Education Ministry and partners launch #ReadEveryDay campaign
In the spirit of nurturing the love for reading, a nationwide campaign dubbed #ReadEveryDay was initiated by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, in collaboration with the Asia Foundation and other partners. ...
Anith Adilah Othman
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50699624/education-ministry-and-partners-launch-readeveryday-campaign
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
Cambodian School Educates New Generation of Social Workers
Cambodia has some 3,000 registered non-profit groups. Some work on highly sensitive issues such as violence against women and human trafficking. But there are few Cambodians formally trained for such work. That is now changing with the country’s first university-level degree program for social workers. When ...
Cambodian migrant workers send US$360 million home a year
Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand, Japan, Malaysia and Korea have sent home an average of US$360 million a year in remittances, according to Seng Sakada, general director of Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. Overseas Cambodian migrants mainly work in the fields of housework, construction, factories ...
Cambodia, ILO jointly launch job services, labor market information project with Chinese aid
Cambodia and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Thursday launched a new project to expand job services and improve labor market information with funding from China, according to an ILO media statement. The ILO/China South-South Cooperation Project to Expand Employment Services and Enhance Labor Market Information ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/837853.shtml#.UtiSiRCSxqU
Unions warn of strikes over gov’t rejection of new branch
A group of eight trade unions Thursday said the government has turned down every one of their applications to form local branches at the country’s garment factories since early last year and threatened mass strikes if the rejections continue. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-warn-of-strikes-over-govt-rejection-of-new-branches-77031/
Commute deadly: gov’t
Garment workers continue to die in traffic accidents on their way to and from the factory, a new report highlighting the deadly commute in Cambodia’s largest industry shows. In the report, titled The Dangerous Journey of Garment Workers in 2014, the Ministry of Labour’s National Social ...
Suspended garment workers to receive second allowance payout
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has given allowances for the second time to 8,762 garment sector workers who were suspended as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and global economic crisis. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/suspended-garment-workers-to-receive-second-allowance-payout
Sihanoukville SEZ exports $1.3b in six months
Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone’s (SSEZ) exports were worth $1.3 billion during the first half of 2022, marking a year-on-year increase of almost 40 percent, according to the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training. ...
Penh Chamroeun
https://kiripost.com/stories/sihanoukville-sez-exports-13b-in-six-months
Labour Ministry releases mass fainting figures
Figures released by the Ministry of Labor on Friday showed that 1,578 garment factory workers have fainted in workplace incidents since the beginning of this year. Pok Vanthat, deputy director of the Labor Ministry’s Medical Unit and chief of its research committee, said that his committee ...
Canada to provide $2.2 mln for climate change projects in Cambodia
The Canadian government has announced that they will provide $2.2 million through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to Cambodia to help fund climate change adaptation projects within the country. ...
Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=OTU1NDBkNmRkZjQ
Switzerland provides 3 mln USD to Cambodia for mine clearance
Switzerland on Tuesday granted 3 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for mine clearance. The agreement was inked between Rahel Boesch, director of Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation office in Cambodia, and Setsuko Yamazaki, director of UNDP office in Cambodia, ...
Business Ghana News Staff
http://www.businessghana.com/portal/news/index.php?op=getNews&news_cat_id=&id=193425
GMAC says new labour policy could hurt business
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia yesterday issued a statement asking for the Labour Ministry to reconsider its intent to amend article 89 concerning worker protection and severance pay. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50491048/gmac-says-new-labour-policy-could-hurt-business/
Cham muslims protest government’s planned road beside mosque
About 200 Cham Muslims turned out to the Al-Serkal Mosque near the old Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest a controversial road that the government plans to build through the mosque’s land. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cham-muslims-protest-governments-planned-road-beside-mosque-112899/
Top students get training nod
Top-scoring candidates from this year’s grade 12 national exam will be given free passes to train as pre-school and primary teachers in an effort to improve the quality of the education system.Prime Minister Hun Sen approved a request from Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron to ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/top-students-get-training-nod
MoL to consider ratifying maids’ rights convention
The Ministry of Labour has said it will consider the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA)’s request to ratify an International Labour Organization convention on domestic workers’ rights. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mol-consider-ratifying-maids-rights-convention
Education Ministry dismisses exam score complaints
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport announced the results of a review of failed students’ complaints on Wednesday, stating that all exam results released in September were “correct.” ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-ministry-dismisses-exam-score-complaints
Education minister lays out reforms at assembly
Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron was questioned in front of a parliamentary panel yesterday, offering lawmakers a nine-point policy for reforming the Kingdom’s educational sector, according to a ministry official. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-minister-lays-out-reforms-assembly
Malaysia to sign MOUs with kingdom
Malaysia may soon cooperate more closely with a number of the Kingdom’s ministries if all goes according to plan after this week’s 25th World Economic Forum on Asean (WEF) in Kuala Lumpur. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25674/malaysia-to-sign-mous-with-kingdom/
Phnom Penh school has terrorist ties, Diplomat says
Turkey’s ambassador to Cambodia alleged on Monday that a top international school in Phnom Penh is overseen by the “terrorist organization” behind last week’s thwarted coup in Turkey—prompting a threat of legal action by the school. ...
Michael Dickison
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-school-has-terrorist-ties-diplomat-says-115595/