Over 94% of lower secondary students pass diploma exams
The number of students who passed the lower secondary exam this year was 94.78%, said the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501386402/over-94-of-lower-secondary-students-pass-diploma-exams/
Education ministry: 8,619 full scholarships for 2023-24
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport announced that they would provide over 8,000 full scholarships for students to pursue undergraduate degrees for the next academic year 2023-2024. . ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-ministry-8619-full-scholarships-2023-24
Hydro dam does little for locals, study finds
Most families immediately downstream of Cambodia’s first major hydropower dam are worse off than they were before the project, according to a new study by U.K. researchers that urges the government to pay more attention to impacts on local residents as it gears up for ...
Zsombor Peter and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hydro-dam-does-little-for-locals-study-finds-92523/
Siem Reap farmers asked to conserve West Baray water
With drought looming large, farmers who irrigate their paddy fields from the West Baray area in the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap province are asked to conserve water. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50673464/siem-reap-farmers-asked-to-conserve-west-baray-water
CMAC to receive $1.2 million for 2018 project
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre will receive $1.2 million from the United Nations Development Program for a one-year mine clearance project in three provinces in 2018. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098732/cmac-recieve-1-2-million-2018-project/
Bank exits rubber firm: NGO
Global Witness, a United Kingdom-based NGO, has alleged that Deutsche Bank has dropped the majority of its holdings in a Vietnamese company that operates rubber plantations in Cambodia, amid accusations the firm is involved in land grabbing and illegal logging. In a statement released today, Global ...
Shane Worrell
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bank-exits-rubber-firm-ngo
Study finds substandard malaria drugs, but no fakes
A new report suggests counterfeit anti-malarial drugs are far less prevalent in Cambodia than previously thought, but almost a third of the legitimate medicines are of substandard quality. According to the study, published on Monday by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, none of ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-finds-substandard-malaria-drugs-no-fakes
Children’s faeces just as toxic, report says
A recently released study on hygiene in Cambodia has found that a lack of understanding of the dangers of handling child faeces is causing serious health problems. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/childrens-faeces-just-toxic-report-says
Bag firm plans to grow local operations
Wah Sun Handbags International Holding unveiled plans yesterday to expand its Cambodia operations, citing the country’s low labour costs as the primary reason for the move. In a filing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the handbag manufacturer announced plans to raise up to $18 ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/bag-firm-plans-grow-local-operations
West Baray water source under irrigation pressure
The Apsara National Authority (ANA) has urged farmers living in the Angkor area to grow dry-season rice crops once per year only to reduce risks of water overuse that could drain too much water from the crucial West Baray. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/west-baray-water-source-under-irrigation-pressure
Cambodia sees no report of Ebola, urges public to take precautionary measures
Cambodia has not seen any case related to the West Africa-hit Ebola virus disease and called for its citizens to take precautionary measures against the virus, said a joint statement released by the Health Ministry and the World Health Organization on Tuesday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140805/cambodia-sees-no-report-ebola-urges-public-take-precautionar
Insurance Institute To Boost Skills in Kingdom
An insurance training centre is being planned in Cambodia to develop local expertise lacking in the Kingdom’s nascent insurance industry. The institute hopes to offer diploma courses to industry leaders here so they in turn will be qualified to provide insurance training to others, such as ...
In closing arguments, prosecution frames NagaWorld gatherings as incitement, union leaders claim lawful strike
NagaWorld union leader Chhim Sithar and eight union co-defendants requested acquittal for their lawful strike during Wednesday closing statements, while prosecutors compiled a collage of evidence to portray the labor struggle as an act of incitement. ...
Guinea interested in Cambodian rice
The Republic of Guinea plans to import 40,000 tonnes of milled rice from Cambodia, Alpha Condé, the president of the West African nation, said during a recent visit to the Kingdom. The two countries will also look to follow up on agricultural technology co-operation agreed on ...
CMAC, Golden West renew cooperation agreement
Heng Ratana, president of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, announced on Tuesday the renewal of a partnership with the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation, which is supported by the US State Department. ...
Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cmac-golden-west-renew-cooperation-agreement
Gov’t signs off on Koh Rong protected habitat
The Cambodian government has signed off on the Kingdom’s first dedicated marine protection area in a bid to save the Koh Rong Archipelago’s coral reef and sea life. ...
Strike justified, suppression not, experts say
Garment workers’ calls for a $160 minimum wage are justified and should be honored, a new report by an international team of academics and labor experts has found. The authors—including a team from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, South Korean and ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/strike-justified-suppression-not-experts-say-53255/
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/
241-Kg US war-era bomb found in Kandal province
Police and deminers in Kandal province on Wednesday removed from a riverbank a 241-kg Mark 82 bomb, of the kind the U.S. dropped on Cambodia in the heavy bombing that took place during its war against neighboring Vietnam. ...
Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/241-kg-us-war-era-bomb-found-in-kandal-province-64933/
Cambodian workers on £10 a week making Olympics 'fanwear’
Adidas, the sportswear company, is facing an investigation over claims that Cambodian workers are being paid £10 a week in basic wages to make official merchandise for the London Olympics. It is one of the 2012 Games’ largest sponsors, believed to have invested £100 million, and ...