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Almost $6 billion Cambodia-US trade registered in first seven months

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the US was amounted to $5.892 billion in the first seven months of 2022, up 45 percent compared to the same period last year. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501134336/almost-6-billion-cambodia-us-trade-registered-in-first-seven-months/

COVID-19 pandemic accelerates digital transformation in Cambodia

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said here on Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic in the last two years has sped up digital transformation in the Southeast Asian country. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501134329/covid-19-pandemic-accelerates-digital-transformation-in-cambodia/

Four parties plan to request meetings on election reforms

Four political parties are planning to request meetings with the National Assembly (NA), National Election Committee (NEC) and the Ministry of Interior this week to submit “important” documents to them while urging revisions to the electoral system, a move they said must be made to ...

Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/four-parties-plan-request-meetings-election-reforms

Education ministry lists 8 areas for reforms

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has established eight priority areas for reforms with a strong emphasis on human resources, global citizenship and Cambodia’s development, according to its spokesman Ros Soveacha. ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/education-ministry-lists-8-areas-reforms

Son Chhay meets opposition activists in prison

Candlelight Party politician Son Chhay met on Wednesday with 23 jailed opposition officials and activists at Prey Sar prison and asked for them to be released on bail, characterizing their arrests as political cases. ...

Nat Sopheap
https://vodenglish.news/son-chhay-meets-opposition-activists-in-prison/

Cambodia’s adult literacy increases significantly

Literacy rate for the citizens aged 15 years old and above in Cambodia has seen a significant rise, reflecting the government’s successful efforts in eradicating illiteracy rate, said a senior official of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501133550/cambodias-adult-literacy-increases-significantly/

RUPP Vietnamese Language Department to offer 3 courses

Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Hang Chuon Naron issued a proclamation on November 22, 2021, to establish the Institute of International Studies and Public Policy of RUPP where students can study in the Vietnamese Language Department and obtain a bachelor’s in Vietnamese studies, Vietnamese ...

Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501133204/rupp-vietnamese-language-department-to-offer-3-courses/

Cambodia asks UN Special Rapporteur to make accurate and balanced report

Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has called on the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UN Special Rapporteur to make an accurate, practical, transparent and balanced report on human rights situation in Cambodia. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501133588/cambodia-asks-un-special-rapporteur-to-make-accurate-and-balanced-report/

From loggers to farmers, Mondulkiri’s communities turned away from forests

Since an irrigation system was set up in his remote Mondulkiri village four years ago, Morn Samean saw his farming yields increase, reinforcing his impression that he made the right choice when he let go of his former activity, logging. ...

Teng Yalirozy
https://cambodianess.com/article/from-loggers-to-farmers-mondulkiris-communities-turned-away-from-forests

New book to help Cambodia navigate cyberspace

Three Cambodian tech experts have penned a book that explores the nation’s current cyberspace landscape and advocates for enhanced cybersecurity as more of the population share data online. ...

Bun Tharum
https://kiripost.com/stories/new-book-to-help-cambodia-navigate-cyberspace

Reports of online child sexual exploitation and abuse increase

There were 183 reported cases of online child sexual exploitation and abuse in the first seven months of the year, an increase from the previous year but likely still much lower than the actual number of cases, according to child protection NGO Action Pour Les ...

Ngay Nai
https://cambojanews.com/reports-of-online-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-increase/

Teachers to receive pay hike to 1.5m riel by 2023

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has pledged to increase public school teachers’ wages to a minimum of 1.5 million riel by next year ...

Mao Sreypich
https://kiripost.com/stories/teachers-to-receive-pay-hike-to-15m-riel-by-2023

Citizen participation and innovation key to sustainable cities

At the World Cities Summit 2022 in Singapore, a city state leader said developing strategies that involve citizen participation and innovation are key to creating sustainable cities into the future. ...

Thai Sothea
https://kiripost.com/stories/citizen-participation-and-innovation-key-to-sustainable-cities

ARDB inks $30M loan pact to promote agri sector

The Agriculture and Rural Development Bank of the Ministry of Economy and Finance has signed the $30 million subsidiary loan agreement with three banks and micro-financial institutions to help financial access to the agricultural sector. ...

Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132346/ardb-inks-30m-loan-pact-to-promote-agri-sector/

SME Co-Financing Scheme II nearly runs out of budget

Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) has released nearly $234 million to 1,981 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in various sectors across the country through SME Co-Financing Scheme II (SCFS II) from mid-August last year to July this year, according to ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132349/sme-co-financing-scheme-ii-nearly-runs-out-of-budget/

Fear, frustration for community stuck in protected-zone confusion

Bunong community leader Miv Khem, 29, who like his neighbors in Memang commune relies on subsistence rice farming, dates the start of the dispute to 2017, when management of both the Keo Seima and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries were transferred to the Environment Ministry. Protected ...

Fiona Kelliher and Phin Rathana
https://vodenglish.news/fear-frustration-for-community-stuck-in-protected-zone-confusion/

The National Minimum Wage Council has started talks to consider raising the $194 monthly salary of garment workers

Unions representing garment workers in Cambodia are seeking a monthly wage hike of between $20 and $50 for their members in talks with the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) that started yesterday. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132343/the-national-minimum-wage-council-has-started-talks-to-consider-raising-the-194-monthly-salary-of-garment-workers/

Authorities crackdown on large-scale illegal fishing in Tonle Sap

A team of officers conducted an operation to implement measures to prevent illegal fishing and a crackdown on a large-scale illegal fishing operation in Tonle Sap. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132868/authorities-crackdown-on-large-scale-illegal-fishing-in-tonle-sap/

More than 100,000 trees planted to restore Banteay Srei and Phnom Kulen forests

Workers planted more than 100,000 trees have been planted on more than 800 hectares of forest lands in Banteay Srei district and Phnom Kulen as part of the forest restoration. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132119/more-than-100000-trees-planted-to-restore-banteay-srei-and-phnom-kulen-forests/

Cambodia begins talks over 2023 wage hike for garment, footwear, travel goods sector

Cambodia’s national council on minimum wage on Monday began to discuss the annual increase of monthly minimum wage for the garment, footwear and travel goods industry for 2023, according to a statement from the council. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132736/cambodia-begins-talks-over-2023-wage-hike-for-garment-footwear-travel-goods-sector/

Government improves benefits for pensioners

The government has issued a sub-decree on increasing social security benefits for former civil servants and veterans and sponsoring maids for certain disabled people after the Ministry of Labour recently announced social security pensions for individuals in factories, establishments and companies. ...

Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501131838/government-improves-benefits-for-pensioners/

Rescue forces continue Covid-19 prevention measures

The 711th Rescue Intervention Force continued to carry out Covid-19 prevention measures, as the country sees new cases daily, aside from other rescue work. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501132160/rescue-forces-continue-covid-19-prevention-measures/

Cambodia exports rubber worth almost $255 million in first 7 months of 2022

Cambodia exported 161,562 tons of dry rubber in the first seven months of 2022, a slight drop of 0.3 percent year-on-year, said a General Directorate of Rubber report on Friday. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501131275/cambodia-exports-rubber-worth-almost-255-million-in-first-7-months-of-2022/

21% rise in Cambodia’s trade, US the biggest export market

Cambodia’s international trade rose to $32.82 billion in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 21.3 percent, and the United States is the biggest market for the country accounting for 43 percent of the Kingdom’s total exports. ...

Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501130562/21-rise-in-cambodias-trade-us-the-biggest-export-market/

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