Political stability and economic growth of all sectors have played vital role in building the public and foreign investors’ confidence and maintaining the safety and soundness of banking system in Cambodia. the banking sector continues to have substantial growth as it shares 82.2% in the ...

Unions and labour rights groups have spent recent months unashamedly drilling home a stark reminder: Cambodia’s minimum garment wage, at $61 per month, compares poorly with those in thailand – where workers earn more than $200 a month – and Vietnam, which has a base ...

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In mid-August, on day seven of production at the Coco Khmer social enterprise, the team experienced a setback. temperatures in the fermenting room must remain between 35 and 40 degrees to produce the organization’s virgin coconut oil, but the temperature on that rainy day refused to ...

The man leading Cambodia’s seemingly Sisyphean aTTempT To combaT dengue fever can be found mosT days in a weakly liT office inside The Communicable Disease ConTrol DeparTmenT, which is sTacked wall To wall wiTh drooping folders and medical TexTs. For more Than 10 years, The sofT-spoken ...

If you were given all the money in the world to invest in a stock from the stock exchanges of Laos and Cambodia, which stock would you choose? You might not actually get a lot of choices – both exchanges are stagnant two years after ...

Program and Partnership ManagerVimoil is a Program and Partnership Manager at Open Development Cambodia (ODC). She provides strategic oversight and management for the Innovations in Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) project and the research contributions to ODC content, while also coordinating all aspects of the ...

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 ...

I recently had the opportunity to attend the 7th Community Network Exchange Asia Pacific 2023, a conference that brought together experts, practitioners, and advocates of community networks from across the region and beyond. the theme of the conference was “Connecting Indigenous and Mountain Communities”, and ...

On 11 March 2024, Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) in collaboration with Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC) with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Family Health International – Civil Society Support Activity (FHI360-CSS), Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN), and ...

Appreciation letter,the 5th Mekong ICt Camp 2017 “Cross-border Collaboration with DAtA” Dear Campers,It was an honor to have you in attendance. We understand that you have many obligations, and we appreciate you taking time from your busy schedules to join us. On behalf of the ...

Young man fishing with a cast net on Siem Reap river, Cambodia. Photo by Brian Hoffman, taken on 12 January 2015. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.Fisheries management in Cambodia is divided between central and local governments. At the central level, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry ...

A workshop on “Digital Governance and E-Commerce technology in Small-Midsized Enterprises (SMEs)” was held on June 29, 2023, by Open Development Cambodia (ODC). 10 participants (four of which were women) representing various industries attended. the workshop’s main goals are to disseminate the research study’s findings ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce a Geographic Information System (GIS) Workshop: Fundamentals of QGIS of the three workshops each of which takes three days. this workshop series aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on geographic information system and using open-source GIS platform ...

Digital cash services in Cambodia showed marked increases in users and cash flow in 2011, and still more growth is expected this year as operators launch new services and partnerships to capture a large but still-untapped rural market. the services, in which customers transfer money via ...

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China’s demand for natural resources is being felt in a big way in Cambodia. Illegal logging and economic land concessions are threatening Cambodia’s dwindling forests, which now echo the sound of chainsaws. Prey Lang forest — an eight-hour journey north and east of the capital, Phnom Penh ...

In an outbuilding at Lok Sear’s rice milling operation in Kandal province, two four-meter-high cylindrical machines vibrate and hum as the occasional chicken and duck pecks near the concrete blocks holding them up. While they do both feature a thinck band of aluminium around their ...

Near the river in Phnom Penh and next to Diamond Island, there’s a huge, bunker-like building that is almost always a beehive of activity. Inside, there are people enjoying an evening concert or strolling around studying the decor, including large stone faces of the Buddha. Others, however, are occupied with more mundane matters-placing ...

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