IT Centre at Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University set up under Quick Impact Projects (QIP) Scheme of Government of India
Samdech Preah Abhisiri Sugandha MahasangharajahDhipati Kitti Uddessa Pandita BOUR Kry, the Supreme Patriarch of Dhammayuttikanikaya of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Rector of the Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University (PSBU), Royal Government of Cambodia and Dr. Devyani Khobragade, Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Cambodia have ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501420103/it-centre-at-preah-sihamoniraja-buddhist-university-set-up-under-quick-impact-projects-qip-scheme-of-government-of-india/
Press release on the results of the first session and the first session of the 7th legislature of the National Assembly on 21 August 2023
On 21 August 2023, the General Secretariat of the National Assembly issued a press release on the results of the first session and the session of the National Assembly for the 7th legislature under the highest presidency of His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni, King of ...
General Secretariat of the National Assembly
RCAF officers jailed over university scam
Two officers with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces were sentenced to one year each in prison for accepting bribes to secure positions for three men in the government’s National Defence University (NDU) in 2013. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-officers-jailed-over-university-scam
CNRP lawmaker says use of larger maps unconstitutional
Opposition CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An on Tuesday criticized Prime Minister Hun Sen’s admission last week that the CPP government has not been using the maps that are mandated by the Constitution for its demarcation of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-says-use-of-larger-maps-unconstitutional-94341/
Ministry asks Japan to help map out forests
The Ministry of Environment is asking Japan for help mapping Cambodia’s forests using satellite imagery, one week after it vehemently refuted a report of such imagery showing accelerating forest loss in the Kingdom. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-asks-japan-help-map-out-forests
RCAF begins first recruitment drive since onset of pandemic
The Ministry of National Defence will be distributing applications to prospective students from February 1-15 as it looks to recruit a new generation of military trainees to meet the needs of various units of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). ...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-begins-first-recruitment-drive-onset-pandemic
Med students won’t boycott test
Medical students who vowed on Sunday to boycott the first government-ordered national exams under claims of discrimination backtracked on their threats yesterday. Da Nhel, 27, a representative of the student doctors, said that just hours after threatening to boycott the exams, which were approved by the ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/med-students-won%E2%80%99t-boycott-test
Thailand drops quotas on flights to Cambodia
Thailand has dropped its seat quota on commercial flights to Cambodia after its government approved the removal of the restrictions in accordance with an aviation agreement between the two countries signed in May. The approval comes months after Cambodia did the same, liberalising air travel ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thailand-drops-quotas-flights-cambodia
Press release: USAID launches online tools to connect citizens to municipal services in Banteay Meanchey province
On 31 March 2021, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) issued a press release introducing the online tool “Pidor, the Smart Villagers” an Interactive Voice Response, Facebook-based chatbot that can provide Cambodian citizens information on public services in Banteay Meanchey province. The tool ...
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Bank loan portfolios set to be at least 10% in local currency
Cambodian commercial banks are showing a stronger preference to provide riel loans to microfinance institutions (MFI) as they rush to increase the share of local currency in their loan portfolio to at least 10 per cent by the end of next year. ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bank-loan-portfolios-set-be-least-10-local-currency
Education Ministry Gets Donation of IT Supplies
The European Union, Unicef and the Embassy of Sweden on Friday donated information technology (IT) supplies worth about $500,000 to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to enhance communication and administrative work, officials said. A total of 96 district education offices, 24 provincial education offices ...
Sek Odom and Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/education-ministry-gets-donation-of-it-supplies-48231/
50,000 hectares in two sanctuaries registered as state land
The Environment Ministry has registered more than 50,000 hectares of protected area of the Peam Krasop and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries as state land in a bid to eliminate land disputes in conservation areas. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50714774/50000-hectares-in-two-sanctuaries-registered-as-state-land/
US Senator holds talks on ‘strengthening cooperation’
Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen and delegates held talks in Phnom Penh with Minister of Foreign Affairs Prak Sokhon on Wednesday aimed at strengthening cooperation between Cambodia and the United States. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-senator-holds-talks-strengthening-cooperation
Women’s center aims for sustainability
One year strong and more than 900 jobs later, the US State Department-supported start-up center WECREATE, which invests in the economic empowerment of women, is beginning its expansion throughout the Lower Mekong Region. ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30972/women---s-center-aims-for-sustainability/
Agreement to Launch Digital School System “Wiki School” Signed
The National Institute of Education (NIE) and POSCAR Digital Co., Ltd. have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch a digital school system, so-called Wiki School. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50927854/agreement-to-launch-digital-school-system-wiki-school-signed/
Gov't Reports $25M From Rents in Six Months
The government earned just over $25 million in rental fees from state land leased to private companies in the first six months of the year, according to new figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. While the data shows that earning have risen, critics say ...
Cambodia at ‘high’ risk of Zika outbreak in 2017
Amid reports of the emergence of the Zika virus in Myanmar and the discovery of the first birth defect believed linked to the virus in Vietnam, two researchers with Phnom Penh’s Pasteur Institute have concluded that Cambodia is at high risk of its own Zika ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-high-risk-zika-outbreak-2017
Minister urges ties with Asian nations
Cambodia must further integrate with its East Asian neighbours for future economic development, said Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon. The financial crisis highlighted the need to diversify production, and Asia’s markets are ripe for increased Cambodian exports, he said. Speaking at the 7th ...
The signing of the development objective agreement grants between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Government of the United States of America
On 25 April 2022, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on the signing of the development objective agreement grants between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Government of the United States of America. The Royal Government of Cambodia, through ...
Council for the Development of Cambodia
Coal outgrows hydropower
As Cambodia’s demand for electricity grows and domestic energy production increases, new data released from the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday show that coal-fired energy generation surpassed hydroelectricity for the first time last year. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/coal-outgrows-hydropower