Announcement on the temporary on suspension of all technical and vocational education and training institution across the country
On 20 March 2021, Ministry of Labour and vocational training has posted an announcement on the temporary on suspension of all technical and vocational education and training institution across the country. This suspension is to respond to the on going COVID-19 community outbreak. According to ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational training
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) updated an existing profile page on “Forest cover”
Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) updated an existing profile page on “Forest cover” adding forest cover dataset 2023 in Cambodia. => Please click here to go to profile page on “Forest cover”. ...
More than 50 US deportees expected in Cambodia on Thursday
The US is deporting 51 Cambodians who are expected to arrive in the country on Thursday, the single largest group of deportees in the history of the contentious 15-year repatriation program. The group is expected to include deportees with chronic mental and physical health conditions, ...
Daphne Chen
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-50-us-deportees-expected-cambodia-thursday
New LGBT policies necessary: CCHR
The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) has called on schools to adopt a flexible school uniform policy to help transgender students and for the government to introduce(CCHR) anti-discrimination laws, in partnership with a USAID program worth almost $300,000. ...
Bun Sengkong and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-lgbt-policies-necessary-cchr
Finance for women easier
Acleda Bank, a leading locally-owned commercial bank, has received a $30 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution, through Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women and the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Banking on Women program for supporting women-owned small ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31993/finance-for-women-easier/
Hun Sen, tax chief accuse US of lying about cuts to aid
Prime Minister Hun Sen and tax chief Kong Vibol accused the US of lying about cutting assistance to Cambodia, claiming that one of the programs on the chopping block hasn’t existed since 2016. In a speech to garment workers in the Sihanoukville SEZ on Saturday, ...
Mech Dara and Daphne Chen
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-tax-chief-accuse-us-lying-about-cuts-aid
Project aims to send children in orphanages home
Though they live in orphanages, an estimated 13,000 children in facilities across Cambodia have at least one living parent. As part of a sea change in government policy in a country with a checkered history with orphanages, officials in Battambang province on Tuesday kicked off ...
Janelle Retka and Chhorn Phearun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/project-aims-to-send-children-in-orphanages-home-132890/
PAL seeks CAB green light for flights to Turkey, Kuwait, Cambodia
Flag carrier Philippine Airlines is eying flights to Kuwait, Turkey, and Cambodia starting next year amid its refleeting and expansion program, the Civil Aeronautics Board said Wednesday. PAL has filed petitions with the industry regulator for flights to Istanbul in Turkey, Phnom Penh in Cambodia, and ...
Six Charged for Making Illegal Fishing Reservoirs
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday charged six people, including a provincial director of water resources and a commune chief, for their involvement in creating illegal fishing reservoirs in Kompong Thom province. “They were charged with clearing a flooded forest for encroachment and illegally constructing ...
Factory flaws go live
Unionists and labour rights officials are applauding a website scheduled to go live today that will hold to account garment factories that flout Cambodia’s labour law. The site, created and maintained by the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, will publicly name factories ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-flaws-go-live
Cambodia is the 10th largest cassava grower in the world
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has identified Cambodia as the fourth largest cassava grower in Asia and the 10th largest in the world. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50909841/cambodia-is-the-10th-largest-cassava-grower-in-the-world/
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Natural protected areas in Cambodia (1993-2023)” adding 1 new map features in Pursat Province from sub-decree no. 144 on the establishment of Bakan protected landscape. This dataset contains data of eight types of protected areas in ...
Bus company promises changes after boycott
The bus company under-fire for a string of reported crimes allegedly committed by their staff, including a recent sexual assault – have pledged to introduce new measures and training to limit such incidents in the future. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17242/bus-company-promises-changes-after-boycott/
Railway works prime Poipet for prosperous developments
The train route that is set to connect Poipet to Thailand, and the government’s plan to make Poipet a commercial and industrial area, are readying this Thai-bordered city to exercise its potential. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/railway-works-prime-poipet-prosperous-developments
Meeting touts new approach to rehab
Officials from provinces across the country gathered in Banteay Meanchey yesterday and the day before to learn about alternative community-based drug rehabilitation services and vocational training, anti-drug officials said. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meeting-touts-new-approach-rehab
National entrance exam for foundation-year students, academic year 2014-2015
The National Exam Commission is pleased to inform medical training institutions and students that the National Exam Commission will select 2519 students for enrollment for the academic year 2014-2015. ...
Office of the Council of Ministers
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Major foreign investment projects in Cambodia”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Major foreign investment projects in Cambodia” adding 52 new map features from Council for the development of Cambodia and other sources. The foreign investment project dataset has been established to provide relevantly practical information within Cambodia’s ...
NGOs and political parties say they won’t attend Justice Ministry ‘explanation’ of new constitutional amendments
Civil society groups and opposition parties that have opposed newly passed constitutional amendments said they would be boycotting a meeting hosted by the Ministry of Justice this week intended to clarify the changes to eight articles. ...
Sorn Sarath and Seoung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/ngos-and-political-parties-say-they-wont-attend-justice-ministry-explanation-of-new-constitutional-amendments/
Continues providing the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to people aged from 18 and children - adolescents aged 12 to under 18 who failed to receive the vaccine or have just reached the age to receive the vaccine at the end of the vaccine campaign in Phnom Penh
On 15 September 2021, the Phnom Penh Capital Administration has issued a notification on continues providing the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to people aged from 18 and children – adolescents aged 12 to under 18 who failed to receive the vaccine or have just ...
Phnom Penh Capital Administration
Third ring road named Xi Jinping Boulevard, a symbol of Cambodia-China’s steel relationship
The third ring road has been named “Xi Jinping Boulevard”, 60 years after a major thoroughfare in Phnom Penh was named Mao Tse-Tung Boulevard by King Norodom Sihanouk in honor of the iconic Chinese leader. ...
Seoung Nimol
https://cambojanews.com/third-ring-road-named-xi-jinping-boulevard-a-symbol-of-cambodia-chinas-steel-relationship/