South Korean firm to share tech expertise
The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts and the South Korea-based firm Gwangju TechoPark will soon reach a deal on improving technology in Cambodia’s special economic zones. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39921/south-korean-firm-to-share-tech-expertise/
42nd ASEAN Summit sets agenda to stop ‘digital crimes’
Cambodia and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member nations have adopted a declaration to manage digital technologies to protect migrant workers and combat transnational human trafficking. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501288906/42nd-asean-summit-sets-agenda-to-stop-digital-crimes/
Varying Degrees of Progress Shown in Development Report
The government has made “remarkable development progress” in successfully guiding the country through the global financial crash of 2008, ensuring economic stability and enabling the government to meet the Cambodian Millennium Development Goal on poverty reduction, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Speaking at the launch ...
Japanese grants set to aid local farmers
The Japanese government has provided $118,996 for constructing a cassava propagation and distribution centre in Battambang province. The fund comes in response to the recent challenges facing farmers in the province who are facing a shortage of cassava trees to plant. Kumamaru Yuji, Japanese ambassador to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032864733/Business/japanese-grants-set-to-aid-local-farmers.html
Cambodia Factories Grapple With Issue of Underage Workers
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia—In this quiet beach town, Lim Loeung says she spends up to 80 hours a week gluing soles onto shoes at a factory that does work for companies including Japanese sneaker-maker Asics Corp. 7936.TO +0.95% The factory believes Ms. Lim is at least 18 ...
Kate O' Keeffe
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303799404579287353595133592
Hun Sen sells ‘win-win policy’ to students
Following an appeal by Prime Minister Hun Sen for the country’s youth to better understand his self-titled “win-win policy,” which he credits for ending the civil war and peacefully reintegrating the Khmer Rouge, the premier Monday delivered an hourlong lecture on the topic to about ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-sells-win-win-policy-to-students-85625/
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/
Adopting technology is key to develop health sector
Cambodia needs to invest more in developing human resources and infrastructure, a new health technology roadmap reveals. ...
Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/technology-is-key-to-health-sector-cambodia
Cambodian and Thai firms jointly launch robotic tech business
A new business introducing advanced robotic products and technology to the Cambodian market has been launched by a local conglomerate in partnership with a tech company from Thailand. ...
Kiripost staff writers
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodian-and-thai-firms-jointly-launch-robotic-tech-business
Metfone helping to build Cambodia’s digital society
Having contributed $844 million to the Cambodian government and pledged to continue investing in the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure, Metfone is championing the kingdom’s digital revolution. ...
Kiripost staff writers
https://kiripost.com/stories/metfone-helping-to-build-cambodias-digital-society
LED lights’ lure of lower electricity bills
The locally based Global Media Group is bringing the latest LED lighting technology to the Cambodian market in an effort to reduce people’s electricity bills. GMG assistant chief executive Bun Sim said the company would use all its know-how, as well as experts from South Korea, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013012460969/Business/led-lights-lure-of-lower-electricity-bills.html
Talks on for Cambodian tablet
Mobile payment company Wing was in talks on partnering with a US technology firm that plans to assemble Android tablets in Cambodia, in what could be another step away from the country’s staple manufactured good – garments. Although a final partnership agreement had yet to made ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012050355945/Business/talks-on-for-cambodian-tablet.html
Graduates lacking skills: report
EVEN though about 50 per cent of Cambodian university students studied business management, the banking sector has been hesitant to recruit them, insiders said yesterday. A 2010 report by the recruitment agency HRINC (Cambodia) projected that the supply of business, marketing, management, banking and finance, economics ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030561746/Business/graduates-lacking-skills-report.html
Inside the North Korean museum in Siem Reap
For more than a year, mystery has shrouded a museum in Siem Reap. The facts have been few and the details sparse. What’s known is that a North Korean company invested about $10 million for construction, and that artists from the hermit kingdom flew in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010260590/National/inside-the-north-korean-museum-in-siem-reap.html
Factory worker wages to be re-examined
Amid threats of another mass strike in the thriving garment sector, the Ministry of Social Affairs has called a meeting with the industry’s leading players to discuss union demands for a $150-per-month minimum wage, a letter obtained yesterday reveals. At the behest of Prime Minister Hun ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010260589/National/factory-worker-wages-to-be-re-examined.html
Cambodia Far From Intellectual Property Targets
Cambodia is still a way off implementing World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on intellectual property rights, despite a deadline to do so in just over a month. At the end of June, the group of the world’s 49 least developed countries (LDCs), including Cambodia, run out ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/cambodia-far-from-intellectual-property-targets-26805/
Cambodia delays human rights hearing for one week
A request by the Cambodian government for a delay in its universal periodic review (UPR) hearing at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which was supposed to be Thursday, has been accepted, according to a rights group that was to deliver a statement on the ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-delays-human-rights-hearing-for-one-week-61863/
‘Fake’ Buddha must be monitored, Hun Sen says
Prime Minister Hun Sen has waded into the case of a man claiming to be a reincarnation of Buddha, ordering Cults and Religion Minister Min Khin to keep a close eye on the situation. Authorities say that Thean Vuthy, who dresses in white robes and sits ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fake-buddha-must-be-monitored-hun-sen-says-65693/
Appropriate technology is a mechanism to promote nationally appropriate actions for greenhouse gas emission reduction
Phnom Penh – 21 March 2014, a workshop on Energy and Environment Technology: Capacity-Building Cooperation for the Development of NAMA in a MRV manner was organized by the Climate Change Department of the Ministry of Environment (CCD) in cooperation with the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, ...
Ministry of Environment
17 fake test-takers face up to six months in prison, fine
Seventeen people who were arrested last weekend in Phnom Penh during a Korean-language test could face six months in prison after being charged with impersonating prospective migrants hoping to work in South Korea, a police official said Thursday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/17-fake-test-takers-face-up-to-six-months-in-prison-fine-87249/