A group of about 200 farmers from Kratie province refused on Thursday to leave a pagoda in Phnom Penh—their home base for protests against their eviction at the hands of a Vietnamese rubber company—as the city’s deputy governor warned them that the municipal government would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Among the exotic wildlife that prowls Cambodia’s forests are large furry creatures that may be far more familiar to European and North American visitors than the ever-dwindling populations of large cats and beastly elephants. The Kingdom’s bears climb trees and devour honey just like their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of some of the 3,000 families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in recent years said Thursday that municipal government officials, who were ultimately responsible for the mass evictions, told them they would be inviting the World Bank and NGOs to help compensate ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in the capital yesterday arrested the alleged leader of a “secessionist plot”, Beehive Radio station director Mam sonando, who had already been abroad for two months when hundreds of security personnel stormed a Kratie province village in May. Khieu sopheak, a spokesman for the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Calls for big-name apparel brands to take more responsibility for working conditions in Cambodian garment factories are growing louder as representatives of retail companies ranging from H&M to Wal-Mart arrive in Phnom Penh for a semi-annual buyers’ forum this week. since it began three years ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang community patrol network faced threats from illegal loggers after reporting the loggers’ names to authorities, along with the discovery of more than 120 cubic metres of illegally felled timber and seven chainsaws, a patrol representative said yesterday. Chheang Vuthy, a community representative from Kampong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Well-known timber magnate Try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. The Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just added two new features​ of Prasat Bakan protected landscape and Phnom Thnout- Phnom Pok wildlife sanctuary to Natural protected areas​ profile page, thereby expanding the profile page to contain a total of 58 natural protected areas in Cambodia. Published ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)”. This dataset gives data focused on Cambodia’s annual forest cover range from 2015 to 2021.=> Please click here to go to “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

 On Monday, June 3, 2024, ODC attended an afternoon conference titled “Enabling Environment for a Human-Centered Adoption of AI in AsEAN” at the sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Resort in siem Reap, Cambodia. The conference was a side event of the larger 85th meeting of the AsEAN ss='cambodia-color'>...

An enormous sand dredging operation in Koh Kong province has escalated, a resort owner said yesterday, with boat crews allegedly trespassing onto private land and digging sand within hundreds of metres of the complex. Janet Newman, the owner of the Rainbow Lodge eco-tourism resort, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions said yesterday that he would defy a municipal order banning employees from June Textile Factory from marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s house to seek resolution in a labour dispute. According to a report from a City ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin waS joined by hiS wife aS they broke ground on the controverSial project taking place at Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Boeng Kak Lake. They unveiled the architectural renderingS of the towerS to be built on what uSed to be the Site of SS='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union has said that it has no plans to suspend Cambodia’s duty-free trade access even though there have been concerns over land evictions as a result of economic land concessions. The EU is seeking that human rights are not the cost of trade ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese company FPT Telecom aims to extend operations to the Kingdom, after its attempted acquisition of Vietnam’s EVN Telecom fell through. FPT Telecom “has plans to expand business in Cambodia, but all is in discussion”, a spokesperson said late on Monday, declining to comment further. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministers from the six Mekong region nations concluded a two-day meeting yesterday in which they solidified plans for an economic strategy that would span a decade and require billions in investment. speaking at Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace at the annual ministerial meeting, Minister of Commerce ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s progress has been slow toward achieving the UN Millennium Development Goal of increasing rural access to sanitation to 30 percent by 2015, up from 8.6 percent in 1996, the World Bank said in a report released Wednesday. The World Bank report said that rural ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hong Kong-listed China Oilfield services Ltd, an offshore services provider for the oil and gas sectors, is looking to start operations in Cambodia, according to an earnings report released by the company last week. “For the overseas market, apart from expanding and strengthening the overseas ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 striking workers at Jie Wei garment factory in the capital’s Dangkor district will return to work today after successful negotiations yesterday settled a labour dispute that led to a three-day strike last week. Factory management agreed to nine of the 11 demands ss='cambodia-color'>...