PTT offers $960 mln to buy out Sakari to increase coal assets
Thailand’s top energy company, has offered to buy out Singapore-listed Sakari Resources Ltd for $960 million as the oil and gas firm expands into coal to meet rising regional demand for the fuel On Aug. 13, Sakari announced a joint venture with the Royal Group of ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/sakari-ptt-idUSL3E8JR02420120827
Sugar Firm Offers Defense After Call for Probe of EU Trade Links
The director of a CPP senator’s sugar plantation accused of stealing land from hundreds of families said Wednesday that most locals were happy with the new jobs the plantation has generated, a week after a visiting European Union parliamentarian renewed calls for an investigation of ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sugar-firm-offers-defense-after-call-for-probe-of-eu-trade-links-51545/
Two years after offer, US yet to clean up war-era chemicals
Government officials on Thursday said they are still waiting for the U.S. Embassy to make good on a 2012 offer to clean up several barrels of the riot control agent CS that were dropped on Cambodia during the U.S.’ war with Vietnam and which the ...
Zsombor Peter and Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-years-after-offer-us-yet-to-clean-up-war-era-chemicals-64930/
JETRO offers support to boost Cambodia’s exports
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) will strengthen cooperation with Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce to help the Kingdom fully tap its export potential. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501562662/jetro-offers-support-to-boost-cambodias-exports/
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/
Plans Name Developer of Sisowath Quay Site
Architectural plans of a property development that is blamed for causing structural damage to French colonial-era buildings on Phnom Penh’s Sisowath Quay show drawings of a five-story residential building, complete with underground car parking. According to the plans, dated July 11, the mysterious company behind ...
Hun Sen Says Water, Power Shortages to Stay
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that the rapid growth of Phnom Penh’s population coupled with the rampant construction of new property projects means that there would always be a shortage of water and electricity in the capital. Speaking to a crowd of thousands who had ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-water-power-shortages-to-stay-29063/
Barred from exam, grade 12s protest
Fifty-two students in Kampong Thom are blaming teacher favouritism and an inherently unequal system for preventing them from sitting the national exam and graduating this year. The students, from Hun Sen Taing Kork High School in Baray district, filed a petition to the provincial department of ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/barred-exam-grade-12s-protest
ACU tackles exam cheats
Cheating on national grade nine and 12 exams – which has been rampant in the past – just got harder. The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) announced yesterday that it will enlist the services of independent NGOs, civil society groups and private companies to monitor the more than ...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-tackles-exam-cheats
Grade 12 exam postponed to Dec 27
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has set December 27 as the new date for high school diploma examination. The GraDe 12 exam was originally scheduled for December 6. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grade-12-exam-postponed-dec-27
Cambodia Airports Comes Under Attack by a Former Executive
Philippe Laurent became secretary-general of Cambodia Airports in May 2008. He was one of six senior executives in charge of the country’s international airports in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and the little-used facility in Sihanoukville. Mr. Laurent is now carrying out a one-man campaign against ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/selected-features/cambodia-airports-comes-under-attack-17727/
MISTI’s STEM guidebook for students choosing higher education degrees
THE Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) provides a free PDF Science, Technology and Innovation guidebook to students looking to choose a higher education degree involving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in Cambodia. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501346587/mistis-stem-guidebook-for-students-choosing-higher-education-degrees/
Date for high school exam set
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport will continue to conduct the high school diploma examination or “baccalaureate” in accordance with the principles of equity and transparency. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/date-high-school-exam-set
Cambodian Exports to EU See Rapid Growth in 2012
Cambodia’s exports to the European Union (E.U.) grew to $2.32 billion in 2012, a 23 percent increase compared to the previous year, according to the E.U.’s latest trade figures. The figures, released this week by the European Commission’s trade office, testify to the region’s growing role ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-exports-to-eu-see-rapid-growth-in-2012-18329/
Hun Sen offers ultimatum for CNRP officials: defect or risk a five-year ban
Prime Minister Hun Sen threatened yesterday to impose a five-year ban on more than 100 unnamed senior CNRP officials, seemingly under a controversial provision of the Law on Political Parties, while insisting that the main opposition party will indeed be dissolved this month by the ...
Niem Chheng, Ben Sokhean and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-offers-ultimatum-cnrp-officials-defect-or-risk-five-year-ban
72.33% of students pass national exams
A total of 72.33 percent of students have passed their high school diploma, with students in Phnom Penh and Kandal receiving their results today while pupils in remaining provinces have to wait until tomorrow. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/7233-of-students-pass-national-exams
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/
Grade A students reach record, set to meet PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen will meet with the talented students who received a Grade A in the recent high school diploma exams – also known as baccalaureate II, or Bacc II’ – in an event to be held in Phnom Penh on February 28. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/grade-students-reach-record-set-meet-pm
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications encourages passing BAC II students to learn digital technology skills
Chea Vandeth, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, has issued a letter urging students to pass the high school diploma exam to acquire digital technology skills. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501390300/minister-of-posts-and-telecommunications-encourages-passing-bac-ii-students-to-learn-digital-technology-skills/
Education Ministry plans to spend over $6 million on Bac II exam
Ministry of Education Youth and Sport (MoEYS) is planning to spend more than $6 million on preparations for the high school diploma exam, or Bac II, which will take place on October 8 and 9. ...
Som Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501566068/education-ministry-plans-to-spend-over-6-million-on-bac-ii-exam/