The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) on Sunday said all of the country’s 400-plus garment factories will remain closed until the government and striking trade unions can guarantee the safety of the factories and all employees who want to work. The decision, outlined in an ...

Harassment of monks and their supporters, who are marching to Phnom Penh to participate in International Human Rights Day rallies in the capital, continued Friday when three suburban utility vehicles were used to block the entrance to a pagoda in Kompong Speu province where marchers ...

The government will deploy double the usual number of armed security personnel on the streets of Phnom Penh on Tuesday to keep control of the large number of rallies planned in the city to celebrate International Human Rights Day, a military police official said Monday. “We ...

Before casting their ballots, residents in three communes in Kulen district carefully mulled their options. on one hand, many have found themselves locked in a land dispute with the government – forced to farm their land in secret from the forestry administration. on the other, ...

Late last month, protesters calling for the release of 23 imprisoned workers and activists clashed with district security guards on Phnom Penh’s Norodom Boulevard. Batons, rocks and punches were thrown, and a handful of people on both sides were left bruised and bloodied. Later that week, opposition ...

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan has summoned a student from the country’s top state journalism school for a meeting at his office after she used a post on her Facebook page to question the sense of a guest lecture he delivered last week. Mr. Siphan ...

On 08 February 2020, the Ministry Of Industry, Mines and Energy released a annOuncement On the results Of the COuncil Of Ministers plenary meeting On 07 February 2020 at the COuncil Of Ministers, presided Over by Prime Minister Hun Sen. at the meeting, the ROyal ...

As much as local people are benefiting from the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) recovery project following last year’s record floods, they aren’t receiving all the benefits they could, according to some accounts. operating in five provinces of Cambodia to restore road access to those affected by the floods, ...

Land is fundamental to the livelihoods of many Cambodians. Around 80 percent of people live in rural areas and around 73 percent depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.1 In urban areas, many are dependent on plots of land close to livelihoods, services and social support networks.Read ...

On 19-20 July 2022, ODC cOllabOrated with the Children and WOmen DevelOpment Center in CambOdia (CWDCC) and cOnducted a training wOrkshOp On access tO the data and infOrmatiOn On the Open DevelOpment CambOdia website tO cOmmunity fisheries frOm Kep and KampOt prOvince. The training was ...

Goal 16’s full title is “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” It has a monitoring framework of 12 targets (2 around means of implementation) and 23 indicators.  Transition ...

The National Assembly said in a statement on Friday that the opposition CNRP is in contempt of both the Constitution and the King by claiming that the new government is illegitimate. The CNRP had accused the ruling CPP of behaving unconstitutionally by convening parliament last week ...

A district-level Environment Ministry official in Ratanakkiri province on Wednesday claimed that he had no way to determine the legality of logging operations by firms with private land concessions inside the province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary. The claim by Chou Sopheak, director of Lumphat district’s environment department, ...

With the long-ruling CPP sworn in to govern for another five years despite the opposition CNRP abstaining from sitting in the National Assembly due to election irregularities, a new report argues that imminent threats to Cam­bodia’s future development can only be overcome with significant government ...

On 10 June 2019, the Ministry Of LabOur and VOcatiOnal Training issued an instructiOn On payment Of new seniOrity indemnity fOr enterprises in garment and fOOtwear industries tO prOperly implement Prakas NO. 443 K.B/Br.K.Kh.L issued On 21 September 2018 On payment Of seniOrity indemnity. The instructiOn includes ...

On 7 September 2021, the Ministry Of FOreign Affair and InternatiOnal COOperatiOn issued a press release On Samdech Akka MOha Sena Padei TechO HUN SEN, Prime Minister Of the KingdOm Of CambOdia, will chair the 7th Greater MekOng SubregiOn (7th GMS) Summit via videOcOnference via ...

Open DevelOpment CambOdia (ODC) updated an existing dataset On &ldquO;Special ecOnOmic zOne in CambOdia&rdquO; by adding 2 new map feature Of ROyal GrOup Kandal SEZ in Kandal prOvince and KLPT SEZ in KampOng Chhnang. This dataset describes the infOrmatiOn Of special ecOnOmic zOne (SEZ) in ...

Thailand’s reported move to ban exports of live pigs highlights the need to develop a larger Cambodian pig industry,  insiders say. The Bangkok Post reported yesterday that Thailand’s Acting Commerce Minister Porntiva Nakasai had banned the exports in order to bring down its own prices, ...

The government yesterday lashed out at a letter sent by opposition lawmakers to the World Bank that urged the bank to increase pressure on the government to end forced evictions, land grabbing and threats against community members involved in land disputes with well-connected companies. Council ...

OppOsitiOn party lawmaker SOn Chhay has sent a letter tO Deputy Prime Minister SOk An asking fOr the immediate suspensiOn Of a Vietnamese rubber plantatiOn in the endangered Prey LOng fOrest, accusing the firm Of illegal defOrestatiOn. In the letter dated Wednesday, Mr Chhay alsO asked ...