About 200 farmers protested in front of the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday and submitted a petition requesting changes to a draft law on the management of agricultural land, which rights groups have said could effectively legalize land grabs from poor farmers. The government says the href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-petition-to-change-agricultural-draft-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s 38 microfinance institutions reported a 44 percent increase in loan disbursements in 2013, according to a report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), the regulator of banking and finance institutions in the country. The microfinance institutions had lent a total 1.17 billion U.S. dollars href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-micro-lenders-see-44-pct-lending-growth-last-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Violence against children cost Cambodia approximately $168 million in 2013, or just over 1 per cent of GDP, according to a new report from the government and UNICEF that explores the economic impacts of physical abuse.Titled The economic burden of health consequences of violence against href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/child-abuse-costs-kingdom-study/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are busily preparing for the ASEAN Economic Community’s free flow of goods in 2015 and are probably not that different from the other 10 ASEAN member states’ own SMEs.  Te Taing Por, president of the Federation of Associations for href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/small-and-medium-enterprises-prepare-for-asean/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — For an Internet start-up, Arjuni faces more challenges than usual. The e-commerce site that sells hair extensions operates out of a five-story building here that lacks elevators and, sometimes, power. Employees typically have to travel to remote villages by motorbike or foot href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodian-start-up-competes-with-india-in-natural-hair-market/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The International Monetary Fund has revised Cambodia’s economic growth projection to between 6.5 and 7 per cent, up from 6.2 per cent in April, saying the country could manage a sound macro-economy because of the growth in four main sectors: manufacturing, tourism, agriculture and construction. According to Ek href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/imf-revises-gdp-projection-for-cambodia-upward-to-7/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

President Hu Jintao today becomes the first Chinese head of state to visit Cambodia in 12 years, in a trip days before Southeast Asian leaders gather for talks that may touch on territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Hu’s visit, which lasts until April 2, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinas-hu-visits-cambodia-as-asean-leaders-eye-sea-disputes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Ministry officials said Tuesday that Thong Sarath, a senior military officer wanted for coordinating the murder of a prominent businessman in Phnom Penh last month, has likely fled the country, leading police to call on Interpol to help track him down. Chhay Sinarith, director href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/interpol-joins-hunt-for-general-wanted-over-tycoons-murder/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The persistence of dangerous and demeaning forms of work remains a major challenge for the Kingdom’s development, according to the UN’s annual Human Development Report (HDR) launched yesterday by the United Nations Development Programme.Dubbed “Work for Human Development”, the 2015 report finds the Asia-Pacific region home href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/many-jobs-vulnerable-un-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Researchers have discovered a new population of banteng (Bos javanicus), a species of wild cattle, in northwestern Cambodia. The discovery was announced June 4, 2014 by Fauna and Flora International (FFI), and efforts are underway to implement conservation initiatives to protect the area and its newfound banteng, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/are-banteng-making-a-comeback-in-cambodia-researchers-find-new-population/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Svay Pak is an internationally known district for child sex in Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh, where foreign men come to seek sex with young girls. According to a 2011 study by ECPAT Cambodia, around 75 percent of the victims of sex trafficking within Cambodia were children. The study also href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-ongoing-human-trafficking-problem/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open source software is an important way forward and a useful impetus for development in Cambodia, according to attendees of the Kingdom’s first software conference this weekend. The conference, which centred on TYPO3, an open source content management system (CMS), was held this past weekend href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/software-licenses-debated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Adding its name to a rapidly growing list of private companies, Tonlesap Airlines is gearing up for an initial public offering on the Cambodia Securities Exchange. And like many of these companies, the listing is still years off as Tonlesap prepares the tax and financial information href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/companies-lag-on-listing-rules/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Export-Import Bank officials proposed to provide loans of up to US$70 million for rice milling in an effort to aid Cambodia’s efforts to export a million tonnes of rice by 2015, government officials said yesterday. The bank’s officials visited Cambodia last week to met with Cambodian href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/chinese-bank-loans-seek-to-aid-rice-millers/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

From September 13 to September 16, 2022, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) continued its ongoing promotion of Data Literacy for the Innovations in Social Accountability project (ISAC). Fourteen members of civil society organizations working on social accountability joined the training, which was held at Phnom Penh’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/data-literacy-training-a-training-in-september-was-successfully-held-for-civil-society-organizations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with Internews, organized a training program on “Data Literacy for Journalists” that brought together 11 journalists, of whom 2 are female, from Cambodia’s capital and provinces. The training program is part of the Innovation for Social Accountability (ISAC) project href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-hosted-a-training-program-on-data-literacy-for-journalists-for-cambodian-journalists/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 27 July 2020, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), Equitable Cambodia (EC) and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) jointly issued a report revealing human rights abuses and environmental devastation as private developments threaten to flood href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/statement-suspend-development-projects-destroying-the-tompoun-cheung-ek-wetlands/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 16 July 2021, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) issued a press release on launching a report estimating the financing available for the country’s development through to 2025, entitled “Cambodia’s Development Finance Assessment (DFA).”This report analyze the compositions and trends of all Cambodia’s financial inflows, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/domestic-revenue-is-an-increasingly-important-source-of-development-financing-in-cambodia-says-a-new-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On 1 February 2023, at the meeting of the Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia on “Cambodia’s Foreign Policy in the New Context of World Order” at the National Assembly, His Excellency PRAK href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/press-release-cambodia-continues-to-pursue-an-independent-rule-based-foreign-policy-that-upholds-its-core-interests-guarantees-sovereignty-and-peace-and-boosts-economic-ties/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

On October 20 2022, Techo Startup Center has posted an announcement workshop on Cambodia’s digital economy and business web portal on their official social media site. The primary purpose of the workshop is to disseminate to the public and private sectors information related to essential web href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/announcement-workshop-on-cambodias-digital-economy-and-business-web-portal/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...