Gov't and Donors Set New Reform Targets
The new list of reforms approved by the government at a high-level meeting with its foreign donors on Wednesday offer a mixed bag of targets, with some sectors, such as education, given more ambitious goals than before, while others had their ambitions scaled back and old goals ...
Hun Sen Makes More Cuts to Sok An’s Portfolio
Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off on a directive last week to transfer 11 government bodies, previously overseen by Cabinet Minister Sok An, to relevant ministries and institutions, further cutting the expansive portfolio of the deputy prime minister in the wake of July’s national election. ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-makes-more-cuts-to-sok-ans-portfolio-46512/
Police officer among 3 accused of cheating
The Anti-Corruption Unit has announced that three people, including a police officer, who were arrested last week in Svay Rieng province after posing as students taking the grade 12 national exam, have been charged with using false identities. In a statement released on Monday, the ACU ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-officer-among-3-accused-cheating
In Siem Reap, poor girls want to stay in school
Impoverished girls in Siem Reap say they hope for a better education, in the wake of First Lady Michelle Obama’s visit. Girls in Siem Reap province say they are aware of the importance of education, especially higher education, to escape poverty. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://bit.ly/1BrEnb5
Hun Sen Orders Anticorruption Education for Students
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday issued a statement ordering that anti-graft education be incorporated into the national schooling system as part of a wider effort to stamp out corruption in the country. The statement, released in the lead-up to International Anti-Corruption Day, which falls today, ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-orders-anticorruption-education-for-students-48830/
CNRP Requests Migrant Worker Draft Agreement
The opposition CNRP has written to the embassies of Singapore and Malaysia requesting copies of draft agreements with the Cambodian government on sending migrant workers to the countries that they say they were not privy to. A Ministry of Labor official last month said the government ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-requests-migrant-worker-draft-agreement-48622/
Deminers to get training in China
The Cambodian Mine Action Authority is going to dispatch 40 of its demining staff to China to receive training next month as part of China’s commitment in supporting mine clearance. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50527762/deminers-to-get-training-in-china/
Off-the-job training in hospitality
The courses are free of charge for at-risk youth between the ages of 17 and 23, who also receive a $25 monthly stipend. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/job-training-hospitality
Cambodian military to train Vietnamese peacekeepers
Vietnamese officials have requested Cambodian peacekeepers help train Vietnamese forces in preparation for additional training the Vietnamese military will receive from the United Nations. ...
Ban Sokrith
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21915/cambodian-military-to-train-vietnamese-peacekeepers/
Passenger trains to run every weekend
Royal Railways announced yesterday that passenger service from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville every weekend ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/passenger-trains-run-every-weekend
Ministry mulls truck driver training school
The Cambodia Trucking Association has suggested the Ministry of Public Works and Transport open the kingdom’s first heavy truck driver training school. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102241/ministry-mulls-truck-driver-training-school/
Thailand gives train engine to Cambodia
Thailand will provide a train engine to Cambodia for the transport of goods and tourists between the two countries, according to a government official. Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha made the promise to provide the train engine in response to efforts to increase trade and tourists ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33101/thailand-gives-train-engine-to-cambodia/
Japan funds training for care workers
Japan has spent about $3 million building a centre to train Cambodian nurses how to take care of the elderly before they are sent to Japan. The centre will open in April.Kondo Yoshio, director of Procast Co Ltd, said after meeting with Labour Minister Ith ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103184/japan-funds-training-for-care-workers/
Cambodia's first commercial train begins operation
Cambodia’s modern railway system on Friday commenced commercial rail operations on the 256- kilometer”Southern Line” between the capital city of Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville Port. The launching was made after years of renovation with the financial support from the Asian Development Bank and development partners. “ADB ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/28/c_132069644.htm