Social development
Social security and veterans
National Social Assistance Fund launched
The National Social Assistance Fund (NSAF) was officially launched on January 1, 2023. The NSAF has been created through the integration of the National Social Security Fund for Civil Servants, the National Veterans Fund and the Department of Social Welfare. ...
Sok Sithika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501212561/national-social-assistance-fund-launched/
Small businesses urged to register with NSSF
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has instructed its officials to focus on outreach to small enterprises and encourage them to register with the NSSF, noting that some of the businesses obligated to pay into the fund in its first month have been slow to ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/small-businesses-urged-register-nssf
NSSF pension plan ensuring welfare, social protections
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Samheng said the government has focused on ensuring the welfare and provision of social protections, most recently through the launch of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) pension scheme for the private sector under the provisions of the ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nssf-pension-plan-ensuring-welfare-social-protections
Pension fund workshops reach over three-quarters of a million workers
As of August 20, a total of 1,600 workshops had been held to explain the new pension scheme for the private sector, according to a top National Social Security Fund (NSSF) official. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pension-fund-workshops-reach-over-three-quarters-million-workers
NSSF pension campaign reaches 217, 277 workers
The Ministry of Labor said its three-month campaign to create awareness on the social security’s pension scheme has reached 217,277 workers, including 161,388 female employees. ...
So Cheata
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501127088/nssf-pension-campaign-reaches-217-277-workers/
Implementation of National Pension Scheme begins in Cambodia
On July 5, 2022, Cambodia issued regulations implementing the pension system of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). Pension contributions will begin on October 1, 2022. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501113630/implementation-of-national-pension-scheme-begins-in-cambodia/
NSSF plans to expand coverage
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is planning to expand the fund’s scope of coverage to include families of NSSF’s members such as retirees, and domestic and informal economic workers. ...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501103729/covid-19-alert-at-entry-points-again-after-cases-reemerge/
NEC calls for heightened security at upcoming commune elections
The National Election Committee (NEC) instructed all electoral commissions and relevant authorities to strengthen security and maintain public order at polling and ballot counting stations during the upcoming commune council elections. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nec-calls-heightened-security-upcoming-commune-elections
National police issues guidelines for safer villages
The National Police issued a directive on strengthening the implementation of “safe villages, communes, district” policy aimed at improving public order at the local levels. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501045456/national-police-issues-guidelines-for-safer-villages/
Over 50 homes ready for veterans in Pursat
The Pursat Provincial Administration said 58 of 164 houses for Cambodian veterans have been built on social land concessions in Prangil commune’s Say village in Phnom Kravanh district. The homes are ready for veterans and their families to move in. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-50-homes-ready-veterans-pursat
PM gives recommendations at Asean veterans assembly
Prime Minister Hun Sen left recommendations for the Veterans Confederation of Asean Countries (Veconac) to help it attain new achievements in the interest of the general welfare of veterans in each member-nation. The recommendations were made on Tuesday at the 19th General Assembly of the ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-gives-recommendations-asean-veterans-assembly
NSSF provides benefits to more than 102,000 new mothers
According to a report by the National Social Security Fund obtained today, the Cambodian government has spent more than $10 million on female workers in both formal and informal sectors through the NSSF between January and June. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://bit.ly/2xsQYD1
Thousands of civil servants access free healthcare
Nearly 10,000 civil servants and those who had retired from service were treated in hospital in the first six months of the year after healthcare insurance for these groups came into effect. The National Social Security Fund said it was registering with more state clinics and ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50514562/thousands-of-civil-servants-access-free-healthcare/
Villagers’ illegal homes removed by authorities
Authorities and soldiers on Friday removed more than 80 houses and farm huts belonging to people that were living illegally on social land concessions of more than 2,000 hectares in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thma Puok, Svay Chek and Phnom Srok districts. However, some residents claimed that ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50116035/villagers-illegal-homes-removed-by-authorities/
Decree reviewed for loopholes
The Interior Ministry yesterday created a working group to review possible loopholes in a royal decree establishing a social security healthcare fund for public officials, civil servants and veterans. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101665/decree-reviewed-loopholes/
Pensions rise in the pipeline
Retired civil servants and military veterans are to get a pension rise next month, along with the same 50,000 riel Khmer New Year allowance as serving civil servants and armed forces members. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36381/pensions-rise-in-the-pipeline/
Civil servant healthcare program created
Public officials, civil servants and veterans can breathe a bit easier now that King Norodom Sihamoni has officially signed a royal decree establishing a social security healthcare fund. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35270/civil-servant-healthcare-program-created/
Envoy's report shifts gaze back to Prey Speu
Nougy Mom bounces her 2-year-old son in her arms as she waits at the gates of Phnom Penh’s notorious centre for “undesirables”, Prey Speu. The 34-year-old mother was there to visit her husband, a rubbish collector like herself, who was rounded up by authorities as he ...
Erin Handley and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/envoys-report-shifts-gaze-back-prey-speu
Preah Sihanouk province to recruit beach lifeguards
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities plan to recruit about 30 lifeguards to help prevent drownings across the province’s seven beaches. The move comes in the wake of several tourist drownings; the latest casualties involved a South Korean 40-year-old father, Lee Minseock, and his 4-year-old son, Lee Seungjae, ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-province-recruit-beach-lifeguards
Survivor: war ends but suffering remains
Forty-six-year-old Phon Chet, who lost his left leg to cluster bombs 14 years ago, sits with other impaired people at a rehabilitation center in Kampong Cham province during a media tour on Thursday. Due to unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war in the 1970s, ...
San Bunsim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27872/survivor--war-ends-but-suffering-remains/
Planned center for mentally ill faces low supply of experts
As the government plans to transfer roughly 60 percent of detainees at the notorious Prey Speu detention center to a “mental illness” center in Kandal province, mental health experts expressed doubts this week over the country’s capacity to provide proper care. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/planned-center-for-mentally-ill-faces-low-supply-of-experts-115420/
Premier calls for support for veterans
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced he would be personally helping the families of 100 dead veterans every year and called on others to offer financial help, according to reports. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26381/premier-calls-for-support-for-veterans/
Officials keep Prey Speu open after PM’s rebuke
Two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen told Phnom Penh municipal authorities to either improve the city’s notorious Prey Speu detention center or shut it down, a spokesman said on Thursday that officials had concluded that the “indispensable” facility would remain open. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-keep-prey-speu-open-after-pms-rebuke-113426/
Fix Prey Speu or shut it down, Prime Minister tells officials
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday told Phnom Penh authorities and the Ministry of Social Affairs to either improve the city’s notorious Prey Speu detention center or shut it down in order to spare his government more embarrassment. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fix-prey-speu-shut-prime-minister-tells-officials-113305/