Japanese expert to study possible airport skytrain routes
Japanese officials will begin studying possible routes for a skytrain connecting Central Market to Phnom Penh International Airport, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday after securing a loan agreement with Japan last week. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/japanese-expert-to-study-possible-airport-skytrain-routes-133624/
High costs at Kamchay dam prompts new study
China Energy Engineering Corp Ltd will be conducting a second feasibility study on producing safe drinking water from the Kamchay hydropower dam in Kampot province after the first study showed that production costs were higher than initially expected. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099603/high-costs-kamchay-dam-prompts-new-study/
Mobile phones could be anti-HIV tool: study
Mobile phone technology could be an effective means to promote improved health practices among Cambodia’s female entertainment workers and help curb the spread of HIV, according to a new study conducted by the organisation KHANA and the Center for Global Health Research at Touro University ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mobile-phones-could-be-anti-hiv-tool-study
NUS study: Cambodia deforestation increases child health issues
A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that the loss of dense forest in Cambodia is associated with higher risk of diarrhea, acute respiratory infection, and fever in children. ...
Kongleaphy Keam
https://aecnewstoday.com/2017/nus-study-cambodia-deforestation-increases-child-health-issues/#axzz4rClWtpl4
PTT to conduct feasibility study in Cambodia: report
PTT, Thailand’s largest oil and gas conglomerate said it plans to conduct a feasibility study on petrochemical and oil refinery projects in three ASEAN countries – Cambodia, Indonesia and Myanmar, according to Dow Jones Newswires. Pailin Chuchottaworn, PTT chief executive said, however, that Indonesia and Myanmar ...
Controversial dam takes step forward with impact study
An environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the controversial Stung Chheay Araeng hydropower dam in Koh Kong province has been completed, representing a major step forward towards construction, officials said yesterday. Koh Kong deputy governor Sun Dara said he had yet to see a hard copy of ...
ASEAN to study new ties with six partners
ASEAN says it will study how to implement a proposed economic partnership with its six external partners that might lead to the foundation of world’s largest economic bloc. The proposed bloc, dubbed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) or “ASEAN+6” , would integrate ASEAN’s 10 ...
Study set to streamline customs procedures in Cambodia
Customs procedures are being examined in a time-release study to identify issues that can affect Cambodia’s trade competitiveness. According to experts, the study is an important tool to improve the Kingdom’s investment climate. The study will be conducted and organised by the GDCE with support ...
Government studying mollusc fishery in Kampong Chhnang province
The Cambodian Fisheries Administration has begun a one-year study of a mollusc fishery in Kampong Chhnang province, the Mekong River Commission says. Launched in February and financed by the MRC Fisheries Programme, the pilot study aims to assess the status of the snail and clam fishery ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=OGQwYzQ1Yjc3ZWY
Study finds Cambodia most vulnerable to climate change
US credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has ranked Cambodia’s economy and creditworthiness as the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Of 116 nations measured by S&P as part of a vulnerability index published last month – with a number 1 ranking being the ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/study-finds-cambodia-most-vulnerable-climate-change
Cassava fuel plant study now one year in
Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu Oil & Gas is considering building a biomass plant in Battambang province to use cassava to produce fuel, a Cambodia Mine Action Centre (CMAC) official says. Leng Chreang, director of mine risk education at CMAC, said the Japanese firm is one year ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-fuel-plant-study-now-one-year
Drug-resistant malaria widespread in Southeast Asia: study
Drug-resistant malaria is now widespread in Southeast Asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control malaria, a new study warned Wednesday. An analysis of blood samples from 1,241 malaria patients in 10 countries across Asia and Africa found resistance to the world’s most effective anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-07/31/c_133521082.htm
Cambodian fishermen urge better studies on Lao dam
As Cambodia prepares for a regional meeting over a contentious Lao dam on the Mekong River, fishing communities in Stung Treng province have appealed to Laos to cancel the project. The Don Sahong dam would be built on the Mekong, two kilometers from the Cambodian border. ...
Say Mony
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-fishermen-don-sahong-dam-mekong-river/2550700.html
Fortified rice improves children’s health, study finds
Cambodian children are less prone to diarrhea and fever and perform better on cognitive tests after regularly eating nutrient-fortified rice, according to a new study, the results of which were announced Tuesday. ...
Chris Mueller
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fortified-rice-improves-childrens-health-study-finds-69872/
Study finds substandard malaria drugs, but no fakes
A new report suggests counterfeit anti-malarial drugs are far less prevalent in Cambodia than previously thought, but almost a third of the legitimate medicines are of substandard quality. According to the study, published on Monday by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, none of ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-finds-substandard-malaria-drugs-no-fakes
Hydro dam does little for locals, study finds
Most families immediately downstream of Cambodia’s first major hydropower dam are worse off than they were before the project, according to a new study by U.K. researchers that urges the government to pay more attention to impacts on local residents as it gears up for ...
Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hydro-dam-does-little-for-locals-study-finds-92523/
No link between past trauma and poverty: study
Thirty-five years later, the psychological wounds caused by the Khmer Rouge remain fresh. Witnesses still break down in tears while testifying at the Tribunal. But how has the psychological trauma of the Khmer Rouge years affected the survivors’ economic status? ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15422//
Abuses prevalent for Cambodia's transgender women: study
An overwhelming majority of transgender women on Cambodia’s city streets are subject to “shocking” harassment and abuse, according to a new report from the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR). The report, released yesterday, also shines a light on a disturbing new practice that has allegedly ...
Erin Handley and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/abuses-prevalent-cambodias-transgender-women-study
Social Enterprises in Cabodia
Cambodia’s economic growth has been on the rise following the global downturn on 2008-2009 and experts say that the private sector is largely responsible for that growth. However, those same experts also acknowledge that the profits generated by companies operating in Cambodia aren’t trickling down ...
Food Imports See Big Jump
CAMBODIA’S total food and beverage imports jumped 28 percent year-on-year through June to US$74 million, as domestic demand continued to outpace the Kingdom’s production capacity. The demand comes as CamboDIa’s economy regains momentum following the global financial crisis, said officials at the Ministry of Commerce, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082351201/Business/food-imports-see-big-jump.html