More kids in care than thought: study
Almost one in every 100 children in Cambodia is living in a residential care institution, a number far higher than previous estimates, according to a new report in the British Medical Journal. ...
Cristina Maza
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-kids-care-thought-study
Cambodia at ‘high’ risk of Zika outbreak in 2017
Amid reports of the emergence of the Zika virus in Myanmar and the discovery of the first birth defect believed linked to the virus in Vietnam, two researchers with Phnom Penh’s Pasteur Institute have concluded that Cambodia is at high risk of its own Zika ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-high-risk-zika-outbreak-2017
PM orders another logo change
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered microfinance institute (MFI) Prasac, one of the largest in Cambodia, to change its logo immediately for fear that the public may confuse it as representing the government. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35753/pm-orders-another-logo-change/
Banking shows steady growth
Cambodia’s financial sector saw healthy growth last year with increased deposits and profits amid slower credit growth, reflecting sustainable development and increased public confidence in the sector, according to a recently released central bank report. ...
Hor Kimsay and Matthieu de Gaudemar
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banking-shows-steady-growth
Expert urges gov’t to save site
An archaeologist is pleading the government to save an Angkorian-era canal before the work of brick makers completely erases the site. Built nearly 1,000 years ago, the 120-kilometre stone channel was used to transport building materials from a quarry to Angkor Wat, according to archaeologist Thuy ...
Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/expert-urges-gov%E2%80%99t-save-site
Techo Sen road repair course starts
The Techo Sen Institute of Public Works and Transport (TSI) announced the launch of a capacity building project on road maintenance methods to improve sustainable infrastructure in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, with the expectation that the project will provide an opportunity for the three countries ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/techo-sen-road-repair-course-starts
Job applications in the Republic of Korea at the Committee for Training and Sending Workers Abroad
On 25 March 2022, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on job applications in the Republic of Korea, made at the Committee for Training and Sending Workers Abroad, located at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia.The Committee for Training and Sending ...
Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training
Foreign ministry holds diplomatic-business friendship golf tournament
The National Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations (NIDIR) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFA.IC) organised here at the Garden City Golf Club on Oct. 3 the “Diplomacy-Business Friendship Golf Tournament” under the presidency of Deputy Prime Minister SokChendaSophea, Minister of ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501371074/foreign-ministry-holds-diplomatic-business-friendship-golf-tournament/
Cambodia’s financial sector still ‘strong’: Belgium’s Incofin
The Cambodian banking sector remains strong and not at significant risk of collapse, despite the occasional incidence of foreign investors pulling back after being spooked by “negative” news stories, according to Belgium-based global impact fund Incofin Investment Management Comm VA. ...
Rann Reuy
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cambodias-financial-sector-still-strong-belgiums-incofin
Contracts signed with farming families and rice production groups
A series of contracts have been implemented by 40 communities and six production groups, including a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a microfinance institution to guarantee payment at harvest time to 2,236 farming families. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/contracts-signed-with-farming-families-and-rice-production-groups
NBC closes 104 rural credit institutions
The Coalition of Cambodia Farmers Community said on Thursday that the recent shutdown of 104 rural credit institutions that provided loans to farmers will not affect their livelihoods, saying that past interest rates were high. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-nbc-closes-104-rural-credit-institutions
Six MDIs ideal for financial progress: experts
The central bank’s decision to stop issuing new business licences to microfinance deposit-taking institutions (MDI) and encourage mergers among existing banking and financial institutions is a viable strategy that will help strengthen the Cambodian financial sector and is in line with current economic growth trends, ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/six-mdis-ideal-financial-progress-experts
Smartphone ownership exploded since ’13: study
The number of Cambodians who own at least one smartphone has almost doubled since 2013, helping put the Kingdom on track to having more than half of its population accessing the web in about a year, according to a new study.Almost 95 per cent of ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/smartphone-ownership-exploded-13-study
CEDAC president steps down to focus on political party
Yang Sang Koma has announced that he will step down as president of the Cambodia Center for Study and Development of Agriculture (CEDAC) after his term finishes this year to focus his attention on the Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP). ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19220/cedac-president-steps-down-to-focus-on-political-party/
Oil dispute flares up
Secret meetings between high-ranking Thai and Cambodian officials to solve the demarcation of disputed offshore petroleum resources took place during the administration of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority revealed yesterday. In a statement some commentators described as “coordinated attack” by ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011083151353/Business/oil-dispute-flares-up.html
Sar Kheng hails road ‘white days’
Cambodia’s new Traffic Law has been a runaway success for road safety, Interior Minister Sar Kheng claimed yesterday, hours after a collision between two trucks carrying garment workers left two dead and nearly 60 injured. ...
Mech Dara and Jack Davies
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sar-kheng-hails-road-white-days
Royal Decree confers professorships on 276 teachers
King Norodom Sihamoni issued a Royal Decree granting the status of professors in the field of education to 276 teachers,from eight educational institutions, to increase work efficiency and as an incentive. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501331746/royal-decree-confers-professorships-on-276-teachers/
Prospects bright for solar in Kep
The Ministry of Environment has announced its support for a new 10-megawatt solar power development project in the coastal province of Kep to be spearheaded by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), a South Korea-based organisation set up by the UN in 2012 to chart ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prospects-bright-solar-kep
Veggie farming to trim kingdom’s import bill
Government officials, economists and businesses discussed the implementation of a draft program to invigorate vegetable farming in the Kingdom and cut imports from neighbouring countries in half by 2018. ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/veggie-farming-trim-kingdoms-import-bill
Don’t mention South China Sea, government tells Asean
The National Assembly will petition Asean officials to remove a reference to the South China Sea maritime dispute from an upcoming joint statement, officials confirmed on Tuesday, a move some analysts and diplomats say will again threaten regional cohesion. ...
Khuon Narim and Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dont-mention-south-china-sea-government-tells-asean-117083/