FAO kicks off capacity building aimed at a strengthened agricultural data landscape in Cambodia
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has kicked off a weeklong provincial level training workshop aimed at strengthening national capacity on analysis and interpretation of agricultural statistics and data. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501344402/fao-kicks-off-capacity-building-aimed-at-a-strengthened-agricultural-data-landscape-in-cambodia/
China-Cambodia “Peace Angel-2023” joint humanitarian exercise kicks off in Phnom Penh
The China-Cambodia joint humanitarian exercise code-named “Peace Angel-2023” kicked off on Saturday morning with an opening ceremony held here in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501361363/china-cambodia-peace-angel-2023-joint-humanitarian-exercise-kicks-off-in-phnom-penh/
Second restoration phase of ancient hall at Reach Bo Pagoda kicks off
The Reach Bo pagoda’s ancient hall has received the second restoration phase under technical assistance and financial support from the APSARA National Authority. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501116178/second-restoration-phase-of-ancient-hall-at-reach-bo-pagoda-kicks-off/
Smuggled rosewood seized from soldiers
Forestry Administration officials yesterday said they confiscated 1.34 cubic meters of smuggled rosewood from RCAF soldiers even after a lieutenant colonel held a pistol to one of their heads in the hope of scaring them off. Tea Kimsoth, head of the administration’s Siem Reap cantonment, said ...
Unions and civil society rally for voting leave
Several more trade unions and civil society organisations have added their voice to calls for factory workers to be given three days off to vote. A letter signed by ten groups yesterday urged the Labour Ministry to intervene and order employers to give staff the day ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38999/unions-and-civil-society-rally-for-voting-leave/
Barriers block streets, customers
Security barricades and razor-wire installations set up around Phnom Penh yesterday were supposed to maintain order as the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party kicked off what it promised to be three days of mass protests. But the show of force and control had more of an ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/barriers-block-streets-customers
Kingdom's commune elections kick off
As people across the country took to polling stations to vote their local leaders in the 5th mandate commune council elections on the morning of June 5, Prime Minister Hun Sen and his wife Bun Rany also cast their ballots amid a throng of voters ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdoms-commune-elections-kick
US signs over $65m in aid, but no sign of donor meeting
The government and the US Embassy yesterday signed off on half the nearly $65 million the US is giving Cambodia in aid this year, more than two months after Cambodia cancelled a major meeting with its foreign donors that was scheduled for November. Held roughly every ...
Rights group sues ELC staff
Three rights monitors filed an attempted murder lawsuit against a Mondulkiri land concessionaire employee on Wednesday, after he violently denied them access to an area under investigation for forest crimes, Adhoc said yesterday. The stand-off comes on the heels of a second potentially violent confrontation ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rights-group-sues-elc-staff
Ministry says it is making efforts to stop abuse
The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday defended the Cambodian Embassy and consulates in China, which have been accused of ignoring female citizens in peril there, and said it has made efforts to cut off the flow off women being sold into brothels or forced marriages. In ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-it-is-making-efforts-to-stop-abuse-65563/
Ministry of Labour informed the employers to allow the workers and employees to have 3 days off joining the election of members of the national assembly in the 6th legislature
On 13 June 2018, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training released an announcement referencing to letter No.961 N.E.C singed on 12 June 2018 by the National Election Committee (NEC) to inform all owners, and employers of factory, manufacturing and all institutions to facilitate the ...
Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training
Coronavirus likely to result in lay-offs as China factories close
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has warned that some garment factories in Cambodia may be forced to shut down temporarily or lay off workers next month due to a shortage of raw materials. As the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) continues to spread across ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/coronavirus-likely-result-lay-offs-china-factories-close
Kingdom wants off ‘grey list’
Minister of Justice Koeut Rith led a meeting of an ad-hoc sub-commission to implement an action plan devised by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering. It is hoped that the plan will solve the remaining issues the Kingdom faces and result in a positive evaluation ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-wants-grey-list
Drop in dropouts: Ministry’s efforts to increase enrollments paying off
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport’s efforts to reduce the school dropout rate is paying dividends with an increase in the number of students who will be sitting for the upcoming Junior High School examinations. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/1363025/drop-in-dropouts-ministrys-efforts-to-increase-enrollments-paying-off/
‘Active, fruitful’ negotiations expected as 55th AMM officially kicks off Aug 3
The 55th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM) and Related Meetings are underway in Phnom Penh, with the official opening presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen scheduled for August 3, according to official agenda seen by The Post. ...
Detained Russian's Company Under Investigation for Fraud
The company of Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky, who is currently being detained by Cambodian authorities after a maritime incident off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province last week, is being investigated by the Russian Interior Ministry for fraud, according to a statement on the ministry’s ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/detained-russians-company-under-investigation-for-fraud-7333/
Donors Mum On Aid Forum Postponement
Cambodia’s foreign donors are staying largely mum about the government’s decision to indefinitely high-level aid meeting, though one donor conceded that the move had caught it off guard. Economists also said yesterday that a delay in holding the donor meeting would have little effect, but ...
Overwork, Exhaustion to blame for mass fainting
About 50 workers at the M&V manufacturing factory in Kampong Chhnang province fainted yesterday morning due to overwork and exhaustion in the factory’s third fainting incident this year, officials said yesterday. Noun Sam Ol, Free Trade Union representative at M&V, said that the collapse of a ...
Indonesia’s Trade and Tourism Fair to kick off in Phnom Penh this week
The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Phnom Penh will organise the 14th Indonesian Trade and Tourism Promotion (ITTP 2023) here at Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centreon Aug. 4-6, 2023. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501335612/indonesias-trade-and-tourism-fair-to-kick-off-in-phnom-penh-this-week/
Anco Bros pays out promoters
Eight former “promotion girls” for Budweiser were compensated by the Anco Brothers Company yesterday after being laid off without any severance. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anco-bros-pays-out-promoters