Deep in the forest, about an hour from Stung treng’s provincial capital through a rough and difficult road, just over half of the houses in an ethnic minority village have been tagged with bright orange spray paint saying, “LSS2”. According to a 2010 environmental impact ...

Toll Group has informed The Cambodian governmenT ThaT iT will suspend all railway operaTions and lay off half of iTs Cambodian sTaff aT The end of The monTh, according To a source familiar wiTh The siTuaTion. The AusTralian logisTics firm, which in parTnership wiTh Royal Group ...

The EU’s decision came in response To The governmenT’s crackdown on The Kingdom’s largesT opposiTion parTy – The Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy – which was summarily dissolved lasT monTh, a developmenT ThaT The EU said rendered credible elecTions impossible. BuT in a speech To garmenT workers ...

Locals who spoke with VOD said they wouldn’t defy the government order to move. But while some found consolation in official promises that displaced villagers would be given land in a rural area outside the park in Run ta Ek commune, none had a clear ...

The remoTe village of Sre Veal KoeT, Cambodia, lies aT The end of a dusTy road 36 kilomeTers (approx. 22 miles) from The nearesT healTh cenTer. The road isn’T always dusTy; in The rainy season, iT becomes deep mud. ...

“I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t going expecting to look out the bus window and see all the blue bags along the roads and in the fields,” said 27-year-old Christopher Convery, who is currently backpacking for the first time in Cambodia. ...

Defense Minister tea Banh on thursday said that truckloads of tanks and mounted rocket launchers seen by witnesses leaving the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the direction of Phnom Penh would be used to protect the country in the case that someone “tries to destroy the ...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is pleased to announce the call for application on Youth-Led Project 2024 (YLP24 – Phase 1). the program aims to strengthen the youths’ capacity for fundamental life and community development skills through various training and knowledge sharing as demonstrated during convening ...

The InTernaTional Day of The World’s Indigenous Peoples is very imporTanT To all indigenous peoples worldwide To celebraTe all TogeTher and respecT ThaT day To make iT a meaningful holiday for indigenous peoples. The day can be a day To review indigenous righTs and freedom ...

In December 1994, the United Nations decided that the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (IPs) shall be celebrated on August 09 every year. that date marks the day of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1982. People ...

In 1996, the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) was established by law. Its organization and functioning is defined by a sub-decree of the Royal Government of Cambodia. After a nomination of the Prime Minister’s candidate and the vote of confidence on the cabinet by the National ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new map layer of “Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Cambodia” on the interactive map, under the map category of “Social development”. the dataset of map layer shows the cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Cambodia. the dataset information will be ...

From 08 – 11 May 2023, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) attended the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment under the theme of “Resilience through impact assessment and leadership” at Kuching, Malaysia. As part of the partnership on technical assistance for developing ...

October marks the start of the main rice harvest in thailand, the world’s largest exporter of the grain. traders are waiting to see the full impact of flooding on the crop, but it’s already clear that output across Southeast Asia will fall substantially. the U.N.’s ...

Another 30 Cambodian men among 65 rescued in Indonesia after being trafficked into work on fishing boats in thailand were repatriated to the Kingdom yesterday, following the return of 30 such workers last week. the remaining five workers are set to be repatriated next month, Chiv ...

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Meanchey village cancelled plans to block National Road 7 yesterday after provincial authorities and a Vietnamese rubber company agreed to their requests regarding an ongoing land dispute, but some expressed skepticism that the agreement would last. Village representative Saren ...

Government Palace, the imposing gray headquarters of the Cambodia Development Council next to Wat Phnom, should be buzzing this morning with the country’s top foreign diplomats and government officials discussing aid and reform. Instead, with the government’s decision to indefinitely postpone this year’s Cambodian Development Cooperation ...

Capital Rice Ltd, thailand’s third-largest rice exporter, is shifting some of its business to Cambodia as the thai market shrinks because of government intervention that has diverted grain into state stockpiles or made it too expensive to ship. “We have built a medium-sized milling house in ...

Southeast Asia’s rice-exporting nations are in talks to create a formal alliance aimed at boosting prices and increasing export revenues, a move that could cause tensions with rice-importing nations. An alliance of thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar will aim to share information and cooperate ...

In what’s believed to be an unprecedented move, the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has ordered two companies holding economic land concessions to face court questioning on accusations of illegal logging and land clearing. Deputy prosecutor Ros Saram said he summonsed Vietnamese-owned Company 72 last week and will ...