Flood instructions issued for schools to bolster safety
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport on Wednesday issued guidelines for schools to lessen the impact of flood damage. Minister Hang Chuon Naron said the recent flash floods have affected school buildings, study materials and equipment. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flood-instructions-issued-schools-bolster-safety
Firm eyes Svay Rieng to set up tyre factory
According to a feasibility study revealed in a report published by Tyrepress Media, the tire-maker is interested in building a facility within Svay Rieng province’s QiLu (Cambodia) Special Economic Zone that is capable of making five million semi-steel radials a year. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firm-eyes-svay-rieng-set-tyre-factory
Teachers, parents urged to promote online education
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport continues to advise teachers and parents of students to encourage study through e-learning by accessing lessons from the ministry’s website and social media. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/teachers-parents-urged-promote-online-education
Climate-proof farming techniques ‘boost yields’
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon presented a study on water and soil management using climate-wise farming techniques that can help farmers adapt to climate change and increase their rice yields at the same time. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/climate-proof-farming-techniques-boost-yields
China set to open gates for Cambodian ‘pra’ fish exports
China will import “pra” fish from Cambodia in the near future, once technical experts study and assess sanitary and other associated risks in virtual inspections and give the all-clear, Chinese ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian affirmed on December 6. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-set-open-gates-cambodian-pra-fish-exports
Minister of Agriculture inspects and discusses rice situation in Battambang province
Dith Tina, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, and other leaders met with Sok Loo, Governor of Battambang Province, and Oknha Phu Puy, Director General of Green Rice Mills in Battambang Province, to study the real situation of rice prices. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501358391/minister-of-agriculture-inspects-and-discusses-rice-situation-in-battambang-province/
Stopping outflow: New private school licensing halted to address teacher exodus
Minister of Education, Youth, and Sport Hang Chuon Naron has decided to temporarily suspend the setting up of new private educational institutions, especially in Phnom Penh, while studying how teacher migration to these establishments is affecting the quality of public schools. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/1351935/stopping-outflow-new-private-school-licensing-halted-to-address-teacher-exodus/
Bush meat poses ‘virus threat’
According to a recent scientific study, many of the viruses that caused some of the world’s most serious health risk outbreaks were transmitted from wild animals to humans. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bush-meat-poses-virus-threat
Delegation of US-ABC eying trade and investment potential and opportunities in Cambodia
Delegation of US-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC), led by its Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director H.E. Michael Michalak, have been on a visit to CamboDia to study more potential and opportunities of trade and investment. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501247354/delegation-of-us-abc-eying-trade-and-investment-potential-and-opportunities-in-cambodia/
China considering additional SEZs in Kingdom
China has agreed to study the possibility of creating more special economic zones (SEZ) in Cambodia, while pledging to encourage Chinese companies to invest in the Kingdom, as well as expanding agricultural imports from Cambodia. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-considering-additional-sezs-in-kingdom
Fund raising: Kingdom may borrow more in 2012
Cambodia could borrow US$1.1 billion from other countries in 2012, 75 per cent more than this year, to help repair infrastructure damaged in flooding and support efforts to increase rice exports to one million tonnes by 2015, a senior official said yesterday. Cheam Yeap, chairman of ...
Prasac seeks commercial bank status
PRASAC, Cambodia’s largest microfinance institution by outstanding loans, planned to become a licensed commercial bank in the Kingdom, company officials said yesterday. The news comes despite calls from insiders and experts – most recently the International Monetary Fund and World Bank – for the National ...
Investment needed to reach rice goal: experts
More investment is needed as well as additional assistance for farmers if the government wants to meet its export goal of 1 million tons of rice a year by 2015, according to experts at a recent rice sector meeting in Phnom Penh. Participants said rice millers would need substantial access ...
Buying property by installment on the increase
The market for Khmer home-buyers purchasing property by installments is booming, according to experts. Keuk Narin, vice president of Asia Real Estate Cambodia, said the concept of buying homes by installments in Cambodia is very attractive to those whom want to buy a house. Almost all housing projects that offer installment purchases see good business, ...
Thailand, Cambodia mull joint business, trade body
Thailand and Cambodian signed an agreement for the formation of a joint business council to promote bilateral trade and investment. The memorandum of understanding was officially endorsed on Tuesday evening by Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen on the sidelines of ...
http://www.pattayamail.com/news/thailand-cambodia-mull-joint-business-trade-body-23289
Land activist to be released
Outspoken land activist Kuch Veng will regain his freedom in 15 days after the Pursat provincial court yesterday handed down a guilty verdict with a one-year sentence, then suspended nearly three quarters of that term. Veng has been in prison since May 19 on charges of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-activist-be-released
Rainsy says CNRP doesn’t recognize newly-formed government
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday said that the CNRP doesn’t recognize the newly-formed government of Prime Minister Hun Sen. Speaking at a news conference, he urged all international communities and countries of the Paris Peace Agreement to condemn “this ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NDAyMDdiZDljZDY#sthash.hG32ZEwp.dpuf
China provides mine clearance training to Cambodian soldiers
A team of 12 Chinese military experts on Thursday started offering a six-week mine clearance course to 52 Cambodian peacekeeping force. The training is being held at the Institute for Peacekeeping Forces, Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Clearance. According to the Cambodian Mine Action Authority, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/131205/china-provides-mine-clearance-training-cambodian-soldiers
Kratie land dispute goes on
Hundreds of families from Kratie province’s Snuol district who were promised new plots of land after a Vietnamese rubber firm evicted them last month have complained that provincial officials are allowing hundreds of interlopers to stake a claim instead. The 405 families were evicted from the ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-land-dispute-goes
Prey Speu tales conflict
Following last week’s street sweep, children as young as 7 years old were kept in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre, eyewitnesses, staff and those targeted by the initiative have told the Post, directly contradicting government denials offered earlier this week. Standing at the centre’s ...
Alice Cuddy and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-speu-tales-conflict