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Developing recruitment processes key amid digital adoption: Experts
Recruitment has come a long way since its humble beginnings as printed box adverts in the local newspaper. According to global niche technology staffing company Next Venture, technology has and will continue to have the biggest impact on recruitment. ...
Tom Starkey
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809632/developing-recruitment-processes-key-amid-digital-adoption-experts/
Social land concessions for 153 veterans’ families
Kampong Thom provincial authorities will hand over around 2,000 hectares of social land concessions to 153 families of veterans in the province, according to the governor. ...
Buth Sela
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810400/social-land-concessions-for-153-veterans-families/
Tonle Sap fishermen claim a decline in fishing yield due to environmental factors
Some fishermen living in core areas of the Tonle Sap Biosphere Reserve in Kampong Thom province claim that fishing yields have been declining over the last three years due to low water levels in the wet season, forest fires in the dry season and climate ...
Rhea Mae Soco
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810402/tonle-sap-fishermen-claim-a-decline-in-fishing-yield-due-to-environmental-factors/
34 roads in Preah Sihanouk to open in April
Thirty-four roads in Sihanoukville are set to open in April ahead of the Khmer New Year holiday, as provincial officials urge contracted construction firms to accelerate their work to be completed as planned. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810348/34-roads-in-preah-sihanouk-to-open-in-april/
‘Incitement’ law in the digital age: Rong Chhun’s case continues
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday continued the trial for union chief Rong Chhun and two of his supporters who were charged with “incitement” in connection with a statement he made claiming Cambodia had ceded land to Vietnam along their shared border in Tboung Khmum ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810401/incitement-law-in-the-digital-age-rong-chhuns-case-continues/
First batch of Chinese vaccine due to arrive this weekend
The Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian said today 600,000 doses of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine, the first batch of one million doses promised to Cambodia by China, will be delivered to Cambodia this weekend. ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810252/first-batch-of-chinese-vaccine-due-to-arrive-this-weekend/
Prudential and PPCBank insurance partnership
Prudential Cambodia Life Insurance (Prudential Cambodia) and PPCBank have announced a joint collaboration, Bancassurance, to serve the financial protection needs of Cambodians. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809583/prudential-and-ppcbank-insurance-partnership/
ACLEDA expanding its digitalisation strategy in 2021
ACLEDA Bank Plc, one of the largest commercial banks in Cambodia, announced that it is boosting and expanding its self-automation post banking services as part of its focus on digitalisation in the Kingdom. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809406/acleda-expanding-its-digitalisation-strategy-in-2021/
Buy Now, Pay Later model could supplant credit cards
According to technology business site Tech In Asia, the once-obscure Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) trend is getting new legs, which could see the option spreading in an increasingly digital Asia-Pacific. ...
Tom Starkey
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810014/buy-now-pay-later-model-could-supplant-credit-cards/
Kingdom’s free trade pact talks with South Korea concluded
Cambodia and South Korea have concluded their free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations and are now closer to the signing of a final pact later this year. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50810013/kingdoms-free-trade-pact-talks-with-south-korea-concluded/
CDC announces slate of new investments totalling $16.2 million
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has announced that four new projects worth a total of $16.2 million were approved over the weekend. ...
Tom Starkey
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809970/cdc-announces-slate-of-new-investments-totalling-16-2-million/
Cambodia gets $28M Oz grant for Covid vaccines
The Australian government announced on February 1 that it has provided a grant of $28 million for the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines approved by World Health Organisation (WHO) for 1.5 million Cambodians. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-gets-28m-oz-grant-covid-vaccines
Forest crimes drop in protected areas
Twenty-two cases connected with illegal forest clearance and wild animal and timber poaching in the Phnom Tnout-Phnom Pok Wildlife Sanctuary were sent to court for prosecution last year, a decline of 50 per cent over 2019. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-crimes-drop-protected-areas
$10M in cash subsidies benefit 170K pregnant women, infants
Over 170,000 pregnant women and children under the age of two have received social protection stipends totalling $10 million under a government cash transfer programme implemented since June 2019. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/10m-cash-subsidies-benefit-170k-pregnant-women-infants
Mother Nature activists’ last chance for bail
The Supreme Court yesterday heard the bail applications of three environmental activists who were charged with “incitement” for criticising Phnom Penh authorities on Facebook last year. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809525/mother-nature-activists-last-chance-for-bail/
Phnom Tbeng Park to be prepared for Unesco list
Phnom Tbeng Natural Heritage Park will be put forward for inclusion in the Unesco World Heritage List, the Ministry of Environment has confirmed. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809818/phnom-tbeng-park-to-be-prepared-for-unesco-list/
Royal Government committed to securing 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines
The Royal Government of Cambodia is committed to find 20 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 for 10 million Cambodian people, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday . ...
Khmer Time Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809612/royal-government-committed-to-securing-20-million-doses-of-covid-19-vaccines/
City’s clean water supplies to stabilise by by 2025
Drinking water supplies will stablise in Phnom Penh and Takmao town south of the capital over the next five years, thanks to new water treatment facilities coming on-line between now and 2025. ...
Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809588/citys-clean-water-supplies-to-stabilise-by-by-2025/
Fintech points the way to full financial inclusion for Cambodians
With more cellphones existing in the Kingdom than citizens and one of the youngest populations in the world, Cambodia’s mobile financial industry may be poised to bring the Kingdom’s deficit in financial inclusion to an end. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809969/fintech-points-the-way-to-full-financial-inclusion-for-cambodians/
Cambodia generates over $30 million from milled rice exports in January
Cambodia’s gross revenue from rice exports in the first month of this year declined by 32.07 percent compared to the same period in 2019. Figures from the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) show that the Kingdom earned in total US$30.76 million from milled rice exports. ...
Phal Sophanith/AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50809992/cambodia-generates-over-30-million-from-milled-rice-exports-in-january/
Research centre adds solar power station in Siem Reap
The Ministry of Environment and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Cambodia officially launched a solar power plant and battery storage system at the Kesor Kol Sok An Phnom Kulen Research and Conservation Centre on Kulen mountain in Siem Reap province. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/research-centre-adds-solar-power-station-siem-reap
Only 1.31 million foreign tourists visited Cambodia in 2020
During COVID-19 crisis in 2020, Cambodia received only 1.31 million foreign tourists, showing a fall of 80 percent compared to 2019. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808696/only-1-31-million-foreign-tourists-visited-cambodia-in-2020/
Ministry issues bird flu warning
The Ministry of Health yesterday warned people to be careful about avian influenza (bird flu) during upcoming festivals and ancestral ceremonies. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808766/ministry-issues-bird-flu-warning/
Cambodia has about 50,000 hectares of mangroves
Protecting mangrove will be a main agenda of the World Wetlands Day to be held on Feb. 2, 2021, according to a press release from the Fauna&Flora International (FFI)-Cambodia programme and other partners. ...
Khner Time Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808689/cambodia-has-about-50000-hectares-of-mangroves/