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 said. ...
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, ...
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
Women run Cambodia's street economy: report
Women make up the majority of street vendors selling food, clothes and a range of other retail goods across Cambodia, a new report in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Business has revealed. Using data from Cambodia’s economic census, researchers Nobuo Hirohata and Kazuhiro Fukuyo, from Yamaguchi ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/women-run-cambodias-street-economy-report
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
Government says UN maps validate its own
The U.N. loaned maps of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam to the government Thursday, with Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong hailing the maps’ similarity to the government’s own as proof that it has not been demarcating the border using illegal maps drawn by Vietnam. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-says-un-maps-validate-its-own-92195/
‘NEC makeup follows the law’
National Election Committee chairman Prach Chan defended the current composition of the election body when United Nations’ rights envoy to Cambodia Vitit Muntarbhorn discussed opposition parties’ insistence on reforms before next year’s National Election. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501137493/nec-makeup-follows-the-law/
NEC unveils 2023 National Election calendar
The National Election Committee (NEC) unveiled calendar for the upcoming National Election 2023 yesterday. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501154592/nec-unveils-2023-national-election-calendar/
Media alert on dissemination meeting with stakeholders on indelible ink for in the election of members of the National Assembly, 7th legislature, 2023
On 04 July 2023, the National Election Committee (NEC) issued a media alert on dissemination meeting with stakeholders on indelible ink for in the election of members of the National Assembly, 7th legislature, 2023.The NEC will organize a dissemination meeting with stakeholders under the topics ...
National Election Committee
US to help tackle illegal fishing
US Ambassador to Cambodia William Heidt said the US wanted to sign an agreement with Cambodia to better manage state-owned ports in the Kingdom to tackle issues related to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29567/us-to-help-tackle-illegal-fishing/
Can’t see the forest …
The percentage of Cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72 per cent in 1973 to only about 46 per cent in 2013, satellite image data released yesterday shows. A series of animated maps that Open Development Cambodia (ODC) produced from NASA satellite images detail ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/can%E2%80%99t-see-forest-%E2%80%A6
Restoration project of Central Terrace of Angkor Wat’s Causeway about 75 percent complete
The restoration project of a central terrace of Angkor Wat’s causeway, under the cooperation between the APSARA National Authority and Japan’s Sofia University, is now about 75 percent complete, said the APSARA National Authority in a news release this morning. ...
Hun Sen sells ‘win-win policy’ to students
Following an appeal by Prime Minister Hun Sen for the country’s youth to better understand his self-titled “win-win policy,” which he credits for ending the civil war and peacefully reintegrating the Khmer Rouge, the premier Monday delivered an hourlong lecture on the topic to about ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-sells-win-win-policy-to-students-85625/
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
Press release on the bilateral meeting between NEC and Comfrel
On 20 December 2022, National Election Committee has posted a press release on the bilateral meeting between NEC and Comfrel on their official website. The meeting took place after Comfel requested the NEC to meet further to discuss the report on challenges and recommendations related ...
National Election Committee
SIM card sellers face crackdown
National Police officials have promised tough action against those who sell SIM cards without copying buyers’ National identity cards, saying the practice may have a dangerous impact on society. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35713/sim-card-sellers-face-crackdown/
Sar Kheng urges neutrality for all officers
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng instructed all members of the police force and civil servants to maintain their neutrality and protect all legal political activities and candidates of all political parties during the campaigning for the upcoming commune council election while emphasising that government officials ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-urges-neutrality-all-officers
NEC bans candidates illiterate in Khmer
The National Election Committee (NEC) has disqualified from the upcoming commune council election 20 Candlelight Party candidates who were discovered to be illiterate, according to a notice dated March 18. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/nec-bans-candidates-illiterate-khmer
Candlelight Party candidates pulled from election list
The National Election Committee (NEC) has removed 86 Candlelight Party candidates from the lists prepared for the upcoming commune council elections. The party has expressed its regret at the decision, claiming it was ‘unfair’. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/candlelight-party-candidates-pulled-election-list