Cambodians hopeful on girls’ education after Obama visit
Phorn Chan Bonavy is a 6th grader at Kesaraream Elementary School in Siem Reap, where First Lady Michelle Obama just completed a three-day visit—the first sitting first lady to do so. However, she seems determined to complete school, even though that will require she help ...
Say Mony
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/article/2690544.html
Child labourer injuries rife
Over 85 per cent of child domestic workers in Phnom Penh are injured in the course of their employment, research into child labour released yesterday revealed. The Cambodian Development Research Institute and World Vision International are jointly examining child labour practices in the Kingdom, and the ...
Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/child-labourer-injuries-rife
The economics of ELCs
Economic land concessions in Cambodia have a profound and negative impact upon rural households located near the plantations, severely limiting residents’ access to natural resources and causing incomes to dip by almost a fifth, a new study by the University of Copenhagen has found. The report, ...
Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/economics-elcs
Almost 100 percent vaccinated induces decision to resume in-class all levels
The days of home study or online learning are coming to an end soon, brought about by the high rate of vaccination across all age groups, except toddlers and children up to five years old. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50956817/almost-100-percent-vaccinated-induces-decision-to-resume-in-class-all-levels/
‘Eco-tourism’ development on the cards for Koh Thmey isle
Local company HTTH Island Investment Co Ltd is reportedly studying the feasibility of a 16.68sq km “eco-tourism” development project on Koh Thmey island, just southeast of Prey Nop district’s Ream National Park in Preah Sihanouk province. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/eco-tourism-development-cards-koh-thmey-isle
Ministry forming working group on migrant schools
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Samheng is establishing a working group to study the feasibility of arranging school facilities for the children of migrant workers both in the country and abroad. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-forming-working-group-migrant-schools
Prek Ambel eyed for Bassac sea link
Cambodia is pushing to complete a study on the feasibility of using southeastern Kandal province’s Prek Ambel village as the starting point for the Bassac River waterway link to the sea in Kep province. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prek-ambel-eyed-bassac-sea-link
Ministry, CI test pilot camera trap project damoms
The biodiversity and science team from Conservation International (CI) Cambodia, in collaboration with rangers from the Ministry of Environment, are conducting a camera trap distance sampling pilot study in the Central Cardamom Mountain National Park. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-ci-test-pilot-camera-trap-project-damoms
Cambodia confirms readiness to exit LDC status
Cambodia confirmed its readiness to exit the Least Developed Countries (LDC) status, saying that studies on the impacts of the exit, challenges and the loss of trade preference schemes have been made. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501231715/cambodia-confirms-readiness-to-exit-ldc-status/
Increasing safety for female journalists
A project to improve the safety of women journalists is slated to start this month after a study revealed an increasing number of women in the media experience violence ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-increasing-safety-for-female-journalists
Medical bills lead many into debt, survey reveals
Small-scale health insurance policies can be an effective way to avoid drowning in debt, according to a survey released yesterday. Fifty-eight percent of 5,275 households surveyed in Kandal, Takeo and Kampot provinces had taken out loans, with health care and medical costs being the chief reason, ...
Cambodia can achieve SDGs, but deep fiscal reform needed: ADB report
Cambodia has a good chance of achieving its social protection agenda under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but will need to balance different social protection investments, according to a report published on Wednesday by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). With the right fiscal reforms and policies ...
NGOs ordered to retract MFI report
The government yesterday ordered two NGOs to retract a critical report on the negative impacts of microloans after summoning their representatives for a meeting to defend their research. The report, published last month by Licadho and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut, featured seven case studies of abuse chosen ...
Khuon Narim
http://Khuon Narim
JICA moots city transit system
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is helping Cambodia conduct a feasibility study on an automated gateway transit system (AGT) to overcome Phnom Penh’s daily gridlock, caused by traffic congestion, during peak hours. Hideaki Wase, an urban transportation advisor in JICA, told Khmer Times yesterday that ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28026/jica-moots-city-transit-system/
NGOs slam the new Mekong dam
Environmental organizations and civil society groups have expressed concern at plans to build another dam along the Mekong River in Laos and asked the Lao government to suspend the project due to the effects it will have on communities, water flow and fishery resources in ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35615/ngos-slam-the-new-mekong-dam/
Gender course to be piloted at Royal University
Gender studies will be incorporated into the curriculum at Cambodia’s largest university in an effort to shape the country’s top students’ views on the role of women in society, educators and experts said on Wednesday at a workshop on the course. A pilot program will begin ...
Holly Robertson and Sun Heng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gender-course-to-be-piloted-at-royal-university-63740/
Japan bank to join hands with Cambodia
Japanese regional bank Shiga Bank said that it will join hands with major Cambodian bank Canadia Bank Plc by the end of the month to gain access to economic information in the Southeast Asian country to provide to Japanese companies. It will be the first partnership ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/446702/japan-bank-to-form-tie-up-with-cambodia-bank
Keeping women out of the work force is economic nonsense
Gender equality is “humanity’s biggest project,” Lakshmi Puri told the U.N. this past week. Puri, the deputy executive director of U.N. Women, wants to achieve “Planet 50-50” by 2030. When it comes to the workplace, equal employment opportunities aren’t just a benefit to women. Several new ...
Thomas K. Grose
http://n.pr/1CfvrKL
China gives $3m for city surveillance system
The Chinese government on Tuesday donated $3 million to Cambodia to set up a closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system across Phnom Penh to help cut down on crime and traffic accidents, according to the national police. “This is a donation from the Chinese Ministry of Public ...
Sek Odom and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-gives-3m-for-phnom-penh-surveillance-system-66349/