Using ICT and Maps in promoting STEM Education for the public high school in Cambodia
The project Cambodian Civil Society Strengthening (CCSS), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the East-West Management Institute (EWMI), has been implemented by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) in collaboration with the Department of Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, Youth ...
Cambodia: Rich-poor gap hinders ASEAN integration
Southeast Asian nations must redouble efforts to bridge development gaps which threaten the region’s efforts to create an EU-style single market, Cambodia’s prime minister said Monday. Building an ASEAN economic community by 2015 is the “top priority”, Hun Sen said as he opened the annual ...
Fully tapping potential of RCEP by Cambodia
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a catalyst of regional economic growth, integration and connectivity in the Asia Pacific, accounting for about 30 percent of global GDP and one-third of the world’s population. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501267503/fully-tapping-potential-of-rcep-by-cambodia/
Tourist arrivals top estimates
The number of tourists to arrive in Cambodia in 2012 was at least 200,000 higher than expectations, possibly reaching 3.5 million, officials said yesterday. Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism, told the Post yesterday that in the first 11 months of 2012, Cambodia received 3.2 million tourists, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013010160559/Business/tourist-arrivals-top-estimates.html
Borei Keila evictees will be given a lift back to vote
Borei Keila evictees will have a chance to revisit the area they were forcibly evicted from this Sunday when authorities truck them back from the makeshift tents of their relocation site for a special purpose – to vote. Touch Khorn, a representative of the Borei Keila ...
Moody's offers update on Kingdom's credit outlook
Improved fiscal management and preparation for a decline in foreign aid would help increase Cambodia’s credit rating, according to a quarterly credit opinion from Moody’s Investor Service, which maintained a stable outlook for the country. Reduced exposure to crisis and stagnation in Western economies, continued foreign ...
Workers say ASEAN integration won’t bring them home
When Asean more closely integrates economically later this year, more goods and services will flow freely between member states.But that will likely mean a greater outflow of Cambodian workers abroad, and not the reverse, workers say. That includes travel to countries outside Asean, like South ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/workers-say-asean-integration-wont-bring-them-home/2947051.html
Education minister promotes digital transformation
Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron addressed an international conference on digital transformation in Cambodia. The conference aimed to raise awareness and seek input and contributions into the digital transformation of Cambodia, widely seen as necessary to ensure the Kingdom will remain competitive, ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-minister-promotes-digital-transformation
Cambodian opposition lawmaker wants probe of nepotism claims
A senior Cambodian opposition lawmaker has lodged a complaint against a high-ranking, ruling-party official in parliament, accusing him of corruption and nepotism, but is frustrated by the lack of response. Son Chhay, from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), charged that Mith Karen, parliament’s deputy ...
Roseanne Gerin
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/nepotism-10282014183526.html
Single Portal third phase unveiled
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) yesterday launched the third phase of its Online Business Registration System, known as the Single Portal, integrating the service of issuing licenses, certificates, professional licenses, and other relevant documents from 12 ministries and institutions. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501312829/single-portal-third-phase-unveiled/
On garment exports, gov’t figures vary wildly
Cambodia’s critical garment industry may be doing significantly better than Commerce Ministry figures suggest, judging by the Finance Ministry’s count, but just whose numbers to trust is up for debate. ...
Zsombor Peter and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-garment-exports-govt-figures-vary-wildly-81437/
Kingdom’s arable land all but gone
If the government continues to grant economic land and mining concessions at the current rate, there will be no more arable land left in the country to give away within one year, a researcher from the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights said yesterday. Pointing to the ...
US praises growth in the Kingdom’s digital sector
US ambassador Patrick Murphy praised the growth of the Kingdom’s digital sector and expressed hope of expanding cooperation between the two countries in the sector. Cambodia has a high rate of mobile phone users. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-praises-growth-kingdoms-digital-sector
Gov’t seeks to incentivise green practices
Members of the government and private sector met yesterday in Phnom Penh to discuss ideas and solutions aimed at facilitating the growth of eco-friendly technologies and practices in Cambodia. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-seeks-incentivise-green-practices
China offers scholarships to 62 Cambodian students
Sixty-two Cambodian students have gotten annual scholarships for their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in various universities in China, according to Chinese News Agency (Xinhua). ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/china-offers-scholarships-to-62-cambodian-students-8789
Teachers union worried textbooks may be sold
A district education official in Preah Vihear may be hoarding state textbooks to sell at the market rather than distributing them to perennially book-strapped schools, according to the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (CITA). ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-union-worried-textbooks-may-be-sold
Fretting 'ASEAN-alisatinon'
The vision regional leaders have for an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 may become clearer after this week’s Economic Ministers meeting in Siem Reap, but not everyone has a rose-coloured view of what such integration might mean for Cambodia. Students who have not mastered the ...
Wrangling over wage may spur new unrest
Unions representing garment workers have pledged to reignite protests if the minimum wage for the industry is raised to only $115 next year, a sum they say was offered by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia during a meeting on Friday. The Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wrangling-over-wage-may-spur-new-unrest
‘Technicians, skilled labourers crucial for tech investments’
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday reiterated the importance of increasing the number of technicians and skilled labourers to attract new high-end technology investment projects to Cambodia. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501265404/technicians-skilled-labourers-crucial-for-tech-investments/
Cambodia's foreign trade up 15% amid ongoing political row
Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries has increased by 15 percent in the first quarter of 2014 even though the internal conflict between the ruling and opposition parties over July election results remains unsolved. The figures of the Commerce Ministry showed Tuesday that the Southeast Asian ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=213997