Dengue cases hit 1,000-mark in 2019
More than 1,000 cases of dengue fever have been reported so far this year, a number similar to that reported over the same period last year, said Leang Rithea, the dengue control programme manager at the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control. Rithea ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-cases-hit-1000-mark-2019
UN refugee agency joins search for Montagnards in Cambodia
A team from the United Nations refugee agency traveled to northeast Cambodia Wednesday to meet with 13 ethnic Montagnards seeking asylum in the country after fleeing alleged persecution in Vietnam, according to an agency spokesperson and a member of a local rights group. United Nations High ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/search-12032014184633.html
CNM: Malaria cases decrease by half, dengue fever triples
A 49 percent decrease has been recorded last year for the number of malaria cases in the Kingdom compared to the same period in 2018, the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control revealed. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50695524/cnm-malaria-cases-decrease-by-half-dengue-fever-triples
Factory ordered to clean act
The Ministry of Labour has ordered management at a Kandal province garment factory to clean their workroom and limit employees’ overtime hours, in response to over 100 workers fainting over two days. During a visit to King First Industrial Co, Ltd’s Kandal location yesterday, Seng Sakada, ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factory-ordered-clean-act
Commerce chief asks Canada to mull Cambodia trade deal
Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak has asked Canada to explore the possibility of establishing a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with the Kingdom as soon as practicable to improve trade flows between the two countries. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commerce-chief-asks-canada-mull-cambodia-trade-deal
Quality upgrade: PM urges educators to enhance teaching skills
As part of the Pentagonal Strategy to boost education, Prime Minister Hun Manet has urged educators to enhance their teaching skills for the betterment of their students. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501518059/quality-upgrade-pm-urges-educators-to-enhance-teaching-skills/
Controversial domestic abuse law under government review
A domestic violence law long criticized by human rights and gender advocacy NGOs for inadequately protecting abuse victims is being reviewed by the GOvernment in a renewed effort to reduce violence against women. ...
Sonia Kohlbacher
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/controversial-domestic-abuse-law-government-review-117232/
Weekend market to be extended to other targeted provinces
The Weekend Market, one of the major activities of Accelerating Inclusive Markets for Smallholders (AIMS) project, will be extended to other targeted provinces and Phnom Penh capital in the near future, to promote local agro-commercial products. ...
Nika/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50761683/weekend-market-to-be-extended-to-other-targeted-provinces/
Over 100 factories launched so far this year
More than 100 factories have started operations in the Kingdom in the last eight months, according to a report from the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. The latest report from the ministry shows that, from January to August, 116 new factories registered with the ministry, ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536507/over-100-factories-launched-so-far-this-year/
9,000 workers receive soft skills training
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MoLVT) had organised a soft skills Training courses for 8,585 workers from different factories, four of which are located in Phnom Penh and three others in Kandal, Kampong Speu and Pursat provinces. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50739551/9000-workers-receive-soft-skills-training/
ADBโs $40 mil loan for clean water, sanitation, education
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $40 million loan to boost access to clean water, sanitation and education at grassroots level through reforms in public finance and decentralisation. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501331743/adbs-40-mil-loan-for-clean-water-sanitation-education/
MoT, WWF team up to promote green tourism
The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) teamed up To promote ‘green Tourism’ in the Kingdom by prioritising the conservation of natural resources while promoting the use of renewable energy aimed at turning the country inTo a world-class Tourism ...
Nhean Chamrong
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501445996/mot-wwf-team-up-to-promote-green-tourism/
Information Minister Promotes Gov't Use of Social Media
Minister of Information Khieu Kanarith has encouraged all provincial and city information departments to set up and maintain their own homepages, websites and profiles on the Internet, including popular social networking sites such as Facebook, officials said yesterday. The minister, who posts frequent updates ...
China-backed AIIB to take concrete shape
One of China’s biggest ever foreign policy successes will take concrete shape on Monday when delegates from 57 countries sign an agreement on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing. ...
Brenda Goh and Koh Gui Qing
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12682/china-backed-aiib-to-take-concrete-shape/
Govt provides robust assistance to 1.3 million migrant workers
A senior official at the Ministry of Labour said that as of June, 2024, there were approximately 1.3 million Cambodian migrant workers living abroad, with most of them located in Thailand and South Korea. ...
Potholes on a path to progress
Cambodia marginally improved its global competitive ranking this year, moving up five spots to place 90th out of 144 nations surveyed, with weak public institutions and lack of innovation continuing to affect its economic progress, according to a newly released World Economic Forum report.The Global ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/potholes-path-progress
Pich Sros raises dam issues
Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) president Pich Sros on Tuesday raised four issues faced by residents of Kampong Speu and Takeo provinces regarding dam constructions and submitted his report to the Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor. Sros told The Post that the ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pich-sros-raises-dam-issues
Cambodia seeking stronger economic, trade ties with US
The Cambodian government has called on more US investors to build economic and trade relations with the Kingdom, the Ministry of Commerce said. The call was made at a meeting between the US Ambassador to Cambodia Patrick Murphy and Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak during the ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodia-seeking-stronger-economic-trade-ties-us
VN-Laos-Cambodia join hands to fight drug trafficking
Kou Chansina, chairman of the National Committee for Drug Control of Laos, and Kao Khondara, vice chairman of Cambodia’s National Committee for Drug Control, attended the conference. Today, senior officials from the three countries will sign a joint statement on anti-crime, which will focus on ...
Vietnamnet News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/148581/vn-laos-cambodia-join-hands-to-fight-drug-trafficking.html
School budgets to be used to buy water
In an attempt to solve the water shortages plaguing schools across the country, the Minister for Education advised all schools to use money from their own budgets to buy water, despite some schools saying they do not have the funds to do so. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24540/school-budgets-to-be-used-to-buy-water/