Banking summit set to offer students thousands of jobs
The Banking Jobs and Skills Summit 2023 is set to take place from September 29-30 at the National University of Management (NUM), featuring around 20 financial institutions and offering thousands of job opportunities to students. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/banking-summit-set-offer-students-thousands-jobs
Thai uni offers scholarships to 40 Cambodian students: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen requested that Thailand’s Krirk University meet with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to discuss recruitment after the school announced scholarships for 40 Cambodians. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thai-uni-offers-scholarships-40-cambodian-students-pm
Financial support offered to pregnant civil servants
FacebookTwitterEmailShareThe government will expand its support programme to female civil servants and contract workers who become pregnant, as enjoyed by pregnant garment workers to alleviate hardship and reduce poverty in Cambodia. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501316552/financial-support-offered-to-pregnant-civil-servants/
Regulator revokes 29 licences for web firms
Cambodia’s telecom regulator has de-recognised 29 internet and voice-over internet protocol (VOIP) providers in the Kingdom, for failing to provide documentation to prove their active status, according to an official from the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC). ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/regulator-revokes-29-licences-web-firms
Prey Lang shorted in new protected areas
The core of one of Cambodia’s most important and abused forests —Prey Lang—was officially declared a protected area this week after years of campaigning by local activists and foreign conservationists. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prey-lang-shorted-in-new-protected-areas-111963/
CPP officials at odds over white building mural
As Cambodians continue to debate the government’s whitewashing of a street artist’s multistory mural this week, the information minister publicly critiqued the decision on Friday and drew a comparison to the retrograde attitudes of Soviet leaders toward modern art. ...
George Wright and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cpp-officials-at-odds-over-white-building-mural-103507/
Gov’t offers tax exemption
The government has issued a three-month minimum tax exemption for the aviation sector and an exemption on all types of monthly taxes for tourism operators, it said in a press release on Tuesday. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-offers-tax-exemption
Multiple suspects arrested over grenade attack, but police offer few details
Police have arrested at least five suspects over the past two days in connection to agrenade attack that rattled a Phnom Penh neighbourhood two weeks ago, injuring four people, but officials yesterday remained tight-lipped as to the suspects’ identities and motives. ...
Mech Dara and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/multiple-suspects-arrested-over-grenade-attack-police-offer-few-details
Pandemic offers challenges and opportunities to air ambulance industry
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic presents both challenges and opportunities to medical consultancies and air ambulance businesses in Cambodia and other parts of Southeast Asia. ...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50807535/pandemic-offers-challenges-and-opportunities-to-air-ambulance-industry/
Chinese-built hydropower plant offers Cambodia greener future
The Chinese-built Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Station is located in northeastern Cambodia on the Sesan River. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501390759/chinese-built-hydropower-plant-offers-cambodia-greener-future/
Tax incentives offered for expansion of Qualified Investment Projects
In accordance with a recently released legal update from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), new procedures have been defined to provide income tax incentives to companies involved in expanding their Qualified Investment Projects (QIPs) in the Kingdom. ...
James Whitehead
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501501730/tax-incentives-offered-for-expansion-of-qualified-investment-projects/
Cambodian-American naval officer pleads guilty
Nearly four decades after fleeing Cambodia as a child, a tearful Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz returned to his home country in december 2010 on the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer he commanded; his fall from grace has been equally dramatic. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-american-naval-officer-pleads-guilty-106934/
Environmental NGO Mother Nature dissolved
The Interior Ministry on Friday announced it had stricken critical environmental NGO Mother Nature from its registry, effective immediately, with the group saying it had requested the move and would continue to investigate sand dredging and export violations in the country’s southwest despite the de-registration. ...
Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environmental-ngo-mother-nature-dissolved
Better Recovery for Construction and Real Estate Sector
2012 has been an impressive year for Cambodia’s economic resilience. Among the many sectors that had positively grown are the construction and property development [sic] and they are expected to be among the highest growth achievers in the current year as well. In 2012, the ...
Labor leader wants unionists’ charges dropped
A prosecutor at the Kompong Speu Provincial Court said on Wednesday that charges would stand against five union officials who were released on bail last month after they were arrested during a brawl with a rival association, despite calls by a prominent labor leader to ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/labor-leader-wants-unionists-charges-dropped-108658/
1,000 containers with raw material offer relief to Kingdom’s factories
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday announced the arrival of 12 ships containing more than 1,000 containers of raw materials from China at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port to supply struggling garment factories in the Kingdom. ...
Koh Kong authorities say offer in land dispute is fair
Koh Kong Provincial Administration officials have said that an ongoing land dispute in Botum Sakor district is nearing an end, with 70 of 131 families accepting the government’s offer for a resolution which it deems fair. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50866528/koh-kong-authorities-say-offer-in-land-dispute-is-fair/
Techo Sen Institute offers digital scholarships
The Techo Sen Institute (TSI) – run by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport – and the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT) under the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications have announced plans to offer a number of scholarships to high school graduates. ...
Hong Raksmey
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/techo-sen-institute-offers-digital-scholarships
Ministry offers free vocational training for 67,000 nationwide
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training announced free vocational training for 67,000 people from across the country in keeping with the demands of the labour market. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501403686/ministry-offers-free-vocational-training-for-67000-nationwide/
Groups tell ILO to retract ‘right to strike’ claim
An employers and businesses federation that took out paid newspaper advertisements claiming Cambodia’s workers have no fundamental right to strike has hit back at the International Labour Organization (ILO), asking it to retract comments it made in response to the ads. Last week, the Cambodian Federation ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/groups-tell-ilo-retract-%E2%80%98right-strike%E2%80%99-claim