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ODC Team at BarCamp Kampong Cham
ODC Team is doing a presentation on the use of ICT in research and education to the participantsOn 19 July 2014, ODC presented at BarCamp Kampong Cham on the use of ICT in research and education and how they may find inspiring research topics on ODC website to 28 participants (18 females), who were mostly college students. BarCamp is a platform where professionals, investors, innovators and students connect, discuss and share knowledge related to technological development. The event was held at Chea Sim Kamchaymear University, Kampong Cham province. ODC team will join the next BarCamp Phnom Penh in September. ...
Presenting ODC at Nokor Phnom Community Empowerment Organization (NPCEO)
ODC Executive Director Thy Try introducing ODC to Nokor Phnom Community Empowerment Organization (NPCEO)On 18 July 2014, ODC Executive Director, Thy Try, got an opportunity to introduce ODC website to Nokor Phnom Community Empowerment Organization (NPCEO), a local NGO in Kampong Cham province. He showed ...
Notification on the flood condition of Mekong River
Ministry of Water Resource and Meteorology would like to inform the public that after observing of weather conditions and Mekong River situations, it is understood that the influence of the first storm namely Rama San (as Ministry of Water Resource and Meteorology has informed on ...
Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology
OIC delegation visits Cambodia
A delegation from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) recently visited Cambodia to participate in an international conference organized by the Council for Development of Cambodia under the slogan “Islamic Education and Economic Development in Cambodia” in the capital Phnom Penh. Located in the southern portion ...
Arab News Staff
http://www.arabnews.com/news/604706
TAITRA reiterates Phnom Penh trade center approved
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) yesterday insisted it has received the green light from the Cambodian government to open a Taiwan trade center in Phnom Penh. TAITRA, a non-profit trade promotion organization affiliated with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, made the remarks in response ...
Shih Hsiu-chuan
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/07/20/2003595537
S. Iswaran leading Singapore team to Cambodia to strengthen business ties
Mr S Iswaran Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade and Industry will be making an official visit to Cambodia on 21 July 2014. ...
The Straits Times News Staff
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/mr-iswaran-leading-singapore-team-cambodia-strenghten-bu
Cambodia sees 16 pct rise in garment, footwear exports in 6 months
Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, saw a 16 percent increase in exports in the first six months of 2014, according to a commerce ministry’s report on Sunday. The country exported apparel and footwear products worth 2.92 billion U.S. dollars during the January-June period ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2014-07/20/c_133497592.htm
Cambodia reports 15,980 malaria case in H1 2014
Cambodia has reported 15,980 malaria cases in the first six months of 2014, down 18 percent from 19,560 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Sunday. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140720/cambodia-reports-15980-malaria-case-h1-2014
Hor Namhong to attend ASEAN-EU meeting next week
Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will lead a delegation to attend the 20th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, next week, according to a statement issued Friday by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The statement said the meeting invited by Mrs Catherine ASHTON, high ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1
Request rejected to have union head step down
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rejected a request from two former members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU) to have the union’s president be forced to step down as he is investigated for embezzlement. Former CCAWDU officials Oum Visal and Roeun ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/request-rejected-to-have-union-head-step-down-64507/
Phnom Penh City Hall warns of arrests over Vietnam protest
City Hall on Friday threatened up to 15 years in prison for students planning a protest in front of the Vietnamese Embassy over comments made in June by an embassy official that the Kampuchea Krom region belonged to Vietnam long before it officially became part ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-city-hall-warns-of-arrests-over-vietnam-protest-64496/
US President's letter to Samdech Techo Hun Sen
The people of the United States of America join me in thanking you for your gracious message of congratulation as we commemorate our 238th anniversary of independence. ...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Information expert breaks down Cambodia’s ‘Cybercrime’ Law
Cambodia’s cybercrime law was leaked earlier this year. Cambodian officials have denied the existence of such a draft law, but local and international rights group have criticized the secret draft process, as well as some stipulations that might affect freedom of speech online. VOA Khmer ...
Sophat Soeung
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/information-expert-breaks-down-cambodia-cybercrime-law/1960021.html
Sam Rainsy to return to Cambodia tomorrow amid tension
The opposition leader Sam Rainsy will return home on Saturday this weekend, said the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) spokesman Yem Punhearith. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=ZjY0ZDM4OWE3MjJ
Another deceived bride repatriated from China
A Cambodian woman who went to China to marry a man there was repatriated on Thursday after escaping from her husband’s house and finding refuge at the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Yoeng Sreymom arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport at about 3:30 p.m. in the company ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-deceived-bride-repatriated-from-china-64430/
Cambodia denies allowing China's Taiwan to open representative office
Cambodia on Friday afternoon issued a statement to reject a news report that the country had given approval to China’s Taiwan to open a trade center in its territory. According to the statement posted on its website, the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-07/18/c_133494396.htm
Violent Clashes Break Out Again at KDC Site
Violent skirmishes erupted again between workers and villagers at the restive KDC development site Thursday, with both sides blaming the other for using weapons and instigating the fracas. Clashes last occurred at the site on July 7, when about a hundred police were dispatched to ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/violent-clashes-break-out-again-at-kdc-land-dispute-site-64421/
NGO observers to get window into cheating
In case cramming for an exam that determines high school graduation and college placement wasn’t stressful enough, grade 12 test-takers will now have to do so under the scrutiny of independent observers tasked with manning every exam-room window. As part of a slew of reforms to ...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-observers-get-window-cheating
Apple to officially sell iPhones in Cambodia
Apple Inc. on Friday will officially launch the iPhone in Cambodia through its authorized reseller, iOne, giving customers—long used to gray market iPhones—access to Apple’s warranty. “The sales launch will be July 18. iOne, which has the monopoly right to import Apple’s products to Cambodia’s market ...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/apple-to-officially-sell-iphones-in-cambodia-64448/
After rights review, groups press gov’t to act
Nearly a month after Cambodia’s second universal periodic review (UPR) of its human rights situation at the U.N. in Geneva, rights groups met in Phnom Penh on Thursday to discuss how they can work with the government to ensure that the 163 recommendations it accepted ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-rights-review-groups-press-govt-to-act-64438/
Most guards ‘over worst’
A day after the government issued a statement saying that 22 of the Daun Penh district security guards beaten by opposition protesters on Tuesday were in “critical condition”, officials yesterday told the Post that most of them are now well on the way to recovery. Daun Penh district ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/most-guards-%E2%80%98over-worst%E2%80%99
Cracks discovered in bridge
The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MPWT) and the Phnom Penh municipality are preparing a ban on heavy trucks crossing the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge after cracks were discovered in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end, a City Hall official confirmed yesterday. At a meeting ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cracks-discovered-bridge
Employers snub talks over wages
Management at Ocean Garment factory yesterday flouted a Ministry of Labour invitation to sit at the negotiating table with employees protesting the factory’s refusal to abide by an Arbitration Council decision in their favour. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/employers-snub-talks-over-wages
Questions Raised Over Quarry Crackdown
The Phnom Penh municipal government issued a warning to those operating unlicensed sand quarries after a military helicopter plunged into one killing four people on Monday, but some questioned City Hall’s motives and commitment. The statement, dated Tuesday and signed by Governor Pa Socheatvong, came a ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/questions-raised-over-quarry-crackdown-64436/
