Businesses with supply chains and operations in Burma, Bangladesh and Cambodia are benefiting from the world’s lowest labour costs, according to a new global ranking. Risk analytics company Verisk Maplecroft’s Labour Costs Index measures a combination of wages, employment regulations, social security contributions and labor productivity href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/burma-bangladesh-and-cambodia-have-worlds-lowest-labour-costs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

About half of the land concessions granted since 1994 are in the hands of Chinese companies, according to data released yesterday by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Ouch Leng, CCHR land reform project coordinator, said that from 1994 to 2012, the Cambodian government granted 4,615,745 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/china-reaps-concession-windfalls/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

While AirAsia, one of the world’s largest low-cost airline, is gearing toward an expansion in the region, the company’s chief executive said that serving Cambodia was expensive due to high airport fees. Airport charges are high and restrictive, as are over-flight fees, compared to other countries in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/fees-too-high-airasia-ceo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

For political economist Sophal Ear, this view is more nuanced. In his book ‘Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermined Democracy‘, published by the Columbia University Press (2012), years of dependency are not showing positive results in the rehabilitation of Cambodia, its democracy and war href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-scholar-suggests-pernicious-effects-of-aid-dependence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Railway freight services between Phnom Penh and Touk Meas commune, in Kampot province’s Banteay Meas district, the location of a Siam Cement factory about 40 kilometres north of Kampot town, began yesterday, finally putting the Toll Royal Railways concession on an earning basis. According to Toll Royal Railways href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rail-freight-services-begin-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing Cambodia post offices coverage in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the map illustrates the locations of post office as well as the spreadsheet with detailed information of the 30 locations href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-publishes-a-new-map-layer-on-post-office/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Basemap of Cambodia (2014) covering three levels of administrative boundaries such as: provincial, district and commune on ODC “Download maps” attached with its Dataset in both Khmer and English. Together with Basemap of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-published-basemap-of-cambodia-2014-dataset/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has failed to comply with its fundamental civil and political rights obligations, FIDH and its member organizations, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), said in a joint href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cambodia-report-documents-governments-ongoing-failure-to-implement-iccpr/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has recently updated an exiting topic page on “Business structures and legal registration“. With the content updating, the public now can access to the most up to date information in the current context and legal documents, downloadable datasets, news and press href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-updates-a-topic-page-on-business-structures-and-legal-registration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “Legal aid.” This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of access to legal aid enshrined in the Constitution of Cambodia and the Code of Criminal Procedure, legal aid providers, and strategy for legal href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-legal-aid/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia​ (ODC) has published a new dataset​ on “Global Surface Water Data in Cambodia”.  The dataset illustrates a complete history of water detections over the 37-year period from 1984 to 2020 produced under the Copernicus Programme and free of charge. The dataset in href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-dataset%e2%80%8b-on-global-surface-water-data-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “SMEs policy and regulation”. This bilingual topic page gives a quick overview of SMEs policy and regulation in Cambodia, together with the related contents such as law and policies on SMEs, support for SMEs, SME href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-publishes-a-new-topic-page-on-smes-policy-and-regulation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A decade-old rubber plantation project beset with disputes with local residents has had its 9,000 hectares relocated to an intact forest in Stung Treng. A sub-decree signed by the Council of Ministers in March said 9,787 hectares would be provided to Horizon Agriculture Development as “compensation” href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/conflict-ridden-land-concession-moved-to-new-forest-area/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce a Geographic Information System (GIS) Workshop: Fundamentals of QGIS. This workshop aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on geographic information system and using open-source GIS platform (QGIS) for data collection, data management and mapping.For registration: https://bit.ly/43eJOOZRegistration deadline: href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/training-workshop-on-the-basic-of-gis-and-the-use-of-qgis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 07 new map features in Phnom Penh and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-odc-updated-an-existing-dataset-on-state-land-reclassification-8/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant levels of pressure on many governments, requiring them to implement new regulations and policies to reduce the spread of the virus. In Cambodia, the socioeconomic challenges posed by the pandemic mainly come from the reduction of commercial operations at href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/covid-19-legislative-response-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), long one of the most strident critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling party, again slammed the government on Wednesday for its failure to uphold human rights in Cam­bodia, with the release of its World Report 2016. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rights-group-blasts-government-over-events-in-2015/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port plans to buy a rice-polishing machine from China, and will also look to build a rice storage facility in Kandal province. These moves, officials said, were intended to push along Cambodia’s rice trade during a period of uncertainty for the industry. Facilities href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/phnom-penh-autonomous-port-to-push-rice-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Thai company set to build Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam will not begin construction until a study determines the dam’s environmental effects on the Mekong River, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Friday. Yingluck reaffirmed her commitment to the study, which Mekong River Commission countries href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/yingluck-vows-to-halt-xayaburi/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Transparency International Cambodia is set to step up its presence in the Kingdom with the launch of a $2.5 million three-year program to monitor and record corruption. On a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 10 (very clean), Cambodia ranks 2.1, according to the organisation, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/corruption-targeted-by-2-5-million-program/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...