Ministry forms committee as students protest exam results
<p>The Education Ministry has formed a committee tasked with addressing complaints from students who failed the national high school exam and demanded a review of their grades. A ministry press statement issued yesterday acknowledged that many students have protested the results of the exam and filed ...p>
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50642929/ministry-forms-committee-as-students-protest-exam-results/
Banking on human resources
<p>Acleda Bank, Cambodia’s largest bank, is morphing its existing training centre into a full-fledged educational institution, after obtaining a licence last month. The new institute will look to provide bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration, with majors in finance and banking. The post’s Sorn ...p>
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-human-resources
Economic growth brings optimism and rising expectations in Cambodia
<p>Bolstered by a massive construction boom over the last few years, Cambodia now boasts one of the world’s fastest growing economies and was one of the few countries able to meet its Millennium Development Goals. In fact, Cambodia, which has halved its poverty rate in ...p>
Silas Everett
http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2016/02/24/economic-growth-brings-optimism-and-rising-expectations-in-cambodia/
Angkor Sankranti brings flood of tourists to Siem Reap
<p>Siem Reap is gearing up for this year’s Angkor Sankranti from April 14 to 16 and hopes to attract more than the almost one million people who visited last year, with hotels and guesthouses already being booked out. Ang Seila, manager of Reserve and Duty at ...p>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23627/angkor-sankranti-brings-flood-of-tourists-to-siem-reap/
PM ends a land dispute with a gift
<p>While meeting locals and officials in preah Vihear province yesterday, prime Minister Hun Sen decided to allocate more than 80 hectares of airport land in preah Vihear town’s palhal commune to 127 families. In a meeting with officials and armed forces that was announced on Mr. Hun Sen’s official ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28989/pm-ends-a-land-dispute-with-a-gift/
Chinese bring sight to Kampong Cham
<p>A team of more than 30 doctors and nurses from Hainan province in China have spent the last four days at Kampong Cham provincial hospital removing cataracts from low-income patients. Kang Baiying, a team member and a Hainan provincial official, said her team had been on ...p>
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29329/chinese-bring-sight-to-k-cham/
Government investigates rice sector
<p>Following a Monday announcement from the Agriculture Ministry that provincial officials must ensure that the country’s rice millers pay adequate prices for rice paddy, the ministry followed up yesterday, saying that working groups had started discussing the situation with rice millers and rice farmers. In a ...p>
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29775/government-investigates--rice-sector/
Youth to protest Vietnam land grabs
<p>The Cambodian Youth party (CYp) is urging the public to join a mass demonstration on October 10 against Vietnam, due to what they say is a continued encroachment by the neighboring country on Cambodian territory through two settlements currently under construction. In an announcement sent out ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30212/youth-to-protest-vietnam-land-grabs/
Sub-decree approval rules amended
<p>From now on, only certain sub-decrees will need to be pored over by the cabinet before they are signed by prime Minister Hun Sen, the premier told a session of the cabinet on Friday morning, although failing to specify what the selection criteria would be. Mr. ...p>
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30162/sub-decree-approval-rules-amended/
Results on the evaluation of 9 ELC companies
<p>According to a notification letter No. 1022 dated on 10 September 2015, the Council of Ministers decided on a reduction of the investment lifespans to 50 years for 9 economic land concessions (ELCs) companies that hold investment rights over total areas of 21,839 hectares in ...p>
Ministry of Environment
Cambodian political repression meets American human rights law in Long Beach
<p>Hun Sen, prime Minister of Cambodia, is the president of the Cambodian people’s party (Cpp), the country’s ruling party since 1979. In recent years, when an opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRp), started gaining momentum and making their voices heard, Sen’s government found ...p>
Mary Wald
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-wald/cambodian-political-repre_b_9657752.html
MARDeC technical cooperation project agreement signing ceremony
<p>On 6th June in Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), an agreement was signed by H.E Nao Thuok, Secretary of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia and Mr. Adachi Itsu, Chief Representative of JICA Cambodia Office for implementation of ...p>
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Environmental groups given chance to address PM Hun Sen at forum
<p>With a mixture of hope and hard-earned scepticism, environmentalists from around the country will today get an opportunity most had never dreamed possible: an audience with the prime minister. About 500 civil society activists have been invited to phnom penh for the first National Forum ...p>
Cristina Maza and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environmental-groups-given-chance-address-pm-hun-sen-forum
Cambodian workers released from detention in Thailand
<p>Nearly 30 Cambodians detained in Thailand since early July were released last week, though four remain in detention, an official at the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok said. The migrant workers – 20 women and 14 men – were arrested on July 7 and taken to a ...p>
Sen David and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-workers-released-detention-thailand
Angkor Wat families get solar power
<p>In an effort to make the area look better and promote environmental practices amongst the communities living within the Angkor Archaeological park in Siem Reap province, the Apsara Authority, which is tasked with maintaining the temple area, is pushing the use of solar panels. Unsightly electric ...p>
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29042/angkor-wat-families-get--solar-power/
Rice loans to be disbursed soon
<p>Cambodia’s beleaguered rice millers can now breathe a sigh of relief after a tumultuous three months in what seemed to be government ineptitude in disbursing an emergency loan of $30 million to prevent them from becoming insolvent. In June, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) announced that ...p>
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29421/rice-loans-to-be-disbursed-soon/
Heavy rains to continue
<p>Five days of heavy rain flooded rice fields in prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces and some residential areas around phnom penh, causing capital residents to question when the city’s long-in-the-works sewage upgrade will finally be completed. More rainfall is expected to flood the country’s northern ...p>
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heavy-rains-continue
Guidelines on the prevention of forest fire
<p>The ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries has identified guidelines on the prevention of forest fire amid arrival of dry season. All seven point guidelines have identified the main causes and actions leading to forest fire, relevant regulations and legal actions against offenders. The ministry ...p>
The ministry of agriculture, forestry and fisheries
Top of the class – the minister who rebuilds systems
<p>After almost 15 years working at various economic-related agencies, primarily the ministry of economy and finance, H.E. Hang Chuon Naron has been at the forefront of transforming Cambodia’s broken economy into one that is more open and competitive. Since 2013 he has been minister of ...p>
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20804/top-of-the-class-----the-minister-who-rebuilds-systems/
New push from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to activate government response to end violence against women
<p>On 04 July 2016, The Ministry of Women’s Affairs led a special meeting with representatives from 15 line ministries and civil society organizations to boost the implementation and monitoring of the Second National Action plan to prevent Violence against Women, the key national policy to address intimate ...p>
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