Mr. PUTH Chan Choth
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Mr. PUTH Chan Choth is an ICT manager of an international humanitarian organization in Cambodia. He is also a technical working group of CCC (Cooperation Committee for Cambodia) that help to contribute an effective use of ICT for civil society organizations as well as contributing ...
Private universities fear new vocational schools
Private universities in the Kingdom will have more competition as the Education Ministry laid out plans yesterday to open more vocational schools to deal with the unprecedented number of graduating high school students. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14998/private-universities-fear-new-vocational-schools/
GMAC head sets clothing export goal
Cambodia is set for a 30 per cent increase in garment exports this year, according to Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) president Van Sou Ieng. The sector was heavily dependent on foreign buyers, which were increasing their orders as the global economy recovered, he ...
As Cambodia Courts US Business, Old Problems Remain
As a delegation of US business owners prepares to travel to Cambodia with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, analysts say they will be tough to court, given Cambodia’s lack of law enforcement. “Investors don’t bring guns, they don’t bring bodyguards—they bring money to invest,” said ...
Rated X for content: TEDxPP
The grand finale at Phnom Penh’s much-ballyhooed TEDx event on Saturday was intended to send a message. Several activists, among them Loun Savath and the son of the late Chut Wutty, would stand before an audience of 600 and read accounts of violent land disputes. Images from ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012061156729/National-news/rated-x-for-content.html
Study calls for halt to dams
A new study and accompanying short film released yesterday call for all lower Mekong dam developers to halt plans until further impact studies can be made. Hydropower dams will have a greater impact on river flows than even climate change, according to research by the University ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-calls-halt-dams
Rainsy eyes seat at UN rights review meeting
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy left for Europe yesterday evening to attend a UN Human Rights Council review on Cambodia in Geneva and to lobby European Union officials to take a stronger stance against the government, he said before departure. Rainsy plans on attending the Universal Periodic ...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rainsy-eyes-seat-un-rights-review-meeting
Cambodia: Rainsy returns as court keeps protesters in jail
Anguished cries from supporters and family members echoed outside the Appeals Court in Phnom Penh yesterday as they received the news bail had been denied. They had been hoping for the release of 21 people detained since a brutal government crackdown in early January. On ...
Daniel Quinlan
http://asiancorrespondent.com/119494/cambodia-rainsy-returns-as-court-keeps-protesters-in-jail/
Renewable energy course powers up
Instructors at the Royal University of Phnom Penh have just finished the first academic year of a landmark physics course. Launched in the fall of 2012, “Renewable Energy and Applications” aims to train students so they can seek internships and jobs in one of Cambodia’s fastest-growing ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061366236/Business/renewable-energy-course-powers-up.html
Cambodian PM says not to appoint capable children in posts
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he could not appoint his children in the cabinet posts even though they were qualified. “I have five children and five children-in-law. All of them have possessed degrees ranging from bachelor’s degrees to doctorate’s degrees, but I cannot ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/06/c_133536466.htm
Private sector worried over universal wage law
The private sector is concerned that the newly proposed universal minimum wage law, which is reportedly being drafted by the government and comes on the heels of numerous new labour regulations, has created a climate of uncertainty, according to an industry expert. ...
Robin Spiess
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/private-sector-worried-over-universal-wage-law
Ministry defends pro-CPP speech at university
The Education Ministry on Monday defended a pro-CPP speech delivered to some 1,500 students at a university in Phnom Penh on Sunday, reasoning that the school did not breach the ministry’s new directive against political activity at academic institutions because classes had finished for the ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-defends-pro-cpp-speech-at-university-93048/
Prime Minister Hun Sen signs off a sub-degree on the new Traffic Law
Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off a sub-degree for penalties on those who commit the road offenses such as speeding and drunk driving. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/prime-minister-hun-sen-signs-off-a-sub-degree-on-the-new-traffic-law-8797
In carbon, gains for agriculture
Paying Cambodian farmers to capture carbon by not removing mulch during planting and harvesting would help support climate change mitigation, reduce soil deterioration and return higher yields in the long term, say leading agriculture experts. Speaking at a conference in Phnom Penh last Friday, Professor Rattan ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062466434/Business/in-carbon-gains-for-agriculture.html
More Bunong, Kouy, and Kroeung people have graduated from the university and returned to support their communities
Ms. Somart Sokhaii is Bunong. She is among a few indigenous people to have succeeded in her higher education with a bachelor’s degree in Laws. ...
Thai PM's Cambodia Visit May Restore Mutual Trust, Investment
PHNOM PENH–Cambodian analysts believe that the visit of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to Cambodia on Thursday this week could restore mutual trust and trade and investment relations between the two countries. “From my point of view, the meeting of the two PMs will probably focus ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2011-09/14/c_131138587.htm
China offers scholarships to 62 Cambodian students
Sixty-two Cambodian students have gotten annual scholarships for their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in various universities in China, according to Chinese News Agency (Xinhua). ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/china-offers-scholarships-to-62-cambodian-students-8789
CEOs see auto, ICT, finance sectors as top growth picks
Thai CEOs are confident that the country’s 2013 economic growth will be at least as good as last year’s level and that the automobile, information and communications technology, and financial sectors will be the star performers. The CEOs estimate that their companies’ profits this year ...
Gov’t fights back on ‘useless’ education claim
Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron yesterday slammed opposition leader Sam Rainsy for dismissing university degrees in the country as value-less and labeling the education system one of the poorest in the world. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16635/gov---t-fights-back-on----useless----education-claim/