Tep Kolap case 'now ended'
An outstanding court warrant for Phnom Penh international University rector Tep Kolap was dropped after the intervention of the premier and his wife, according to Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth. Declining to comment on the extent of the premier’s intervention, deputy commander of ...
Ministry of foreign affairs to build first diplomatic institute
The Foreign Affairs Ministry expects to complete construction on its first training institute for local diplomats in the next 18 months, officials said Monday. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokes-man Chum Sounry said work on the National institute for diplomatic and Relations of international Study began in December. ...
Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/ministry-foreign-affairs-build-first-diplomatic-institute-126811/
Hun Sen Orders Crackdown On Illegal Fishing in Lake
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blasted local officials for not working hard enough to curb illegal fishing in and around the Tonle Sap lake, where fisheries crimes are still rampant despite 90,000 hectares of protected areas. “Don’t do illegal fishing, use illegal equipment to fish, or ...
Asia’s forests grow, but not in Kingdom: NGO
Forest land in Asia-Pacific countries has grown overall since 2002, according to a study released last week, but Cambodia was one of only three countries surveyed to buck the trend. Out of 14 countries included in the study by the Regional Community Forestry Training Center (RECOFTC), ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/asia%E2%80%99s-forests-grow-not-kingdom-ngo
France to give over $226,000 for Khmer Rouge tribunal work
The French government said it will offer around $226,875 to the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501025864/france-to-give-over-226000-for-khmer-rouge-tribunal-work/
Parents using toxic balms on babies: report
Cambodian parents are commonly using medicinal balms and oils such as “Tiger Balm” on their newborn children despite potentially toxic effects, according to a new report. ...
Erin Handley and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parents-using-toxic-balms-babies-report
Kids’ supplement results mixed
The Cambodian government and UNICEF yesterday released results of a clinical trial on new locally produced food supplements to tackle the country’s persistently dismal malnutrition figures, with at least one of the two products proving effective. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kids-supplement-results-mixed
Amnesty international latest rights group to criticize government
Cambodians continue to suffer from a raft of human rights abuses including “arbitrary restrictions” on freedoms of assembly and expression, according to Amnesty international’s latest global report released this morning. ...
Anthony Jensen and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amnesty-international-latest-rights-group-to-criticize-government-108895/
‘Lack of acceptance reduces women’s political success’
Women’s groups in civil society have found that a lack of acceptance from political parties and other challenges has reduced women’s success in politics despite greater involvement. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/1340000/lack-of-acceptance-reduces-womens-political-success/
Cambodia's Free Trade Union offers minimum wage plan
In the latest bid for an Increase In garment-Industry wages, Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Mony yesterday called on the Garment Manufacturers Association In Cambodia (GMAC) to come to the table and discuss a $120-per-month mInimum wage. A few days after Cambodian Confederation of Unions ...
ACLEDA Bank launches ACLEDA Internet Bank
ACLEDA Bank PLC, the Cambodia’s leading commercial bank, has launched a new service called “ACLEDA internet Bank”, according to a statement on its website. The statement said the new service would offer additional alternative for its value customers in doing financial transactions via the internet at ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NTg0YTVkMDcwMjg
Evening the odds with Mother Nature
About 20 people grinned for the camera as they posed in front of a flagpole-like structure located just off a muddy dirt road in Kampong Chhnang province’s Samaki Meanchey district on Thursday morning. While a rather unimpressive visual, the agrometerological station is a first-of-its-kind device in ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/evening-odds-mother-nature
Women get paid 11 percent less in public sector in Cambodia
Women get paid 11 percent less than men when working in the public sector, said a recent World Bank report. ...
Rachel David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501474097/women-get-paid-11-percent-less-in-public-sector-in-cambodia/
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 ...
RUPP seal Sweden’s $10M funding
The Swedish Embassy in Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding with the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) on Wednesday to fund a high-quality training and research institute. The agreement is worth in the region of $10 million for a four-year pilot phase focusing on ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rupp-seal-swedens-10m-funding
Medical bills lead many into debt, survey reveals
Small-scale health insurance policies can be an effective way to avoid drowning in debt, according to a survey released yesterday. Fifty-eight percent of 5,275 households surveyed in Kandal, Takeo and Kampot provinces had taken out loans, with health care and medical costs being the chief reason, ...
PM urges universities to boost research cooperation
PM Hun Manet is asking public and private universities to increase cooperation for joint research and mutual study visits with both national and international universities. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501505827/pm-urges-universities-to-boost-research-cooperation/
The Missing Link
Resources to feed and educate a child, access to shelter and a life free of abuse arc fundamental rights, yet each day millions of Cambodians struggle to meet their basic needs alone. With more than 30% of the population living below the national poverty line of ...
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 ...
Work permits double in 2018
The number of foreigners issued with Cambodian work permits this year has more than doubled that of last year. The increase was driven by Chinese workers whose contribution alone could generate millions for the Kingdom’s economy each year. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/work-permits-double-2018