Ministry of Interior signs MoU with four universities to strengthen research
The National School of Local Administration of the Ministry of Interior yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the National University of Battambang, National University of CheaSim Kamchaymear, National University of Meanchey, and University of Kratie to jointly strengthen and develop research in all forms, especially related to capacity ...
Torn Vibol
https://tinyurl.com/4d65vbcn
CAMBODIA: Study shows school attendance rises with safe water drinking & child hydration
Considered the world’s most valuable fluid, fresh clean water is a commodity that can become a life-and-death issue. Lack of it can also contribute to a child’s absenteeism rate in Cambodia, says a newly released study report by Research Advisor Helen Risebro and Professor Paul Hunter ...
Women News Network (WNN) News Staff
http://womennewsnetwork.net/2014/03/18/cambodia-school-attendance/
To stop leaks, exam papers to be given to only one teacher
Copies of grade 12 examination papers will only be provided to a single teacher for each subject this year in order to identify the source of leaks, said Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron during a speech on Saturday. Mr. Naron, speaking at the American University of ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/to-stop-leaks-exam-papers-to-be-given-to-only-one-teacher-59555/
Hun Sen receives award for leadership
Prime Minister Hun Sen received the Leadership and Good Governance Award from the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) on Tuesday at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Summit at the Peace Palace in the capital. The award was presented by UPF co-founder Hak Ja Han Moon after delivering her ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-receives-award-leadership
Payments lagging as deadline for telecom fees approaches
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has collected less than one-third of a set of annual fees owed to it by telecommunications companies by the end of this month, with more than 80 percent of the fees so far coming from a single provider. ...
Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/payments-lagging-deadline-telecom-fees-approaches
Med students won’t boycott test
Medical students who vowed on Sunday to boycott the first government-ordered national exams under claims of discrimination backtracked on their threats yesterday. Da Nhel, 27, a representative of the student doctors, said that just hours after threatening to boycott the exams, which were approved by the ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/med-students-won%E2%80%99t-boycott-test
Cambodian PM says state's institutions to be strengthened after opposition ends parliament boycott
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that the state’s institutions will be further strengthened after the opposition ended a 10-months long boycott of parliament over disputed election results in July last year. “The normalcy of all state institutions in the legislative, executive and judicial ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-08/11
IT Centre at Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University set up under Quick Impact Projects (QIP) Scheme of Government of India
Samdech Preah Abhisiri Sugandha MahasangharajahDhipati Kitti Uddessa Pandita BOUR Kry, the Supreme Patriarch of Dhammayuttikanikaya of the Kingdom of Cambodia, Rector of the Preah Sihamoniraja Buddhist University (PSBU), Royal Government of Cambodia and Dr. Devyani Khobragade, Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Cambodia have ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501420103/it-centre-at-preah-sihamoniraja-buddhist-university-set-up-under-quick-impact-projects-qip-scheme-of-government-of-india/
Cambodia, EU discuss human rights cooperation
Cambodia and the European Union (EU) have discussed more cooperation on human rights in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501424451/cambodia-eu-discuss-human-rights-cooperation/
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
France offers scholarship to 98 Cambodian students
Eighty-two Cambodian students have been selected for a scholarship program to continue their master and doctoral degrees at France’s universities in the field of economics, law, medical studies, engineering, French-language teaching and tourism. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/france-offers-scholarship-to-98-cambodian-students-8791
Cambodian Stock Exchange Set to Launch
The Cambodian Stock Exchange(CSX) has prepared its initial public offerings in a symbolic launch, though no public trading was offered. Finance Minister Keat Chhon and his South Korean partners hold a 49 percent stake in exchange. Two state-owned companies will go public including: the Phnom ...
Officer convicted of fraud still employed at Defense University
A military officer convicted of fraud and sentenced to one year in prison in October is still employed by the National Defense University (NDU), the school confirmed this week, despite the fact that the officer’s co-conspirator is now behind bars. ...
Buth kimsay and Taylor O'connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officer-convicted-of-fraud-still-employed-at-defense-university-112874/
Senator Kok An's Case Back in
The Appeal Court yesterday began hearing now-incarcerated former Anco Brothers deputy general director Heng Chheang’s appeal against Senator Kok An’s requested Phnom Penh Municipal Court injunction over his property. Chheang, and his wife, Tep Kolap, former Phnom Penh International University director, were convicted and sentenced to ...
Fund Set Up to Raise Money For Victim of Police Shooting
An expatriate living in Phnom Penh has set up a fund to raise $3,000 over the next month to help pay the medical expenses of a student shot in the spine by a police officer at the SL Garment Factory workers’ protest last month. Hoeurn Chann, ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fund-set-up-to-raise-money-for-victim-of-police-shooting-48841/
Cambodia to rear prawns in ‘third water’
Cambodian farmers will open three prawn farms this summer in the mountain region using Japanese technique of ‘third water’ for creating artificial river and seawater The artificial water is a blend of fresh water and a carefully measured mix of minerals, including salts of sodium, potassium ...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3463:cambodia-to-rear-prawns-in-third-water&catid=1080&Itemid=97
PM proposes law to prevent rent increase
During a graduation ceremony at Royal University of Law and Economics, Prime Minister Hun Sen said he and the opposition leader agreed to create a law to prevent landlords from raising rent. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/pm-proposes-law-to-prevent-rent-increase-8172
Building back better with access to information
UNESCO and the Ministry of Information, and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the Department of Media and Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and civil society organisations, are commemorating the 2021 International Day of Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) in Cambodia, on ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50942865/building-back-better-with-access-to-information/
MoEYS takes part in World Week of Scientific Francophonie in France
A delegation from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) attended the opening ceremony of the 4th edition of the World Week of Scientific Francophonie in Toulouse, France. ...
Mom Kunthea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501575855/moeys-takes-part-in-world-week-of-scientific-francophonie-in-france/
Students compete in counseling competition
About 30 law students on Friday participated in the seventh Client Counseling Competition to put their newly acquired professional skills into practice and compete for a trip to the international competition in Puerto Rico in April. “We created the case based on this year’s theme, ...
Denise Hruby
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-compete-in-counseling-competition-52970/