The single-parTy NaTional Assembly saT for The Third day of iTs Third plenary session Thursday, wiTh a senior ruling parTy lawmaker calling on InformaTion MinisTer Khieu KanhariTh To examine wheTher journalisTs who call The Assembly “single parTy” can be punished under law. SixTy-four of The 68 ...

Sao Sothy’s home is small and the furniture is sparse. there are no tables or chairs. In one room, there is a small bed, but her family of four sleeps on mats in the living room. Hanging on the otherwise bare walls is Ms. Sothy’s ...

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan has summoned a student from the country’s top state journalism school for a meeting at his office after she used a post on her Facebook page to question the sense of a guest lecture he delivered last week. Mr. Siphan ...

Children working with bricks, Cambodia. Photo by Sodanie Chea, take on 6 June 2013. Licensed under CC BY 2.0Cambodia has a total population of slightly over 15 million, most of whom are under the age of 30. An estimated 250,000 people enter the job market ...

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On 19-20 July 2022, ODC collaborated with the Children and Women Development Center in Cambodia (CWDCC) and conducted a training workshop on access to the data and information on the Open Development Cambodia website to community fisheries from Kep and Kampot province. the training was ...

N.B. After receiving feedback from Forestry Administration and other organizations, ODC has updated the data on this page and included forest cover 2014, adopting the methodology outlined in the notes that you can read here. Please contact us if you have any questions about these ...

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 27the country has a strategic position in ...

As a part of the Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) project, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is pleased to share the Open Data Survey conducted by Internews.In 2019, Internews commissioned ItC lecturer Vamoeurn Nimol and Júlia Garcia Puig to review existing resources and conduct ...

The ForesT Law of 2002 provides a legal basis for rural communiTies To use and help manage foresTs Through communiTy foresTry. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is once again excited to organize the Annual Staff Reflection Workshop 2022 in Preah Sihanouk province from 09 – 11 December 2022. Surprisingly, the 9th Sea Festival was held on the same date under the theme “Bay of Peace, Bay of ...

Jatropha, known in Cambodia as “Lhong Kwong”, is commonly grown in the Kingdom. Jatropha mainly grows in the mountainous regions of the north and central parts of Cambodia but is not restricted to those areas. It can be found in Battambong, Pursat, Kampong Speu, Sihanouk, ...

Picture from the Ministry of Post and telecommunication facebook page on 28 April 2023.From 25th April to 27th May 2023, the Ministry of Posts and telecommunications organized a series of workshops with the aim of providing capacity building to subnational government officers from all its ...

Decked out in camouflage military uniforms shipped fresh from Indonesia and wearing soldier’s caps emblazoned with the Ministry of Land Management’s logo, 1,100 students who have volunteered to measure land in an ambitious titling project attended a speech by Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday. the uniformed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Negotiations between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP over an investigation into election irregularities stalled Monday after the National Election Committee (NEC) released official preliminary election results that supported the ruling party’s claim of victory in the July 28 election. In an initial round of talks ...

When the ruling Cambodian People’s Party promised civil servants a pay rise earlier this year, some suggested it was also trying to give them a reason to vote for it in July’s national election. the 20 per cent increase came amid the opposition Cambodia National Rescue ...

The governmenT has ordered Ang & AssociaTes Lawyer Co. LTd., a company headed by well-known businessman KiTh Meng, To cease logging in an area of STung Treng province where a hydropower dam will be builT. Sesan disTricT governor Yeang Srey Sary said Thursday ThaT a delegaTion ...