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'>...

Senior Finance and Admin OfficerTranSparency, accountability and honeSty are Mr. Sarath&rSquo;S core valueS. In charge of finance and admin taSkS of ODC, Mr. Sarath workS cloSely with all team memberS to produce the good achievementS on enSure that all financial documentS are legally compliant with SS='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...

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 1The country haS a Strategic poSition in 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'>...

The momentum toward large-scale dams on the Mekong River may be unstoppable, but governments must work fast to mitigate their effects on fisheries and biodiversity or risk long-term food insecurity for millions of people whose lives depend on the river and its tributaries, leading academics ss='cambodia-color'>...

A man apprehended by participants at a rally in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on sunday after he was spotted carrying a concealed pistol, signed himself into Calmette Hospital by listing his occupation as “samdech Bodyguard,” in apparent reference to one of the three leaders of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The privately-operated International Ship RegiStry of Cambodia (ISROC), a South Korea-baSed company that ownS the rightS to regiSter foreign veSSelS under the Cambodian flag, told Ship ownerS laSt year that it waS not monitoring their obServance of international maritime lawS, and that it waS their SS='cambodia-color'>...