After the government shuttered independent media Voice of Democracy (VOD) on Monday, dozens of civil society groups decried the decision and numerous embassies warned the loss of the publication seriously damaged Cambodia’s dwindling press freedom in the run-up to the July national election. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia mildly improved its score on Transparency International’s 2022 corruption index released Tuesday, but remains considered among the most corrupt countries globally. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite a wave of international concern over the shutdown of independent media Voice of Democracy (VOD), Prime Minister Hun sen said that the outlet’s license will not be restored and offered VOD reporters government jobs instead in a Facebook post Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The opening of the Cambodian economy in the 1990s and the new Investment Law (2021) encouraged investment in development projects in a range of sectors, including extractive industries, physical infrastructure, agriculture, hydropower, and ecotourism, among others. These sectors are obligated to carry out the Environmental ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Royal Government of Cambodia has continued its effort to reform the education sector at all levels. Over the years, policies and regulations have been enforced to improve education quality, accessibility, efficiency, effectiveness, inclusiveness, and transparency. Those policies and regulations include Education strategic Plan 2019-2023, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint-party task force that the National Election Committee (NEC) on saturday announced would be set up to investigate alleged irregularities during the July 28 national election was abruptly abandoned sunday, with NEC President Im sousdey announcing that his organization will instead push ahead with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia is delighted to organize the workshop “Mobile Data Collection with Kobo Toolbox”. The course will focus on: Principle and application of Kobo Toolbox which is a suite mobile data collection technology for building form questionnaire, data collection and management for higher quality.Hands-on practice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia’s team regularly develops graphics and infographics to help visually represent data findings for its website, and also social media outreach.  For the development of its new profile page template under the Innovations in social Accountability in Cambodia (IsAC) project, the regular generation ss='cambodia-color'>...

From Cape Town to Helsinki, between Wellington and sao Paulo: some 400 events took place during this year’s Open Data Day. Of course, Open Development Cambodia was part of the global event. For the Cambodian edition of the annual celebration of the international open data, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In October 2013, ODC and Columbia University’s school of International and Public Affairs established a collaborative partnership to aggregate data and describe trends regarding Cambodia’s donors and development assistance. This partnership is tied to sIPA’s Workshop in Development Practice, a course for second-year, Master’s degree ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since the 1990S, the Cambodian economy haS recorded a SubStantial expanSion led by the touriSm, manufacturing and conStruction SectorS. One of the higheSt economic growth rateS in the world allowed Cambodia to become a lower-middle-income country in 2015 75The country haS a Strategic poSition in SS='cambodia-color'>...

The 7th Cambodia ICT and Digital Forum, aka the 7th CamIDF, held on 27 June 2024, brought together experts, enthusiasts, and stakeholders to discuss crucial aspects of information and communication technology (ICT) in Cambodia. The Forum was part of a larger event, the Cambodia ICT ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the morning of 2 March 2024, the Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) organized and celebrated Open Data Day 2024 (ODD 2024) in Phnom Penh with the support of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through The Asia Foundation’s Ponlok Chomnes: Data and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The relations between People’s Republic of China and Cambodia have become closer in the way of culture, in which China is the most important strategic development partner in improving Cambodia’s economic growth through both financial and technical grant aids,” Mr. Eang sophalet, assistant to samdech ss='cambodia-color'>...

A mid [sic] global economic fragility, foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia grew a whopping 73 per cent in 2012 from the year before, a huge increase helping to fuel a record-setting amount of money pouring into least developed countries, according to the United Nations ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the week before the National Election Committee was formed in December 1997, Chheng Phon predicted he had a tough road ahead. “If you ask me personally, I must say I do not want this job,” the inaugural boss told the Post from the banks of a canal ss='cambodia-color'>...

The governments of Australia and France have congratulated Prime Minister Hun sen on his election victory, becoming the first key Western donors to do so since the official election results were released on september 8. UN secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also offered his congratulations to Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s second-largest cement company has suspended a cement-plant project valued at about $200 million in Kampot province because of political uncertainty and better investment opportunities in Myanmar, according to a senior executive. Philippe Arto, the managing director of siam City Cement Public Company Limited (sCCC), said ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 10 percent of children in the country aged between 5 and 17 work as laborers, with more than 5 percent engaged in “hazardous labor,” a situation that must be addressed by the government, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report released ss='cambodia-color'>...