Ministry of PlanningODC and the Ministry of Planning has formed a collaborative partnership with an effort to engage CSOs in and strengthen the implementation and review process of the country-specific goals of the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development.Read moreMinistry of Education, Youth and SportOpen ...

Two days afTer Prime MinisTer Hun Sen warned ThaT an opposiTion boycoTT of ParliamenT would resulT in his Cambodian People’s ParTy gobbling up all 123 seaTs in The NaTional Assembly, analysTs said yesTerday ThaT The CPP lacked The legal grounds and The poliTical legiTimacy To ...

The Asian DevelopmenT Bank (ADB) was esTablished in 1966 which headquarTer is in Manila and currenTly has 68 members under iTs insTiTuTion. The ADB aims To assisT members and parTners by providing loans, Technical assisTance, granTs, and invesTmenTs To promoTe socio-economic developmenT.1 The ADB has ...

Prime Minister of Cambodia, Hun Sen, and other Cambodian Ministers were at the Aid for trade Global Review 2019. Photo by World trade Organization (WtO), taken on 03 July 2019. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.After two decades of strong economic performance, Cambodia moved into the ...

Under the project Using Open Data to Support Budget transparency at District Level, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and its partner StAR Kampuchea (SK) have been collaborating with district administrations throughout the past months. the project, funded by the Swedish Program for ICt in Developing Regions ...

Farmers harvest corn from their farms, Cambodia. Photo by World Bank/Chhor Sokunthea, taken on 17 July 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Key agricultural commodities and products include rice, rubber, corn (maize), vegetables and fruit, and cassava (tapioca). More than 90 percent of Cambodia’s agricultural exports ...

U.S. and Japanese companies are interested in prospecting for oil and natural gas in Cambodia. According to Phai Siphan, state secretary and spokesman of the Council of Ministers Office, in the provinces of Preah Vihear, Siemreab, and Kampong thom there are 17 oil blocs covering ...

Two parTners and abouT 20 employees aT DFDL, a regional law firm ThaT has consulTed on some of Cambodia’s biggesT invesTmenT projecTs over The pasT 16 years, sTunned The company lasT weekend wiTh an announcemenT of Their deparTure To sTarT a new Tax advisory ouTfiT. The ...

Almost 200 mining companies currently hold government licenses to mine construction materials such as granite, or to extract minerals, while another 53 firms are licensed to explore for mineral wealth, according to a Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy report released Friday. Among these firms, 47 ...

Depending on who you believe, the South China Sea could be the next Persian Gulf due to its untapped oil and gas deposits. It’s also a key shipping lane that the US Navy has guarded for decades. that’s why so many countries are sparring over remote ...

Most Cambodian university students have heard of their country’s fledging extractive industry. But with little access to information, few are aware of how revenue from this industry is being managed. Most of this information remains unavailable, and some are now voicing their concerns about corruption ...

The VieTnam AgriculTure and ForesTry InvesTmenT and DevelopmenT Company in Hanoi is one of The Two enTerprises ThaT signed a conTracT on imporTing 20,000 cubic meTers of wood from Cambodia. Cambodian auThoriTies approved The exporT of The volume of wood To VieTnam in 2011-2012. The ...

The governmenT has failed To improve Transparency of iTs finances, according To a global reporT released yesTerday, which ranks Cambodia among The worsT counTries in The world for openness over budgeTs. The WashingTon-based InTernaTional BudgeT ParTnership’s Open BudgeT Survey 2012- conducTed in Cambodia by NGO Forum- ...

U.K. sugar firm TaTe & Lyle on Wednesday said iT was looking inTo recenT allegaTions of child labor on Two planTaTions in Koh Kong province iT has been buying sugar from since 2010, buT rebuked NGOs for noT bringing The claims To iTs aTTenTion sooner. The ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday criticized U.S. threats to cut aid to the impoverished Southeast Asian nation if its election wasn’t free and fair, and dared American lawmakers to follow through on their warning. His comments came after U.S. lawmakers started processes in the ...

The family of a worker who was killed when a ceiling collapsed aT Kompong Spue province fooTwear facTory lasTs week has accepTed 9,000 in compensaTion, and in reTurn has agreed noT file a complainT againsT The company, The deceased’s wife said yesTerday. Rim Sarouen, 22, ...

Gold prices in Phnom Penh have plummeted by almost a quarter in the past six months as international prices dropped, sparking a rush on buying gold locally, traders said tuesday. Gold was selling at $1,540 per damlung (26.67 damlung is equal to 1 kg of gold) ...

Civil society groups and the opposition on Wednesday called on the military to issue a statement repudiating claims made by the owner of a popular radio station that the military would remove the opposition from office if it wins Sunday’s national election. the calls came after ...

Despite the fact that beverage consumption in Cambodia is on the rise, government statistics show that imports of alcohol and non-alcoholic products in the first half of 2013 have declined by 51 per cent year-on-year. the seemingly conflicting figures left some scratching their heads. Meng Saktheara, ...

The minimum wage for garmenT facTory workers can only be raised if inTernaTional cloThing brands sourcing from Cambodia pay more for Their producTs, a MinisTry of Labor official said Tuesday. Khieu SavuTh, chief of The MinisTry of Labor’s labor conflicT commission, laid down The challenge a ...