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The value of Cambodia’s total goods exports in the first half of the year reached $11.464 billion, up more than 0.75 per cent on an annual basis from $11.379 billion and up nearly 3.25 per cent from $11.104 billion in the second half of 2022, ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 24 July 2023, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) of the Goverment of the United Kingdom issued a statement on Cambodian elections.The UK is a long-term partner in Cambodia’s prosperity and stability, and believes progress in these areas is best sustained through a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thor Chetha, Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology, highlighted the Ministry’s priority of strengthening the forecasting system, early warning system, and early warning to vulnerable people to be vigilant as needed to reduce natural disasters and economic losses, and urged the Asian Development Bank to ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Election monitors say a test of election ink that found it easily washable, and therefore a concern for fraudulent voting, was made in the spirit of transparency, and not to create “turmoil” ahead of sunday’s polls. The election watchdog Comfrel on Friday tested the ink, provided ss='cambodia-color'>...

“These are the best quality stones,” Lat Yun says with a grin. Nestled in his outstretched hand are three unassuming rocks. “I don’t know what they’re called, I just know they’re the best.” The gemstones of Ratanakkiri are a mineral called zircon, but in Cambodia, they ss='cambodia-color'>...

The judiciary has signed off on a new set of guidelines designed to regulate the work of prosecutors in many areas, including the rights of minors in the judicial system. Ouk savuth, general director of the Court of Appeal, signed off on the guidelines on August ss='cambodia-color'>...

Law and order in Cambodia this year has been a strange mix of the brutal and the bizarre. From horrific murders to the police’s decision to deliver crystal meth to phony hostage-takers during a bank heist, crime has continually made headlines in a year when the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two years after Prime Minister Hun sen broke ground on a Chinese-funded project to widen National Road 6a in order to expand its capacity as a major trade and tourism thoroughfare, life for the tens of thousands of families living along the 50-km stretch of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government reforested 80,693 hectares of land between 2008 and 2012 as part of its efforts to combat deforestation, a recent agriculture ministry report says, but these seemingly impressive statistics were reached by counting rubber trees and other agricultural crops as adequate replacements for forests. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s 2012 ban on the allocation of economic land concessions was supposed to halt the unpopular practice of turning over large swaths of property to developers. And going by the numbers last year, it worked. But in the vacuum, according to local rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

SIEM PANG DISTRICT, Stung Treng province &ndaSh; For the elite few granted the right to level SwatheS of woodland in the north of thiS remote province, the timber trade iS worth a fortune. For the ForeStry AdminiStration&mdaSh;the government body charged with policing logging&mdaSh;buSineSS iS alSo booming. While SS='cambodia-color'>...

During his second day under questioning on charges of inciting violence and property damage at a January 2 protest, union leader Vorn Pao was presented with photographs showing his tuk-tuk packed with rocks, and a video of him calling on low-ranking police to turn their ss='cambodia-color'>...

While protesters demonstrated outside, urging land and human-rights reform, members of the donor community met with the government yesterday at the Council for the Development of Cambodia in Phnom Penh to sign off on a series of development targets that bore only a faint resemblance to those ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 02 July 2020, the ACLEDA Bank Plc. issued a statement to the public as well as to the​ Cambodian​ Alliance​ of​ Trade​ Union​ (CATU),​ Center​ for​ Alliance​ of​ Labor​ and​ Human​ Rights​ (CENTRAL),​ and​ Cambodian​ Leauge​ for​ the​ Promotion​ and​ Defense​ of​ Human​ Rights​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mean Nara, ODC’s senior Mapper, spoke to the audience about the launch of the Geoserver.On April 30, the ODC team hosted a monthly Phnom Penh Mapping Meet-up (PPMM), in which ODC, Atlas, and sahmakum Teang Tnaut presented on the recent project updates and results. As ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 17 March 2019, the annual Open Cyber Talk 2019 under the theme “Opportunities and Risks of the Netizens in Cambodia” will be taken place at Tonle Basac II from 07:30 AM to 12:00 PM. The Open Cyber Talk 2019 is an important platform, where ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is pleased to announce the call for application on Youth-Led Project 2024 (YLP24 – Phase 1). The program aims to strengthen the youths’ capacity for fundamental life and community development skills through various training and knowledge sharing as demonstrated during convening ss='cambodia-color'>...