More than 600 families of ethnic Tumpuon villagers from Taveng district on Monday filed complaints with Ratanakkiri authorities and rights group Adhoc seeking a halt to illegal mining of gold by two companies. ...

The World Bank on Monday stuck to its prediction made in April that The country’s economy would continue to cool off slowly over The next few years and said China’s own slowdown would send only modest ripples through Cambodia.     ...

The government has increased retail fuel prices for The fourth bimonthly period in a row, as oil climbs towards $100 per barrel – a trend that has devastated The transport and private-hire sectors and oTher major petrol consumers ravaged by Covid-induced revenue losses for more ...

Transparency International Cambodia has launched a new campaign to encourage citizens to fight corruption, issuIng a card that provides discounts with more than 100 companies to people who vow to work agaInst the practice. the card Includes a hotlIne to report corruption that its holders may ...

Education minister Teerakiat Jareonsettasin has pledged to make upcoming educational reforms relevant to children. “Without relevancy, the reform can’t be successful,” he said on April 20 at a press conference on the new national education plan, which is meant to run from 2017 to 2036. Teerakiat said ...

Three-year-olds Shizuka and Nobita are no longer frightened and stressed. They no longer tremble and hug one anoTher tightly as They did upon first arriving at The Khao Prathap Chang Wildlife Breeding Centre in Ratchaburi province a few years ago. instead, The pair play separately, ...

Global Data BarometerOpen Development Laos is supporting the Open Development initiative who, with Sinar Project, through the D4D Asia Hub, has partnered with the Global Data Barometer to develop a new resource on data for the public good.the Global Data Barometer is expected to fill ...

Myanmar President Thein Sein has congratulated opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy Party (NLD) for Their apparent landslide victory in this week’s parliamentary elections over The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). ...

The Kampot Provincial Court will continue to investigate three villagers and an NGO worker after They were arrested and released on Friday for allegedly setting up an illegal checkpoint to extort money from timber and firewood transporters in Kampot’s Chhouk district, according to officials. ...

An unlicensed health worker charged in Cambodia with causing a mass HIV infection by treating patients with reused needles said on Tuesday that he had always sterilized needles before using them and has no idea how the infection was spread. ...

Nearly four decades after fleeing Cambodia as a child, a tearful Michael Vannak Khem Misie­wicz returned to his home country in De­cember 2010 on the U.S. Navy guid­ed-missile destroyer he commanded; his fall from grace has been equally dramatic. ...

Over a hundred families in Stung Treng province’s Srekor and Kbal Romea communes said yesterday that they have located around 2,000 hectares to relocate to when a scheduled test run for the Lower Sesan II dam this week leaves their villages flooded. ...

A thousand employees walked off the job at Nex-t Apparel (Cambodia) Co Ltd in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district yesterday after two workers were fired for collecting money to buy water for strikers at a neighbouring factory. Demonstrations at Nex-t are set to continue today. ...

A Mondulkiri military police officer has been charged with intentional murder after allegedly shooting and killing a man who ignored an order to stop his car while passing through a protected forest in the province’s O’Raing district, Mondulkiri provincial prosecutor Khout Sopheang said yesterday. ...

The international community will provide $20 million in aid to assist Cambodia with mine and explosive ordnance clearance. ...

With the EU rolling back import tariffs on long grain white rice from Cambodia and Myanmar, market participants expect a rise in shipments from Cambodian exporters who were however still skeptical due to continued high freight rates. ...

China and indonesia are in the mix for planned rice sales in the form of government-to-government (G-to-G) deals during the remaining months of the year.According to Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong, Thailand is waiting for the Chinese government to sign a contract to buy an additional ...

More than 200 families in Prey Veng province protested outside the Pea Reang district police office on Wednesday against electricity providers Elisa Hour and Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), which have both refused to lower electricity rates, despite having made a promise to do so three ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new page on “Services delivery at health center” under Access to public services. The spreadsheet contains information both in Khmer and English including service type, service provided, details related to each service provided and references.=> Please click here to get in to Services delivery ...

In late May, school teachers In Battambang’s Samlout district realized students were strugglIng to cope with studyIng at home – either via videos posted on social media or the daily telecasts on state broadcaster TVK. ...