New accountability in disaster management
New articles may be added to a draft law on disaster management, including punishments for officials who break the law. The current draft includes prison sentences and small fines for people who, for example, enter restricted areas during a disaster. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-accountability-disaster-management
New teachers for KR classes
The US Institute of Peace on Wednesday announced the completion of a program – conducted by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) – to train an additional 600 educators to teach Khmer Rouge history in the Kingdom’s secondary schools. ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-teachers-kr-classes
New NEC reliable: Sam Rainsy
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has said that the new National Election Committee is reliable because decision is made based on their conscience. After the formation of long-waiting new NEC, following the political agreement between the two parties on 22 July 2014, Prime Minister Hun Sen ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1HqrIfk
NEC concerned over new IDs
The National Election Committee has expressed concern over whether the Interior Ministry will be able to issue enough new biometric identity cards – which ensure voter names aren’t duplicated – in time for it to register voters ahead of the 2017 commune elections. The issue, among ...
Meas Sokchea and Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-concerned-over-new-ids
New campaign against infant mortality
Every day, 35 Cambodian children die before their fifth birthday. Their premature deaths are caused mainly by such preventable and treatable diseases as diarrhea or pneumonia. ...
Marina Shafik
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12131/new-campaign-against-infant-mortality/
New tourism pacts link ASEAN
The Tourism and Sports Ministry is collaborating with the Cambodian government to link potential tourist destinations in both countries to increase intra-Asean tourism. ...
Chadamas Chinmaneevong
http://bit.ly/1e4ehrb
Death sparks new rabies warnings
The recent death from rabies of a French resident of Kampot has caused coastal vets and doctors to call for increased vigilance and improved preventative measures in Cambodia, which is still classed as a “red” zone for the lethal virus. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12994/death-sparks-new-rabies-warnings/
ILO launching new garment newsletter
The International Labour Organization (ILO) on Thursday will launch a news bulletin focusing on Cambodia’s garment and shoe sector, aimed at providing data for Cambodian policymakers during annual minimum wage talks. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ilo-launching-new-garment-newsletter
New lawmaker rating website launched
Voters will be able to instantly rate their lawmakers with a new program launched yesterday by the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL). ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15037/new-lawmaker-rating-website-launched/
Record dogs new ACRA chief
The owner of a labor firm repeatedly accused of human trafficking, who is also the sister of one of the country’s top police officials, has been appointed head of the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies (ACRA). Grave concerns have been expressed by rights groups over the appointment of Ung Seang ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012102459382/National-news/record-dogs-new-acra-chief.html
Thai-Cambodia buses open a new era with new land connections on public transport
BANGKOK- First bus services between the two Kingdoms of Cambodia and Thailand had their debut on December 29, said the Transport Co., a Thai state enterprise under the Transport Ministry. The service includes the Bangkok-Siem Reap route, a 424-kilometre trip that takes about seven hours. ...
http://www.traveldailynews.asia/news/article/51288/thai-cambodia-buses-open-a-new
Fewer school hours to beat the heat
With temperatures reaching more than 40 degrees Celsius, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport announced on Thursday that it was amending school study hours to lessen the risk of illness for teachers and students, particularly those at kindergarten. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fewer-school-hours-beat-heat
Cambodian-Americans Protest Minister’s US Visit
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong’s visit to meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington was met with a small protest Tuesday from Cambodian-Americans voicing a number of grievances. Video footage posted online shows a cluster of protesters outside the State Department building in Washington ...
19 Cambodian monks arrested, defrocked in Phuket
Nineteen Cambodian monks were defrocked and arrested yesterday (December 2) after police found them to be in Thailand illegally and soliciting donations in Wichit. Police search three tents and found foreign and Thai cash inside each monk’s bag. Some had around B1,000, others more than ...
Suthicha Sirirat
http://www.thephuketnews.com/19-cambodian-monks-arrested-defrocked-in-phuket-49949.php
National Police arrests three over COVID-19 social media hoaxes
The National Police yesterday said it will strengthen its campaign to clamp down on individuals spreading fake news about the COVID-19 outbreak on social media. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50700785/national-police-arrests-three-over-covid-19-social-media-hoaxes
Joint project on agri-tech launches in Mondulkiri
The Centre for Excellence on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and Nutrition (CE SAIN) – a joint development effort by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Royal University of Agriculture, Kansas State University in the US and the US government’s USAID development agency – inaugurated ...
Yuth Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/joint-project-agri-tech-launches-mondulkiri
Families say company duped them
Family members of a group of Cambodian workers arrested with fake passports in Thailand on Friday claimed yesterday they had got them through a recruitment agency in Cambodia – an allegation the company’s president denied. According to Hau, Anny Rita Best Manpower promised that the ...
James Hall and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-say-company-duped-them
Cambodia’s indigenous peoples struggle with digital literacy on eve of elections
Lek Karry has been using a smartphone for nearly two years but the grade 12 student admits she still struggles to distinguish between real and fake information online. ...
Startup Promises a Future for Former Boeng Kak Residents
In mid-August, on day seven of production at the Coco Khmer social enterprise, the team experienced a setback. Temperatures in the fermenting room must remain between 35 and 40 degrees to produce the organization’s virgin coconut oil, but the temperature on that rainy day refused to ...
Devon Geary and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/startup-promises-a-future-for-former-boeng-kak-residents-41532/
Cambodia election ranked 5th most flawed in survey
A new report by researchers from Harvard University and the University of Sydney has ranked Cambodia’s 2013 national election as the fifth most “flawed or failed” out of the 73 national ballots held around the world between July 2012 and December 2013. Based on surveys completed ...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-election-ranked-5th-most-flawed-in-survey-53518/