AFD to support Cambodia’s digitalisation drive.
French Development Agency (AFD) recently affirmed its commitment to support Cambodia’s digitalisation efforts in tune with the government’s Digital Economy and Society Policy Framework 2021-2035. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501304267/afd-to-support-cambodias-digitalisation-drive/
Optimism high for law on access to information
Though Cambodia’s access to information law has been in the works for over a decade, participants at a seminar on the law yesterday said that they’re optimistic that the time is finally right for it to actually come to fruition. ...
Bun Sengkong and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/optimism-high-law-access-information
Mobile firms told to spread message: MFIs not state-run
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday pulled the country’s mobile operators into his aggressive campaign to clear up any confusion about the relationship between the government and microfinance institutions (MFIs), ordering them to send audio and text messages telling subscribers that MFIs were private entities. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mobile-firms-told-to-spread-message-mfis-not-state-run-125665/
Microloans work for some, leave many in debt
Nearly everyone living in Pann Sopheatra’s village, just across the Mekong River from Phnom Penh, has either taken out a microfinance loan or knows someone who has. ...
Matt Surrusco and Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/microloans-work-for-some-leave-many-in-debt-126762/
PRASAC takes $2m loan from Dutch firm
PRASAC Microfinance Institution, Cambodia’s biggest MFI by outstanding loans, has received a US$2 million loan from the Netherlands Development Finance Company ...
Private educational institutions get tax exemptions for another five years
Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided not to collect taxes from private educational institutions for another five years, from 2024 to 2028. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501230920/private-educational-institutions-get-tax-exemptions-for-another-five-years/
ICT sector progress in countryside still behind
While Cambodia’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector has seen progress, a huge gap between ICT development in urban and rural areas still exists, industry experts said in Phnom Penh yesterday. ...
Shenzhen Institute of Planning to undertake Sihanoukville masterplan
The Shenzhen Urban Planning and Design Institute has been commissioned to undertake a masterplan to transform Sihanoukville into a modern sprawling metropolis, using the Shenzhen experience as its secret recipe. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/660033/shenzhen-institute-of-planning-to-undertake-sihanoukville-masterplan/
Cambodia, IRRI discuss strengthening of agriculture cooperation
Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have exchanged views on promotion of bilateral cooperation, especially in the fields of rice and agrifood systems. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501230674/cambodia-irri-discuss-strengthening-of-agriculture-cooperation/
MoEYS cooperates with KOICA in improvement of ICT capacity for teachers in Kandal
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) cooperated with Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to increase ICT capacity for lower secondary education teachers in Kandal. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501241152/moeys-cooperates-with-koica-in-improvement-of-ict-capacity-for-teachers-in-kandal/
Maritime school official questions abuse claims by seamen
Two days after four men were repatriated to Cambodia following their escape from a cargo ship docked in the Philippines, an official at the maritime school where the group studied questioned the veracity of the reports of mistreatment. ...
Ouch Sony and Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/maritime-school-official-questions-abuse-claims-by-seamen-93165/
Mekong Dams a Long-Term Risk to Food Security
The momentum toward large-scale dams on the Mekong River may be unstoppable, but governments must work fast to mitigate their effects on fisheries and biodiversity or risk long-term food insecurity for millions of people whose lives depend on the river and its tributaries, leading academics ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-dams-a-long-term%E2%80%88risk-to-food-security-48415/
Light railway raised yet again at JICA meet
Plans for a light railway system in Phnom Penh were discussed at a meeting between Public Works and Transportation Minister Sun Chanthol and Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) regional director-general Yasushi Tanaka on Friday. ...
Jack Davies and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/light-railway-raised-yet-again-jica-meet
KR Banking Chief Says Institution Was Sham
On his first day of questioning at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, Sar Kim Lomouth, the deputy director of the State Bank of Democratic Kampuchea, described how the national financial institution was nothing but a charade during the Pol Pot regime. Currency had been abolished and financial transactions eliminated under ...
Testing the winds in Cambodia’s energy sector
A new study on wind energy and its potential to diversify Cambodia’s energy sector is now being conducted, with results expected for mid next year, according to a representative of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5093692/testing-winds-cambodias-energy-sector/
Eyes in the sky put illegal logging in focus
Cambodia’s illegal loggers will soon have a potentially powerful new foe: a pair of NASA satellites with a keen interest in what they’re up to. Researchers at the University of Maryland in the U.S. say an innovative new system that picks up signs of forest loss ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eyes-sky-put-illegal-logging-focus-121259/
July set for minimum wage talks
A series of talks will be held next month to discuss the future of minimum wages in the footwear and garment industries, with their findings to be announced and enforced early next year, according to Ministry of Labor officials. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25734/july-set-for-minimum-wage-talks/
PPSEZ’s rethink after sharp profit fall
Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) ‒ a listed company on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) ‒ reveled on Friday that by 2020, 50 percent of the company’s revenue would be generated by sales of services. This new target was made after PPSEZ informed the ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29024/ppsez---s-rethink-after-sharp-profit-fall/
Mfone Workers Demand $4.4M Compensation
About 200 former employees of bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone yesterday protested outside the company’s shuttered offices, asking for the help of Prime Minister Hun Sen in the fight to get more than $4 million in compensation from the company. Mfone declared itself insolvent in ...