Thnot d’Or awards to be held for agronomy and food processing
The Kinal Foundation, in collaboration with the French Agency for Development, the Ministry of Agriculture, forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport will hold the 2019 Thnot d’Or Awards for agronomy and food processing on Saturday. The second Thnot d’Or Awards ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/thnot-dor-awards-be-held-agronomy-and-food-processing
NCDM seeks more funds to buy equipment
The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) needs about $500,000 more to purchase much-needed first aid kits after receiving more than $230,000 in donations. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501178166/ncdm-seeks-more-funds-to-buy-equipment/
Round two: Thousands sign up for final re-test
More than 68,000 grade 12 students have signed up for a second and final shot at the high stakes national exam next Monday, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport reported. That’s all of the students who failed – and most who failed to show ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/round-two-thousands-sign-final-re-test
Textbooks arriving COD, NGOs claim
School textbooks paid for by the Asian Development Bank have been routed to district education offices, some of which are charging schools for books that are supposed to be free, an NGO investigation has found. The textbooks on Khmer literature, maths, geography, morality and science were ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/textbooks-arriving-cod-ngos-claim
Flood shelters in Tboung Khmum ready to go
Tboung Khmum provincial authorities have prepared safe shelters for residents in the event of a Mekong River flood this rainy season. ...
Chhun Sunly
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50906367/flood-shelters-in-tboung-khmum-ready-to-go/
Fuel retailers asked to account for price mismatch
The Ministry of Commerce has called for a meeting with fuel retailers to review prices at the pump after Prime Minister Hun Sen urged them to set prices that reflect falling global oil prices, a government official said.Ken Ratha, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/fuel-retailers-asked-account-price-mismatch
Structures by Phnom Penh canal flattened
A collection of houses and other structures belonging to nine families living alongside a canal in the capital’s Russey Keo district was destroyed yesterday by a large group of men sent by local authorities. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/structures-phnom-penh-canal-flattened
Germany provides 64 mln USD to Cambodia for development projects
The German government on Wednesday signed up to provide 64 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for two-year projects in health, rural development, governance reform, and education. According to a press release after the signing ceremony, 27 million U.S. dollars would be allocated to health, 26.5 ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131204/germany-provides-64-mln-usd-cambodia-development-projects
Mission hits back at UN criticism of Cambodia’s ‘deteriorating’ political climate
The Permanent Mission of Cambodia to the United Nations in Geneva shot back at the UN human rights office (OHCHR) yesterday for criticising what it characterised as the Kingdom’s deteriorating political climate, claiming the criticism was “unverified” and “politically motivated”. // // ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mission-hits-back-un-criticism-cambodias-deteriorating-political-climate
Ministry, Cambodian journalists strengthen links to China
Information Ministry officials and state-affiliated Cambodian journalists will receive training from and pay visits to their Chinese counterparts under a new agreement signed by the two countries on Monday. The announcement follows a forum hosted in October by a senior propaganda officer for the Communist ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-cambodian-journalists-strengthen-links-to-china-127863/
Toyota assembly plant in Phnom Penh to be launched next year
Toyota assembly plant at Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone will be inaugurated in 2024. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501359265/toyota-assembly-plant-in-phnom-penh-to-be-launched-next-year/
Fedora Khmer Translation Sprint 3
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and Fedora is going to host Fedora Khmer Translation Sprint 3 on Sunday, 05 May 2019. Fedora is a free Linux based operating system from the same branch as Red Hat Linux that is run on enterprise servers. Fedora Desktop is aimed ...
Open Development Cambodia
First agricultural insurance tested in Cambodia
Cambodia’s first pilot program to insure farmers against rice crop loss launched last week in five provinces. ...
Un Raksmey and Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13276/first-agricultural-insurance-tested-in-cambodia/
Students get free e-education app
The Cambodian Union of Youth Federations (CUYF) has teamed up with E-school Cambodia to deliver free of charge online learning for grades 1 to 12 to keep learning on track amid Kingdom-wide school closures. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-get-free-e-education-app
Cambodian maids raring to go
At 5am, without any alarm clock going off, a dozen Cambodian maids wake up with near-military precision. Over the next hour, the women sweep, wash and scrub spotless their two-storey training centre in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. They all want to be maids in Singapore, eager ...
The Star Online Staff
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Regional/2013/09/23/Cambodian-maids-raring-to-go.aspx
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new topic page on “Carbon trading and other Payments for Ecological Services (PES)"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on “Carbon trading and other Payments for Ecological Services (PES)”. This bilingual topic page gives a quick overview of Carbon trading and other Payments for Ecological Services (PES) in Cambodia.=>Please click here to go to “Carbon trading ...
Government to fight oil price hike with tax cuts
Starting July 1, Cambodians will pay as much as 160 riel ($0.4) less for litre of gasoline, following tax cuts mandated by Prime Minister Hun Sen as well as price reductions implemented by local gas stations. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50504326/government-to-fight-oil-price-hike-with-tax-cuts/
NEA provides 3,380 jobs for 17,535 applications in H1
The National Employment Agency (NEA) of the Ministry of Labour and Vocation Training (MLVT) provided 3,380 careers for 17,535 Cambodians registered in the job searching platform for the first semester of this year. ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501523118/nea-provides-3380-jobs-for-17535-applications-in-h1/
Minister warns of poor checks at Thai border
Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng said Monday that Thai border officials may be letting Cambodian migrant workers back into Thailand with incomplete paperwork, opening them up to the same risks both countries have been trying to avoid since a mass exodus of Cambodian workers over ...
Phorn Bopha and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-warns-of-poor-checks-at-thai-border-62852/