SEA and Para Game medallists awarded $6.6m
Cambodia spent about $6.6 million to reward Cambodian medallists at the 32nd SEA Games and 12th ASEAN Para Games 2023, providing essential funds for awarded athletes to support their livelihoods and future training. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-sea-and-para-game-medallists-awarded-66m
Schools off during SEA and ASEAN Para Games
Students across the nation have been given 28 days off school during the 32nd SEA Games and 12th ASEAN Para Games, with the possibility to study online. ...
Yatt Malai
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-schools-off-during-sea-and-asean-para-games
Cambodian Women’s basketball team makes winning move on first day at 4th Asian Para Games
The Cambodian women’s basketball team defeated the Lao team with a score of 65-35 in the opening round of the 4th Asian Para Games at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, on Oct. 19. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501379448/cambodian-womens-basketball-team-makes-winning-move-on-first-day-at-4th-asian-para-games/
Cambodia to host 6th Asian Youth Para Games in 2029
Cambodia will host the 6th Asian Youth Para Games, following the 5th Asian Youth Games in 2029, according to a press release of the National Paralympic Committee of Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501422596/cambodia-to-host-6th-asian-youth-para-games-in-2029/
Cambodia looks to put its rice on the world’s plate
For as long as Cambodian rice farmers can remember, their product has had an unsavory reputation. Tough, dirty and unmilled, it was impossible to cook evenly, and even farmers traded it as pig feed in exchange for cash or better-quality rice from Vietnam or Thailand. Even ...
‘A threat to Cambodia’s sacred forests’
In southwest Cambodia, at the foot of the Cardamom Mountains, is a single dirt road that meanders through the heart of the pristine Areng valley. Ten miles down this road, villagers have set up an encampment to stop a hydroelectric dam project that they fear ...
New York Times News Staff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/opinion/a-threat-to-cambodias-sacred-forests.html
Program eyes NGO aspirants
The Royal University of Phnom Penh plans to make its social work degree available to everyone next year, as young, locally trained graduates look to take the reins from foreign aid workers. RUPP Department of Social Work Faculty member Ung Kimkanika said the move would ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/program-eyes-ngo-aspirants
Addressing the issue of “Popular justice” in Cambodia
Between 2010 and 2018, 73 people have been victims of extra-judicial violence, more commonly referred to as “mob justice” or “mob killings” and these acts of violence resulted in 57 deaths and 16 wounded.1 Those figures are considered by experts to be largely underestimated due ...
Labor
Garment workers waiting in line to get food. Photo by International Labour Organisation, taken on 14 July 2015. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia has the highest labor force participation rate in the Southeast Asia/Pacific region, with 82.7 percent of the working population aged 16-64 employed ...
