Cambodia to fill gap in aviation training
An aviation training centre was being planned that would allow the Kingdom to meet the demands of its surging tourism market, a State Secretariat of Civil Aviation official said yesterday. About 1.5 million visitors arrived in Cambodia by air in 2011, a 16 per cent jump ...
NEC trains staff as election nears
The National Election Committee (NEC) held an April 10 training session on the registration of political parties and candidates for the 7th parliamentary election, with 129 representatives of state institutions, political parties and NGOs in attendance. ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-trains-staff-election-nears
Positive early results for ‘back to school’ push
Some 14,000 school drop-outs have returned to class under a $19 million scheme launched last year by a coalition of education groups, the organisations said yesterday.Out-of-school kids include children from poor and remote communities, ethnic minorities, kids over-age for their grade level, street children and ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/positive-early-results-back-school-push
Prosecutor’s account of questioning varies
Svay Rieng provincial prosecutor Hing Bunchea has refused to clarify what triple shooting suspect and deposed Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith said to him after contradictory statements from him were printed in different news publications last week. On Thursday, Hing Bunchea told the Post that Chhouk ...
Cassava in focus of Green Leader, UN deal
Hong Kong-based Green Leader Holding Group and the United Nations Development Progamme (UNDP) signed a cost-sharing agreement on Thursday to implement an $800,000 project on accelerating the cassava market. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cassava-focus-green-leader-un-deal
Dengue fever infection high but ‘controllable’, with peak season still to come
The number of dengue fever cases recorded so far this year in Cambodia continues to outpace the number of infections seen in the same period last year, with the peak season for the mosquito-borne virus still to come. ...
Quinn Libson
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-fever-infection-high-controllable-peak-season-still-come
Parents urged to be cautious over dengue
The Health Ministry has urged parents who suspect their children to be suffering from dengue infections, to immediately send them to state-run hospitals for treatment. The call follows the death of 13 children due to dengue fever over the last eight months. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parents-urged-be-cautious-over-dengue
Business alliance eyes cross-border e-commerce along Mekong River
Companies and organizations from six countries along the Mekong River have established a business alliance, with a view to build a platform for cross-border e-commerce. ...
China Daily Team
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-06/12/content_25681597.htm
Evalliance & GMAC sign MoU to support Cambodian garments
The French textile and garment association (Evalliance) has entered into an agreement with the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) to promote the Cambodian textile and garment industry. ...
Fibre2fashion News Staff
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/apparel-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=168702
CARD, UN on nutrition drive
The Council for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), in collaboration with the UN World Food Programme (WFP), have launched a dissemination strategy for the SUN Business Network (SBN) – a key part of the global Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement – in a bid to ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/card-un-nutrition-drive
Youth group campaigns for refusal of plastics use
The Youth Resource Development Program (YRDP) launched a 4Rs campaign – Refuse, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle – with the slogan “refusal to use plastics starts with you” to urge youths and others to reduce their plastic use, which they believe is harmful to the health ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youth-group-campaigns-refusal-plastics-use
Cambodia needs $9.22 billion for next three-year public investment program
The Cambodian government on Friday approved the next three-year public investment program (2023-2025), which would require a total capital of $9.22 billion to implement 663 projects, government spokesperson Phay Siphan said. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501176756/cambodia-needs-9-22-for-next-three-year-public-investment-program/
Govt continues to assist poor families amid rising living costs
The Phnom Penh Department of Social Affairs confirmed there are 21,148 families in Phnom Penh who are in need of financial support due to rising costs and they will be interviewed to receive a subsidy from the government. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501321905/govt-continues-to-assist-poor-families-amid-rising-living-costs/
SOSORO Museum, ABC sign MoU to promote financial education
In a move to improve financial education in Cambodia, the Preah Srey Içanavarman Museum of Economy and Money (SOSORO) and the Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) on Wednesday said that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaboration. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501459548/sosoro-museum-abc-sign-mou-to-promote-financial-education/
Training program boosts electronics skills
A three-year vocational training project aimed at creating employment opportunities in the electronics industry while eliminating electronics waste, or e-waste, wrapped up yesterday, with its organisers calling for more funding in order to continue its training component. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/training-program-boosts-electronics-skills
Japan outlines plan to increase river cargo
A Japanese expert has urged Cambodia to invest in improving transport on the Mekong River to boost the movement of cargo around the country. Kume Hidetoshi from the Japanese International Cooperation Center made the call during a presentation at the Japanese embassy yesterday. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37233/japan-outlines-plan--to-increase-river-cargo/
‘Historic’ deal for workers
Labour-rights groups are lauding a “historic” deal that will result in about $200,000 in wages and benefits being paid to workers who were stranded when the Kingsland Garment factory in Phnom Penh closed unannounced in December. In a meeting on Friday that took place as more ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030461726/National/historic-deal-for-workers.html
Teachers call for school budgets
The Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (CITA) demanded in a letter sent on Monday to the Ministry of Education that all Cambodian secondary schools be paid their full yearly program budget after complaints were lodged by some teachers that the funds had not yet been received. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-call-school-budgets
Skills key to gender goals
A Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Framework action plan presented yesterday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) seeks to address Panha’s and other women’s lagging economic opportunities in Cambodia. The plan will help Cambodia achieve targeted Millenium Development Goals by 2015. Though no date of ...
Phnom Penh seeks to create new center for homeless, beggars
Phnom Penh’s department of social affairs has asked City Hall to use a building in Pur Senchey district as a new, citywide detention facility for homeless people and beggars, including children, officials said Tuesday. The center would temporarily house all beggars and homeless people in an ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-seeks-to-create-new-center-for-homeless-beggars-56142/