Cambodian authorities have charged nearly half as many villagers in land dispute cases in the first three months of this year as they did in all of 2013, a local rights group said thursday, adding that most of the rows stemmed from government-granted land concessions. Following ...

Cambodia is nearing a deal that would open a pipeline of workers to Saudi Arabia, a country where Southeast Asian migrants have in the past been abused and even executed for crimes that include “sorcery”. Following a meeting in Hanoi last week with Saudi Ambassador Salah ...

Looking out from his house, held up by three-meter stilts on a peninsula that juts into Boeng tompun lake, Chan Sokhom can see the sand inching closer to him every day. Within a few years, the sand will likely reach his doorstep. By then, Mr. Sokhom ...

On 14 December 2020, the General Department of Agriculture released a press release responding to the VOD’s news article posted on 11 December 2020, entitled “Vegetables left to spoil on Kandal farms as farmers can’t find buyers“. According to the announcement, the Agricultural General Department ...

Higher education, in general, refers to education beyond the secondary level. Higher education institutions (HEIs) in Cambodia can be classified into three categories: the Royal Academy, university, and college. Cambodia’s higher education consists of an associate degree, four years of undergraduate education, two years of ...

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 ...

USAID’s Harvest program is helping Cambodia’s farmers. Photo by USAID, taken on 09 December 2013. Under the license CC BY-ND 2.0.the country has achieved remarkable sustainable growth, however, poverty and food security remain the challenges. the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has acknowledged that to ...

The rapid economic and populaTion growTh in Cambodia is leading To significanT environmenTal polluTion. The economic developmenT acTiviTies have generaTed major environmenTal consequences, including air polluTion, waTer polluTion, noise polluTion and solid wasTes. ...

As a part of its strategy to strengthen tools for sharing information about social accountability (for the Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia Project), Internews facilitated a Co-Design Workshop with Open Development Cambodia to improve its webpage on “Access to Public Service Information” in May.All ...

Pandemics are disease epidemics that spread from person to person as a result of human-to-human transmission. Many medical texts do not define the term “pandemic”. However, some key characteristics of pandemics, including wide geographic spread, disease movement, novelty, severity, high attack rates and explosiveness, minimal ...

According to the Kingdom of Cambodia’s 2019 general population census, the total Cambodian population is 15,552,211 (51.31% of females).169 By 2021, the population increased to 16,589,023.170 Vietnamese, Chinese, Chams and other minorities also live in the country. Indigenous ethnic groups known as “Khmer Loeu” live ...

A leopard appears healthy and strong as it paces the walls of its cage with a confident swagger and muffled growl that hints at its ferocity. It’s a welcome sight at Kampot province’s much-maligned teuk Chhou zoo, which less than one year ago was struggling to ...

SAMRAONG TONG DISTRICT, Kompong Speu Province – Laughing, Ouch Samnang jumped back and forTh over a skipping rope held by his classmaTes. The 13-year-old goes To school in a small village in Kom­pong Speu province, he has friends, five siblings and loving parenTs. Overall, he ...

This small SouTheasT Asian counTry was supposed To become a model for The world apparel indusTry, wiTh Tough facTory moniToring and sTrong worker proTecTions. BuT a dozen years afTer The UniTed NaTions’ InTernaTional Labour OrganizaTion launched a program To manage Cambodia’s booming garmenT Trade—The firsT of ...

Nun Vanak is an excellent example of how Cambodia’s garment manufacturing industry has helped to change lives of hundreds of thousands of people in this country. the 23-year-old is part of Cambodia’s half-a-million-strong workforce – mostly young women – that keeps these garment factories running. Her income ...

The NaTional Assembly said in a sTaTemenT on Friday ThaT The opposiTion CNRP is in conTempT of boTh The ConsTiTuTion and The King by claiming ThaT The new governmenT is illegiTimaTe. The CNRP had accused The ruling CPP of behaving unconsTiTuTionally by convening parliamenT lasT week ...

The World Bank recenTly ranked Cambodia 184Th ouT of 189 counTries for ease of sTarTing a business, buT you wouldn’T have known iT aT Phnom Penh’s recenT STarTup Weekend. PiTches for Cambodia’s firsT commercial organic chicken farm and for an app To connecT Tuk-Tuk drivers To ...

Senior CPP members selected nominees for the National Assembly’s nine permanent committees behind closed doors on tuesday, while the opposition CNRP, which has continued to boycott the Assembly over July’s disputed election, urged some of Cambodia’s foreign donors to immediately sever ties with the government ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who makes a visit to Phnom Penh this weekend, should leverage his country’s aid to pressure the Cambodian government to launch an independent probe into fraud and other irregularities in disputed elections, a rights group said thursday. As head of the ...

Low-quality education is jeopardizing business growth in Cambodia, and local graduates will not be employable in skilled jobs if the government does not quickly implement educational reforms, business executives warned thursday at the Cambodian Market Intel 2013 seminar in Phnom Penh. During an hourlong panel discussion ...