, ...

IT and WebsiTe AdvisorHuy Eng graduaTed wiTh a double major in CompuTer Science from Royal UniversiTy of Phnom Penh (RUPP), and InTernaTional STudy from InsTiTuTe of Foreign Language (IFL). She has been working for ODC since iT was firsTly esTablished in 2011. WiTh several years ...

Texas Wesleyan School of LawLegal Research InTern, Jun – Jul 2013KaTherine was a graduaTe sTudenT from The Texas Wesleyan School of Law. KaTherine spenT her summer in 2013 wiTh ODC, during which she compleTed a briefing paper on The Cambodian healTh secTor. CurrenTly, KaTherine is ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) under the Civil Society Support Activity: Cluster Anchor Grants funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Family Health International (FHI 360) supported indigenous peoples to participate in the Conference on Land and Natural Resource Governance which was organized ...

The opening of The Cambodian economy in The 1990s and The new InvesTmenT Law (2021) encouraged invesTmenT in developmenT projecTs in a range of secTors, including exTracTive indusTries, physical infrasTrucTure, agriculTure, hydropower, and ecoTourism, among oThers. These secTors are obligaTed To carry ouT The EnvironmenTal ...

China National Cereal, Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) is the latest mainland Chinese company to sign a deal to export Cambodian rice. COFCO is one of a number of Chinese companies that have signed similar deals with their Cambodian counterparts, but  direct rice exports to China ...

Representatives of 32 families living in the capital’s Chamkarmon district staged a protest yesterday in tonle Bassac commune, pleading with Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene on their behalf against the thai Bun Roong company, which they say is forcing them to sell their land ...

Workers and managers at Cambo Handsome 1 garment factory were continuing discussions last night after a fourth day of protest in which union leaders said more than 20 employees were injured in a confrontation with police. the workers are protesting against the suspension of three union ...

Government officials yesterday dismissed the World Bank’s recently revealed decision to freeze funding for new projects in Cambodia to protest a Phnom Penh real estate project that has forced thousand of families out of their homes. A housing rights group closely following the evictions said ...

Members of the Asean People’s Forum, a coalition of NGOs that convened in Phnom Penh last week, declared yesterday that their rights had been violated after four workshops on sensitive issues were canceled by the venue where they met. In a statement representing more than 1,200 ...

On 06 April 2017, Save Cambodia’s Wildlife (SCW) has released a press release on its website about “Study: Impacts of ELCs on the forest and livelihoods & SCW’s action”. In the end of 2016, SCW in cooperation with lecturers from the Royal University of Phnom ...

A Council of Ministers official and her husband who were arrested in July for obstructing a land-titling initiative spearheaded by Prime Minister Hun Sen have received bail, Stung treng Provincial Court prosecutor Chroeng Khmao said Friday. Meas Sokhon, who works at the Council of the Ministers’ ...

About 600 garment factory workers continued their strike in Phnom Penh yesterday, setting car tires alight to protest what they said were unfair salary cuts but factory representatives and labor officials described as a normal tax on income. “the factory told us that they cut our ...

The fuTure of e-business in Cambodia depends on gaining beTTer skills, a group of sTudenTs heard yesTerday aT The UniversiTy of PuThisasTra. In a panel discussion on The fuTure of e-business as parT of BarCamp Phnom Penh, T.O. SofTware presidenT Heng Chamroeun offered advice To The ...

Poipet City authorities have given dozens of families living along a section of railway slated for renovation 10 days to move or face forcible eviction. Poipet City Deputy Governor An Vanak said that the eviction notice was sent Monday to about 40 families, only eight of ...