Invasive fruit flies detrimental to Kingdom’s mango exports
Cambodia’s mango shipments have been routinely blocked before making it to the international market, with the Ministry of Agriculture claiming the mangoes are not of a high enough quality to meet the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) requirements necessary to ship outside of the Kingdom. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/invasive-fruit-flies-detrimental-kingdoms-mango-exports
Training to hone workforce’s skill
For the Cambodian workforce to emerge stronger amidst the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, UNESCO has called for accelerated investments in the lifelong learning efforts to enable them to “skill, re-skill, and up-skill” to maintain the Kingdom’s impressive economic growth. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50896638/training-to-hone-workforces-skill/
Japan to $200 million in response to COVID-19 in Cambodia
The Japanese government has pledged an additional $185 million in low-interest loans to Cambodia to support the second phase of the Covid-19 crisis. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501005477/japan-to-200-million-in-response-to-covid-19-in-cambodia/
NEC gets cyber training amid hack rumours
Government anti-cybercrime officials recently trained National Election Committee (NEC) officials on email security, amid attempts by Chinese hackers to target institutions in the Kingdom ahead of the July 29 national elections. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-gets-cyber-training-amid-hack-rumours
Ministry approves computer budget for schools
The Finance Ministry has approved a budget for the Education, Youth and Sport Ministry to spend on computers and printers for public schools. Finance Minister Aun Pornoniroth in a letter on Friday said the budget is to facilitate a part of the Education Ministry’s reform ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50572826/ministry-approves-computer-budget-for-schools/
Japan provides more than $7 million in aid to NEC
The Japanese government has provided more than $7 million in aid to the National Election Committee (NEC), including the cost of 11,000 ballot boxes and 40 pickup trucks, it said on Saturday. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-provides-more-7-million-aid-nec
Three nations ‘disappointed’ with elections
The United States, Australia and Canada have expressed their “profound disappointment” in the Cambodian national elections. The US said it will consider “additional steps”. But the head of the National Election Committee (NEC) hit back, deeming such statements as analysis from those “wearing black-lensed glasses”. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-nations-disappointed-elections
Number of international observers poised to hit record: NEC
A National Election Committee (NEC) official on Monday said the number of international observers signed up to monitor the July 29 polls is steadily increasing. NEC member and spokesman Hang Puthea told The Post that 155 international observers have been officially approved, while another 115 ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/number-international-observers-poised-hit-record-nec
NEC set to update new voter registration list
The National Election Committee (NEC) is to update its new voter registration list and include more than 40,0000 new voters. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-set-update-new-voter-registration-list
NEC to start party, candidate registrations for elections
The National Election Committee (NEC) is to start accepting regist-rations for political parties and candidates from March 7-11 in preparation for the upcoming municipal, provincial, town, district and commune council elections on Sunday, May 26. NEC spokesman Hang Puthea told The Post on Wednesday that ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-start-party-candidate-registrations-elections
Test results please many
More than half of the students who sat the grade 12 national exam last month passed the high-stakes test, marking a significant improvement on last year’s results, when nearly two-thirds failed amid sweeping anti-cheating reforms.The results, which were released on Saturday, show that 55.8 per ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/test-results-please-many
Pilot for new voter registration system identifies key problems
Halfway into a pilot project testing a computerized voter registration system, the National Election Committee (NEC) has identified a lack of electricity and Internet access in the countryside along with inaccurate voter documentation as its main challenges. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pilot-for-new-voter-registration-system-identifies-key-problems-99786/
NEC to accept secretary-general applications
The nearly year-old bipartisan National Election Committee (NEC) will later this week begin accepting applications for the position of secretary-general, its top administrative role, with the man currently in the job, Tep Nytha, saying on Sunday that he would be applying. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nec-to-accept-secretary-general-applications-102903/
Commune elections set for June 4 next year
Next year’s commune council elections will be held on June 4, according to a decision signed on Tuesday by Prime Minister Hun Sen, marking the first nationwide ballot since the 2013 election that led to the reform of the National Election Committee (NEC). ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/commune-elections-set-for-june-4-next-year-112987/
Poll observers wary of potential intimidation
With voter registration due to start in six weeks, independent election monitoring organisations said yesterday that the current political climate and recently enacted legislation has them fearing for the safety of their observers. ...
Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poll-observers-wary-potential-intimidation
124 candidates vying for top posts in NEC
The National Election Committee (NEC) on Saturday wrapped up its 10-day call for applications for top administrative positions with 124 forms submitted, the agency said in a statement, with one secretary- general and four deputies set to be selected. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/124-candidates-vying-for-top-posts-in-nec-104011/
Red tape ‘delays’ NEC computers
With less than two months before voter registration is due to start for the upcoming commune elections, the delivery of vital computer equipment has reportedly been delayed by two weeks due to an import duty bungle, while only a fraction of the required workers have ...
Bun Sengkong and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/red-tape-delays-nec-computers
Ministry sets up team for exam complaints
A special team will be established to review high school students’ claims that they were unfairly graded in this month’s national examinations, the education minister has said.The announcement came as the Education Ministry said it had so far received more than 100 formal complaints from ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-sets-team-exam-complaints
Election staffing set to kick off on Wednesday
Recruitment of 741 short-term contract staff to help prepare for next year’s commune elections will begin on Wednesday, according to the National Election Committee’s spokesman. ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/election-staffing-set-kick-wednesday
NEC announces schedule for meetings with donors
The National Election Committee yesterday released a monthly meeting schedule with the European and Japanese embassies in a bid to ensure the voter-registration process, due to begin September 1, will go smoothly. ...
Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-announces-schedule-meetings-donors