Cambodia’s garment factories face a shortage of workers, because of migration, more job opportunities in different sectors and poor labour conditions, industry experts said. According to Ken Loo, secretary general of the Garment Manufacturer’s Association in Cambodia, there is a definite shortage of labour in Phnom href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-shortage-in-cambodias-garment-industry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Siv Mao, 25, just had a caesarian operation. She feels some discomfort but is smiling. Her newborn baby is sleeping fitfully beside her and she says: “They saved our lives and I’m happy.” Ms. Mao encountered complications in her pregnancy and doctors knew she could not href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-the-rural-poor-are-receiving-free-heath-care-in-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Data on forest cover is essential for effective forest management and conservation. It enables policymakers to make informed decisions about forest management, such as identifying conservation areas, tracking changes in forest cover, and identifying areas at risk of deforestation. The forest cover profile page contains href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/profiles/forest-cover/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) represents the executive wing of government. It is responsible for implementing laws and directing general affairs of the state in accordance with policy programs and state planning approved by parliament (the National Assembly and Senate). href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/executive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new profile page on “Access to public services.” Together with a plenty of information on transportation, health services and centers, public schools, civil status and data: services and fees.=>Please click here to get in to Access to public services profile page. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-profile-page-on-access-to-public-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 25 April 2017, Ministry of Environment officially lunched the lexicon of climate change in Khmer, in both printed and electronic version. To download the app for mobile, Please find the CCLexicon in Appstore (For iOS) and Play Store (For Android). To view through website, Please href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/ministry-of-environment-offically-lunched-the-lexicon-of-climate-change-in-khmer/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new profile page on “Public transportation” under Access to public services. Together with the information in both Khmer and English of bus lines, operating hour, bus stop and map.=>Please click here to get in to Public transportation profile page. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-profile-page-on-public-transportation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Civil status” under Access to public services in both Khmer and English including: Birth record and certificate, Marriage record and certificate, and Death record and certificate. =>Please click here to get in to Civil status page. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-profile-page-on-civil-status/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Real wages for Cambodia’s semi-skilled construction workers fell during the past five years, according to a recent report from market research firm BDLINK Cambodia. A 36 per cent increase in the Kingdom’s consumer price index during the period put semi-skilled workers’ real wages last year href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/semi-skilled-builders-see-wages-drop-report-says/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni arrived in Phnom Penh, capital city of Cambodia, on Monday morning after the tour to France for two weeks to strengthen and expand bilateral ties and cooperation. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-king-returns-from-visit-to-france/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia remains on a watch list at the US State Department, for failing to do enough to combat human trafficking. In its annual Trafficking in Persons report, the State Department kept Cambodia a “tier 2” country. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-remains-on-us-watch-list-for-trafficking/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A new lottery company, Naga Lottery owned by the same company that operates Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld, will launch its first product on June 8, an official press release said yesterday. The company was licensed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance in October last year said executive director href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/naga-lottery-to-launch/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The year 2012 has seen a number of changes of personnel within different companies in Cambodia, particularly in the telecommunications sector, but also in the insurance and banking industry. According to In Channy, ACLEDA Bank’s CEO and vice chairman of the International Business Chamber Cambodia, the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tough-times-for-telecom-bosses-in-2012/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The government will drop subsidies for high electricity use, after the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) reported losses of US$3 million between January and May this year. Households consuming more than 200 KW/h per month will no longer receive a 100 to 200 riel per KW/h href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/government-to-cut-power-subsidies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

After the first general election in 1993, the government prepared and implemented a comprehensive micro- and macroeconomic policy and structural reform program to integrate Cambodia’s economy into the region and the world as well as stimulate its economic growth.1 In the two decades following that href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/economic-policy-and-administration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Rural energy cooperative in Cambodia. Photo by Nomade Moderne, taken on 23 March 2006. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The electricity distributed in Cambodia is partly generated within the country and partly imported. For many years, local generation was on a relatively small scale, and was href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/electricity-infrastructure/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The number of mothers who died in labour has nearly halved over four years, from 182 fatalities in 2011 to 100 in 2015.138​ 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'>...