There is currently no oils refinery in Cambodia. Although a refinery has been planned, its construction has been delayed several times, reportedly over financing difficulties. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Communications OfficerPositionCommunications Officer  (1 position)Reports toPartnership and Communication Manager     Coordinates withIT team, Editor-research team, Mapper team and other staffsJob locationPhnom PenhContract typeFull-timesalary rangeUsD 450 to UsD 750 per month and plus other benefitsJob summaryOpen Development Cambodia manages an open data website (www.opendevcam.net), aggregating a wide ss='cambodia-color'>...

In January 2019, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in partnership with East-West Management Institute (EWMI) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and sport (MoEYs) signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the purpose to strengthen MoEYs’ efforts to become a “clearinghouse for education resources and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Small and medium enterpriSeS (SME) have long been conSidered a vital driver to economic growth for developing economieS. SMES Stimulate job creation throughout the country. Migration of employment to neighboring countrieS and the unemployment rate haS Significantly decreaSed due to a riSing number of SMES, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Bird eye view of a local market in Phnom Penh. Photo by Roberto Trombetta, taken on 8 May 2015. Photo licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 GenericThe development and administration of Cambodia’s urban areas has struggled to keep pace with urban population growth. For example, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Penhleak providing a “walk” through the ODC websiteOn saturday, October 19, ODC Research & Volunteer Coordinator Chan Penhleak gave an interactive presentation session on “How to Locate, Fact-Check, and share Cambodia’s Development Data” at the BarCamp Phnom Penh, which was held at the Institute of Technology of ss='cambodia-color'>...

During my three-month internship at ODC as a Research Intern, I worked closely with the Economy Researcher-Editor to assist the editor team in conducting research, producing more topics, collecting publication documents and data for publishing and uploading onto ODC’s platform. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia, on Saturday, hoSted the 7th ASia Economic Forum ( AEF) under theme of “The ASian Century in the Making: AchievementS, ChallengeS and Future TrendS” while highlighting the majority of the region&rSquo;S demonStrated remarkable reSilience againSt the global economic and financial criSeS, while major SuperpowerS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Tiny Cambodia is emerging as a key pawn in the diplomatic struggle over one of the world’s busiest stretches of water: the potentially energy-rich south China sea. The country of 15 million people is this year hosting a series of regional summits in which China’s claims ss='cambodia-color'>...

After receiving a letter from the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the request to take actions against the Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America located in Cambodia, which have been actively engaged in broadcasting and renting airtime from other radio stations yet ss='cambodia-color'>...

American business group Akra, led by Cambodian-born former Us ambassador to the United Nations, sichan siv, has signed an agreement with a rice mill under a new co-operative structure it says puts ownership and profits back in to the hands of Cambodian producers. Akra’s managing director ss='cambodia-color'>...

At 9 a.m. yesterday, more than 200 soldiers, police and military police officers were gathered outside a large mansion on street 55 in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district. All were waiting for their promised “ang pao” – red envelopes containing cash usually handed out during ss='cambodia-color'>...

NagaCorp, a gaming and entertainment hotel complex operator in Cambodia, has raised HK$1.21 billion ($156 million) from a top-up placement, after fixing the price at the bottom of the indicative range. The deal was launched at around 6pm yesterday in Hong Kong time, and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

As air-conditioning units slow to a halt, computers die and the lights go out, the frustration of local business owners and organizations in Phnom Penh is boiling over once again as the annual hot season blackouts have arrived. The 190-megawatt, Chinese-built Kamchay hydropower dam in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday urged China to come up with enough funding for Cambodia to build a 3.5km bridge across the Tonle sap and connect National Road 6 in Kampong Thom with Kampong Chhang province. speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony for a $20 million Chinese ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the stung Treng provincial forestry administration have warned a local sRP commune chief against speaking to the media about the clearing of trees from a 36,000-hectare site to become the reservoir of a giant hydropower dam in the area, the commune chief said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite fears that a warning to users of social media and Internet blogs will dampen free speech, the head of National Election Committee (NEC) has insisted the intention was not to limit expression ahead of July’s national election. The NEC last week issued a statement requesting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government revenues totalled more than $700 million over the first four months of the year, an 11 per cent year-on-year increase, data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) show. In total, the revenue made by the General Department of Taxation (GDT) rose by about ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Chamber of Commerce (EuroCham) held its first annual general meeting Thursday at the sofitel Hotel in Phnom Penh where a board of directors was elected and the French and German chambers merged with EuroCham in order to reinforce the interests of European companies ss='cambodia-color'>...

The uncle of a man who died in Thursday’s ceiling collapse at the Wing star shoes factory in Kampong speu province claimed yesterday that the company had threatened to give the family nothing if they did not agree to an on-the-spot payout. It came as a ss='cambodia-color'>...