New factory home for workers in brawl’s wake
Hundreds of Cambodian workers who refused to work at a Thai seafood factory after the deaths of two men in a violent brawl on Monday have been offered employment at another factory, their spokesman said yesterday. “The manager told us that in three more days, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Training to hone workforce’s skill
For the Cambodian workforce to emerge stronger amidst the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, UNEsCO has called for accelerated investments in the lifelong learning efforts to enable them to “skill, re-skill, and up-skill” to maintain the Kingdom’s impressive economic growth. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50896638/training-to-hone-workforces-skill/
Cambodia’s attractiveness in investment governance
The significance of investment governance for inclusive, sustainable development is often overlooked, including by stakeholders who work on natural resource governance and social and environmental issues. And yet, investment governance plays a major part in shaping the outcomes of their efforts. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501069662/cambodias-attractiveness-in-investment-governance/
Japan funds S Reap water upgrades
The Japanese government has provided more than $200,000 in grant aid for the installation of a water supply system in siem Reap province as part of its KUsANONE Grassroots Human security Projects. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-funds-s-reap-water-upgrades
Cambodia’s adult literacy increases significantly
Literacy rate for the citizens aged 15 years old and above in Cambodia has seen a significant rise, reflecting the government’s successful efforts in eradicating illiteracy rate, said a senior official of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and sports. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501133550/cambodias-adult-literacy-increases-significantly/
Government reviews S’ville master plan
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee (IMCC) Tuesday reviewed the final draft of the master plan to transform Preah sihanouk province into a massive Multi-Purpose special Economic Zone (MP-sEZ), before summiting to the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) for ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501521018/government-reviews-sville-master-plan/
Replacement for Toll’s Kerr has arrived in Phnom Penh
Toll Royal Railways chief executive David Kerr is on track to leave Cambodia by the end of the month, according to his expected replacement. Bobby Luow, a 40-year veteran of the rail industry, mainly in south Africa, told the Post he had been brought in to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Duch, Chief of Khmer Rouge’s S-21 prison dies
Duch, the former director of the Khmer Rouge’s s-21 interrogation center in Phnom Penh’s Tuol sleng, has passed away due to illness at 00:51 a.m on 2 september 2020, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia spokesman Neth Pheaktra. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50759743/duch-chief-of-khmer-rouges-s-21-prison-dies/
ASEAN’s first Maritime Outlook highlights region’s blue economy
ASEAN haS launched itS inaugural ASEAN Maritime Outlook (AMO) at the 13th ASEAN Maritime Forum, held in the IndoneSia reSort iSland of Bali on AuguSt 1. ThiS publication iS Set to be a cornerStone in managing variouS maritime iSSueS, with a Special focuS on Streamlining SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/aseans-first-maritime-outlook-highlights-regions-blue-economy
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security’s delegation visits Cambodia
Minister of Public security General To Lam led a delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public security to pay an official visit to Cambodia from January 22-24 at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior sar sokha. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501428840/vietnams-ministry-of-public-securitys-delegation-visits-cambodia/
Eld’s deer spotted in Kratie’s Sambor Wildlife Sanctuary
Four Eld’s deer, an endangered species, were photographed for the first time in five years by camera traps in sambor Wildlife sanctuary in Kratie province. The species is listed as endangered in both Cambodia’s Forestry Law and on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50766444/elds-deer-spotted-in-kraties-sambor-wildlife-sanctuary/
China’s contribution to Cambodia’s mine action lauded
Cambodia has applauded the Government of China for its active contribution to humanitarian mine action in the Kingdom, enabling safe land for farmers and reducing mine and ERW risks. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501418657/chinas-contribution-to-cambodias-mine-action-lauded/
U.S. reprimands Cambodia’s trafficking, online scam response: report
Cambodia was ranked lowest for its response to human trafficking by the U.s. for the third year in a row, with a new report saying that Cambodian officials have not done enough – and in some unnamed cases, have been complicit – in human trafficking ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara and Danielle Keeton-Olsen
https://cambojanews.com/u-s-reprimands-cambodias-trafficking-online-scam-response-report/
Cambodia Airports Comes Under Attack by a Former Executive
Philippe Laurent became secretary-general of Cambodia Airports in May 2008. He was one of six senior executives in charge of the country’s international airports in Phnom Penh, siem Reap and the little-used facility in sihanoukville. Mr. Laurent is now carrying out a one-man campaign against ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/selected-features/cambodia-airports-comes-under-attack-17727/
Cambodia, a potentially lucrative market for Vietnam
Exporting Vietnamese products to Cambodia is beneficial to both countries, however, in order to hold onto this market, Vietnamese firms must remain proactive and consistently advertise their brands and improve quality of their products and services. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Corporate: China powers its way through Cambodia
In the hilly wilderness across southwestern Cambodia, the foundations of the country’s strengthening bonds with China are taking root. It is there that large dams supported by Chinese money are being built to literally bring the impoverished southeast Asian nation out of darkness. The largest of ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.hydroworld.com/news/2013/02/18/corporate-china-powers-its-way-through-cambodia.html
World Bank’s Boeng Kak Failure Cited in UN Report
The U.N.’s expert on housing rights has cited the World Bank’s failure to help thousands of families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood as a prime example of why the bank needs to make human rights a focus of its land sector programs worldwide. At ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-banks-boeng-kak-failure-cited-in-un-report-14120/
Japanese Funder Blames City Hall
Japan’s aid arm, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is funding a drainage project along Phnom Penh’s street 63, said yesterday that while it was true sections of the busy road remained in a deplorable condition, responsibility lay with City Hall. “This is [a] ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japanese-funder-blames-streets-ruin-on-city-hall-29321/
Govt and UN to save coasts
The Fisheries Administration and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Friday officially launched a program to protect Cambodia’s coastline from over-fishing, erosion and other damage to coastal environments and livelihoods. since the beginning of the year, the program has been training local officials ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062466440/National/govt-and-un-to-save-coasts.html