Discussion about hydroelectric power plants in Cambodia tends to focus on two aspects, both negative. One is an overdependence on Chinese investment, and the other is a relatively disproportionate focus on the environmental impacts of hydroelectric power. Chinese Influence Most hydroelectric power plants in Cambodia are associated href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-hydroelectric-question-china-power-and-the-environment/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will face both challenges and opportunities when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) combines its 10 countries into a single market for economic development, a move intended for 2015, officials said during a round-table discussion yesterday. Sok Siphanna, an adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/opportunities-challenges-for-asean/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Following the success of the first edition in March 2020 in Phnom Penh, the 2nd Training Workshop on Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) was conducted on August 26th and 27th in Battambang after being postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/second-training-workshop-on-strategic-environment-assessment-sea/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce the Second Workshop: on Data Collection and Application of GIS. The workshop aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge on conducting data collection with mobile application and using of GIS in natural resource management and disaster management with href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/announcements/2nd-workshop-data-collection-and-application-of-gis/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

One of the highlights of last year’s edition of the​ 5th Mekong ICT Camp 2017 hosted by Open Development Cambodia was the “Seed Grant Innovative Award”, endowed with 3,000$ for each of the five awarded teams. About half a year after the grant receivers were href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/success-stories-from-seed-grant-innovation-awardees-of-the-5th-mekong-ict-camp-2017/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The Open Development Cambodia (ODC) Team recently had the privilege of attending the United Nations High-Level Political Forum 2023 in New York City. This global event serves as a platform to discuss and accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic while emphasizing the full implementation href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/odc-teams-insights-from-unhlpf-2023-accelerating-recovery-and-sdg-implementation/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The launch event of a project improving the delivery of public services through ICT in Svay Rieng province, Cambodia. Photo by the ODC team, taken on 28 June 2017. Licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0.Civil society, representing the interests of ordinary citizens, is the part of href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/topics/civil-society/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Flooding  this year cost the government significantly less than expected due to better preparation and lower water levels than in previous years, first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management Nhim Vanda announced yesterday. The NCDM could not yet report the precise amount spent on flood href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/flood-money-runneth-over/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The second Cambodia International Machinery Industry Fair 2012 (CIMIF 2012) will kick off this weekend from at the Diamond Island Convention Center in an effort to promote the industry development and foreign investment in Cambodia. It will run for four days from tomorrow to August href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/second-international-machinery-fair-opens-this-weekend/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Four officials from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction arrested last week on bribery charges involving millions of dollars would be freed on bail in the next few days, officials said yesterday. Kuy Bunson, director of the Ministry of Interior’s prisons department, said he had href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bail-granted-for-disgraced-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Meas Bopha, 47, sits in an outdoor pagoda over a lotus-filled pond on her property in Kampong Speu, home to 10 of her 12 children, and wipes back tears as she talks about her missing teenage daughter, Bophea, who vanished one morning last week. Bophea href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/missing-girl-feared-trafficked/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union (EU) signs Wednesday to provide Cambodia with equipment to detect illicit trafficking and criminal use of nuclear and radiological materials. The agreement was inked between EU Ambassador to Cambodia Jean Francois Cautain and Om Yentieng, vice-chairman of the Secretariat of National Counter-Terrorism Committee. Under the deal, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eu-aids-cambodia-in-combating-illicit-trafficking-use-of-nuclear-radiological-materials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

As the latest draft of Cambodia’s long-awaited trade-union law sits idly at the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Labour officials have turned to outsiders to help hasten its enactment, a union advocate said yesterday. Dave Welsh, country director of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity, said href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/still-no-motion-on-union-law/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank’s biannual report on Cambodia was largely positive given dire economic prospects in Europe, which economists agreed were closely tied to the Kingdom’s key export sectors. The report, released yesterday, predicted 6.6 per cent growth in gross domestic product Manufacturing is predicted to slow slightly this year, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-outlook-for-cambodia-positive/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The man police allege was behind a so-called secession plan in Kratie province – an accusation used to justify a crackdown in which a teenager was killed last week – plans to hold a press conference to defend himself in the next two days, his href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/accused-secessionist-in-kratie-to-meet-with-the-press/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Increasing the tobacco retail tax — one of the world’s lowest at 10 per cent of unit price for domestically produced cigarettes — would deter smokers and increase government revenue while having minimal effect on tobacco producers, Ayda Yurekli, co-ordinator for the World Health Organization’s href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tobacco-tax-increase-likely/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Forestry Administration officials reportedly blocked vehicles in three provinces from travelling to Koh Kong town yesterday on their way to the site where prominent environmental activist Chut Wutty was shot last month. But hundreds of others from six provinces in a convoy of 27 vans made it href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/anti-loggers-held-back-by-fa-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights groups in Cambodia fear a new south-east Asian declaration of human rights could conversely offer the government in Phnom Penh a figleaf to clamp down on dissent. Cambodia signed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) human rights declaration on Sunday, two days href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/asean-declaration-allows-cambodia-to-flout-human-rights-warn-campaigners/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

The arrival of Startup Weekend in Cambodia marked a new beginning for high-tech entrepreneurship as more than 80 people worked on all kinds of new business ideas all weekend at Yellow Tower across the Tonle Sap from The Riverside. Chief Marketing Officer Joey Pomerenke of Startup href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/inspiring-tech-entrepreneurship/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...

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