Test results please many
More than half of the students who sat the grade 12 national exam last month passed the high-stakes test, marking a significant improvement on last year’s results, when nearly two-thirds failed amid sweeping anti-cheating reforms.The results, which were released on Saturday, show that 55.8 per ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/test-results-please-many
PM: the water festival is on again
The annual boat races in Phnom Penh, marking the Water Festival celebrations, will take place between November 13 and 15 even if water levels in the Tonle Sap are low, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. Speaking at a university graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh, the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29936/pm--the-water-festival-is-on-again/
NGO observers to get window into cheating
In case cramming for an exam that determines high school graduation and college placement wasn’t stressful enough, grade 12 test-takers will now have to do so under the scrutiny of independent observers tasked with manning every exam-room window. As part of a slew of reforms to ...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-observers-get-window-cheating
Ministry, USAID, UC Berkeley launch digital skills project
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the University of California, Berkeley – in collaboration with the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports – launched a five-year digital skill development project with $15 million in USAID funding. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-usaid-uc-berkeley-launch-digital-skills-project
NCDM holds training seminar on IT tech in disaster management
The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) and the World Food Programme (WFP) – in collaboration with the Department of Geography and Land Management at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) – launched a three-day basic training course on use of remote sensing (RS) ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ncdm-holds-training-seminar-it-tech-disaster-management
Pledge to provide clean water by 2030 ‘unwavering’, says ministry
Cambodia remains unwavering in its pledge to provide universal access to clean water by 2030, aligning with its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Prime Minister Hun Manet urges pertinent institutions to prioritise the quality, safety, sustainability, and affordability of clean water for all citizens. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501444000/pledge-to-provide-clean-water-by-2030-unwavering-says-ministry/
Hun Sen Warns CNRP Will Lose Seats if Assembly Boycotted
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday warned that he will give the CNRP parliamentary seats away if they refuse to take their seats at the National Assembly, German Ambassador Wolfgang Moser said. Ambassador Moser said Mr. Hun Sen asked him to pass that message along to ...
Cambodian ambassador speaks highly of mutual exchanges with Vietnam
This year, the Cambodian people celebrate their 60th National Day as well as the birthday of the Cambodia Kingdom’s royal army under the bright leadership of King Norodom Sihanouk, who relentlessly struggled against the French colonialists to gain independence (09-11-1953 – 09-11-2013). In 2010, Father ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NTQ0YTNhY2QzOTQ
First CPP National Assembly Plenary Session Set for Thursday
The National Assembly will hold its first plenary session meeting on Thursday since Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 68 members of parliament last month approved an Assembly president and chairpersons to head the body’s nine committees, and despite the opposition CNRP still refusing to take their ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/first-cpp-national-assembly-plenary-session-set-for-thursday-44452/
What did Suu Kyi’s first Cambodia visit achieve?
Last week, Myanmar’s de facto leader and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi paid her first visit to Cambodia in her current capacity. The trip spotlighted the ongoing State of ties between the two fellow Southeast Asian States amid wider domestic and foreign policy developments. Cambodia ...
Prashanth Parameswaran
https://thediplomat.com/2019/05/what-did-suu-kyis-first-cambodia-visit-achieve/
Mekong Dams a Long-Term Risk to Food Security
The momentum toward large-scale dams on the Mekong River may be unstoppable, but governments must work fast to mitigate their effects on fisheries and biodiversity or risk long-term food insecurity for millions of people whose lives depend on the river and its tributaries, leading academics ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-dams-a-long-term%E2%80%88risk-to-food-security-48415/
New Preah Kossamak Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building starts operations in Cambodia
The Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building, a key livelihood project shouldered by State-owned China State Construction Engineering Corp, was officially put into use in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on March 21. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501049708/new-preah-kossamak-cambodia-china-friendship-medical-building-starts-operations-in-cambodia/
Chinese 'no-strings' loans come at a cost
As government borrowing from China continues to increase, a new study released yesterday showed that Chinese concessional loans carry higher interest than any others. According to the study, released by the NGO Forum on Cambodia at a workshop in Phnom Penh, China’s average interest rate on ...
Cambodian water utility to price IPO on 18 April
Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority is gearing up to price an initial public offering of up to $24 million on 18 April, making it the first stock to be traded on Cambodia’s fledgling stock exchange. Huy Vatharo, an executive director at underwriter Tong Yang Securities, ...
http://www.globalwaterintel.com/news/2012/9/cambodias-water-utility-price-ipo-18-april.html
Two dollar strike to continue
Angkor Beer promoters yesterday rejected an offer from the municipality that would have required them to suspend their strike while officials negotiated a solution for them, telling Phnom Penh’s deputy governor that their protest is legal and that their employer is breaking the law. More ...
Spirited reopening for Anful
Workers at a garment factory that was temporarily shut after more than 200 women collapsed in two mass fainting incidents last week gathered yesterday at the facility in Kampong Speu province for a Buddhist ceremony intended to rid the factory of evil spirits. Pheng Songoun, a ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110152461/National-news/spirited-reopening-for-anful.html
Cambodia rejects suspicions reversal on us base upgrade signals plans to host Chinese military assets
Cambodia’s Minister of Defense Tea Banh on Monday dismissed suspicions that his government had reneged on accepting an offer from the U.S. to upgrade buildings at a naval base in Preah Sihanouk province because it plans to host Chinese military assets at the site. In a ...
Joshua Lipes
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/base-07012019152820.html
Rice bank buys direct to control prices
The Cambodia Rice Bank (CRB) will intervene to prevent the price of fragrant rice from falling further by offering to buy the staple grain directly from farmers at the market price of 840 riel (21 cents) a kilogram. The CRB also called on farmers to ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29842/rice-bank-buys-direct-to-control-prices/
Radio Station Owner Denies Secession Charges
Independent radio station owner Mam Sonando declared his innocence yesterday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court where his trial began over his alleged involvement in a secessionist movement in Kratie province. Commenting on organization he founded, the Association of Democrats, Mr. Sonando told the court it was ...