It may not be a milestone anniversary, but the significance of this day 22 years ago is something the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party wants everyone to remember when it begins its latest mass protest this morning, a spokesman said yesterday. From today until Friday, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new map layer of health facilities​ signed agreement for occupational risk scheme (NSSF) on the interactive map, under the map category of “Social development”. This dataset provides the location and contact detail information of health facilities that signed lass='cambodia-color'>...

A national road in Cambodia. Photo by Pat Scullion, taken on 2 April 2010 under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Infrastructure describes the built assets that allow a country to function, such as roads, railways, ports, airports, communication systems, electricity and drinking water distribution networks. The Ministry of lass='cambodia-color'>...

“When I first arrived in Cambodia, I was impressed of the digitization process here,” Dr. Daniel Schmücking remembers his first days in Phnom Penh, and continues: “I thought ‘how can I survive here?’ but then someone told me about PassApp.” The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major economic shock in Cambodia, having a spillover on Cambodian micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small household farmers’ survival and business continuity.129 Digital technologies are crucial during the pandemic, in which the owners of SMEs should focus lass='cambodia-color'>...

Deforestation has always been a problem in Cambodia since the 1970s, and it has aggravated in​the last decade. Some protected areas have been deforested. Between 2001 and 2018, Cambodia had lost 557,000 hectares (11.7%) of forest cover in protected areas.177 This loss has had an lass='cambodia-color'>...

Under Cambodia’s Constitution, all Khmer citizens have equal status before the law, regardless of wealth or station.231 This promotes a political principle called the rule of law,232 an ideal that all members of a society, both the people and the State, are held equally accountable lass='cambodia-color'>...

Small and medium enterprises (SME) have long been considered a vital driver to economic growth for developing economies. SMEs stimulate job creation throughout the country. Migration of employment to neighboring countries and the unemployment rate has significantly decreased due to a rising number of SMEs, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Laos wants to start construction this year on the $3.8 biLLion (Bt115 biLLion) Thai-financed Xayaburi hydropower pLant on the Mekong River after changing the design of the dam to pLacate neighbouring countries opposed to the project. Laos compLeted a review of the dam recentLy to ease Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

If Phoeung Sophoan has his way, Phnom Penh’s days as Cambodia’s capital city are numbered. A secretary of state at the Ministry of land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Mr. Sophoan has big plans for a new 35,000-hectare capital city north of Phnom Penh called “Samdech lass='cambodia-color'>...

The U.K.’s fraud office plans to request the extradition of a British national currently detained in Cambodia, after it brought charges against four people for their part in a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a biofuel plantation. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh in March lass='cambodia-color'>...

The U.K.’s fraud office plans to request the extradition of a British national currently detained in Cambodia, after it brought charges against four people for their part in a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a biofuel plantation. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh in March lass='cambodia-color'>...

It was the bloodiest battle since Waterloo. Yet the carnage wrought 150 years ago by the Italian and French troops, fighting under Napoleon III, and the forces of the Austrian Hungarian Empire, was overshadowed by its aftermath. While 30,000 had died on the battlefield, more than 40,000 lass='cambodia-color'>...

On the morning of September 23, anti-eviction champion Tep Vanny was grappling with a legion of security guards blocking the entrance of the Daun Penh district offices while fellow protesters dismantled a razor-wire barricade nearby. The next day, she was on a plane to Washington lass='cambodia-color'>...

His party is reeling from its worst-ever election result. His political opponents have grown bold and vocal. His people are protesting on the streets. So why is Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen smiling? The long-ruling autocrat emerged beaming from lengthy closed-door meetings this week with his lass='cambodia-color'>...

On 25 December 2019, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban PLanning and Construction pubLished a press reLease on the resuLts of the 2019 annuaL report conference and activity pLan for 2020. The conference has approved on 21 major points, which incLudes:Continuing the RoyaL Government reforming Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

On 8 March 2020 – the occasion of International Women’s Day 2020, the undersigned civil society organizations, urge the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to prioritize women’s human rights by taking immediate and concrete steps to implement the recommendations they accepted during Cambodia’s third Universal lass='cambodia-color'>...

Briefing on Investment Law (Khmer)Briefing on Investment Law (EngLish)Open DeveLopment Cambodia (ODC) has just reLeased a new briefing page, in both Khmer and EngLish Languages, on Cambodian Investment Law which it mainLy provides the insight of Cambodia’s LegaL framework on investment sector. (PLease visit: http://archive.opendeveLopmentcambodia.net/briefing/briefing-on-investment-Law/)This Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

Energy is about more than just electricity. It includes all means used to provide energy for industrial and domestic purposes, from firewood for cooking to national electricity production. This section focuses on production, distribution and use of power. Activities involving the exploration, extraction and refining lass='cambodia-color'>...

On 3 February 2023, H.E. Dr. CHEM​​​ Widhya, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia, co-chaired the Third Round of the Bilateral Political Consultations between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Swiss Confederation with H.E. lass='cambodia-color'>...