Thai uni offers scholarships to 40 Cambodian students: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen requested that Thailand’s Krirk University meet with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to discuss recruitment after the school announced scholarships for 40 Cambodians. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-uni-offers-scholarships-40-cambodian-students-pm
MoU to improve tech skills
A Thailand-based technical university yesterday signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with technical training institutes in Cambodia to improve human resources in the technical sector. The MoUs were signed between the Thai Rajamangala university of Technology and the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia and the National ...
Sub-Decree aims to better regulate pharmacies
Prime Minister Hun Sen has signed a sub-decree to better regulate pharmacies, a business fraught with fake drugs and fake diplomas. The new sub-decree of the Pharmacists’ Code of Ethics contains 71 articles. They ban distribution of fake drugs and the use of titles not ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sub-decree-aims-to-better-regulate-pharmacies-55138/
PM Hun Sen suggests opening of British Universities in Cambodia
Prime Minister Hun Sen has encouraged the United Kingdom to open schools, especially universities in Cambodia, after noting a growing trend of Cambodian students pursuing their studies in the UK. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501137045/pm-hun-sen-suggests-opening-of-british-universities-in-cambodia/
Three convicted in UK over Cambodian biofuel scam
A London court on Friday convicted three British men of conspiracy to commit fraud following an investigation by the U.K.’s Serious Fraud office (SFO) into a British biofuel firm that swindled investors in its Cambodian venture. Gary West, the former director of Sustainable Agro Energy (SAE); James ...
George Styllis
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/three-convicted-in-uk-over-cambodian-biofuel-scam-73778/
PM launches Cambodia Cyber University Network
Prime Minister Hun Manet inaugurated the Cambodia Cyber University Network (CCUN) yesterday to train digital technology at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501512273/pm-launches-cambodia-cyber-university-network/
Cambodian PM due on Friday
Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen is expected to pay a 3-day official visit to Dhaka from Friday to further expanding and strengthening trade relations and cooperation in agriculture sector between the two countries. During the visit, sources said Dhaka is expected to seek long-term ...
The Daily Star
http://www.thedailystar.net/cambodian-pm-due-on-friday-23869
Thai princess to visit kingdom
Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will visit Cambodia next month to boost bilateral education ties between the kingdoms, a topic she has worked on since her first visit in 1992. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-princess-visit-kingdom
Kratie University construction complete
The recently constructed Kratie University, which was mostly funded by the Chinese government, was handed over to the Education Ministry yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37563/kratie-university-construction-complete/
Government establishes sub-committee on universal health coverage
The government is establishing a Sub-committee on Univeral Health Coverage in Cambodia to direct, coordinate, monitor and review all policies, strategies and action plans set out in the “Roadmap for Univeral Health Coverage in Cambodia 2024-2035” policy planning document. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501529683/government-establishes-sub-committee-on-universal-health-coverage/
Trucks Banned on Phnom Penh Streets for Duration of Summit
Phnom Penh City Hall has banned all trucks transporting goods and gasoline from traveling on the city’s roads in daytime hours to ease traffic during the Asean Summit, according to a notice placed on the municipality’s website Saturday. The Ministry of Education has also told 12 ...
Special Economic Zones ‘key to future’
Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have brought almost 70,000 new jobs to the country, according to an Asian Development Bank report released last week. With tax exemptions on production materials, lower profit tax, and renewable leases, the SEZs have drawn foreign-owned factories manufacturing everything from bicycles ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16920/special-economic-zones----key-to-future---/
Land-titling process ‘urgent’, Oxfam says
Accelerating the mapping and titling of rural farmland should be an “urgent” priority of the government and civil society, particularly when it comes to protecting indigenous peoples’ and women’s rights, Oxfam representatives said yesterday. The remarks followed the release of an EU-funded survey of rural communities’ ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-titling-process-%E2%80%98urgent%E2%80%99-oxfam-says
Kids’ supplement results mixed
The Cambodian government and UNICEF yesterday released results of a clinical trial on new locally produced food supplements to tackle the country’s persistently dismal malnutrition figures, with at least one of the two products proving effective. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kids-supplement-results-mixed
RCAF begins first recruitment drive since onset of pandemic
The Ministry of National Defence will be distributing applications to prospective students from February 1-15 as it looks to recruit a new generation of military trainees to meet the needs of various units of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-begins-first-recruitment-drive-onset-pandemic
Project aims to build latrines in rural areas
A new US$10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund a three-year project by international development NGO East Meets West (EMW) to improve sanitation and hygiene among the poor in rural Cambodia and Vietnam. According to EMW, the program seeks to combat the negative effects of ...
PM urges universities to boost research cooperation
PM Hun Manet is asking public and private universities to increase cooperation for joint research and mutual study visits with both national and international universities. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501505827/pm-urges-universities-to-boost-research-cooperation/
CCHR and CIVICUS condemn the Cambodian government’s rejection of key recommendations during its 2nd Universal Periodic Review
Today, 26 June 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) and CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, condemn the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (the “RGC”) decision to reject key recommendations on the human rights situation in the Kingdom of Cambodia put forward by United ...
Cambodian center for Human Rights (CCHR)
Hun Sen Orders Crackdown On Illegal Fishing in Lake
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blasted local officials for not working hard enough to curb illegal fishing in and around the Tonle Sap lake, where fisheries crimes are still rampant despite 90,000 hectares of protected areas. “Don’t do illegal fishing, use illegal equipment to fish, or ...
CNRP lawmaker continues to accuse Gov’t of illegal maps
Two weeks after opposition leader Sam Rainsy said he would order the party’s lawmakers to stop attacking the government’s border work, CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An said Tuesday he is continuing his tour in the U.S. to tell supporters there that the CPP is using ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-continues-to-accuse-govt-of-illegal-maps-95963/