AIP planning tours of ‘safe worker transport’ factories
The Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIP) plans to lead study tours of factories and schools that have implemented guidelines for safe transport options. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/aip-planning-tours-safe-worker-transport-factories
Japan university holds online fair for students from ASEAN members
Okayama University, one of Japan’s top public universities, is holding an online “Study in Japan 2023” fair for Cambodians who wish to pursue their tertiary education. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-university-holds-online-fair-students-asean-members
Interior Ministry plans blacklist for drunk drivers
The Ministry of Interior is studying the possibility of creating a database or blacklist to record those who drive while intoxicated and cause traffic accidents resulting in injuries or deaths. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501428669/interior-ministry-plans-blacklist-for-drunk-drivers/
Mekong Dams Threaten Extinction of Giant Catfish
The elusive Mekong giant catfish, which the U.S.-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called “one of the world’s largest and rarest freshwater fish,” can reach up to three meters (10 feet) and weigh up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds). The Xayaburi dam would prove an “impassable barrier” ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/dams-06192013184629.html
Carbon credits on table with Germany
Cambodia has asked Germany to buy some of the Kingdom’s carbon credits earned from preserving its natural resources. Interior Minister Sar Kheng made the request during a visit to Germany which concluded yesterday, a ministry statement noted. It said Cambodia requested Germany to study the possibility, ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50646972/carbon-credits-on-table-with-germany/
Students get exam results
As many as 75,059 students or 66.21 per cent passed this year’s high school examinations. The figure is 2.37 per cent higher than last year, a Ministry of Education announcement said on Sunday. The ministry said this year, the number students who received either an ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-get-exam-results
Tourists are unknowingly contributing to Cambodia’s rising number of orphanages
Almost 75 percent of kids in the country’s orphanages are there because their families can’t afford to keep them at home. In 2011, UNICEF released a study saying that the number of orphanages in Cambodia had increased by 75 percent in the previous six years, ...
Logan Connor
http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/11/03/cambodias-orphanages
Courting Eurasian states
Cambodia is aiming to diversify its exports after signing an agreement with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) yesterday following the first session of a joint working group seeking to expand trade cooperation between the two sides. “Moreover, Cambodia wants to increase the trade volume and ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35411/courting-eurasian-states/
Migrants in ‘hurry’ to get back to work
A survey of 10 Cambodian provinces is studying the whereabouts and plans of migrant workers who were recently repatriated from Thailand, fearing crackdowns on foreign workers there after the coup. During a workshop hosted by Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM) yesterday, Ministry ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-%E2%80%98hurry%E2%80%99-get-back-work
Will the World Cup hurt productivity?
Once every four years, when the FIFA World Cup rolls around, business surveys and studies are inevitably released telling us that all those hours spent watching football, thinking about football and talking about football have a tangible effect on the global economy. During the 2010 World ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/will-world-cup-hurt-productivity
More work needed at the tax dept, JICA says
The General Tax Department of Cambodia (GTD) needs to improve a number of administration processes to enhance revenue collection and make a greater contribution to the economy, a recent study released yesterday by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) reveals. According to data from GTD, Cambodia ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-work-needed-tax-dept-jica-says
Push to transform bright female students into future gov’t leaders
As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. She turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ...
Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/push-to-transform bright-female-students-into-future-govt-leaders-66806/
Government eyes domain name registry
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has set up a working group to study the idea of establishing a Cambodian Network Information Centre (KHNIC) to manage domain name registration and encourage people to use the national (.kh) domain. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-eyes-domain-name-registry
Special agro-processing zone plan
The government is planning to establish a special zone for agro-processing and is now studying the concept and seeking input from relevant stakeholders to make it as comprehensive as possible. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50745637/special-agro-processing-zone-plan/
Students won’t be tested before returning to school
Students will not be tested for Covid-19 before resuming studies at 20 schools in Phnom Penh and some provinces after parents protested, saying the tests are not necessary. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-wont-be-tested-returning-school
Gov’t looks into vaccines for children
A study into administering Covid-19 vaccinations to children will begin after the initial drive for vaccinating people 18 and over is complete, a senior Ministry of Health official said. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-looks-vaccines-children
NGO school calls for financial aid in these hard times
The Peoples Improvement Organization (PIO) has called for public donations to support more than 1,000 students studying full time from Kindergarten to Grade 12, amid the current financial crisis. ...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922255/ngo-school-calls-for-financial-aid-in-these-hard-times/
Royal Academy president Sok Touch on his Tonle Sap wetlands investigation
In 2021, at the behest of the government, Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) president Sok Touch studied and investigated the challenges facing the Tonle Sap Lake, which covers an area of 640,000ha. ...
NBC celebrates 43rd anniversary of riel reintroduction
In a bid to raise public awareness of the usage of the national currency, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) hosted a seminar on ‘Riel, Financial Literacy and Bakong’ at the Center for Banking Studies yesterday. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501258631/nbc-celebrates-43rd-anniversary-of-riel-reintroduction/
Schools off during SEA and ASEAN Para Games
Students across the nation have been given 28 days off school during the 32nd SEA Games and 12th ASEAN Para Games, with the possibility to study online. ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-schools-off-during-sea-and-asean-para-games