Report calls for foreign teacher trainers, higher salaries
Cambodia must significantly increase teachers’ salaries and import the best teacher trainers from abroad in order to combat a continuously widening gap between the skills employers are looking for and those the country’s graduates are able to provide, a new report says. Facing the worst student-teacher ...
Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-calls-for-foreign-teacher-trainers-higher-salaries-67184/
Clinton Discusses Investment, Debt in Cambodia
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Cambodia where she met with Prime Minister Hun Sen to discuss U.S. investment and Cambodia’s outstanding debt. Cambodia wants the United States to forgive more than $400 million in debt accrued by the US-backed military government of Lon ...
Sathapana borrows $15m for micro loans
Cambodian microfinance institution (MFI) Sathapana Limited will receive $15 million in loans to provide additional support to small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which make up the vast majority of the country’s businesses. The loan comes courtesy of German Investment and Development Company DEG, a subsidiary of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sathapana-borrows-15m-micro-loans
Youth conference on policy development and Open Government Partnership (OGP)
200 youth and youth representatives including monks and civil society organizations are ready to participate in promoting the principles, criteria and tools of Open Government Partnership (OGP) in order to support the Cambodian government to become a member of OGP. ...
Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC)
FAO announces winners of ‘green architecture’ contest
A team of five architecture students from two different universities in Phnom Penh won the rooftop cafeteria design competition organised by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Cambodia, with the results announced on International Youth Day (IYD). ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/fao-announces-winners-green-architecture-contest
Cambodia, Thailand say ‘no easy fix’ for Myanmar crisis
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has expressed serious concerns over the intense clashes in Loikaw – the capital of Myanmar’s Kayah State – between the military and armed opposition forces including the State’s largest ethnic minority militia. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/cambodia-thailand-say-no-easy-fix-myanmar-crisis
Private institutions
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NGOs say input and transparency are key
In the wake of a speech by Prime Minister Hun Sen denouncing civil society’s criticism of the way that three judiciary laws sailed through the Council of Ministers without outside input or transparency, NGOs released an open letter yesterday calling for the Kingdom’s renewed commitment ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-say-input-and-transparency-are-key
Mekong states sign on to UN policy on drugs
With the Kingdom in the middle of a controversial “war on drugs”, six Mekong countries agreed yesterday to adopt a regional drug policy that puts health care first, and mandates police and judicial cooperation. ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mekong-states-sign-un-policy-drugs
Cambodia's garment, footwear exports up 16 pct in Q1
Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, reported a 16 percent surge in exports in the first three months of 2014, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Monday. The Southeast Asian nation exported apparel and footwear products in equivalent to 1.56 billion U.S. ...
ASEAN - China Centre News Staff
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2014-04/28/c_133295843.htm
Cambodia looks to put its rice on the world’s plate
For as long as Cambodian rice farmers can remember, their product has had an unsavory reputation. Tough, dirty and unmilled, it was impossible to cook evenly, and even farmers traded it as pig feed in exchange for cash or better-quality rice from Vietnam or Thailand. Even ...
Kingdom nears ASEAN needs
Cambodia has met 70 per cent of the basic requirements needed to join the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday, referring to a recently updated report issued by the economic block. The Kingdom ranked third in preparedness among the 10 ASEAN member ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012021754563/Business/kingdom-nears-asean-needs.html
Smart axiata funds degrees for students
Ten students will have the opportunity to further their studies for free thanks to Smart Axiata’s SmartEdu Scholarship Program, which not only covers their entire tertiary education tuition, but has also awarded them a monthly stipend amounting to $15,000 for the duration of their degree. ...
Mayuri Mei Lin
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31378/smart-axiata-funds-degrees-for-students/
Kantha Bopha hospitals get another $1 million
The Cambodian government donated $1 million to Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals on July 18, said Minister of Health Mam Bunheng. The donation came to the free outpatient medical institution as it’s facing a budget shortfall. ...
GMAC to create new training institute
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has begun seeking technical advisors to assist in the creation of a Cambodia Garment Training Institute. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gmac-create-new-training-institute
Asia-Pacific officials discuss climate change in Cambodia
More than 100 officials from some 20 economies in Asia and the Pacific are meeting with donor institution representatives in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province in a bid to strengthen public financial management systems for climate change adaptation projects, said a news statement on Monday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140915/asia-pacific-officials-discuss-climate-change-cambodia
Calls out for vocational programme enrollments
The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has urged young people to promptly register for courses at technical institutes throughout the country. The move follows the government’s official announcement of a national programme on technical and vocational training for 1.5 million young individuals from impoverished ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/calls-out-for-vocational-programme-enrollments
Telecom Cambodia postpones plan to list on local bourse
State-owned fixed-line company Telecom Cambodia’s (TC) plan to join the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) has been postponed indefinitely because of its poor financial performance, reports The Phnom Penh Post. The company will need to redesign its business plan to improve operations, said Sarak Khan, secretary ...
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/telecom-cambodia-postpones-plan-to-list-on-local-bourse--931448
Most U.S. Firms Plan to Expand Business in SE Asia: Amcham
Eighty-five percent of U.S. companies in Southeast Asia plan to expand their business as the region will become more important in the next two years, the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Singapore said on Monday. “ASEAN continues to grow in importance for businesses in the ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/05/us-firms-asia-idUSTRE78411L20110905
Citibank (NYSE:C) sees business opportunities in Cambodia
Citibank, one of the largest banks in the United States and the World, is seeking for investment opportunities in Cambodia, a bank senior official said Tuesday. During a meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Cambodian Keat Chhon on Tuesday afternoon, Darren Buckley, country ...
http://www.livetradingnews.com/citibank-nysec-sees-business-opportunities-in-cambodia-87222.htm