Health guidelines issued for nat’l Grade 12 examinations
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport instructed public and private schools to implement strict health measures at all locations which have been designated as testing centres for national Grade 12 examinations. In addition, it ordered that temperature screening be employed, to ensure all possible ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/health-guidelines-issued-natl-grade-12-examinations
NGO wants Koh Kong Krao study made public
A petition requesting the report of a study on the Koh Kong Krao area and progress made in designating the area as a national marine park to be made public was submitted by the Mother Nature Movement to the Ministry of Environment. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501139062/ngo-wants-koh-kong-krao-study-made-public/
Creating eco-friendly urban spaces
Meth Monthary, initiator of the ‘Initiative for Urban’ project, has gone from being a college student majoring in Architecture with knowledge of urbanization to launching a project regarding urban development and real estate after realizing that home gardening for eco-housing plays a key role in ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/creating-eco-friendly-urban-spaces
ADMM-Plus members affirm commitment to peace, stability
Minister of National Defence Tea Banh said he was proud that Cambodia had hosted the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) and ADMM-Plus, which issued a joint communique that showed the commitment of all ASEAN member states, as well as China and the US, to maintaining ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/admm-plus-members-affirm-commitment-peace-stability
Kingdom looks to join China’s CIPS payment system
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) is looking into joining the RMB Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) to provide additional international payment options; facilitate and boost trade, investment, tourism between the two countries through yuan-denominated transactions; and to make management of the Chinese currency in ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-looks-join-chinas-cips-payment-system
Hopes high for Kampong Chhnang logistics hub
Locally-owned KLP.T Transportation Co Ltd’s new multi-purpose port and logistics centre just east of Kampong Chhnang town is expected to provide a substantial boost to Cambodian freight movement, particularly of agricultural products from the provinces bordering Tonle Sap Lake to international markets. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hopes-high-kampong-chhnang-logistics-hub
SME Bank loans top $432M, help at least 3,260 businesses
The state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) has disbursed more than $432 million in loans to at least 3,260 SMEs, to keep them from going under during the height of the Covid-19 crisis, and subsequently to help them reopen and ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sme-bank-loans-top-432m-help-least-3260-businesses
Prahok fish season bountiful
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina expressed his admiration for this year’s fishing season haul, which has seen fishermen catching up to three tonnes of fish in less than an hour, something he credits to the government’s efforts at preventing illegal fishing and ...
Orm Bunthoeurn and Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prahok-fish-season-bountiful
No additional Covid rules for arrivals from China: PM
Cambodia will not follow in other countries’ footsteps in imposing any additional restrictions towards arrivals from mainland China, amid concerns that soaring Covid-19 cases there could drive the emergence of new and potentially more dangerous variants of the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Hun Sen affirmed ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/no-additional-covid-rules-arrivals-china-pm
Prahok fish season bountiful
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina expressed his admiration for this year’s fishing season haul, which has seen fishermen catching up to three tonnes of fish in less than an hour, something he credits to the government’s efforts at preventing illegal fishing and ...
Orm Bunthoeurn and Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prahok-fish-season-bountiful
Commercial Court could function ‘as early as 2024’: Justice ministry officials
A Ministry of Justice official said that a Commercial Court could be established and put into action as soon as 2024. Addressing the February 2 “AmCham Business Law Conclave: Critical Updates That You Need to Know for 2023” in Phnom Penh, justice ministry secretary of state ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commercial-court-could-function-early-2024-justice-ministry-officials
Cambodia needs $30B for 150 prioritised infrastructure projects
Cambodia has sought partners to raise about $30 billion of investment funds to implement 150 hard and soft infrastructure projects that the government has classified as priorities to place in the Comprehensive Intermodal Comprehensive Master Plan (CIT-MP) for the next ten years, said a release ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501278432/cambodia-needs-30b-for-150-prioritised-infrastructure-projects/
Kingdom seeks partners for planned Mondulkiri airport
Cambodia is looking for partners for the development of a planned airport in Mondulkiri province south of Sen Monorom town after PowerChina International Group Ltd (PIG) withdrew during the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent negotiations with other foreign companies fell through, according to a senior civil ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-seeks-partners-planned-mondulkiri-airport
NagaWorld dispute drags on with 25th meeting
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training remains unable to find a solution to the labour dispute between NagaWorld and its dismissed employees, while civil society organisations call on the ministry to end its role as mediator and for the use of existing legal mechanisms ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nagaworld-dispute-drags-25th-meeting
Minister lauds cash support to all factory worker mothers, kids
Since 2018, the government has provided cash support to more than 356,000 female factory workers who gave birth. More than $35 million was shared with the mothers of over 358,000 children, said Ith Samheng, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training. ...
Sem Pisey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-lauds-cash-support-all-factory-worker-mothers-kids
Exports to Vietnam swell 36% in Jan-Feb
Cambodian goods exports to Vietnam amounted to $491.180 million in the first two months of 2023 – surging by 36.12 per cent over the same time last year – accounting for 45.28 per cent of bilateral trade, jumping up by 7.30 percentage points year-on-year, according ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-vietnam-swell-36-jan-feb
FAO launch PEARL agriculture initiative
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced a partnership with Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Environment to launch the Public-Social-Private Partnerships for Ecologically-Sound Agriculture and Resilient Livelihood in Northern Tonle Sap Basin (PEARL). ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fao-launch-pearl-agriculture-initiative
ISF Cambodia, the organization dedicated to ending child poverty
Children make up nearly 35% of Cambodia’s population, and 48.7% of these children (ages 0-17) live in multidimensional poverty. Children have the right to an education, but many schools in Cambodia are structurally and hygienically inadequate. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501386808/isf-cambodia-the-organization-dedicated-to-ending-child-poverty/