Cambodian people used banks less than any other country in the Asia-Pacific region last year in percentage terms of using financial services, recent data from the World Bank showed. The report, released this month, also pointed to high growth in the percentage of borrowers, which insiders href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodians-shun-banks-world-bank-report/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The director and employees of a maid recruitment agency were handed sentences of up to five years by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday and ordered to pay compensation for illegally detaining an under-aged girl. Presiding judge Duch Kimsorn said Century Manpower’s director Oung Sakirin, chief of administration href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/labour-firm-staff-sentenced/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit has set its sights on illegal fees paid at the commune level and intends to stamp out a decades-old culture of bribery within the next four months, ACU officials announced yesterday. At a press conference, acting ACU president Chhay Savuth said that 22 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/acu-takes-aim-at-bribes/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian milled rice exports grew by only 0.52 per cent in the first 10 months of the year, compared to the same period last year, according to new figures from the government. Officials have expressed concern over Cambodia’s ability to reach its export target of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/officials-worry-over-tiny-rise-in-rice-exports/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today signed a $75 million senior loan with Cambodia’s largest bank, ACLEDA Bank Plc, to address the rising financing requirements of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/cambodias-small-firms-to-gain-better-access-to-bank-financing/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

More than enough vacant plots exist within Boeung Kak lake’s 12.44-hectare concession area to house those denied land permits, a new NGO report says. Sahmakum Teang Tnaut claims to have found “a viable and practical” solution for households excluded from the unmarked land the prime minister href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/viable-boeung-kak-option-floated/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

A subset of data containing known operational and planned hydropower dams in the Greater Mekong Subregion, for Cambodia, compiled by International Rivers and published in June 2014. Dams data are compiled from various sources, including: the Global Reservoir and Dam (GRanD) Database, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/layers/hydropower-dams/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

International market- research company TNS has announced the opening of the company’s first office in Cambodia, and has joined forces with MSD, a Cambodian market and social research firm that is a “long-standing partner”, an official company statement said. Ralf Matthaes has been appointed regional managing href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tns-launches-new-office-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) on Friday announced the recent fluctuation in international rice market prices and paddy prices in Cambodia. It revealed that overall prices have decreased slightly to between 1,090 and 1,250 riel per kilogram, depending on the type. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/farmers-profits-hit-by-further-drop-in-paddy-prices/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

At least 100,000 people have been forced to carry out online scams in Cambodia, according to a UN Human Rights report released Tuesday, but Cambodian government officials say they want to see more evidence for the estimate. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/un-estimates-100000-trafficked-into-cambodian-scam-operations-officials-ask-where-are-they/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) and The Asia Foundation are partnering to organize the first "National Open Data Conference 2024: Open Government Data for Inclusive Development" on the 26th and 27th of March 2024, at the CADT Innovation Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/national-open-data-conference-2024-open-government-data-for-inclusive-development/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

“When I first arrived in Cambodia, I was impressed of the digitization process here,” Dr. Daniel Schmücking remembers his first days in Phnom Penh, and continues: “I thought ‘how can I survive here?’ but then someone told me about PassApp.” The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/digitalization-affects-us-all-odc-attends-conference-hosted-by-konrad-adenauer-stiftung/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

In recent years, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices have gained significant traction globally, and Cambodia is no exception to this trend. As global markets, particularly those based in the European Union, set increasingly stringent environmental regulatory standards, Cambodian businesses face both challenges and opportunities href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/experts-shared-diverse-perspectives-and-insights-on-esg-evolving-in-cambodia/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

There is no large-scale industrial mining of gems in Cambodia, and few full-time miners. Most people involved in looking for gemstones fit it around other work – typically farm work – and mostly do it without licenses. As with artisanal mining, miners are often very href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/gemstone-mining/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is an ‘open data’ website, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The open data movement is based on the simple premise that data collected for public interest should be publicly available without restrictions. Information or data in the public href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/about/background/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The ODC team is excited to share highlights from the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2023, where Open Development Cambodia’s team members (ODC), and advisory committee members of the Youth Internet Governance Forum Cambodia 2023 were in attendance. This significant event took place at Kyoto International href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/advancing-internet-governance-in-cambodia-highlights-from-igf-2023/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce a Geographic Information System (GIS) Workshop: Fundamentals of QGIS of the three workshops each of which takes three days. This workshop series aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on geographic information system and using open-source GIS platform href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/gis-workshop-fundamentals-of-qgis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

You’re invited to a very special edition of the Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup! Typically, the mapping meetup is scheduled for the last Tuesday of each month. However, this very special occasion calls for a slight change to the tradition. Bernd and Paul will speak about href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/phnom-penh-mapping-meetup-17-is-happening/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As a part of its strategy to strengthen tools for sharing information about social accountability (for the Innovations for Social Accountability in Cambodia Project), Internews facilitated a Co-Design Workshop with Open Development Cambodia to improve its webpage on “Access to Public Service Information” in May.All href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/co-design-workshop-to-strengthen-odcs-accessibility/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia regularly posts social accountability information on its website and shares relevant updates on this topic via social media. In particular, Facebook has high mobile usage and impact in Cambodia overall.To strengthen ODC’s outreach for its work in the Innovations for Social Accountability href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/facebook-insights-training/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...