Mike Weeks and Delayne Weeks of Canada had a dream five years ago: create a gold mine. Do it in a nation that has never produced gold commercially. Use the process to educate and enrich an impoverished population. The country is Cambodia. The mine is in northeast href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/canada-couple-bring-chinese-indians-into-cambodia-gold-company/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A parliamentary committee will look into allegations of illegal logging and timber exports, where big money and deep corruption have led to conflict, deforestation and tax fraud. Opposition lawmaker Ho Vann, who leads the National Assembly committee, told VOA Khmer he is looking into evidence and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/parliamentary-committee-to-investigate-illegal-logging/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) and the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) yesterday discussed means of safely stocking industrial chemicals, with the hope of reducing environmental pollution in the region. At a conference on sustainable manufacturing practices, Sok Narin, the head of UNIDO href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ministry-pushes-for-safer-use-of-industrial-chemicals/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Battery-powered scooters are capturing an increasing share of the Asia Pacific’s two-wheeled transport market, according to a recent study, but scooter retailers in Phnom Penh yesterday said Cambodians still opt for the petrol-burning version. By 2018, about 65.5 million electric scooters worth some US$382 million will href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/little-spark-for-electric-motos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation yesterday, the Japanese government officially granted aid of 974 million yen (about US$12.2 million) to the Cambodian government. The Honorable Masafumi Kuroki, Japanese ambassador to Cambodia, said his country had made the donation to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/japanese-aid-tabbed-for-health-roadwork-9/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nations‘ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) predicts the paddy output in Cambodia this year will decline, according to its Rice Market Monitor (RMM) issued on Monday. Paddy output in Asia is forecast at 661 million tonnes, or 441 million tonnes on a milled basis, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-rice-output-tipped-to-fall-fao/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Both the government and the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies yesterday denied media reports that Cambodia and Vietnam will provide domestic workers to Saudi Arabia. Citing Saudi Arabian newspapers, the news website Emirates 24/7 reported yesterday that Cambodia and Vietnam had agreed to send maids to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/maids-to-saudi-arabia-denied/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 31 January 2023, the General Department of Taxation (GDT) held a meeting to summarize the results of tax revenue collection for December and 2022 and the direction for implementing the GDT for 2023. According to the online revenue management system of the GDT, tax href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-on-the-meeting-to-summarize-the-results-of-tax-revenue-collection-for-december-and-2022-and-the-direction-for-the-implementating-of-the-general-department-of-taxation-for-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The garment industry has rooted in Cambodia earlier than the footwear industry. As a result of trade privileges given by the U.S. and EU, both industries have blossomed. As of 2013, the garment and footwear industries were accountable for about 80 percent of Cambodia’s total href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/garments-and-textiles/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Picture from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication facebook page on 28 April 2023.From 25th April to 27th May 2023, The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications organized a series of workshops with the aim of providing capacity building to subnational government officers from all its href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-join-ministry-of-posts-and-telecommunications-workshop-on-capacity-building-for-all-post-and-telecommunication-departments-phase-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Together, fighting climate change. Photo by 350.org, taken on 12 October 2010. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.Clean Development MechanismThe Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), defined in Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol, allows a country with an emission-reduction or emission-limitation commitment under the Kyoto Protocol to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/mitigation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing Cambodia’s hydropower in both Khmer and English. Together with the website’s map explorer tool, the profile page aims to provide the up-to-date information on the country’s “hydropower dams, reservoirs, substations and transmission lines,” and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/odc-publishes-hydropower-profile-page/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

– Economic Land Concessions –  ‘ELCs’ – ( Government Data Partial 3 items, and 1 cancelled concession) Click here to download – Mining ( Secondary source data: 79 items ) Click here to download If you have map data to share or compare, please get in touch! info@opendevcam.net href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/september-2012-maps/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prince Norodom Ranariddh, a son of late King Norodom Sihanouk, said Monday that his return to be the president of the royalist Funcinpec Party is to reunite the royalists and Sihanoukists. The prince also said that the party will work closely with Prime Minister Hun href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/return-to-old-party-is-to-reunite-royalists-sihanoukists-cambodian-prince-ranariddh/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand may not export certain varieties of Cambodian-grown, but Thai-milled, rice internationally due to fears of intellectual property violations. Cambodian Malis rice is very similar to jasmine rice, and Thailand has expressed concerns that it may infringe on the Thai-owned jasmine rice variety. The Ministry of Agriculture has been href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-rice-to-be-dna-tested/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Despite renewed criticism from civil society and a call for its drafting to be postponed, finalisation of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) was well under way, officials said yesterday at the beginning of a week of ASEAN meetings. Speaking to reporters after a meeting between href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-feel-ignored-by-asean-rights-council/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

While many have characterized the rubber industry as changing hands but not methods, one new firm is showing a level of increased accountability that may help to set a new standard for the sector. Romdoul Rubber in Ratanakiri has While many have characterized href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/rubber-industry-growth/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Since this discovery of the existence of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the world has remarkably been forced changed in both macro and micro level ranging from policy making and implementing to daily life style. Since the end of March 2020, to cooperate with the government effort href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/mardy-novel-coronavirus-novel-working-experience/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

To promote the use of open data, ODC collaborates with several universities in Cambodia to support young researchers with their theses. In 2018, ODC and the East-West Management Institute (EWMI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Preak Leap National Institute of Agriculture to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/the-collaboration-between-open-development-cambodia-odc-and-the-prek-leap-national-institute-of-agriculture-plnia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment exports exceeded US$1 billion during the first quarter of 2012, yet many factories are failing to pay workers proper maternity leave benefits or address issues of fainting, a labour report says. The International Labour Or­ganization-Better Factories Cam­bodia’s Twenty Eighth Syn­­­thesis Report on Working Conditions href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/factories-still-skimping-ilo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...