The number of mothers who died in labour has nearly halved over four years, from 182 fatalities in 2011 to 100 in 2015.1​ Deaths among children have also dropped, although they remain comparatively high, and the prevalence of underweight newborns is high compared to many href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/maternal-and-child-health/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Participants are having group photo ​after the presentation.On May 25-26, 2018 the ODC team joined the Banteay Meanchey BarCamp. Being the second BarCamp conference organised in 2018, and the first time the event was taken place at the Meanchey University of the Banteay Meanchey province. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-presents-at-the-bantheay-meanchey-barcamp/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and the Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP Cambodia) jointly hosted the first training workshop on Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) under the Shared Resources Joint Solutions (SRJS) program supported by the Netherlands Committee for IUCN. The two-day training was held on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/first-training-workshop-on-strategic-environment-assessment-sea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new dataset of an interactive web-based dashboard hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, to visualize and track reported Corona virus COVID-19 global cases in real-time.=> Please click here to get href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-web-based-dashboard-dataset-of-coronavirus-covid-19-global-cases-by-johns-hopkins-csse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Businesses with supply chains and operations in Burma, Bangladesh and Cambodia are benefiting from the world’s lowest labour costs, according to a new global ranking. Risk analytics company Verisk Maplecroft’s Labour Costs Index measures a combination of wages, employment regulations, social security contributions and labor productivity href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/burma-bangladesh-and-cambodia-have-worlds-lowest-labour-costs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About half of the land concessions granted since 1994 are in the hands of Chinese companies, according to data released yesterday by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Ouch Leng, CCHR land reform project coordinator, said that from 1994 to 2012, the Cambodian government granted 4,615,745 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-reaps-concession-windfalls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

While AirAsia, one of the world’s largest low-cost airline, is gearing toward an expansion in the region, the company’s chief executive said that serving Cambodia was expensive due to high airport fees. Airport charges are high and restrictive, as are over-flight fees, compared to other countries in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fees-too-high-airasia-ceo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

For political economist Sophal Ear, this view is more nuanced. In his book ‘Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermined Democracy‘, published by the Columbia University Press (2012), years of dependency are not showing positive results in the rehabilitation of Cambodia, its democracy and war href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-scholar-suggests-pernicious-effects-of-aid-dependence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Railway freight services between Phnom Penh and Touk Meas commune, in Kampot province’s Banteay Meas district, the location of a Siam Cement factory about 40 kilometres north of Kampot town, began yesterday, finally putting the Toll Royal Railways concession on an earning basis. According to Toll Royal Railways href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rail-freight-services-begin-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing Cambodia post offices coverage in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the map illustrates the locations of post office as well as the spreadsheet with detailed information of the 30 locations href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-publishes-a-new-map-layer-on-post-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Basemap of Cambodia (2014) covering three levels of administrative boundaries such as: provincial, district and commune on ODC “Download maps” attached with its Dataset in both Khmer and English. Together with Basemap of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-published-basemap-of-cambodia-2014-dataset/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has failed to comply with its fundamental civil and political rights obligations, FIDH and its member organizations, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), said in a joint href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cambodia-report-documents-governments-ongoing-failure-to-implement-iccpr/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has recently updated an exiting topic page on “Business structures and legal registration“. With the content updating, the public now can access to the most up to date information in the current context and legal documents, downloadable datasets, news and press href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-a-topic-page-on-business-structures-and-legal-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “Legal aid.” This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of access to legal aid enshrined in the Constitution of Cambodia and the Code of Criminal Procedure, legal aid providers, and strategy for legal href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-legal-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia​ (ODC) has published a new dataset​ on “Global Surface Water Data in Cambodia”.  The dataset illustrates a complete history of water detections over the 37-year period from 1984 to 2020 produced under the Copernicus Programme and free of charge. The dataset in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset%e2%80%8b-on-global-surface-water-data-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “SMEs policy and regulation”. This bilingual topic page gives a quick overview of SMEs policy and regulation in Cambodia, together with the related contents such as law and policies on SMEs, support for SMEs, SME href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-smes-policy-and-regulation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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. A sub-decree signed by the Council of Ministers in March said 9,787 hectares would be provided to Horizon Agriculture Development as “compensation” href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/conflict-ridden-land-concession-moved-to-new-forest-area/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce a Geographic Information System (GIS) Workshop: Fundamentals of QGIS. This workshop aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on geographic information system and using open-source GIS platform (QGIS) for data collection, data management and mapping.For registration: https://bit.ly/43eJOOZRegistration deadline: href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/training-workshop-on-the-basic-of-gis-and-the-use-of-qgis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 07 new map features in Phnom Penh and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-odc-updated-an-existing-dataset-on-state-land-reclassification-8/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant levels of pressure on many governments, requiring them to implement new regulations and policies to reduce the spread of the virus. In Cambodia, the socioeconomic challenges posed by the pandemic mainly come from the reduction of commercial operations at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/covid-19-legislative-response-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...