Vietnam, Cambodia both violating border
After four months of study, Sok Touch, the head of a research group from the Royal Academy, announced yesterday that both Cambodia and Vietnam are in violation of each other’s borderlines, but was hesitant to release his team’s exact findings to protect the government from ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21053/---vietnam--cambodia-both-violating-border---/
Smart axiata funds degrees for students
Ten students will have the opportunity to further their studies for free thanks to Smart Axiata’s SmartEdu Scholarship Program, which not only covers their entire tertiary education tuition, but has also awarded them a monthly stipend amounting to $15,000 for the duration of their degree. ...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31378/smart-axiata-funds-degrees-for-students/
Bid to invest in silkworm farms taking shape
Six month after announcing its intentions to invest in local silk production, a Japanese beauty company, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, has released a new study on silkworms and their potential for the cosmetics industry, paving the way for more concrete action to ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5085780/bid-invest-silkworm-farms-taking-shape/
Sihanoukville highway due by 2023
The Preah Sihanouk provincial administration said a highway from Phnom Penh to Preah Sihanouk province will commence construction by next year. The decision was made after a study of the 190-kilometre highway was recently completed, setting in motion a $1.7 billion infrastructure project with a Chinese ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114710/sihanoukville-highway-due-by-2023/
Start of school year delayed
Tardiness is usually discouraged within school settings, but this year, the Education Ministry is endorsing a month-long delay for the whole academic year. Public schools, which typically start in the beginning of October, will this year commence classes on November 3, with studies continuing until the ...
Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/start-school-year-delayed
New minister cleans up Cambodia’s education system
Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. Students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ...
Robert Carmichael
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-education-system-cleanup/2599977.html
New minister cleans up Cambodia’s education system
Cambodia’s Grade 12 students took their final test in August 2014. Only 26% of them passed. The new Minister of Education had ordered extra security around the testing places. Students taking the test in 2015 know they will have to study hard in order to ...
Robert Carmichael
http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/cambodia-education-system-cleanup/2599977.html
Digital payments rapidly gaining ground in Cambodia
In its Consumer Payment Attitudes 2021 study, Visa highlights a rapidly changing payment landscape in Cambodia, with cash losing ground to digital alternatives, said Visa in a news release issued on June 29. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501104918/digital-payments-rapidly-gaining-ground-in-cambodia/
Campaign promotes free textbooks for students
Two NGOs on Monday launched an online campaign to galvanize public support for providing students with free textbooks after a survey found that 85 percent of high-school pupils lack the necessary books for their studies. The Khmer Institute for National Development (KIND) and the Affiliated Network ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/campaign-promotes-free-textbooks-for-students-67146/
Archeological dig starts at Angkor Thom
An archaeological dig at the ancient capital of Angkor Thom started on Monday in search of metal tools from the Kingdom’s Angkorian era. The École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), a French institute dedicated to the study of Asian societies, started the dig in cooperation with the ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27210/archeological-dig-starts-at-angkor-thom/
Erratic weather portends future farming woes
Record low temperatures and unseasonable rainfall over the past week were a glimpse into the potential, intensifying effects of climate change in Cambodia, experts said, a phenomenon that studies suggest could seriously hinder future agricultural productivity through flooding, unpredictable rains and warming of up to ...
Laurence Stevens
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/erratic-weather-portends-future-farming-woes-128065/
City to have mass transit system in place by 2023
Cambodia will have an automated gateway transit system (AGT) ahead of 2023 – when the country is due to host the Southeast Asian Games – with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on track to complete the feasibility study by May next year, according to ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090885/city-mass-transit-system-place-2023/
Ancient statue 50 percent repaired
Repairs on an ancient sandstone statue discovered in Siem Reap province in July are 50 percent complete, according to a report. The Angkor-era statue was found at the Tonle Sgnout temple by a group of Apsara Authority archaeologists working with colleagues from the Singapore-based Institute ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50100580/ancient-statue-50-percent-repaired/
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/
Ministry boosts literacy rate via online classes
The Education Ministry established 917 online and traditional study platforms so far this year to promote literacy in the Kingdom. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50932022/ministry-boosts-literacy-rate-via-online-classes-2/
ADB and EDC Sign Mandate to Further Cambodia’s Renewable Energy Goals
ADB to support development of 2GW of solar power and study opportunities for increased solar power battery capacity. ...
Sangeetha Amarthalingam
https://kiripost.com/stories/adb-and-edc-sign-mandate-to-further-cambodias-renewable-energy-goals
Experts conduct water quality check of Tonle Sap
The Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute with the staff of the Wonders of the Mekong, is conducting a water quality study in the Tonle Sap. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501237003/experts-conductwater-quality-checkof-tonle-sap/
Pension scheme possibly rolled out to informal sector by 2025
Cambodia is studying the feasibility of expanding its pension scheme to the informal sector in 2025 to improve people’s well-being. ...
Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/pension-scheme-possibly-rolled-out-to-informal-sector-by-2025
Students to learn financial literacy
Cambodian students from grade 1 to 12 will begin studying basic financial skills starting in the 2019 academic year as the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) is now finalising the curriculum. NBC director-general Chea Serey said Thursday that the new curriculum would help boost the ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/students-learn-financial-literacy
Livelihoods ‘key’ in HIV fight
The research branch of the NGO Khana has argued in a new peer-reviewed study that livelihood programs for people living with HIV – which address recipients’ economic rather than medical needs – could be the key to significant improvements in quality of life for the ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/livelihoods-key-hiv-fight