Professionalism best mechanism to protect journalists, expert says
Journalists need to be more professional in their reporting, which is the best way to protect themselves, a media educator says. “Like any other profession, journalism can be risky, but if journalists follow their professional codes of conduct and ethics and work with responsibility, there should ...
Medical students protest price of final-year certification exam
About 50 students from the state-run University of Health Sciences protested outside the school Thursday to demand a decrease in the $125 fee they must pay to take their exit examination, which certifies them as medical doctors. The Health Ministry began making medical students sit the ...
Cambodian province plans campaign for monks to care for mentally ill
Government authorities in a southwest Cambodian province are planning a coordinated campaign to round up residents suffering from mental illness and take them to Buddhist temples where they will be cared for by monks, a provincial official said. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1HOU4QU
MoU signing ceremony between ODC and Svay Rieng University
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On 09 December 2021, Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with Svay Rieng University (SRU), organized a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony to provide financial support to final-year Bachelor’s degree students. In collaboration with the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Ministry of Education, ...
PM launches Cambodia Cyber University Network
Prime Minister Hun Manet inaugurated the Cambodia Cyber University Network (CCUN) yesterday to train digital technology at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501512273/pm-launches-cambodia-cyber-university-network/
Three universities agree to found new research centre
The Royal University of Phnom Penh, the Royal University of Fine Arts, and the National Institute of Education inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday, agreeing to establish a joint higher education social sciences and humanities research institute. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-universities-agree-found-new-research-centre
Cambodian School Educates New Generation of Social Workers
Cambodia has some 3,000 registered non-profit groups. Some work on highly sensitive issues such as violence against women and human trafficking. But there are few Cambodians formally trained for such work. That is now changing with the country’s first university-level degree program for social workers. When ...
Potato trials identify growth areas
Researchers at the Potato Research Centre at the Royal University of Agriculture announced yesterday that five provinces and the capital itself will become Cambodia’s hub for potato growing after successful tests of verities were recently finished. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50269548/potato-trials-identify-growth-areas/
Silk centre calls on private sector to take sericulture to the next level
Following a very successful year for the Kingdom’s sericulture sector in which its foundations have been cemented, the silk centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh is ready for expansion. ...
Report: 28.1% of Cambodians take out loans for healthcare
A new report has found that 28.1 per cent of Cambodians borrow money to pay for healthcare, with microfinance insiders claiming it does not reflect the reality in the financial sector. The University of New South Wales (UNSW) surveyed 5,000 households across Cambodia and found ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/report-281-cambodians-take-out-loans-healthcare
Students protest arrests in Kampot land dispute
About 400 students and a few villagers protested in Phnom Penh on Sunday to demand the release of two men arrested last week after a protest over a land dispute in Kampot province, with authorities claiming that the demonstration was organized by a politician who ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-protest-arrests-in-kampot-land-dispute-94098/
Alcohol a risk for sex workers, study finds
Both Cambodian women engaging in sex work and their male clients engage in unhealthy alcohol use, according to the findings of a soon-to-be-published study. ...
Jack Davies and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alcohol-risk-sex-workers-study-finds
On Israeli farms, Cambodians study and sweat
For the past 11 months, Seng Nhel lived on a kibbutz in Israel, studying horticulture and working 45 hours a week on a farm growing fruits and vegetables for agro-industry giant Mehadrin. ...
Peter Ford and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-israeli-farms-cambodians-study-and-sweat-94321/
Potatoes to take root
Cambodia’s eastern Mondulkiri province will become the country’s first hub for potato growing after a successful pilot project, researchers say. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36153/potatoes-to-take-root/
Announcement on the 2018 YSEALI regional workshop: protecting the Mekong delta environment
The U.S. Mission to Vietnam and the Resource Center for Community Development (RCCD), An Giang University seek candidates for the 2018 YSEALI Regional Workshop: Protecting The Mekong Delta Environment which will be being held from June 4-9, 2018.ASEAN citizens between the ages of 18 and ...
US Embassy
Few leopards in Cambodia: report
A new study has revealed that the last breeding population of leopards in Cambodia is at immediate risk of extinction after declining a staggering 72 percent over a five-year period. The population represents the last remaining leopards in all of eastern Indochina – a region that ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112025/leopards-cambodia-report/
Climate courses to be on offer
Cambodia is launching its first university-level climate change curriculum, according to USAID, which is supporting the pilot program. ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/climate-courses-be-offer
New maps show heavy deforestation in 2013
Newly released maps using U.S. satellite data show that Cambodia continued to suffer major deforestation in 2013, much of it in nominally protected forests and wildlife sanctuaries. In November 2013, the University of Maryland released what it said was the first study to combine a consistent ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-maps-show-heavy-deforestation-in-2013-76239/
Cambodian officials rescue family accused of sorcery in northeastern province
Officials in a northeast Cambodian province on Wednesday rescued a family accused of being sorcerers by villagers who sought to take revenge on the father they blamed killing 10 people, local authorities said. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KbT48L
Fine arts university slated for relocation
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has decided to relocate the Royal University of Fine Arts from its central Phnom Penh location to the outskirts of the city to allow for an expansion of the National Museum, officials said Thursday. ...
Khuon Narim and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fine-arts-university-slated-for-relocation-84567/