Safe water lowers absenteeism
Reducing absenteeism in schools in developing countries may be as simple as providing students with safe drinking water. A new study indicates that, but researchers are not sure why. The study was done at eight schools in Cambodia where the attendance records of more than 3,500 ...
Joe Decapua
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/water-absenteeism-18mar14/1874739.html
Gov’t launches three-year roadmap on migrant labor policy
The Labor Ministry on Thursday launched a new three-year policy for improving the lot of Cambodia’s more than 700,000 migrant workers that includes plans to step up monitoring of the country’s often-abusive recruitment agencies and add labor attachés to more embassies. Nilim Baruah, a senior ...
Zsombor Peter and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-launches-three-year-roadmap-on-migrant-labor-policy-74515/
Cambodia's energy costs deter investors
Cambodia’s infrastructure is deterring highly anticipated investment into the production of raw materials to support its rapidly growing garment sector, experts say. While garment exports rose 10.2 per cent to $5.48 billion last year, the increase of raw materials imported to support this growth increased about ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020761221/Business/cambodia-s-energy-costs-deter-investors.html
Cambodian workers to get Japan opportunity
The Japanese government will offer an opportunity for specialised Cambodian workers to work in Japan through a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that might be signed in April, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, Ith Sam Heng said. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-workers-get-japan-opportunity
Sar Kheng hails road ‘white days’
Cambodia’s new Traffic Law has been a runaway success for road safety, Interior Minister Sar Kheng claimed yesterday, hours after a collision between two trucks carrying garment workers left two dead and nearly 60 injured. ...
Mech Dara and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-hails-road-white-days
Huawei and American University of Phnom Penh all set for a bright future
Huawei Technologies held an event to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP) and its Center for Leadership and Professional Development (CLPD) at the AUPP campus yesterday. The MOU was to work towards new digital technology projects and ...
Jason Boken
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50754620/huawei-and-american-university-of-phnom-penh-all-set-for-a-bright-future/
Concern over migration chief’s family connections
The appointment of General Sok Phal to head the Interior Ministry’s newly formed department to monitor migrant workers has raised concerns over his close familial connection to a labor recruitment industry fraught with human rights abuses. Gen. Phal’s sister, Ung Seang Rithy, is the owner of ...
Matt Blomberg and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/concern-over-migration-chiefs-family-connections-57202/
New draft of trade Union Law adds guilt by association
An updated version of the draft Trade Union Law gives the Labor Ministry the power to suspend unions that “cooperate” or hold joint activities with groups the government deems to have caused economic sabotage or “damaged” the national interest, according to a copy of the ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-draft-of-trade-union-law-ad
Business chambers merge with Eurocham
The French and German chambers of commerce have both merged into the larger European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia in order to gain combined strength and be more effective as an interface between European business and the Cambodian government. The agreement is set to be formalised ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013062066376/Business/business-chambers-merge-with-eurocham.html
NBC launches new payment and transfer system
National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) officially launched its national retail payment system “Retail Pay” yesterday to support and provide fast payment facilities for trade settlement and fund transfers in the Kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807469/nbc-launches-new-payment-and-transfer-system/
Foreign Minister on US mission
Foreign Minister Park Sokhornn will be at the White House on Thursday for the first meeting between Asean foreign ministers and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson since the new administration of President Donald Trump took office in January. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37938/foreign-minister-on-us-mission/
Cambodia to begin rice exports to various countries
Cambodia’s minister of commerce has announced that the country will step up efforts to export rice to Africa, Middle East and the European Union. In his three-day visit to Kuwait in December 2014, Chanthol aimed at opening new avenues for Cambodian-made agricultural goods to enter ...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4483:cambodia-to-start-rice-export-to-various-countries&catid=1083&Itemid=98
NGOs call for road safety to be included in nat’l examination
wo NGOs focused on Cambodian road safety have sent a letter to Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron on Wednesday requesting that road safety be included in students’ learning objectives ahead of the beginning of the new school year on Friday. In their letter, the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-call-road-safety-be-included-natl-examination
Oz an example for mining reform
Inspired by Australian mining regulations, the Cambodian government is considering a raft of changes to the mineral resources mining law, including a rethink of the sector’s comparatively high tax rate. Citing discussions held with Western Australia state mining industry representatives last week, Meng Saktheara, secretary of ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/oz-example-mining-reform
Qatar Airways touches down in Cambodia
With the launch of daily scheduled services, Qatar Airways becomes the only Middle Eastern airline flying to the South East Asian nation – and destination number 125 served worldwide. Guests gathered at Phonm Penh International Airport in celebration of the new air link, connecting Cambodia ...
Cambodian children experience extensive “learning loss” during pandemic
Cambodia’s Ministry of Education and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday jointly revealed alarming new findings about learning loss experienced by Cambodian students during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501053580/cambodian-children-experience-extensive-learning-loss-during-pandemic/
Google to map streets of capital, Angkor Wat
People around the world will soon be able to go online and view close-up pictures of Phnom Penh’s streets and the temples of Angkor Wat, Google representatives announced in Phnom Penh. Google Street View is using cars with special 360-degree panoramic cameras to collect the imagery. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/google-map-streets-capital-angkor-wat
Kids to get schooled on Traffic Law
High school and university students, considered particularly at risk of road accidents, may soon be taking lessons on the new traffic law if a proposal from the Transport Ministry comes to fruition. Tram Iv Tek, minister of public works and transport, yesterday said that the government ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/kids-get-schooled-traffic-law
Study links toilet usage, height
A new study has found that open defecation, which is still commonly practised in Cambodia, has direct links to reduced heights in children, with a decrease in the practice over five years leading to increases in height. ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-links-toilet-usage-height
Tech businesses among Cambodia’s fastest-growing sectors
More than one-sixth of Cambodian businesses in 2011 were part of the Kingdom’s information and communications sector, a government census showed. of the 182,439 new enterprises that sprang up in the country between June 2009 and March 2011, some 95,590 serviced the sector, according to the ...