NCDM Lauds Flood Response, NGO Calls for Better Coordination
National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) Vice President Nhim Vanda on Wednesday lauded the flood response work of the Cambodian Red Cross and government, at a workshop to discuss the country’s National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction where several participants focused on the lack ...
Matt Blomberg and Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ncdm-lauds-flood-response-ngo-calls-for-better-coordination-46404/
Reports of Major Congestion at Poipet Checkpoint
Trucks and other vehicles have been backed up for up to a kilometer on either side of the Poipet border checkpoint for the past three days due to administrative changes on the Thai side, according to Cambodian officials. Khiet Bunleap, chief of staff for the Poipet ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/reports-of-major-congestion-at-poipet-checkpoint-48643/
Construction of Phnom Penh’s third ring road completed 40 percent
The construction of Phnom Penh’s third ring road has been completed nearly 40 percent, according to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT). The third ring road stretches from National Road 4 in Chumpu Voan village, Chaom Chau district, crossing National Road 3 and ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50743656/construction-of-phnom-penhs-third-ring-road-completed-40-percent/
Cambodia working towards independent foreign policy
Taking the baton for the third time as the ASEAN chair in 2022, Cambodia’s diplomatic tenacity was tested by the war in Ukraine, Myanmar’s political upheaval, cross-Strait tensions, COVID-19 and US–China competition. Despite this precarity, Cambodia steered ASEAN through geopolitically choppy waters. The outlook for 2023 ...
Chansambath Bong
https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2023/02/14/cambodia-working-towards-independent-foreign-policy/
Mekong Dams a Long-Term Risk to Food Security
The momentum toward large-scale dams on the Mekong River may be unstoppable, but governments must work fast to mitigate their effects on fisheries and biodiversity or risk long-term food insecurity for millions of people whose lives depend on the river and its tributaries, leading academics ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mekong-dams-a-long-term%E2%80%88risk-to-food-security-48415/
State borrowing may spike
Cambodia’s draft budget law for 2012 will seek to increase concessional borrowing by about 75 per cent compared to 2011, according to a copy of the draft obtained by the Post. A lack of aid commitment may have led to the increase in proposed borrowing, experts ...
Graduates not up to scratch: report
Cambodia’s tertiary system is not producing enough of the right type of graduates to meet the economy’s demands, says a report launched by the World Bank last week. The 222-page report, titled “Putting Higher Education to Work”, states that “quantity gaps are particularly strong in ...
Graduate convicted for bomb threat; sentence cut
The Siem Reap Provincial Court last week convicted Tao Savoeun, 26, of threatening to kill Interior Minister Sar Kheng at a graduation ceremony but will only require him to serve one month of his 15-month prison sentence, meaning he should be released within days.Mr. Savoeun, ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/graduate-convicted-for-bomb-threat-sentence-cut-98225/
Program aims for safer workplaces for women
A new program launched yesterday has its sights set on ending the endemic problem of sexual harassment against women in the workplace. A ceremony at the Hotel Cambodiana marked the start of Safe Workplaces, Safer Communities, a project run by CARE Cambodia. The three-year program, which will ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/program-aims-safer-workplaces-women
Gov’t rejects 4 human rights recommendations
Cambodia on Thursday rejected four recommendations for improving its human rights situation that it initially accepted earlier this year during its second universal periodic review at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. It also “noted” 38 recommendations—meaning it has not committed to implementing them—some relating ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-rejects-4-human-rights-recommendations-62584/
Ministry of Culture participates in the ASEAN-Korea Music Festival Committee Meeting
Kong Sothearith, Deputy Director General of the ASEAN Department of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, and So Sranos, Music Teacher of the Royal University of Fine Arts and Member of the National Representative Committee, attended the 2023 ASEAN-Korea Music Festival Committee Meeting from ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/1337461/ministry-of-culture-participates-in-the-asean-korea-music-festival-committee-meeting/
Cambodia in need of qualified librarians, says official
Mao Kolap, vice-president of Cambodian Librarian Associations, said yesterday that Cambodia requires more qualified librarians to match the standards of advanced libraries in other Asean countries. According to a report by the Cambodian Library Association, there are only three graduated librarians, while there are 400 ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501194185/cambodia-in-need-of-qualified-librarians-says-official/
Japan provides grant assistance for raising awareness of environment issues, promoting remedial study and developing quality university for physical education through ICT
On 27 February 2023, the Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia issued a press release on the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO projects. The Government of Japan will provide US$843,946 in total for three recipient organizations to carry out the following projects:Nature Center ...
Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Kingdom inflation rises on oil prices
Inflation in Cambodia rose 5.8 per cent year-on-year in January, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics. Rising fuel costs had spurred the inflation, which was felt largely in the price of food, officials said. Data showed food and non-alcoholic beverage prices in January increased ...
Chinese language study surging in Cambodia
As China has risen to become the world’s second-largest economy and cemented close political and economic ties with the Kingdom, many people see advantages in speaking the language of their powerful northern benefactor. From 1994 to 2011, data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia show ...
Upcoming Book Assesses Benefits and Limitations of Foreign Aid
A new book by a Cambodian-born author, due to be published this month, is set to bring the debate over Cambodia’s dependence on foreign aid into the spotlight. Since 1992, Cambodia has received more assistance for its development than almost any other country on the planet. ...
Cooperatives Key to Help Farmers, Combat Hunger
The key to lifting people out of poverty could be found in the setting up of farming cooperatives, the country director of the World Food Program said on Friday, which was also World Food Day. Jean-Pierre de Margerie, country director of the World Food Program, said ...
Kingdom lacks engineers: minister
Because Cambodia’s youth has not focused enough on studying technical or engineering subjects, the Kingdom now faces a lack of human resources and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports plans to reform the country’s education system, according to the minister in charge. Minister Im Sethy ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965901/Business/kingdom-lacks-engineers-minister.html
Youths to march for justice over shooting
More than 300 youth from around Cambodia plan to rally on Friday to demand justice for the man killed during the opposition party’s three-day demonstration last month. Participants from a variety of universities, high schools, youth clubs, civil societies and other groups will march from Wat ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/youths-march-justice-over-shooting