Svay Rieng province to be declared mine-free in 2023
The south-eastern province of Svay Rieng is expected to achieve mine-free status next year through Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Project for Mine Action (STP-MA) themed “Providing Safe Ground, Creating smiles”. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501139308/svay-rieng-province-to-be-declared-mine-free-in-2023/
$9.6 billion 2023 national budget approved
The Council of Ministers has approved a draft budget for 2023 of 39,206,205 million riels, or $9.6 billion, a 13 percent increase on 2022. ...
Prak Chan Thul
https://kiripost.com/stories/96-billion-2023-national-budget-approved
Foreign tourists to reach 3m in 2023
Tourism leaders remain confident the sector will further rebound in 2023, attracting three million international arrivals. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/foreign-tourists-to-reach-3m-in-2023
Education ministry: 8,619 full scholarships for 2023-24
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport announced that they would provide over 8,000 full scholarships for students to pursue undergraduate degrees for the next academic year 2023-2024. . ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-ministry-8619-full-scholarships-2023-24
Trademark registrations up 3.87 percent in 2023
Local and global firms made 8,513 trademark registrations with the Ministry of Commerce in 2023, an increase of 3.87 percent when compared to the previous year. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501417559/trademark-registrations-up-3-87-percent-in-2023/
New fines for faintings
The minister of labour has sent a stern warning to garment factories to take measures to end mass faintings or face the consequences. Speaking after a safety workshop yesterday, Ith Sam Heng said the government will get tougher on factories, fining those that didn’t provide safe ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-fines-faintings
Open Development Cambodia publishes a new dataset on “Land cover in Cambodia (2015-2020)”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Land cover in Cambodia (2015-2020)”. This bilingual new dataset highlights 15 classes of land cover throughout Cambodia and allows it to download for purposes.=> Please click here to go to “Land cover in Cambodia (2015-2020)”. ...
Unions in push for park rally
As the razor-wire came down from Freedom Park on Wednesday, a group of unions quickly filed a request to be the first people to hold a demonstration inside the park since it was put into lockdown in early January. The letter, obtained by the Post yesterday, calls on ...
Mom Kunthear and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-push-park-rally
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on "Mining concessions in Cambodia (1995–2022)"
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “Mining concessions in Cambodia (1995–2022)” by adding 1 new map feature of the mining concession of Angkor Resources Corp. in Oddarmeanchey province. This dataset contains data for mining concessions in Cambodia from 1995 to 2022. The ...
The 42nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment
From 08 – 11 May 2023, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) attended the 42nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment under the theme of “Resilience through impact assessment and leadership” at Kuching, Malaysia. As part of the partnership on technical assistance for developing ...
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 2 new map features in Kep and Pursat province. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some area ...
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification”
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 01 new map features in Phnom Penh. This dataset contains information regarding the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some area in Phnom ...
Press release on the GovTech conference under the theme "Empowring Digital Transformation in the Public Sector"
On 24 October 2023, at the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology (CADT), H.E. Chea Vandeth, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) and Chairman of the Digital Government Committee (CDC) presided over the opening ceremony of the first GovTech conference, under the theme “Empowering Digital Transformation ...
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT)
Deforestration drivers
Deforestation has been one of the most significant changes the Cambodian landscape has undergone in recent decades. Key drivers of this process have been land concessions and subsequent land conversion, and large-scale illegal logging. ...
UNICEF urges govt to enhance efforts to end child violence
During a three-day visit to Cambodia, UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Director Debora Comini met with ministry officials and development partners to enhance efforts to end violence against children and end unnecessary family separation. ...
Som Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501404777/unicef-urges-govt-to-enhance-efforts-to-end-child-violence/
Worker insurance near
The government’s long-pledged health insurance scheme for private sector employees, including factory workers, is just around the corner, officials promised yesterday while refusing to name a more specific date. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Labour held a public forum on the insurance plan, which is expected ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/worker-insurance-near
Hundreds protest: Land grab feared after posts appear
Five hundred villagers in Preah Vihear province protested yesterday outside the office of FP Malaysia Plantation Company, which they say is attempting to take their land. Rith Sothon, a village representative in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district, said the villagers filed a complaint after the company placed ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hundreds-protest-land-grab-feared-after-posts-appear
Labor policy and administration
Children working with bricks, Cambodia. Photo by Sodanie Chea, take on 6 June 2013. Licensed under CC BY 2.0Cambodia has a total population of slightly over 15 million, most of whom are under the age of 30. An estimated 250,000 people enter the job market ...
Outcomes of the Council of Ministers’ plenary session on October 04, 2021
On 08 October 2021, the Council of Ministers issued a press release on the outcomes of the Council of Ministers’ plenary session on October 04, 2021 to review and discuss on:Draft constitution on the amendment to the new Articles 19, 82, 106 (1), 119, and ...
Council of Ministers
Interactions between the national policies, plans, and frameworks by sector
[[“Sectoral Aim”,”Policies linked to Sendai Framework for DRR”,”Policies linked to SDG”,”Policies linked to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change”],[“National Development”,”Strategic National Action Plan for DRR (NAPDRR) 2019-2023″,”Climate Change Strategic Plan (2014-2023)\nNational Strategic Development Plan (2019-2023)”,”National Strategic Plan on Green Growth (2013-2030)\nCambodia Climate Change Strategic ...