Ministry requests enhanced security to promote 24-hour health centre services
The Ministry of Health has requested provincial governors to appoint local authorities, including law enforcement, to ensure security and safety at all health posts and centres nationwide, as part of its effort to promote the provision of health services 24 hours a day, seven days ...
Fintech helped us reduce costs, NBC Governor tells Dubai Fintech Summit
Adoption of digital payments has helped in reducing remittance costs, said Chea Serey, Governor, National Bank of Cambodia at a panel discussion on ‘Sustainable Capital: Environmentally Consolidated Finance’ on Monday at the Dubai Fintech Summit in UAE. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501485201/fintech-helped-us-reduce-costs-nbc-governor-tells-dubai-fintech-summit/
Women’s issues underfunded: report
Efforts to empower women at a sub-national level are drastically under-funded, according to research released yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/womens-issues-underfunded-report
Ministry predicts stable GDP growth
The government is predicting Cambodia’s gross domestic product will grow at seven percent this year and next. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38370/ministry-predicts-stable-gdp-growth/
First read turns a page towards early childhood development
Ms. Kem Sopheak, 32, is a mother, community leader and Grade 1 teacher at Roveang primary school in Kampong Cham province. ...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15993/first-read-turns-a-page-towards-early-childhood-development/
Water security still a priority
Cambodia has not yet attained full water security, the water resources minister said yesterday at an Asia-Pacific summit. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095364/water-security-still-priority/
Storms lash Prey Veng
At least 105 houses were damaged by a violent rainstorm on Monday night in Prey Veng province’s Komchey Mear district. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012041155553/National-news/storms-lash-prey-veng.html
Garment exports slow, but still up from 2013 - Cambodia Daily
Cambodia’s garment exports have continued to rise but at a slower pace than earlier in the year, according to government data. ...
REUTERS News Staff
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/24/cambodia-press-exports-garment-idUSL3N0SJ1QS20141024
Areng Valley dam activist summonsed
A prominent Areng Valley activist has been summonsed for questioning at Koh Kong Provincial Court next week over alleged forest crimes. ...
May Titthara and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/areng-valley-dam-activist-summonsed
Credit bureau launches after delays
The Credit Bureau of Cambodia officially commenced operations at its Phnom Penh headquarters on Monday, according to CBC spokesman Steve Vaile ...
CNRP Marches Through Phnom Penh, Delivers Petition to UN
More than 10,000 opposition CNRP supporters marched from Freedom Park to the U.N.’s human rights office in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to deliver a petition urging signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement to intervene in the country’s current political deadlock. The march marked the climax ...
The Cambodia Daily News Staff
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-marches-through-phnom-penh-delivers-petition-to-un-45737/
Cambodian PM Claims Opposition Acknowledged Ruling Party Victory
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday threatened to release an audio recording in which opposition leader Sam Rainsy purportedly acknowledged a ruling party election victory during a meeting between the two leaders aimed at ending a political deadlock. Sam Rainsy’s Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) ...
Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/recording-09262013165941.html
City Hall Announces New Plan to Raise Living Standards of Poor
City Hall announced a new plan to improve living standards in the city’s poorest areas Tuesday on International Human Rights Day, while representatives for the urban poor continued to call on the municipality to issue longsought after land titles. Addressing a crowd of 600 at Olympic ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-announces-new-plan-to-raise-living-standards-of-poor-49078/
ADB Admits Fault in Rail Project, Pledges Compensation
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has for the first time admitted to major flaws in its efforts to protect the roughly 4,000 families losing land to a $143 million project it is funding to rehabilitate Cambodia’s dilapidated railway system. On Friday, the ADB said it would ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-admits-fault-in-rail-project-pledges-compensation-51210/
NGOs begin to stop the rot of Cambodian teeth
Every day for weeks on end, 6-year-old Srey Nuch was tormented by severe pain caused by several of her teeth rotting away. Her mother, Lay Vicheka, despaired when she heard her daughter’s cries, knowing the family was far too poor to pay a dentist to fix ...
Holly Robertson and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/ngos-starting-to-stop-the-rot-of-cambodian-teeth-59490/
Fish output likely to drop
Fishery resources could fall this year because of a lack of flooding along rivers and waterways impeding fish from travelling freely or finding food to encourage their growth, a fishery official says. Sam Nov, deputy general director of Fishery Administration at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102459389/Business/fish-output-likely-to-drop.html
Boeung Kak women kept away from NGO, reporters
Imprisoned Boeung Kak lake villagers, some crying, motioned to human rights representatives and Post reporters through a chain-link fence at Prey Sar prison on Tuesday. Their efforts to talk to the visitors were futile, however, as two guards stopped anyone from approaching the 13 women sentenced ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012053056483/National-news/silent-treatment-at-prey-sar.html
China, Cambodia aim to further boost trade to 5 billion USD
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong is in China this week for official talks aimed at strengthening trade and security ties. ...
Pin Sisovann
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/china-cambodia-aim-to-further-boost-trade-to-5-billion/3176555.html
Wage wait: Unionists not impressed with promise
Labor leaders sniffed at the government’s stated commitment yesterday to hike the wage in the garment industry to $160 – by 2018. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wage-wait-unionists-not-impressed-promise
Sam Rainsy, Hor Namhong meet for the first time
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy met Tuesday with Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong, Foreign Minister, at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaher