Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Youth, and Sport (MoEYS) Hang Chuon Naron on Monday led a meeting to discuss the revenue-expenditure plan at the leadership level for the education sector next year. ...

The Ministry of Environment has dismissed the claim that forest cover has decreased from 43.21% in 2015 to 39.75% in 2023, as reported by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) on September 1. ...

Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (ARDB), Cambodia’s leading agricultural bank, and the Guangxi Academy of Sciences (GXAAS) Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on agricultural science and technology innovation. ...

A national crackdown on illegal goldmines has led to three unauthorized operations being closed in Memot, Tbong Khum province. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ specializes in aggregating data and developing interactive digital maps and datasets. Data from many sources are collated into an easily-accessed platform, opening space for informed discussion of development issues. ODC was launched in 2011 as an independent, politically-neutral body and ...

Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ...

Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneasy relations with Vietnam, and the general slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia’s brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the strait. Even if the terminal achieves the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUs (it has moved 70,000 so ...

King Norodom Sihamoni presided over a nearly half-empty opening session of the National Assembly on Monday as all 55 elected lawmakers of the opposition CNRP followed through with their threat to boycott parliament to protest disputed results of July’s national election. Analysts and election monitors ...

Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneasy relations with Vietnam, and the general slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia’s brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the strait. Even if the terminal achieves the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUs (it has moved 70,000 so ...

Well-known timber magnate Try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. The Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ...

The CNRP has pledged to take legal action against the leadership of the National Election Committee (NEC) after the Constitutional Council of Cambodia announced on Saturday that election irregularities in Kratie province were not significant enough to alter preliminary results released by the NEC. Despite the ...

Construction on a Phnom Penh tower block. Photo by Axel Drainville, taken on 4 May 2011. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0The construction industry has boomed in Cambodia. From 2000 to November 2018, Cambodia’s Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction approved 43,136 construction projects representing ...

Meat prices on Phnom Penh’s markets have seen large gains over the first half of the year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce’s Trade Promotion Department. Economics Institute of Cambodia Senior Researcher Neou Sieha said yesterday that meat prices had seen significant increase ...

Cambodia’s Agriculture Ministry has announced plans to increase the annual production of silk from 4 tons to 400 tons by 2020. Cambodia primarily relies on silk from Vietnam and China. The project is entitled the Silk Rehabilitation Project and is funded by the UN Food ...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United Kingdom increased more than 55% year-on-year during the first six months of 2011, according to the British Embassy in Phnom Penh. Total trade between January and June equalled US$247.2 million, up from $159.3 million during the same period in ...

The senior manager of Tomato Specialized Bank yesterday said the bank would continue to operate in Cambodia despite a decision by South Korea’s financial regulator to suspend one of its partners. Korea’s Financial Services Commission on Sunday announced that seven banks, including the Tomato Savings Bank, ...

Revenue at Cambodia’s postal service rose 40 percent in the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year, an official at Cambodia Post said yesterday, attributing the rise to the postal service gaining complete independence from the Ministry of Posts ...

The Kingdom’s first centralised credit bureau was on track to launch in February, officials said yesterday, although it had originally been slated to start by the end of this year. Credit Bureau Cambodia will collect and provide consumer and institutions’ financial information, which they can use ...

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port revenues increased more than 16 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2011, according to port officials. Cambodia’s largest port generated US$21 million in revenues between January and August, up from $18 million in the same period last year, SAP Director General ...

The Minister for Agriculture yesterday appealed to buyers to address the shortage of pigs in Phnom Penh by applying for licenses that would allow them to import more livestock from neighbouring countries. An industry representative and a market expert, however, warned of the potential fallout that ...