NRA sets ball rolling for transition to knowledge based economy
As Cambodia aims to become an upper-middle-income economy by 2030 and a high-income economy by 2050, it needs to focus on encouraging research and development (R&D) and become a knowledge-driven economy. ...
Prakash Jha
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501241676/nra-sets-ball-rolling-for-transition-to-knowledge-based-economy/
Ministry to expand ties with UNDP to accelerate digital revolution
The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications proposed an expansion in cooperation and partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to speed up Cambodia’s journey towards digital revolution. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501382508/ministry-to-expand-ties-with-undp-to-accelerate-digital-revolution/
Cambodia diversifying into non-garment industry
Cambodia has been diversifying into the industrial sector from garment manufacturing to non-garment manufacturing, using skilled labour and technology in the production chains. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501430497/cambodia-diversifying-into-non-garment-industry/
Digital platform for informal economy to spur Kingdom’s GDP
The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) weighed the challenges of launching a digital platform for the informal economy recently. The Coordinating Committee for Developing the Informal Economy presented a progress update on the strategy during the meeting held at the MISTI headquarters ...
Jigme Palden Pazo
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501546087/digital-platform-for-informal-economy-to-spur-kingdoms-gdp/
Plantation manager aims to be top oud oil producer
Asia Forestry Management, an integrated plantation-management company with a focus on cultivating Aquilaria crassna, aims to become Thailand’s biggest producer of oud oil this year and Southeast Asia’s in five years. The company’s plant in Trat province will be expanded to produce 280 kilograms of ...
Call for national researchers for the Global Data Barometer – Asia Region
Open Data for Development Asia Hub (D4DAsia) is currently seeking independent, country-level researchers (individual or institution) for the following 14 countries:Indonesia; Philippines; Singapore; Cambodia; Lao PDR; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; Sri Lanka; India; Nepal; Bangladesh; Taiwan; and Japan.Selected researchers will act as national researchers for the ...
Hun Sen receives award for leadership
Prime Minister Hun Sen received the Leadership and Good Governance Award from the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) on Tuesday at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Summit at the Peace Palace in the capital. The award was presented by UPF co-founder Hak Ja Han Moon after delivering her ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-receives-award-leadership
Digitalization affects us all - ODC attends conference hosted by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
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“When I first arrived in Cambodia, I was impressed of the digitization process here,” Dr. Daniel Schmücking remembers his first days in Phnom Penh, and continues: “I thought ‘how can I survive here?’ but then someone told me about PassApp.” The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) ...
‘Fake news’ fuels smog fears
The Ministry of Environment has said concerns over Phnom Penh’s air quality are being fuelled by “fake news” on social media sites by companies aiming to promote the sale of air quality testing kits. “There has been a lot of fake news claiming that air ...
Husain Haider
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fake-news-fuels-smog-fears
Ministry plans to drag schools into digital era
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is plunging public schools into the digital age with a new interactive technology plan fit with bells, whistles and 3G applications, light-years ahead of its mostly dirt-floor school houses. The five-year, $1.3 million project, developed and funded by Cellcard, ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-plans-drag-schools-digital-era
Making Digital Maps Using Free and Simple Mapping Applications
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“There may be times when you want to explain things through maps, but you don’t know how to create the maps. With the currently available technology, creating map has become relatively easy. You no longer need to be an expert to develop maps, provided that ...
Joint Asean action sought to fight fake medicine
Cambodia yesterday urged Asean member countries to jointly combat the spread of substandard and counterfeit medicines which are endangering people’s health and welfare and affecting economic growth in the region. Defence Minister General Tea Banh, representing Prime Minister Hun Sen, made the call during the 14th ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50638362/joint-asean-action-sought-to-fight-fake-medicine/
Government destroys over 80 tonnes of fake products
Government officials yesterday destroyed more than 80 tonnes of counterfeit chemical products, chief among them hazardous skin-whitening creams and knock-off Viagra pills. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-destroys-over-80-tonnes-fake-products
Gov’t urged to step up investments in tech parks
The seventh edition of the ‘Give A Day’ meet, held in Phnom Penh recently, urged the Cambodian government to step up investments in tech parks for promoting the ecosystem for digital start-ups and also to speed up the country’s march to become a digital economy. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501138218/govt-urged-to-step-up-investments-in-tech-parks/
CEOs see auto, ICT, finance sectors as top growth picks
Thai CEOs are confident that the country’s 2013 economic growth will be at least as good as last year’s level and that the automobile, information and communications technology, and financial sectors will be the star performers. The CEOs estimate that their companies’ profits this year ...
ODC participated in Barcamp ASEAN 2017
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Barcamp ASEAN 2017 took place on October 21-22, at Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The principle of the camp is to bring and gathers together the participants in Cambodia and the regional for the open exchange of knowledge, skills, and experiences on how ...
Cambodia, EU discuss human rights cooperation
Cambodia and the European Union (EU) have discussed more cooperation on human rights in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501424451/cambodia-eu-discuss-human-rights-cooperation/
ICT agreement signed
Cambodia and Malaysia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in order to cooperate and share Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to develop the health, government and logistics sectors. Cambodia’s National ICT Development Authority met with the Malaysian Ministry for Science, Technology and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072550612/Business/ict-agreement-signed.html
Smart help for innovators
Smart Axiata, one of the leading mobile operators in Cambodia, yesterday officially launched its digital young innovator program SmartStart, aimed at helping young Cambodians develop their innovative digital-related business ideas into actual businesses or products.SmartStart is a nine-month university program initiated to inspire, enable and ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35457/smart-help-for-innovators/
Three more populations of Indochinese hog deer found in Cambodia
Fauna and Flora International says its has found three previously unknown populations of the endangered Indochinese hog deer in Cambodia. “This is a remarkable discovery given not only the species’ vulnerability to hunting, but also because all of the sites were outside the existing protected area ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YzRmOWQ0M2JiNzU