Commune bosses 'need skill upgrade'
Speaking on Monday, Dr Touch pointed to an opposition CNRP policy of eliminating the Ministry of Rural Development and offering $500,000 dollars to commune chiefs to develop their local areas through projects such as road and bridge building. “We need commune chiefs who have studied to ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/38908/commune-bosses--need-skill-upgrade-/
PM: Join hands to lift post-Covid economy
Leaders in the region and beyond must advance various forms of bilateral and multilateral cooperative relations, and join hands to create meaningful traction in economic recoveries for when the spread of the novel coronavirus eases to a significant enough degree, according to Prime Minister Hun ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pm-join-hands-lift-post-covid-economy
‘Thinnest’ smartphone is set for debut in Cambodia
Two days after Huawei introduced the world’s thinnest smartphone in London and Singapore, the Cambodian representative office of the China-based company announced that the sleek device would be sold in the Kingdom in July. While the Chinese telecom giant hopes to increase its market share of ...
Timber by the numbers
Cambodia’s foremost logging baron exported more than 100,000 cubic metres of timber from Sihanoukville Port last year, likely including a species protected by an international treaty to which the Kingdom is a signatory, an analysis by Global Witness of leaked export records suggests. The data, obtained ...
Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-numbers
Defense ministry looking for recruits
The Ministry of National Defense announced on Friday that it is seeking more than 400 candidates to join the military in 2017. The announcement stated that the ministry was seeking both male and female candidates to work in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). Candidates must have ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30163/defense-ministry-looking-for-recruits/
Sandwiched between cultures
It was not her degree in finance and banking that encouraged Keo Sopheap to start her own business. It was her sister’s marriage to an American that introduced her to foreign fast food. Now Sopheap owns a sandwich shop in Phnom Penh. Sopheap, a Norton ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012090358438/Business/sandwiched-between-cultures.html
New maps show heavy deforestation in 2013
Newly released maps using U.S. satellite data show that Cambodia continued to suffer major deforestation in 2013, much of it in nominally protected forests and wildlife sanctuaries. In November 2013, the University of Maryland released what it said was the first study to combine a consistent ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-maps-show-heavy-deforestation-in-2013-76239/
Women urged to pursue postgraduate education
Prime Minister Hun Sen encouraged female students to pursue their education, regardless of whether they marry and have children, noting that the number of women pursuing postgraduate degrees and doctorates has decreased sharply compared to their male counterparts. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/women-urged-pursue-postgraduate-education
Cambodia telco growth in 3G
Despite the hype surrounding the advent of fourth-generation mobile services, the bulk of growth and profits in Cambodian telecom remains in 3G networks, experts say. A recent study by London-based research firm Ovum notes that emerging markets such as Cambodia will see rapid growth in 3G ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012022954766/Business/kingdom-telco-growth-in-3g.html
Not all app stores online
Smartphones and the accompanying online stores that sell applications for them may be gaining ground across emerging markets, according to a study conducted by a London-based telecommunications research and analysis firm, but Cambodia’s market is limited by a lack of places to legitimately purchase apps, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012081357948/Business/slow-demand-for-paid-phones-apps.html
Koh Kong king bowed out of 'blood sugar' firm
A sugar company originally part-owned by ruling party Senator Ly Yong Phat that has long fought villagers over a land dispute in Koh Kong province is now under the complete control of two foreign-owned companies, statements released by the firms last week reveal. The Mitr Pohl ...
Cambodia has shortage of capable human resource
The number of people seeking for jobs has been on the rise each day. However, companies, organizations and institutions are relentlessly complaining that human resource is both scarce and of low quality. Many students who have just graduated for about a year or two say they ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=14&token=OTNiZWMzYWFjMzU
Med school stands firm on fee
Despite outcry from medical students, the government is refusing to reduce the latest in a string of proposed fee hikes, this one nearly doubling the charge for the University of Health Science’s exit exam. In a letter sent to the university’s rector on Friday, the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/med-school-stands-firm-fee
Weighing risk and reward on construction sites
As the booming construction sector attracts more rural Cambodians to seek employment in the capital, the different working conditions between high-rises in urban areas and borey developments have factored into varying degrees of earning potential and living standards.According to estimates by the Ministry of Land ...
Kali Kotoski and Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/weighing-risk-and-reward-construction-sites
Social Work to shape Kingdom
Social work, long-established in developed countries but unheard-of in Cambodia, could be set to change the face of child protection in the country as interest in the field grows. Last week, a hundred potential social workers from around the country came to Phnom Penh for an ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012092558885/Lifestyle/social-work-to-change-cambodia.html
Japan grants $190K for environment education
The government of Japan, via its embassy in Cambodia, granted more than $190,000 on Tuesday to Nature Centre Risen, an NGO for environmental education at kindergarten and secondary schools in the Kingdom. The grant is for the project, “Realisation of Sustainable Life Environment through the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-grants-190k-environment-education
Central bank mulls its inflation response
Cambodia’s central bank is looking to tighten monetary policy to slow an inflation rate that could hit 8 to 9 percent this year, National Bank of Cambodia Director General and Spokeswoman Nguon Sokha said yesterday. Increases in commodity prices and petroleum has led to rising prices ...
As temperatures rise, floods to increase in Cambodia: report
Rising global temperatures could greatly exacerbate flooding in Southeast Asian countries such as Cambodia, as well as parts of Africa and South America, a new study by the University of Tokyo has found. Employing 11 different climate models, researchers found that with a mere rise ...
Melissa McMorran and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061166191/National/as-temperatures-rise-floods-to-increase-in-cambodia-report.html
Cambodia’s new tourism frontier
A year ago, getting to Sihanoukville required perseverance and a certain degree of bravery. There had been no flights to Cambodia’s premier beach resort for years — at least no scheduled services — and cruise ships docking here were few and far between Following years spent ...
http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/tourism/308486/cambodia-s-new-tourism-frontier
Vietnam rubber tycoon rejects land grabbing accusations
A Vietnamese rubber tycoon has rejected accusations by Global Witness, a group that campaigns on resource issues, that it was involved in a land grabbing crisis in Southeast Asia. Doan Nguyen Duc, the chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group, told Vietnamese media the information ...