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Parliaments share auditing experience
The Cambodian, Laos, and Vietnam parliaments have shared a stage to discuss their expenditure experiences and improve transparency and auditing of public investment in areas such as infrastructure. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36507/parliaments-share-auditing-experience/
Thais eye appliances market
Thailand expects exports of electrical and electronic components and devices to Cambodia to grow to about $50 million this year due to high demand. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36510/thais-eye-appliances-market/
City sewage plan mooted
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has finalised a sewage management master plan for Phnom Penh, which is in dire need of a wastewater treatment plant, officials said yesterday. ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-sewage-plan-mooted
ANZ Royal home loan center
More Cambodians took out home loans last year than the year before, prompting banks like ANZ Royal to provide specialized services for the growing sector. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36508/anz-royal-home-loan-center/
Japan wades in on Tonle Sap algae
The Japan International Cooperation Agency has agreed to oversee a project to help recover water quality in the Tonle Sap lake in response to the appearance of a large bloom of algae. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36423/japan-wades-in--on-tonle-sap-algae/
TB diagnoses lag: study
A lack of diagnostic equipment in Cambodia is causing cases of tuberculosis to be both over- and under-reported in children, a new study finds. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tb-diagnoses-lag-study
Investment fund suggested for Cambodia
Industrial insiders and experts on the Kingdom’s nascent stock market have suggested the government set up a fund as an investment vehicle designed to broaden the local public investor base, based on The Thai Fund (TTF). ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36361/investment-fund-suggested-for-cambodia/
Students call for wider selection of books
A quarter of Cambodian students want more access to books and other reading materials, a study by World Vision revealed yesterday. Of the 4,000 students surveyed by the global NGO, 25 percent said they sought “more amount and variety” of books, while 12 percent wanted “better ...
Khmer Times Staff
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36374/students-call-for-wider-selection-of--books/
Cambodia eases deeper into China’s defensive embrace
Cambodia currently faces significant foreign policy challenges amid great power rivalry in the Asia-Pacific. Against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s uncertain and unpredictable foreign policy in the region, China’s economic, military, and strategic influence over Cambodia continues to grow. China is now Cambodia’s ...
East Asia Forum
https://aecnewstoday.com/2017/cambodia-eases-deeper-into-chinas-defensive-embrace/
Mekong riverbanks to be restored
Mines Ministry officials yesterday announced a project to shore up sections of the Mekong river affected by erosion that threatens families in Kandal province’s Mok Kampol district. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36333/mekong-riverbanks-to-be-restored/
UN tells governments to defend people’s privacy
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy has denounced current world governments’ surveillance legislation, calling for respect for citizens’ rights to privacy. ...
Mark Tilly
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36323/un-tells-governments-to-defend-people---s-privacy/
Nordic nations eye investment in Cambodia
Companies from Europe’s frigid north are taking steps toward moving into the fish and environmental industries in Cambodia’s warmer climes. ...
Hang Sokunthea
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nordic-nations-eye-investment-in-cambodia-126253/
China offers cassava hope
Cambodia has marked its first Cassava Day with expectations of greater exports to China, one of the world’s big markets for the tuberous root. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36202/china-offers-cassava-hope/
Angkor Air, Air France MoU
Cambodia Angkor Air and Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to cover component support and maintenance services for the national flag carrier’s fleet of Airbus A320. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36204/angkor-air--air-france-mou/
Green light: new signals to speed up city’s traffic prospects
As part of an ongoing Japan-funded project to reduce congestion in the capital’s clogged streets, City Hall turned on three new traffic lights on Wednesday in Phnom Penh—with two more set to follow today. ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/green-light-new-signals-to-speed-up-citys-traffic-prospects-126306/
Women in construction weighed down
Female construction workers earn on average about $2.50 less per day than their male counterparts, are given fewer opportunities to learn new skills and are victims of outdated gender stereotypes, a new report says. ...
Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/women-in-construction-weighed-down-126313/
Workers face sex abuse: unions
Leaders of the Cambodian Labor Confederation have urged authorities to take action against employers who harass, threaten and use violence against female garment workers. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36281/workers-face-sex-abuse--unions/
Agreement allows South Korea to manage forests
South Korea will manage the replanting of trees on former economic land concessions—with an eye toward eventually entering Cambodia’s logging industry—under a tentative agreement between the two countries, Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon said on Wednesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/agreement-allows-s-korea-to-manage-forests-126309/
Myanmar urges closer ties with military
Myanmar’s army chiefs want to increase cooperation with Cambodia in a bid to build closer bilateral ties, according to a senior military official. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36280/myanmar-urges-closer-ties-with-military/
Electronics plant construction starts
SVI Cambodia, the local subsidiary, signed a 50-year lease in July 2015 and says it hopes the construction work will be complete by October. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36205/electronics-plant-construction-starts/
Ministry warns of unusual dry season rain
The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has warned of impending unseasonal rain from this week until early next week, especially in lowland areas. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36224/ministry-warns-of-unusual-dry-season-rain/
Potatoes to take root
Cambodia’s eastern Mondulkiri province will become the country’s first hub for potato growing after a successful pilot project, researchers say. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36153/potatoes-to-take-root/
China asked to fund bridges
Cambodia yesterday asked China to help fund the construction of two bridges across the Mekong River, which it said would cut traffic congestion in Phnom Penh and help create a ring road around the city. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36169/china-asked-to-fund-bridges/
Cambodia scores 157th in world for open data
Cambodia ranked 157th in the world and last in Southeast Asia, according to the report, released on Tuesday by NGO Open Data Watch, dropping four points since last year to a total score of 22 out of 100. ...
Hannah Hawkins
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-scores-157th-world-open-data-125977/