Statement: Suspend development projects destroying the Tompoun/Cheung Ek wetlands
On 27 July 2020, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), Equitable Cambodia (EC) and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) jointly issued a report revealing human rights abuses and environmental devastation as private developments threaten to flood href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/statement-suspend-development-projects-destroying-the-tompoun-cheung-ek-wetlands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
Domestic revenue is an increasingly important source of development financing in Cambodia, says a new report
On 16 July 2021, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) issued a press release on launching a report estimating the financing available for the country’s development through to 2025, entitled “Cambodia’s Development Finance Assessment (DFA).”This report analyze the compositions and trends of all Cambodia’s financial inflows, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/domestic-revenue-is-an-increasingly-important-source-of-development-financing-in-cambodia-says-a-new-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
UN Development Programme
Press release: Cambodia continues to pursue an independent rule-based foreign policy that upholds its core interests, guarantees sovereignty and peace and boosts economic ties
On 1 February 2023, at the meeting of the Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia on “Cambodia’s Foreign Policy in the New Context of World Order” at the National Assembly, His Excellency PRAK href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-cambodia-continues-to-pursue-an-independent-rule-based-foreign-policy-that-upholds-its-core-interests-guarantees-sovereignty-and-peace-and-boosts-economic-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on “Global building footprints in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Global building footprints in Cambodia”. This bilingual new dataset of 3,874,425 building footprints in Cambodia is publicly available for download.=> Please click here to go to “Global building footprints in Cambodia”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-global-building-footprints-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on “Cambodia food prices”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Cambodia food prices”. This dataset provides Cambodian food price data from the World Food Programme price database. The World Food Programme price database includes corn, rice, beans, fish, and sugar prices.=> Please click here to go href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset-on-cambodia-food-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Announcement Workshop on Cambodia's digital economy and business web portal
On October 20 2022, Techo Startup Center has posted an announcement workshop on Cambodia’s digital economy and business web portal on their official social media site. The primary purpose of the workshop is to disseminate to the public and private sectors information related to essential web href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-workshop-on-cambodias-digital-economy-and-business-web-portal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Techo Startup Center
Cambodian worker alleges Thai police of humiliating treatment, abuse
A Cambodian migrant worker has alleged that he and dozens of fellow migrants were arrested, beaten, stripped naked and shaved bald by Thai police, who then extorted money from them just because they did not have the correct location on their working visas. The allegation is href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-worker-alleges-thai-police-of-humiliating-treatment-abuse/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia Home to Frenchman in Bo Xilai Drama
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Throughout the drama this spring revolving around the dismissal of the ambitious Chinese official Bo Xilai and the investigation of his wife as a murder suspect, the most mysterious figure has been a French architect named Patrick Henri Devillers. When Mr. Bo href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-home-to-frenchman-in-bo-xilai-drama/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Women slow to climb Cambodia's market
Women’s economic roles in Cambodia have made slower progress than in many other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, World Bank economists said yesterday. The region as a whole has seen tremendous gains in the way of gender equality during the past 20 years, but increasing wages href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/women-slow-to-climb-cambodias-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061956865/Business/women-not-on-top-in-market.html
Bangladesh, Cambodia seek new areas of cooperation
Bangladesh and Cambodia have decided to set up a “joint commission” to promote bilateral ties as the two countries eye to deepen cooperation for regional peace, stability and prosperity. According to a joint statement issued after the talks between the two prime ministers in Dhaka on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bangladesh-cambodia-seek-new-areas-of-cooperation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
bdnews24.com
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/06/18/bangladesh-cambodia-seek-new-areas-of-cooperation
Unions, bosses ink deal to end SL garment factory dispute
A year after violent clashes broke out between workers from the SL Garment Factory and gun-wielding security forces, leading to the shooting death of a bystander, representatives for workers and management at the factory signed off on a list of agreements this week to end the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-bosses-ink-deal-to-end-sl-garment-factory-dispute/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-bosses-ink-deal-to-end-sl-garment-factory-dispute-72685/
Climate Change Poses Major Threat to Cambodia’s Rural Poor
The Cambodian economy faces major problems for its predominantly rural population in the event of more erratic climate shifts, according to the United Nations Development Programme’s 2011 Cambodian Human Development Report. “This is an agrarian economy that depends very much on weather. And we are among the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/climate-change-poses-major-threat-to-cambodias-rural-poor/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
FFI Data Literacy Training was a success
On 06th-08th April 2022, in collaboration with Fauna & Flora International (FFI), Open Development Cambodia (ODC) successfully conducted basic Data Literacy Training at Poulo wai Hotel with the financial support of the Blue Action Fund under the project “Strengthening Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), fisheries governance href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/ffi-data-literacy-training-was-a-success/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Gender equality and Open Data Day 2020
The theme for Open Data Day 2020 “Equal Development” is aligned with the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since global SDG 5 focuses on Gender Equality and to celebrate International women’s rights day which happened to fall on the same week as the event, it href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/gender-equality-and-open-data-day-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
The launching event of the improving the delivery of public services through ICT project
In morning of 28 July 2017, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) cooperated with STAR Kampuchea (SK) and Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM), organized a launching event on project of "Improving the Delivery of Public Service through ICT " to target stakeholders at Romeas Haek district, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/the-launching-event-of-the-improving-the-delivery-of-public-services-through-ict-project/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
International Youth Day 2020
Under the theme “Youth Engagement for Global Action”, the 2020 International Youth Day focuses on the participation and representation of young people in public affairs at the local, national and global level. International Youth Day has been celebrated every year since 1999, when the United href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/international-youth-day-2020/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Virtual workshop on commune/sangkat citizen budget template to commune and district officials in Ou Chrov and Malai district
In collaboration with STAR Kampuchea, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted and facilitated a virtual workshop on commune/sangkat citizen budget template to commune and district officials in Ou Chrov and Malai district in the morning of the 12th and 14th of July, 2021 respectively. This workshop href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/virtual-workshop-on-commune-sangkat-citizen-budget-template-to-commune-and-district-officials-in-ou-chrov-and-malai-district/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Prayuters Library opening in Preah Vihear
On Saturday, September 16th, 2023, Open Development Cambodia Organization’s Open Development Library Initiative formally launched Prayuters Library in Preah Vihear province. Located in Hmor Seth Village, the Library is the culmination of five years of fundraising and planning and aims to promote reading, digital connectivity, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/prayuters-library-opening-in-preah-vihear/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
CCHR releases a briefing note on business and human rights entitled "Preventing, Mitigating and Remedying Land-Related Rights Violations in the Kingdom of Cambodia"
On 20 December 2018, The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) released a briefing note on business and human rights entitled “Preventing, Mitigating and Remedying Land-Related Rights Violations in the Kingdom of Cambodia” on its website in both Khmer and English versions. As part of its business and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cchr-releases-a-briefing-note-on-business-and-human-rights-entitled-preventing-mitigating-and-remedying-land-related-rights-violations-in-the-kingdom-of-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Special economic zone in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Special economic zone in Cambodia” adding 1 new map feature in Koh Kong. This dataset describes the information of Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Cambodia from 2006 to 2023. The total number of 49 SEZs are href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-odc-updated-an-existing-dataset-on-special-economic-zone-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...