Promotions few in financial sector
In late 2009, two months after graduating with a degree in economics, Heng Piseth found a job as a credit officer with a microfinance institution in Kampong Thom province. The story reflects a larger trend confronting young Cambodians entering the financial sector’s job market. While ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/promotions-few-financial-sector
To stop leaks, exam papers to be given to only one teacher
Copies of grade 12 examination papers will only be provided to a single teacher for each subject this year in order to identify the source of leaks, said Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron during a speech on Saturday. Mr. Naron, speaking at the American University of ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/to-stop-leaks-exam-papers-to-be-given-to-only-one-teacher-59555/
SEUN Vichra
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Web Development and IT OfficerVichra is mainly responsible for ensuring the well-functionality of IT network systems and infrastructure, including hardware and software. Moreover, his primary responsibility is on digital security control, system upgrade, and other IT-related support. Additionally, he supports website development and maintenance.Vichra held ...
Stock Exchange Launches, Waits for Customers
The Cambodian Stock Exchange in Phnom Penh was launched by Finance Minister Keat Chhon, who has called on state-owned corporations to prepare for their initial public offerings. No companies as of yet are listed on the Cambodian Securities Exchange (CSX), though the launch was symbolic ...
Malaysia looks to improve maids' conditions
Malaysia wants to reach bilateral agreements with Cambodia and other labor-sending countries that would allow foreign maids to keep their passports, limit their work-day to eight hours and give them one day off per week, Malaysian news media reported yesterday. Malaysian Human Resources Minister Datuk Subramaniam ...
Ministry ups mental health centres
The Health Ministry has published a list of more than 400 health centres offering treatment for mental disorders and drug abuse, including their locations and contact numbers. The ministry expanded its outreach efforts to address mental health issues and drug abuse in public health facilities ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575069/ministry-ups-mental-health-centres-2/
Report slams dam payouts
Households displaced by the massive Lower Sesan II hydropower dam project in Stung Treng province are being under-compensated by as much as $80,000, according to a new study.The research, published by the Rivers Coalition of Cambodia and led by political aspirant Kem Ley, found that ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-slams-dam-payouts
Port’s IPO just months away
Cambodia’s second-largest port, Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, says it plans to have its initial public offering before the end of the year.The Post’s Sorn Sarath sat down with the port’s chairman and CEO, Hei Bavy, this week to talk about the progress of the IPO ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ports-ipo-just-months-away
Online supermarket ready to take orders
KhmerToGo.com can’t solve the capital’s traffic problem, but it can keep residents and restaurant owners from getting stuck in it.The new online supermarket is set to go fully operational next week, offering what it claims will be the country’s most comprehensive selection of wholesale and ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/online-supermarket-ready-take-orders
Sesan locals set up ‘illegal’ village
Families living in a commune flooded by the Lower Sesan II dam have set up a new village on their community forest without the permission of local authorities. Residents of Sre Ko commune were offered new homes in a different area and compensation to leave ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5090324/sesan-locals-set-illegal-village/
22 more Boeung Kak families receive land titles
Twenty-two families who were still protesting their evictions from the Boeung Kak lake area accepted offers from the city today, leaving 10 holdouts remaining more than a decade after the lake was first sold and filled in. The families, from Village 1, each accepted a ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/22-more-boeung-kak-families-receive-land-titles
Senator's 2nd Sugar Refinery to Start Up Monday
Two years after breaking ground, a sugar refinery situated on a pair of controversial plantation belonging to CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat and his wife will have its first test run on Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. He said the refinery would be ...
Tourism for fourth months of 2012
Report from tourism ministry said: in 2011, it gained 2.8 million tourist arrivals and harvested for 1.9 billion US dollars. For fourth months of 2012, we received over 1, 272,514 foreign tourists, an increase of over 27 percent if comparing the same period of last year. Tourism industry offered direct jobs of 350,000. Ministry urged to ...
Hun Manet meets Vietnamese defense minister in Hanoi
Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh says Vietnam is willing to co-operate with Cambodia in terrorism prevention through exchanges and joint drills, Nhan Dan reported Wednesday. The official organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam said the offer was made at a reception in Hanoi Tuesday ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=YjI5OWFhZGMwMTM
Land fight in Kampong Speu
Some 250 families in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district have sought intervention from rights group Adhoc to help resolve a land dispute involving a business they allege is headed by the son of former provincial governor Kang Heang. Families from three villages say Heang, who ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-fight-kampong-speu
Port eyes public listing amid profits recovery
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) could be ready to list on the Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) by mid 2015, the head of the state-owned enterprise says. Lou Kimchhunn, director-general at the port said he is awaiting evaluations of the business’s 2014 performance from an independent accounting firm ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/port-eyes-public-listing-amid-profits-recovery
Holiday clemency requested for 900 prisoners
The names of more than 900 prisoners have been put forward to receive pardons and sentence reductions during next month’s Khmer New Year festivities, officials said yesterday. The inmates were selected by the Ministry of Interior and their cases are now being assessed by the Ministry ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/holiday-clemency-requested-900-prisoners
Vietnam tops auction to supply rice to NFA
Vietnam offered Friday the lower price for the additional rice supply that the Philippines will import to increase its buffer stock for the lean season, the National Food Authority said. NFA earlier invited Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to supply an additional 250,000 metric tons of rice ...
Anna Leah E. Gonzales
http://bit.ly/1QgImol
Leading Malaysian insurer to bring “Fast & Easy” insurance to the local market
Malaysia’s leading Insurance and Takaful Company Etiqa has started operations in Cambodia, allowing the local people to experience a fast and easy way to get insured. Etiqa has entered the Kingdom upon seeing the vast potential the local market has to offer, with 97% of ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700680/leading-malaysian-insurer-to-bring-fast-easy-insurance-to-the-local-market
Rocket Internet launches e-commerce site in Cambodia
A local representative of controversial online start-up incubator Rocket Internet said the company would invest “millions” in Cambodia as it launched a new online retail store yesterday, in what market insiders call a trend toward increasing e-commerce in the Kingdom. The site, shop.com.kh is offered in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012071157333/Business/rocket-launches-e-commerce-site.html