Banking on human resources
Acleda Bank, Cambodia’s largest bank, is morphing its existing training centre into a full-fledged educational institution, after obtaining a licence last month. The new institute will look to provide bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration, with majors in finance and banking. The Post’s Sorn ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-human-resources
PM: Join hands to lift post-Covid economy
Leaders in the region and beyond must advance various forms of bilateral and multilateral cooperative relations, and join hands to create meaningful traction in economic recoveries for when the spread of the novel coronavirus eases to a significant enough degree, according to Prime Minister Hun ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-join-hands-lift-post-covid-economy
Life begins for health sciences lab
The Kingdom’s first clinical skills and simulation laboratories were inaugurated yesterday at the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh along with computerised exam rooms – part of the public University’s strategic four-year plan launched in 2014. ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/life-begins-health-sciences-lab
EU, Vietnam sign free trade deal
The EU and Vietnam on Wednesday signed a free trade deal that removes nearly all tariffs between Europe and the Southeast Asian nation. EU exports to Vietnam, meanwhile, are dominated by high-tech products including electrical machinery and equipment, aircraft, vehicles and pharmaceuticals. ...
AFP News Staff
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/eu-vietnam-sign-free-trade-deal-55555.html
US ambassador offers increased help fighting human trafficking in meeting with Sar Kheng
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng reiterated to the US ambassador to Cambodia W. Patrick Murphy that Cambodia was committed to combating all forms of human trafficking, pointing to the complex nature of the crime today due to technology as one barrier to effective enforcement. ...
Former VOD staff undecided about offer of state employment
In a gesture of goodwill, Prime Minister Hun Sen offered government positions to unemployed Voice of Democracy (VOD) journalists. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501239634/former-vod-staff-undecided-about-offer-of-state-employment/
Cambodians wanted more from Obama
He came, he said nothing, he left. Publicly at least, President Barack Obama, the first US head of state to visit the Kingdom, uttered not a single word to the Cambodian people, although many have noted that he was extremely pressed for time. Cambodians, from the ...
Obama to meet with Cambodia’s longtime ‘strongman’ amid rights concerns, but also growth
President Barack Obama arrives in Cambodia on Monday having just won four more years in office, but that is nothing compared to his host, Hun Sen. The 60-year-old Cambodian prime minister has held power since Ronald Reagan was in the White House, and says he’s ...
News Analysis: Cambodia Viewed As "Best" Investment Venue For Thais
Cambodia is considered “the most promising country” in the ASEAN community where Thai business entrepreneurs could set up trade and investment projects, according to a noted Thai academic and economist. Roongrote Benjamasuthin, director of the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce’s ASEAN Business & Economic Center, ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-02/09/c_132162078.htm
Cambodian Scholar Suggests Pernicious Effects of Aid Dependence
For political economist Sophal Ear, this view is more nuanced. In his book ‘Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermined Democracy‘, published by the Columbia University Press (2012), years of dependency are not showing positive results in the rehabilitation of Cambodia, its democracy and war ...
http://asiancorrespondent.com/90669/cambodian-scholar-suggests-pernicious-effects-of-aid-dependence/
Korea University Anam Hospital wins KOICA bid to upgrade the National Pediatric Hospital Cambodia
Korea University Medical Center (KUMC) said that Korea University Anam Hospital (KUAH) has successfully secured the project for enhancing the internal medicine department at the National Pediatric Hospital Cambodia project, sponsored by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501390495/korea-university-anam-hospital-wins-koica-bid-to-upgrade-the-national-pediatric-hospital-cambodia/
Indochine raises A$5.5m, sells 85% of Cambodia gold assets
ASX-listed Indochine Mining has completed the first part of a A$26.3-million capital raising, and has signed a deal with fellow-listed Capital Mining to dispose of an 85% shareholding in its wholly owned subsidiary, which owns gold assets in Cambodia. Earlier this month, the precious metals developer ...
Esmarie Swanepoel
http://www.miningweekly.com/article/indochine-raises-a55m-sells-85-of-cambodia-gold-assets-2013-10-08
Women urged to pursue postgraduate education
Prime Minister Hun Sen encouraged female students to pursue their education, regardless of whether they marry and have children, noting that the number of women pursuing postgraduate degrees and doctorates has decreased sharply compared to their male counterparts. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/women-urged-pursue-postgraduate-education
Green-growth institute vows support for Kingdom as e-bus, waste tech plans progress
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) has renewed its commitment to support the Cambodian government in the transition towards environmentally friendly, inclusive, sustainable economic growth through the Seoul-based organisation’s ongoing projects as well as green transport and waste management initiatives in its pipeline. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/green-growth-institute-vows-support-kingdom-e-bus-waste-tech-plans-progress
DENSO, Toyota Tsusho and Aisin Seiki to Open Wholly-Owned Automotive After-Sales Service Store in Cambodia- Will offer high-quality automotive after-Sales services in emerging economies
DENSO Corporation , Toyota Tsusho Corporation and Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd., will jointly open a wholly-owned store in Cambodia that will offer automotive repair and maintenance services, as well as sell related automotive components. The wholly-owned store will start operations in February 2014 with the ...
Hispanic Business News Staff
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/11/28/denso_toyota_tsusho_and_aisin_seiki.htm
South Korea offers further assistance in Covid-19 battle
The South Korean government has provided further assistance worth $350,000 to help the Cambodian Ministry of Health in the ongoing fight against Covid-19. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/south-korea-offers-further-assistance-covid-19-battle
Cooperation agreement with China
The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and China Foreign Trade Center on Tuesday signed a cooperation agreement with the aim of exchanging business and investment information between the two countries. CCC director-general Nguon Meng Tech told Khmer Times yesterday after the agreement signing that both sides ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33162/cooperation-agreement-with-china/
Cambodia has shortage of capable human resource
The number of people seeking for jobs has been on the rise each day. However, companies, organizations and institutions are relentlessly complaining that human resource is both scarce and of low quality. Many students who have just graduated for about a year or two say they ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=14&token=OTNiZWMzYWFjMzU
Weighing risk and reward on construction sites
As the booming construction sector attracts more rural Cambodians to seek employment in the capital, the different working conditions between high-rises in urban areas and borey developments have factored into varying degrees of earning potential and living standards.According to estimates by the Ministry of Land ...
Kali Kotoski and Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/weighing-risk-and-reward-construction-sites
South Korean agency pushes investment in auto-parts, tech
At a recent meeting in Seoul with a Cambodian delegation led by Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak, Yu expressed his firm belief that the Cambodia-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CKFTA) will boost trade between the two countries. ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/south-korean-agency-pushes-investment-auto-parts-tech