Workers should be taught to read: PM
At the kickoff for the National Literacy Campaign at the National Institute of Education in Phnom Penh on Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen called on private sector employers to introduce literacy classes for their employees. Reading classes will benefit both illiterate employees and their employers, the ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/workers-should-be-taught-read-pm
MP ‘injured’ at border
More than a dozen people were injured in a clash yesterday afternoon, when two opposition party lawmakers led some 200 Cambodians to inspect the Cambodia-Vietnam border in Svay Rieng province. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers Real Camerin and Um Sam An yesterday led nearly 200 youths, ...
Meas Sokchea and Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mp-injured-border
Cambodia aquaculture thrives amid coronavirus pandemic
Cambodia’s fish farming and aquaculture continue to rise in the local market despite the adverse effects felt in many other sectors in the Kingdom from coronavirus. ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50731637/cambodia-aquaculture-thrives-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/
Promoting Cambodia’s Digital Higher Education
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in cooperation with the International Centre for Higher Education Innovation of UNESCO (UNESCO-ICHEI) in Shenzhen is advancing higher education in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50763067/promoting-cambodias-digital-higher-education/
Free project tools platform for NGOs
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a lot of changes to people’s lifestyles and whether they are working, studying, celebrating or just talking. One of the biggest changes for everyone has been the increase in virtual gatherings via video conferencing services in place of holding in-person ...
Roth Sochieata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle-creativity-innovation/free-project-tools-platform-ngos
Capital updates all waste management service fees
The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration will introduce new solid waste management fees in the capital to ensure the regular flow of operations and in line with current developments in the country. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-updates-all-waste-management-service-fees
Cambodia’s remittances rise to $1.25B
Remittances from Cambodian migrant workers increased from $1.15 billion in 2021 to $1.25 billion in 2022 and are the third highest in the Asean as a share of national GDP after those of the Philippines and Vietnam, according to a new report. ...
Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501317625/cambodias-remittances-rise-to-1-25b/
Over 470 communes nationwide declared ODF
The Ministry of Rural Development confirmed that in 2022, the ministry had declared 472 communes in 39 districts in the country to have Open Defecation Free (ODF) status. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501225340/over-470-communes-nationwide-declared-odf/
Cambodia-ASEAN Business Summit slated for April
The Cambodian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) in collaboration with ASEAN Business Advisory Council Cambodia supported by the Cambodian Government will host the Cambodia-ASEAN Business Summit in April in Phnom Penh. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501445994/cambodia-asean-business-summit-slated-for-april/
Oxfam cites lack of protection for subcontracted garment workers
Subcontracted workers in Cambodia’s garment industry continue to face significant challenges in accessing social protection through the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), despite the crucial role these subcontractors play in the industry. ...
Som Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501510879/oxfam-cites-lack-of-protection-for-subcontracted-garment-workers/
ODC: Cambodia's forest cover to fall below 40% by 2023
Open Development Cambodia on September 1, 2024 released a report on forest cover in Cambodia from 2015 to 2023. In this report, ODC claims that forest cover in Cambodia will fall below 40% by 2023. ...
Luck Chandara
https://shorturl.at/K2Tgo
Phnom Penh Trash Collectors Dance for Demands
Piles of garbage festered on the streets of Phnom Penh on Tuesday as hundreds of workers employed by the city’s refuse collection company, Cintri, continued to strike for higher wages and better working conditions. At the company’s truck depot in Dangkao district Tuesday morning, more than ...
Ben Sokhean and Alice Cuddy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-trash-collectors-dance-for-demands-51432/
China, Cambodia Ink 29 Agreements for Economic and Trade Ties
The relations between People’s Republic of China and Cambodia have become closer in the way of culture, in which China is the most important strategic development partner in improving Cambodia’s economic growth through both financial and technical grant aids,” Mr. Eang Sophalet, assistant to Samdech ...
Call for Oversight of Cambodian Land Campaign
A land titling campaign in Cambodia launched and financed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s lacks transparency and could leave thousands of people landless, a human rights group said Wednesday, urging the country’s donors to push for reform of the program. The campaign, which employs volunteer youth ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-06122013150317.html
Land Titling Program Favors Wealthy Businessman
In Washington today, attendees of the World Bank’s Annual Conference on Land and Poverty will hear a flattering account of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ambitious project to furnish nearly half a million Cambodian families with new private land titles just in time for July’s national ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-titling-program-favors-wealthy-businessman-17831/
Key donors endorse election
The governments of Australia and France have congratulated Prime Minister Hun Sen on his election victory, becoming the first key Western donors to do so since the official election results were released on September 8. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also offered his congratulations to Hun Sen ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/key-donors-endorse-election
CNRP Marches Through Phnom Penh, Delivers Petition to UN
More than 10,000 opposition CNRP supporters marched from Freedom Park to the U.N.’s human rights office in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to deliver a petition urging signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement to intervene in the country’s current political deadlock. The march marked the climax ...
The Cambodia Daily News Staff
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-marches-through-phnom-penh-delivers-petition-to-un-45737/
Delays continue to constrain launch of Cambodia Airlines
For Cambodians aspiring to a career in aviation, this weekend looks promising. Almost seven months after its formal establishment, Cambodia Airlines is hosting a career fair in Phnom Penh. The airline is moving forward by looking for staff – from captains, first officers and cabin crew ...
Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/delays-continue-constrain-launch-cambodia-airlines
Report Says More Than 10 Percent of Children Are ‘Laborers’
More than 10 percent of children in the country aged between 5 and 17 work as laborers, with more than 5 percent engaged in “hazardous labor,” a situation that must be addressed by the government, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a report released ...
Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-says-more-than-10-percent-of-children-are-laborers-48198/
Cambodian PM unveils 5-year strategy, vowing deep reforms
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday announced his new government’s five-year strategy, vowing to deepen reforms in all fields to ensure sustainable growth and poverty reduction. “Reforms are the top priority for Cambodia and the country will continue deepening reforms in all fields in order ...
Nguon Sovan
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/25/c_132749682.htm