Human Rights Watch (HRW), long one of the most strident critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling party, again slammed the government on Wednesday for its failure to uphold human rights in Cam­bodia, with the release of its World Report 2016. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-group-blasts-government-over-events-in-2015/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port plans to buy a rice-polishing machine from China, and will also look to build a rice storage facility in Kandal province. These moves, officials said, were intended to push along Cambodia’s rice trade during a period of uncertainty for the industry. Facilities href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-autonomous-port-to-push-rice-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Thai company set to build Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam will not begin construction until a study determines the dam’s environmental effects on the Mekong River, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Friday. Yingluck reaffirmed her commitment to the study, which Mekong River Commission countries href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/yingluck-vows-to-halt-xayaburi/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Transparency International Cambodia is set to step up its presence in the Kingdom with the launch of a $2.5 million three-year program to monitor and record corruption. On a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clean), Cambodia ranks 2.1, according to the organisation, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/corruption-targeted-by-2-5-million-program/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Nine months after Cambodia’s stock exchange was officially launched, the country’s first share started trading Wednesday, with the initial public offering of state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority. PPWSA’s stock, priced at 6,300 riel (US$1.57), jumped 48% to 9,300 riel, according to the data from the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-finally-starts-stock-trading/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank has blacklisted an arm of the company that carried out a much-criticised study into the Xayaburi hydro dam project, it has confirmed. According to the bank’s website, Pöyry Management Consulting Oy Finland has been banned from conducting business with the bank for three href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-raps-dam-study-firm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 25 February 2024, Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) organized a comprehensive training session as part of the project “Strengthening Informal Economies and SMEs in Cambodia through Open Data and Digital Literacy,” funded by the Center of International Private Enterprise (CIPE). The training took place href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-attracted-local-people-in-mondulkiri-to-join-a-training-on-business-and-digital-literacy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) hosted a full-day training session on December 22, 2023, in Phnom Penh, gathering Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and participants from informal economies, which a total of 28 individuals attended, including 16 females and one indigenous participant. This session was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/smes-and-informal-economies-gathered-together-learning-about-business-and-digital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published new profile page of Indigenous Communities into Khmer and English languages. Together with the website’s map explorer web tool, this profile page aims to provide the most up-to-date information of the country’s Registered Indigenous Communal Land using data visualizations.Please href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-publishes-indigenous-communities-profile-page/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

ODC has just updated and translated on topic page of “Land” in Cambodia. This Land page is included of Land policy and classifications, Land tenure rights, Land transfer and public land lease, Land dispute resolution, and also map of “Families with less than 1 hectare href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-updates-land-page/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

TK Garment Co Ltd, a leading Thai original equipment manufacturer for fashion lines in Thailand, is relocating its largest production site to Cambodia to escape high wage costs, the Bangkok Post reported yesterday. According to Ken Loo, secretary general of the Garment Manufacturers Association in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-cheap-labour-attracts-interest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

There was a sense of déjà vu at the Peace Palace yesterday as a week of largely closed-door ASEAN meetings kicked off in earnest with the same contentious issue that so dominated April’s ASEAN Summit: a code of conduct for the South China Sea. With China href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/south-china-sea-centre-of-asean-talks-again/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Little more than a week after garment workers were granted a US$10 monthly increase in allowances and bonuses, thousands of workers at a number of factories joined strikes with a clear message yesterday: they need more. Workers rallied outside factory gates and some marched to the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-workers-hold-out-for-more/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The two US-backed media outlets and a local NGO’s news service whose broadcasts in Khmer were yanked off the airwaves by government officials before Sunday’s elections aren’t staying silent about the effect of such a move, with one calling it a giant step backward for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/arbitrary-decision-decried-by-silenced-outlets/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Four workers have gone missing after the collapse of an in-progress hydropower dam in Western Cambodia, apparently due to a leak in the structure. The Associated Press reports that the Saturday collapse occurred at the Stung Atay Hydroelectric Project, a $255-million dollar dam on the Atay href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dam-collapse-in-cambodia-leaves-four-workers-missing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday denied hiring a group of 10 “gangsters” to beat and injure workers as they protested. Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) official Ney Bunthoeun said a gang of thugs hired by Haiyun garment factory bosses href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factory-allegedly-hires-thugs-to-hurt-strikers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A resolution reached on Monday in the wake of a violent strike at two SL Garment factories that supply Levi’s and Gap resulted in employees returning to work yesterday – for the second time in days. Ek Sopheakdey, a Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sl-employees-back-to-work-after-resolution/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union had provided more than US$265,000 to a land reform project that aimed to shift political will and opinion towards land and human rights in Cambodia, development partners said yesterday. The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights will spearhead the Cambodian Land Law Reform Project, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-assists-land-reform/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Old Place Seafood, a Chinese restaurant that cost $4 million, has opened in Phnom Penh. A representative of the restaurant, which is opposite the Chinese embassy, said the growing number of Chinese people in the Kingdom had justified such an investment. Luu Meng, president of the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/4m-restaurant-reflects-growing-chinese-presence-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are among the six countries whose bird species will suffer, in the future, from the effects of climate change, according to a research conducted by two British scientist institutions. The document, published by Global Biological Change magazine, assesses a future distribution href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/climate-change-threatens-asian-birds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...