Computer system to register voters
Cambodia’s new voter registration system will use a computer program to register eligible citizens who have a national identity card and are over the age of 18 before election day, according to a National Election Committee (NEC) technical officer at a media training event on ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28473/computer-system-to-register-voters/
Sweden’s “feminist foreign policy” stirs up Cambodia
In the last three months, three Cambodian ministers have visited Stockholm. Dozens of mid-career Cambodians travel yearly to Sweden for short term training programs. And Sweden doles out $25 million in foreign aid annually, earning this nation of 10 million people a seat at the ...
James Brooke
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12130/sweden---s----feminist-foreign-policy----stirs-up-cambodia/
US Donates IT Equipment To Ministry of Defense
The U.S. Embassy donated more than 300 laptops and other assorted equipment valued at over $250,000 to the Ministry of Defense on Saturday, according to an embassy statement. The equipment will go to the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces’ priority units, which already receive training from the ...
Unesco: Teacher education to benefit 130,000 children
Some 130,000 children, particularly the vulnerable, will benefit from the Strengthening Teacher Education Programme in Cambodia (STEPCam), Unesco said on Tuesday. The UN agency said the initiative focuses on the role of teachers in building foundations in early learning, with the Ministry of Education, Youth ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unesco-teacher-education-benefit-130000-children
Success of project to get marginalised children into classrooms lauded
Four years ago, a consortium of NGOs in Cambodia identified 57,000 marginalised children who, for various reasons, were not attending school, and put them into classrooms. Today, more than 90 percent of them are still attending classes, an achievement lauded during the Cambodia Consortium for ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/success-project-get-marginalised-children-classrooms-lauded
Wages do not compute: ILO
NGOs say the Ministry of Labour’s use of its own method for determining the garment industry’s minimum wage is risking a repeat of the tensions that exploded in violent protests in January, when authorities killed at least five people. More than six months after the Labour ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wages-do-not-compute-ilo
Transparency NGO pulls out as exam monitor
Transparency International (TI) Cambodia on Wednesday announced it would not be dispatching observers to independently monitor the National High School Exams on August 4 and 5 after the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and Education Ministry said they would not allow reserve observers at exam halls. TI says ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/transparency-international-pulls-out-as-national-exam-monitor-63720/
University dorm for orphans
Ol Sok Hour, a keen and promising student, had his life turned upside down two years ago when his parents died of AIDS. Yesterday, the NGO celebrated the launch of its Graduation House, a facility that will offer accommodation and support for orphaned tertiary students. ...
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/university-dorm-orphans
Cambodia to raise monthly minimum wage for garment workers to 123 USD for 2015
Cambodia on Wednesday decided to increase the monthly minimum wage in the garment sector to 123 U.S. dollars, up 23 percent from the current 100 U.S. dollars, Labor Minister Ith Samheng said. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-11/12/c_133784394.htm
New minister cleans up Cambodia’s education system
Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. Students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ...
Robert Carmichael
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-education-system-cleanup/2599977.html
New minister cleans up Cambodia’s education system
Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. Students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ...
Robert Carmichael
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-education-system-cleanup/2599977.html
Workers say $128 per month is not enough to live on
Cambodian unions say they will not agree to a minimum wage proposed by the Cambodian government. Union leaders say the government’s proposed minimum wage of $128 per month will not be enough for workers to keep up with the rising cost of living in the country. ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/workers-say-128-per-month-is-not-enough-to-live-on/2529249.html
Cambodian Muslims see opportunities in ASEAN integration
The government wants Cambodia’s Muslim community to start its own bank to cater to the 600,000 Muslims living here, Labor and Vocational Training Ministry’s secretary of state Datuk Othsman Hassan said yesterday. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14055/cambodian-muslims-see-opportunities-in-asean-integration/
First training workshop on Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA)
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Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and the Non-Timber Forest Products Exchange Programme (NTFP-EP Cambodia) jointly hosted the first training workshop on Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA) under the Shared Resources Joint Solutions (SRJS) Program supported by the Netherlands Committee for IUCN. The two-day training was held on ...
Gov’t releases data on timber baron’s deal
Tycoon Try Pheap has collected an estimated 1,500 cubic metres of timber from Forestry Administration offices since the government in July issued his companies permission to confiscate “waste wood” from their offices and from the Ministry of Environment, according to preliminary government figures obtained by ...
Daniel Pye
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-releases-data-timber-baron%E2%80%99s-deal
MEF strengthens property data to analyse the development sector
“I confess that the ministry hasn’t been able to control and achieve transparency in the real estate sector, but I can say that this sector has yet to show any signs of trouble,” Ngoun Sokha, secretary of state for the Ministry of Economy and Finance, ...
Phnom Penh Post News Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/mef-strengthens-property-data-analyse-development-sector
Local and international experts to train 1,221 environmental rangers
The training will be conducted through a cooperation between the Ministry of Environment’s General Department of Administration for Nature Conservation and Protection and the US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Office of Anti-Crime Programmes (INL/C), and US Forest Service. ...
After 14 years, passenger train service to the coast restarts
For most people who boarded the passenger train from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville on Saturday morning—the maiden ride since the service was suspended more than a decade ago—it was something of a new thrill. ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-14-years-passenger-train-service-to-the-coast-restarts-111121/
World Bank subsidiary to train 2,000 contract rice farmers
A World Bank subsidiary will soon start training 2,000 farmers contracted to supply a leading Cambodian rice exporter on how to meet an international farming standard. ...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-subsidiary-to-train-2000-contract-rice-farmers-131561/
Cambodia to send 20 to China for youth training course
Cambodia will send 20 youths to China for a month-long ASEAN Young Leaders training course in China’s Guangxi province. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141013/cambodia-send-20-china-youth-training-course