Youths encouraged to become engineers
Senior government officials said yesterday that Cambodia needs about 35,000 engineers between 2018 and 2020 to serve in several sectors. Pich Sophorn, secretary of state at the Labour Ministry and also vice chairman of the Board of Engineers Cambodia, said yesterday at the board’s annual ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50484406/youths-encouraged-to-become-engineers/
Cambodia's garment industry seen approaching crossroads
Cambodia’s $5.5 billion garment industry is nearing a crossroads amid uncertain prospects for outsourcing, an industry source says, citing participants at a recent trade show in Phnom Penh. “Many industry suppliers believe that while Cambodia remains a growing market for their textile and garment products, there ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=NjY3NTFlNmIzMTU
Cambodia’s Defense of Rights Record at UN Review Slammed
Foreign donors should push Cambodia’s government to end its human rights abuses as part of its bid to maintain political control of the nation, a rights group said Wednesday, after Phnom Penh allegedly snubbed recommendations by foreign governments to improve the country’s rights record. Representatives of ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/review-07022014161641.html
Try Pheap inks $300M seaport deal with Hong Kong company
Timber magnate Try Pheap signed off on a $300 million seaport project with industry heavyweight Hutchison Port Holdings on Monday, according to Kep provincial governor Ken Sotha, who attended the event. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/try-pheap-inks-300m-seaport-deal-with-hong-kong-company-113314/
Taking Count of Cambodia’s Flying Fox Bats
At around 6 p.m. in Phnom Penh each evening, about 5,000 large brown bats, having spent the day dangling upside down from a tree at Wat Phnom, spread their huge wings and fly out to begin their nightly search for fruit. And as useful and ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/taking-count-of-cambodias-flying-fox-bats-45421/
Four arrested in raid targeting fake coffee
Police have warned coffee lovers there could be a couple of bad batches circulating and percolating in Phnom Penh after a raid on a fake coffee enterprise in Sen Sok district’s Khmuonh commune yesterday. officers arrested four men during the joint operation in Banlar Sa Et ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-arrested-raid-targeting-fake-coffee
Fortified rice raises risk of hookworm infections
Eating fortified rice increases the risk of hookworm infections, a study in Cambodian schoolchildren shows, suggesting that the rice’s added nutrients inadvertently help parasites grow. ...
Mike Ives
http://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/health/news/fortified-rice-risk-hookworm-infections-1.html
Construction of Dams Would Strain Land, Water
Cambodia would significantly strain its land and water resources if a projected series of large-scale hydro-power dams are built along the Mekong, according to projections released this week. Fish remains the primary source of protein and researchers [from the Australia National University in Canberra and World Wildlife Fund] ...
Cambodia studies impacts of undersea fiber optic cables
The Kingdom is studying the environmental impacts from the construction of undersea fiber optic cables connecting Hong Kong to Preah Sihanouk province at a distance of over 300km. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-studies-impacts-undersea-fiber-optic-cables
Farmers weigh up US technology
US and Cambodian governments have presented a united front calling for the country’s agriculture industry to diversify, modernise and commercialise. US ambassador William E Todd and the Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development Yim Chhay Ly led an ...
Chan Muy Hong and Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/farmers-weigh-us-technology
Gov’t pares UN rights recommendations
Cambodia has drastically reduced the amount of human rights recommendations it will implement as part of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review, saying they were overly repetitive. While Cambodia was criticised for deferring recommendations, which dealt with issues such as freedom of expression and the ...
Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-pares-un-rights-recommendations
Logging’s roots deep
Hun Sen’s Cambodia has been shaped by the collection of illegal timber dollars, profiting a politically connected elite and in turn ensuring the ruling party’s grip on the state apparatus, a leading Australian researcher has said. Sarah Milne, a research fellow at the Australian National University, ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggings-roots-deep
Gov’t rights report to be sent to UN
The government will today submit its second report to the UN Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process that takes stock of human rights progress in each UN member state. Governments are required to report to the council every four and ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-rights-report-be-sent-un
Cambodia-China trade likely to touch $15 billion by 2025
The bilateral trade between Cambodia and China is expected to reach $15 billion by 2025, a top official said. The trade figure between both nations touched $11 billion in 2022. ...
Adur Pradeep
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501351943/cambodia-china-trade-likely-to-touch-15-billion-by-2025/
Higher education reform gets $90M
Cambodia’s higher education sector – which education officials last month said lacks a clear vision – will undergo improvements under a six-year project financed by a $90 million no-interest loan from the World Bank. ...
Yesenia Amaro
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/higher-education-reform-gets-90m
The rising demand of data science skills
Skills-training center for data science, DataU Academy, has been delivering industry-high demand skills to data enthusiasts, while connecting students with employers, since 2019. ...
Rov Hongseng
https://kiripost.com/stories/the-rising-demand-of-data-science-skills
Universities in agricultural innovation
As rice farmers struggle to cope with the aftereffects of one of the worst droughts in Cambodia’s recent history and moribund infrastructure makes it difficult to transport and sell their products across the country, universities here and in the United States are joining forces to ...
Safiya Charles
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30110/universities-in-agricultural-innovation/
Local SMEs are urged to digitise payments
Cambodian businesses need to adapt and digitise their financial operations if they want to remain competitive regionally and around the world, industry insiders said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/local-smes-are-urged-digitise-payments
US to help tackle illegal fishing
US Ambassador to Cambodia William Heidt said the US wanted to sign an agreement with Cambodia to better manage state-owned ports in the Kingdom to tackle issues related to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29567/us-to-help-tackle-illegal-fishing/
Can’t see the forest …
The percentage of Cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72 per cent in 1973 to only about 46 per cent in 2013, satellite image data released yesterday shows. A series of animated maps that Open Development Cambodia (ODC) produced from NASA satellite images detail ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/can%E2%80%99t-see-forest-%E2%80%A6