Fish farming and aquaculture
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Fish farmers operating cage culture, Cambodia. Photo by O. Joffre/WorldFish, taken on 3 October 2009. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Aquaculture production has grown significantly. In 2012 it stood at 74,000 tonnes, or almost 11 percent of total fishery production. By 2016 it had grown to href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/fish-farming-and-aquaculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Open Development Cambodia published new dataset of Electricity price and coverage areas in Cambodia
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Electricity price and coverage areas in Cambodia in both Khmer and English. Together with the information of electricity licensees, coverage areas and prices.=>Please click here to get in to the dataset page of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/updates/open-development-cambodia-published-new-dataset-of-electricity-price-and-coverage-areas-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Environmental impact assessment (EIA): importance and opportunity to engage the local community
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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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/environmental-impact-assessment-eia-importance-and-opportunity-to-engage-the-local-community/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Garment sector peace sought
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on unions, employers and the Ministry of Labour to take a collaborative approach to stamping out violent protests in the garment industry, a unionist said yesterday. During a Saturday conference involving 4,000 people from more than 60 union groups, Hun href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/garment-sector-peace-sought/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012043055870/National-news/garment-sector-peace-sought.html
Vocational education
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By definition, Vocational education refers to the program that enables people to acquire highly transferable and development skills. It also grants people the necessary technical skill for their desired career.16 Cambodia’s vocational education plays an important role during the country’s economic structural transition and the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/vocational-education/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cooking fuel
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Firewood and charcoal are the main sources of energy for households and many small and medium enterprises, such as brick and tile industries. The cooking fuels used in Cambodia have changed greatly in the last decade. The National Census 2008 showed that 91 percent of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/cooking-fuel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chut Wutty death to be examined by committee
A joint investigative committee will be established to re-examine the killing of activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana, the head of the armed forces told the Post yesterday, after providing his own version of the incident to radio. Pressure from the families of victims and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chut-wutty-death-to-be-examined-by-committee/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Drought
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Cassava farm in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Photo by CIAT, taken on 09 December 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0The drought that Cambodia experiences is a shortage of water that is typically caused by:late onset of the rainy season (which normally occurs from May/June to October and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/drought/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Bar association legal aid services
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The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the Association) is a non-governmental institution for Cambodia’s lawyers. In keeping with Article 24 of the United Nations Basic Principle on the Role of Lawyers, the Association represents lawyers’ interests, promotes their continuing education and training, and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/bar-association-legal-aid-services/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Land tenure and land titling NGOs
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There are four major international donors to land rights development and reform in Cambodia: the World Bank, Germany, Finland and Canada. Their support spans multiple programs and several years with the overall objective of improving land tenure security and promoting stable land markets. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/land-tenure-and-land-titling-ngos/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodia’s agriculture sector amid COVID-19
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Agriculture has been considered as the backbone of the national economy. Of the total population, 76% were living in rural areas and agriculture provided 31.2% of total employment and contributed 20.7% to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2019.142 However, the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/cambodias-agriculture-sector-amid-covid-19/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Private non-profit development assistance
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Maina Kiai speaking with journalists outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh. Photo by Maina Kiai, taken on 6 February 2014. Licensed under CC BY 2.0The first humanitarian international non-governmental organizations arrived in 1989. After the 1993 election, more and more internal organizations href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/private-non-profit-development-assistance/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Foreign investors
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Things you should know about Cambodia before investingCambodia has performed well on foreign direct investment (FDI) so far, three times better than predicted, which scored 3.6, becoming the top 25 in the world.216 The FDI reached an all-time high of 14.1% in 2012 and nearly href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/foreign-investors/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture
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Cambodian fish farmer checking on fish quality. Photo by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), taken on 16 October 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia’s inland capture fisheries are among the largest in the world. The fishing industry encompasses subsistence, commercial and recreational fishing, as href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/fishing-fisheries-and-aquaculture/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
State public land
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State public land has a public interest value or provides a public service. The land is inalienable, although it can be leased for limited uses that do not alter or damage its public value. State public land should only be reclassified if the land no href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/state-public-land/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Labor arbitration
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Arbitration Council in session, Cambodia. Photo by ILO (Asia and the Pacific), took on 8 June 2012. Licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 GenericThe Arbitration Council was established by the 1997 Labor Law. However, the Arbitration Council just opened its doors to serve employers, employees, workers and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/labor-arbitration/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Banking made more accessible
The largest bank in Cambodia, Acleda Bank Plc, has extended its mobile banking and payments service to consumers without an existing banking relationship of any kind, according to a press release by global technology provider Fiserv. Established in 2010, Acleda Unity now reaches untapped consumer segments using href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/banking-made-more-accessible/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012103059461/Business/banking-made-more-accessible.html
Artisanal mining
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Artisanal mining is small-scale mining that typically involves individuals, family groups or small communities, often working with limited technology. The mining may be seasonal, fitted around other work such as farming. There is a large overlap between this type of activity and gemstone mining. Artisanal href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/artisanal-mining/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Disasters and emergency response
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Cambodia flood, 2011. Photo by European Commission, taken on 11 October 2011. Licensed under CC BY 2.0Storms, flooding and lightning strikes are the major causes of death and property damage from natural disasters in Cambodia, while drought causes severe hardship, especially for farmers. In a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/disasters-and-emergency-response/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...