World Bank and East-West Management Institute (EWMI) recently publish a report “UsIng Data to Empower Indigenous Peoples and Accelerate Development : Data Skills TraInIng Case Studies from Asia”. This report comprises and synthesizes three case studies, IncludIng on DUAL’s data literacy traInIng programs In Nepal and ...

Almost 1,000 Cambodian soldiers have been deployed along the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province in an effort to combat crimes including “illegal immigration”, military officials said yesterday. ...

A voter registration system test originally slated for October will instead occur in November, the National Election Committee (NEC) announced in a press release on Wednesday. ...

As the followers political events mostly seen, Cambodia seem not adhere to the neutral foreign policy enshrined in its Constitution, yet the relationship between Cambodia and China and Cambodia – the United States, Prime Minister Hun Sen reaffirmed that Cambodia’s foreign policy is independence, not ...

Villagers living downstream from the controversial Lower Sesan II hydropower project have claimed that they contracted unusual skin ailments causing large black spots on their bodies after the firm building the dam drained industrial waste into a river they use for bathing. Cambodia’s Royal Group, a ...

The National Election Committee has appealed to Cambodian people working or studying abroad to come home and register to vote in The 2018 national election. ...

The French Agency for Development (AFD) has pledged $359 million in grants and loans to Cambodia over The next three years, state news agency AKP reported Friday. ...

After marching for Prey Lang forest, the independent Monk Network for Social Justice now plans to station monks in the forest for two week anti-logging “patrols.” ...

Mr Hun Sen and the Prime Minister of Japan Kishida Fumio have agreed to make Sihanoukville a major port for Cambodia and the Mekong region. Sihanoukville is a deep-sea port, which will be developed into a port that will allow more large ships to dock, ...

The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw agreed on Tuesday to stop levying special commodity tax on diamonds and emeralds, as well as commercial tax on gold nuggets. “As those items should be exempted from taxes, Hluttaw agreed to it.” Public Account Joint Committee Member and Kayin State, Hlaing Bwe ...

About 600 garment factory workers continued their strike in Phnom Penh yesterday, setting car tires alight to protest what they said were unfair salary cuts but factory representatives and labor officials described as a normal tax on income. “the factory told us that they cut our ...

The World Bank has classified Laos as a lower-middle-income economy in its latest classification for The 2020 fiscal year. The bank classifies The world’s economies into four income groups, namely high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low, based on Gross National income (GNI) per capita in U.S. dollars. Lower middle-income economies are those ...

An environmental activist branded an “anarchist” by a government spokesman said he fled to the U.N. human rights office in Phnom Penh on Monday after police harassed him for becoming involved in a dispute between sand dredgers and villagers in Kandal province. ...

UNESCO yesterday highlighted its role in supporting education initiatives in the Kingdom amid school closures caused by the COVID-19 global outbreak. ...

Australia has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening relations with Cambodia in the fight against Covid-19 as the Kingdom will chair ASEAN in 2022. ...

Cambodia collected $1,726 million in tax income in the January-May period this year, a 27.95% increase as compared to the same period last year, according to an official statement yesterday. ...

Open Development Cambodia has published a new profile page on “public transportation” under access to public services. The profile contains information in both Khmer and English on bus lines in Cambodia, Their operating hours, bus stops and a route map.Please click here to access The public ...

The Patong beach in Phuket has been chosen to be an integrated marine public healthcare pilot area where state agencies, local administrators and local people join forces to provide aid in response to accidents at sea. The move is aimed at boosting tourists’ confidence.Keep reading ...

The Lao and UK governments yesterday agreed to a new project partnership to accelerate The fight against drug-resistant ‘superbugs’ in Laos.This partnership will establish a comprehensive surveillance system for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use in both humans and animals.More ...

The Cambodian government closed all unofficial border checkpoints in Banteay Meanchey and Battambang in an apparent response to Thailand’s laws imposing stricter punishments on migrant workers. ...