The government will ramp up The budget for provinces by more than $276 million next year to provide high quality and efficient services to The public, an increase of 32.28 percent from this year’s budget.​ Public Functions Minister Pich Bunthin yesterday said at a workshop ...

The Union government is drawing up a plan to help children survive and thrive, Ministry of Planning and Finance director general Daw Whar Whar Maung told The Myanmar Times on October 26. Specifics details were not released for The plan, which was discussed at a meeting ...

A recently promulgated update to a 2003 law on investment is redefining incentives for more than a dozen business sectors. This is only the Kingdom’s second investment law and it expands the range of environmentally focused organisations eligible for incentives. the list of eligible business sectors ...

At a time when little is going right for Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy, Thailand is being hit hard by weak global demand for its major agricultural exports. Among the people most affected are the country’s rubber producers, suffering depressed prices since January 2014. After surging to more ...

The Revenue Department is studying two options for The government’s personal income tax cut campaign promise — one an outright 10-percentage point cut across tax brackets and The oTher a 10% cut across brackets.For The cut by 10 percentage points, individual taxpayers who are liable ...

IT and Website AdvisorHuy Eng graduated with a double major in Computer Science from Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), and international Study from institute of Foreign Language (IFL). She has been working for ODC since it was firstly established in 2011. With several years ...

“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) ...

In a fiery speech attended by thousands, opposition leader Sam RaInsy yesterday vowed that his party would boycott the National Assembly if a thorough Investigation of election results is not undertaken and vowed mass demonstrations if prelimInary numbers aren’t revised to reflect a Cambodia National ...

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Vang Vieng’s Tha Heua Market faces total abandonment after the expressway has caused motorists to bypass it when traveling to the resort town. According to a report by Vientiane Times, Tha Heua Market, popular with motorists entering Vang Vieng, is rapidly losing customers, with many vendors shutting down ...

For the purposes of oil and gas exploration, six offshore Blocks (A–F) have been set out. Significant finds of oil have been made in Block A, but no oil has yet been extracted. ...

About 3,000 workers at a factory supplying clothes to U.S. brands Levi Strauss and Old Navy blocked traffic for nearly five hours yesterday on National Road 4 in Kandal province, as part of a protest for more benefits and severance pay, protesters and police said. Protests ...

A day after well-known human rights worker Chan Soveth was summoned by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court over charges of aiding an unnamed perpetrator in an unnamed crime, human rights groups issued a statement branding the charged as politically-motivated and intended to intimidate government critics. “We ...

Thailand’s exports may contract by 15% this year as the coronavirus pandemic hits global demand and a stubbornly strong baht adds to pressure, a shipping association said on Tuesday.Exports, a key driver of growth, slumped 15.2% in the second quarter from a year earlier and ...

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said Việt Nam is ready to contribute to co-operation as part of the Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Việt Nam (CLMV) mechanism. Attending the 9th CLMV Summit (CLMV 9) in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday, Phúc said Việt Nam would help the countries attend trade fairs in ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Sub-national infrastructure project implementation” in Cambodia. On the new bilingual page, the public can access to​ map layers which display the total number of actual expenditures and actual projects of sub-national infrastructure, and a data table ...

Web Development and IT OfficerVichra is mainly responsible for ensuring the well-functionality Of IT network systems and infrastructure, including hardware and sOftware. Moreover, his primary responsibility is on digital security control, system upgrade, and other IT-related support. Additionally, he supports website development and maintenance.Vichra held ...

The creation of five girls aged 13 and 14, LiterTree is a team dedicated to one sole purpose – The preservation of Khmer poetry, which is at risk of being forgotten due to four decades of neglect following The killing of artists and The destruction ...

Cambodia’s sub-national administration consists of three tiers: capital city/province, municipality/district and sangkat/commune. Phnom Penh is the capital, and there are 24 provinces, 159 districts (including 26 municipalities and 12 khans), 1406 communes and 227 sangkats. ...

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) yesterday held a presentation In front of local authorities on a project that aims to tackle The waste crisis Cambodia is facIng. ...