A failure to communicate
At the beginning of the school year, Mony Vutha was handed a new, mandatory addition to the grade four curriculum that neither he nor any of his colleagues were trained to teach: English. Vutha’s two years of English lessons more than a decade ago made him ...
Laignee Barron and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/failure-communicate
Printer cops $12k bill for bootlegged books
The owner of a printing house accused of infringing on the copyright of an author who contracted him was slapped with $12,500 in fines and damages by Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/printer-cops-12k-bill-bootlegged-books
New business registrations in Cambodia rise 55 pct in 5 months
Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce said Friday that it has granted operating licenses to 1,676 new firms in the first five months of 2014, up 55 percent as compared with the 1,084 companies for the same period last year. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-06/20/c_133424091.htm
Tea Banh's visit to Thailand considered significant for bilateral ties
Lt Gen Hun Manet, son of Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen, is among the entourage of Cambodia’s deputy premier and defence minister Gen Tea Banh who arrived in Thailand Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NTBiOWYzMDI1MDE
Police officer among 3 accused of cheating
The Anti-Corruption Unit has announced that three people, including a police officer, who were arrested last week in Svay Rieng province after posing as students taking the grade 12 national exam, have been charged with using false identities. In a statement released on Monday, the ACU ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-officer-among-3-accused-cheating
Nearly 200 migrant workers duped out of $260
A group of 50 migrant workers on Wednesday protested outside a branch of a recruitment agency in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district that they say duped them out of $260 they paid for a guarantee of employment in Thailand. ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nearly-200-migrant-workers-duped-out-of-260-67236/
Cambodian, Thai senior officials meet to strengthen ties
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen. Tea Banh on Monday met with new Thai Foreign Minister Gen. Tanasak Patimapragorn to discuss ways to tighten bilateral relations and cooperation. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-09/01/c_133611844.htm
Gov’t bans alcohol ads to reduce traffic deaths
Television and radio stations will be barred from broadcasting advertisements for alcohol during the primetime 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. slot beginning next month, as part of the government’s effort to reduce the number of fatalities resulting from drunk driving, officials at the Ministry of ...
DPM HOR Namhong's statement at the 69th session of UNGA
Deputy Priminister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia, Hor Namhong gave a statement at the UNGA, 29 September 2014 in New York city. ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Dam villagers demand titles
Fearing loss of land, about 150 farmers in Svay Rieng province yesterday marched to the provincial hall, filing a petition that demands land titles on their property. Many villagers in Svay Chrum district’s Chhoeuteal commune lost parts of their property in 2011, when a dam was ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-villagers-demand-titles
Ministry facing teacher shortage
Less than a week away from the start of the new school year, the government is short on teachers. Every year, the government struggles to recruit enough instructors to keep pace with enrollment rates and replace those who have retired, left teaching or passed away. The ...
Laignee Barron and Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-facing-teacher-shortage
Coastal concerns: Teamwork pledged on climate issue
Eight coastal provinces across Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam signed a declaration last week, announcing their intention to work more closely together to better adapt residents of the low-lying communities to the effects of climate change. ...
Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/coastal-concerns-teamwork-pledged-climate-issue
Mining official denies graft
Officials from the Ministry Of Mines and Energy checked on a quarry in Kampot province for the second time yesterday amid allegations it is operating illegally thanks to local corruption. The quarry, which is owned by husband and wife Hok Chhenda and Tep Sokha, was ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mining-official-denies-graft
Cambodia comes top of 2015 holiday hotspots list
SIEM Reap in Cambodia, Fort Lauderdale in Florida and the Greek island of Mykonos will be the world’s top holiday hotspots of 2015, according to a report. Siem Reap in the north-west of Cambodia tops the list with a 33 per cent increase in searches ...
Angus Howarth
http://www.scotsman.com/news/world/cambodia-comes-top-of-2015-holiday-hotspots-list-1-3613039
Ebola risk relatively low: govt
The risk of Ebola coming into Cambodia remains low despite a recent Ebola scare in Thailand, officials from the Ministry of Health’s Communicable Diseases Control said at a conference yesterday, while still noting that the Kingdom remains vulnerable to other, lesser-known diseases. CDC head Ly ...
Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ebola-risk-relatively-low-govt
Sokha warned ‘Be careful’ on corruption claims: gov’t
A government spokesman yesterday accused opposition deputy leader Kem Sokha of not doing his job properly after the politician claimed the government was bleeding more than $400 million in possible revenue per year due to corruption. ...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/sokha-warned-%E2%80%98be-careful%E2%80%99-corruption-claims-gov%E2%80%99t
Cambodian villagers want to kill medical practitioner who allegedly spread HIV with infected needles
Cambodian authorities have put into protective custody an unlicensed health worker who villagers are threatening to kill, believing he used contaminated needles that spread HIV to more than 100 people. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen called for calm on Thursday in Roka, a remote village in western ...
No cheating in exam finals marks sea change for Cambodia
Cambodia’s final exam results for 2014 were disastrous, with more than half of the 90,000 students failing. The reason? The authorities stamped out cheating – the first of a series of reforms designed to fix the impoverished country’s broken education sector. The new policy is ...
Big News Network News Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/229087639
Implementation of new salary taxation
The Ministry of Economy and Finance informs the public and concerned individuals of the new tax rates on salary in compliance with the new article 47 of the Law on Taxation, which has been carried out from January 2015 onwards. ...
General Department of Taxation
Salary cut off for absenteeism
One month after the government announced a systemic crackdown on ghost workers, the Ministry of Education suspended a Sihanoukville administrator for alleged absenteeism, according to a copy of the disciplinary letter. Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron said the suspension was decided on following complaints ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/salary-cut-absenteeism