Water Supply Shares Fall Below Launch Price
The share price of the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) fell 50 riel yesterday to 6,250 riel, or about $1.52, bringing the authority’s share price lower than its initial public offering (IPO) in April. The decline matches views expressed by investors here that the authority’s ...
Cambodia delays human rights hearing for one week
A request by the Cambodian government for a delay in its universal periodic review (UPR) hearing at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which was supposed to be Thursday, has been accepted, according to a rights group that was to deliver a statement on the ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-delays-human-rights-hearing-for-one-week-61863/
Civil engineering students on the rise
Students finishing their secondary education this year are carefully looking at market demand to decide what to study to ensure solid future earnings. Many educators say the recent growth of the construction sector in Cambodia is encouraging parents and students to enroll at the universities of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/Real-Estate/civil-engineering-students-on-the-rise.html
Monkey-based malaria strain poses 'high risk' to humans: study
A new study has predicted that even if Cambodia manages to eradicate so-called “human” strains of malaria by 2025 – a key government goal – it will continue be at “high risk” of infections from a strain of the parasite more typically found in wild ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monkey-based-malaria-strain-poses-high-risk-humans-study
Mixed message to UN
A call for the Cambodian government to lift its controversial ban on public assembly is among 34 such recommendations it has chosen to defer in the wake of last week’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights situation. The UN on Saturday released a ...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mixed-message-un
Government notes 25 UN UPR rights recommendations as political
The government on Tuesday said it had “noted” 25 recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), saying they were part of a political agenda and linked to the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). It accepted the other 173 recommendations ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-notes-25-un-upr-rights-recommendations-political
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 ...
Minimum temperature to drop to 18 degrees celsius this week
The minimum temperature would drop to 18 degrees Celsius from November 20 to 22, especially at the northeastern highland areas. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501395432/minimum-temperature-to-drop-to-18-degrees-celsius-this-week/
Despite Ban, Operators Offer Bonuses
Two of the country’s largest mobile phone operators are again offering attractive deals on calls, despite the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia’s (TRC) recent order to mobile operators to follow the government’s minimum prices for calls and to scale back customer promotions. On Sunday, Smart, which is ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/despite-ban-operators-offer-bonuses-49483/
Belgium steadfast in support for Cambodian students
The Government of Belgium is providing scholarship support for Cambodian students wishing to pursue master’s and doctoral degree programmes at some of Belgium’s most renowned universities. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501375054/belgium-steadfast-in-support-for-cambodian-students/
Bank will offer loans to farmers
Chief Cambodia Specialized Bank, a subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based brokerage firm, will begin operations in Cambodia next month, its management said on Monday. Sokun Chakriya, head of marketing and sales at Chief Cambodia, said the bank aims to increase access to finance in Cambodia’s agricultural ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bank-will-offer-loans-farmers
Dry season temperature to hit 41 degree Celsius
The temperature during the dry season in 2024 is expected to reach 41 degrees Celsius, according to the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. ...
Nop Sreymao
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501412858/dry-season-temperature-to-hit-41-degree-celsius/
Drug rehabs offer more harm than help
When police brought Manly to his room in the Mundoul Orkas Knhom drug rehab center outside Phnom Penh, he saw blood on the wall. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13342//
Law Students Told To Avoid Thesis Topics
Fourth-year students at Phnom Penh’s Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) have been barred from writing their theses on 14 topics, including Cambodia’s new bourse, according to a letter posted online yesterday. The letter, signed by the University’s research department director Kong Saphon ...
Moving towards e-commerce
Motorbikes, vegetables, iPhones, artwork, or even land on which to build a house – a quick browse through website 7Makara.com gives the impression of a Cambodian eBay or Amazon. The difference, however, is that you can’t complete the transaction from the convenience of your bedroom. In ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061266208/Business/moving-towards-e-commerce.html
Firm offers to find jobs for cheated migrants
A recruitment company has offered to help find employment in Thailand for a group of migrant workers who have accused another firm of cheating them out of hundreds of dollars each and leaving them at the Thai border last week, the company’s director said Wednesday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-offers-to-find-jobs-for-cheated-migrants-96050/
Fashionistas Plan Extravanganza in Cambodia
2,000 some fashionistas from around Asia will descend on Phnom Penh in October for 10 days during the country’s first fashion event, costing an estimated $1 million. According to Sophy Ke, president of the Cambodia Fashion Council, Cambodia Fashion Week is intended to increase domestic ...
Villagers reject City Hall offer
Chroy Changvar peninsula land disputants yesterday delivered a petition to the Ministry of Land Management rejecting City Hall’s proposal to take away 90 percent of their land for the development of a satellite city. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-reject-city-hall-offer
Rainfall still a month away, says ministry
The Ministry of Water and Meteorology has warned farmers of a rainfall shortage forecast to last at least another month, with average daily temperatures also forecast to remain above average. The announcement, issued on Monday, says that up until mid-July Phnom Penh, Kandal, Kampong Speu, Takeo, ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rainfall-still-month-away-says-ministry
Ministry asks candidates to believe Bac II results
The Ministry of Education asked candidates who sat for the Higher Secondary Diploma or Bac II on November 6 to have confidence in how the Ministry grades the exam. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501395418/ministry-asks-candidates-to-believe-bac-ii-results/