Hun Sen muses odds on teacher prize win
Cambodian teacher Neang Phalla stood no chance of winning the Global Teacher Prize when she flew to Dubai earlier this month, Prime Minister Hun Sen reasoned yesterday, as the fact former US President Bill Clinton attended the ceremony signalled the award was going to an ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/hun-sen-muses-odds-teacher-prize-win
Aviation authority to monitor Thai safety concerns
Cambodia’s aviation authority says it has no plans to follow in the footsteps of some of Asia’s largest nations and ban new flights from Thai-based carriers, after an international audit has raised “significant safety concerns” about the standards of Thailand’s aviation authority. ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aviation-authority-monitor-thai-safety-concerns
Despite drought, crops will come – but at a cost
This year is no different from last year and many of the previous years for the residents of Krong Stung Sen in Kampong Thom province. Rain has been scarce, and rice growers must pay to pump water from the state-owned ditches into their rice paddies. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13457/despite-drought--crops-will-come-----but-at-a-cost/
Cambodia attempts to reassure neighbors on ties with China
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday sought to reassure Cambodia’s neighbors that the country’s ever-closer ties to China were part of a foreign-policy strategy that posed no threat to the country’s allegiances with “friends” in Asean and the West. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-attempts-to-reassure-neighbors-on-ties-with-china-89128/
Journalists in Cambodia have improved in truth and accuracy
With journalists in Cambodia adhering to the ethical provisions of their profession and improving day by day in their responsibilities and duties in ensuring accuracy in their work, there is no impunity for crimes against them. ...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50963742/journalists-in-cambodia-have-improved-in-truth-and-accuracy/
Increasing number of labour provisions in trade agreements don't hamper business: UN study
Trade-related labour provisions, such as ones that address labour relations or minimum working conditions for employees, do not harm business or make trade provisions less popular, according to a study released today by the United Nations labour agency. ...
UN News Centre Team
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54481
Telecoms ministry promises punishment for non-registration of phone users
The government has pledged to punish mobile telephone operators that do not register the identities of their users—or fail to shut down anonymous numbers—by the middle of the month, threatening fines or suspensions for non-complying companies. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Aisha Down
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/telecoms-ministry-promises-punishment-non-registration-phone-users-120046/
Price tag set for railway link to Vietnam border
The rail link to Vietnam from Cambodia has been estimated at $686 million dollars. The link would finally connect Singapore to Kunming, China. The $686 million does not include compensation for those who link along the proposed railway locations and no funding has been confirmed ...
CO not needed for exports to EU
Those wishing to export their goods to the EU under the tax-free preferential scheme, Everything but Arms (EBA), are no longer required to apply for a Certificate of origin (CO), according to a joint announcement from the ministries of Commerce, and Economy and Finance on ...
Kun Kourchettana
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/co-not-needed-exports-eu
At party congress, CPP gives itself top marks
As senior members of the ruling CPP gathered in Phnom Penh this weekend for their annual congress, the party gave itself a glowing performance review and noted almost no areas for improvement, according to a 49-page report distributed to delegates at the two-day event. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/104926-104926/
German MP calls for reform
Prime Minister Hun Sen told a visiting German federal minister that there was no political crisis in Cambodia, despite recent government action depicting the contrary, and claimed that opposition leader Kem Sokha was being sought by police because of an individual fault that could not ...
Ven Rathavong And Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26183/german-mp-calls-for-reform/
Noy: ASEAN can’t let any country claim entire sea
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must not allow any country – “no matter how powerful” – to claim an entire sea as its own and use force and intimidation to send its message across, President Aquino told a gathering of regional leaders yesterday. ...
Aurea Calica
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/11/22/1524549/noy-asean-cant-let-any-country-claim-entire-sea
Maybank sees mobile banking as key to promoting the riel
There is a simple reason why Maybank has been named the most innovative bank in Malaysia, explains the CEO of its Cambodian subsidiary. “We have observed that innovation has no borders,” says Ms. Cynthia Liaw in her office at the bank’s headquarters on Norodom Blvd. ...
Khmer Times
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36596/maybank-sees-mobile-banking--as-key-to-promoting-the-riel/
Illegal timber found in raid
The forestry administration in cooperation with Stung Treng Provincial Court raided a house on Wednesday, yielding hundreds of pieces of illegal timber. Provincial court spokesman Chhum Seanghak confirmed the raid, but said no arrests were made. He declined further comment, referring questions to deputy prosecutor Kim ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50103161/illegal-timber-found-in-raid/
Japanses Police Arrest Ten for Defrauding Investors
Tokyo police arrested 10 Japanese nationals earlier this month for allegedly defrauding more than 1,000 investors out of $20 millions using fictitious investment projects in Cambodia, according to Japanese media reports. “The Metropolitan Police Department found no evidence that the amount of money raised was ...
Stung Treng looks to revamp jungle airport
Officials in the northeastern province of Stung Treng hope future travellers will trade their bus seats for plane tickets. no fuctional airport exists in the province, but local officials are demarcating, and looking to revamp, a landing strip that was installed when Cambodia was a protectorate ...
Report claims $75 Million in damages from January demonstrations
The Cambodian government says it has no plans so far to carry out a lawsuit against the opposition for damages from violent demonstrations in January. The Ministry of Interior has released a report, claiming $72 million in public and private damages, including to 95 different factories, ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/report-claims-75-million-in-damages-from-january-demonstrations/1883036.html
Army wants students
As part of its plan to up Cambodia’s soldier count, the Ministry of Defence is recruiting 620 university students. The candidates from the 2014-2015 academic year are to be volunteers with no criminal backgrounds, according to an official announcement. The recruitment drive spans the month of ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/army-wants-students
High-stakes Grade 12 exams kick off
Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron applauded the vast majority of Grade-12 students for obeying the strict no-cheating rules he introduced three years ago as nationwide testing kicked off yesterday with relatively few hiccups. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/high-stakes-grade-12-exams-kick