Cambodia expects China, RCEP to help boost economic recovery
Amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, Cambodia’s economy in 2020 registered its slowest growth since 1994. However, the country’s growth is projected to rebound this year, thanks to its newly-signed bilateral free trade agreement with China and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50847787/cambodia-expects-china-rcep-to-help-boost-economic-recovery/
Phuket to be a foam-free city
Phuket Vice Governor, Thavorn Kongkaew, chaired the signing of Memorandums of Understanding between the government sector, the private sector and local associations. The MOUs are aiming to stop the use of foam material containers in Phuket.Keep reading ...
Kritsada Mueanhawong
Tourism Stakeholders Commit To Plastic Free Future
Leading hotels and tourism groups have signed the “Phuket Pledge” at Phuket Hotels for Islands Sustaining Tourism forum 2018 (PHIST) establishing a model for the future development of islands throughout Asia that embraces sustainability as a core and sets urgent goals for long-term change.Keep reading ...
Working group on investment, economy set up with China
Cambodia and China have decided to set up an investment and economic cooperation working group to promote the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as well as strengthen investment and prop up bilateral economic and trade ties. ...
Hom Phanet
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/working-group-investment-economy-set-china
Press release on the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) commits $10M to increase Cambodia’s mine clearance and victim assistance efforts in 2021 and beyond
On 15 March 2021, the Korea InternatiOnal CooperatiOn Agency (KOICA) issued a press release providing $10M to increase Cambodia’s mine clearance and victim assistance efforts in 2021 and beyOnd, focusing On undertaking landmine and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) clearance, increases victim assistance, mine risk ...
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
Failing students urged to take up skills training
Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron yesterday advised Grade 12 students who fail the national exam to study vocational skills instead of ending their education. Speaking at the launching of a pilot project “Basic Education Equivalency Program” in Phnom Penh, he said that students who ...
Or Sreypich
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50520587/failing-students-urged-to-take-up-skills-training/
Japan vows quality infrastructure in Mekong region in push for Free and Open Indo-Pacific
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday (Oct 9) pledged to promote quality infrastructure projects in five South-east Asian nations along the Mekong River, while their leaders said they supported Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy (FOIPS). “The Mekong region is a corridor that connects ...
Bangkok to host marine meetings
New political commitments to protect marine resources are expected to be announced in two key international marine meetings to be held in Bangkok next week, officials said Thursday. The first meeting will be the Special Asean Ministerial Meeting on Marine Debris on March 5 where ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
Hà Nội to roll out COVID-19 vaccinations to all residents
Hà Nội authorities plan to provide free COVID-19 vaccinations to all residents, said a senior official.Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Vương Đình Huệ asked concerned agencies to prioritise the purchase of vaccines for all residents using the local budget and mobilising other legal resources at a meeting of ...
Polls a budget buster?
The National Election Committee (NEC) will spend $53 million to conduct the July 29 national polls. The figure is higher than previously allocated, after the European Union (EU) and the US suspended donations following last year’s court-mandated dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/polls-budget-buster
As elections loom, voter registration stalled
A group of election-monitoring NGOs have expressed alarm at what they say are inexplicable delays in starting to rebuild the national voter list, with concerns that the National Election Committee (NEC) may be leaving things too late for the 2017 commune elections. ...
Alex Willemyns and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-elections-loom-voter-registration-stalled-110905/
Call for border registration
The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has submitted a letter to the National Election Committee (NEC), asking them to help Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand to register to vote in communes along the Thai border. The letter, signed by acting party president Kem Sokha yesterday and ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30983/call-for-border-registration/
Independent observers say ‘smooth’ vote still marred by problems
Independent election observers praised Sunday’s running of the nationwide commune elections as largely smooth and peaceful, even while noting a raft of problems, including unauthorized officials at polling sites, intimidated observers and soldiers being brought to vote at some polling stations by the truckload. ...
Ben Sokhean and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/independent-observers-say-smooth-vote-still-marred-by-problems-130973/
Army resumes search for missing flood victims
Sanamxay district, Attapeu province: Military personnel have been surveying routes to flooded areas since Monday hoping to bring in more vehicles and equipment to assist in the search for people still missing after the flash flood on July 23.More ...
Visith Teppalath
Dictating the internet
Disinformation or freedom of expression? Hate speech or free speech? Threat to national security or whistleblowing on corruption and tyranny?These time-honoured debates have assumed a new urgency in the internet era, where digital privacy is under attack and fake news sometimes comes from the same ...
Ex-RFA reporters detained in capital
Two former Radio Free Asia reporters arrested on Tuesday night remained in detention at Phnom Penh Municipal Police headquarters yesterday evening, with authorities confirming that the pair were under investigation for allegedly sending news reports to the radio broadcaster. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ex-rfa-reporters-detained-capital
Thailand faces challenges to become 'rabies-free' by 2020
Thailand has set a target of becoming a rabies-free country by 2020, and the government has put the nation on full alert following the worst infection rate in nearly four decades. Experts on public health are calling for immediate and comprehensive cooperation from the government, ...
Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat
The reverse side of export growth
In recent years, Vietnam’s export revenue has soared in tandem with a rising number of lawsuits filed against local companies.In the eyes of Vietnamese businesses, the signings of 15 FTAs have minimized the use of tariff barriers for free flow trade, but it has paradoxically ...
Hung Le, Ngoc Nguyen
RCEP ministers fail to reach agreement
Ministers from 16 Asia-Pacific nations failed to reach an agreement on creating the world’s largest free trade area at their meeting on Friday, a Thai negotiator suggested, but some are optimistic about the chances of a deal by year-end. A senior Japanese government official told reporters ...
Kyodo News
Psychological distress high among disabled
People with disabilities and their families in two Cambodian provinces – Kampong Cham and Tbong Khmum – experience significant psychological distress, endure discrimination and stigma and their rights “re-main largely unrecognised”, a new study has found. ...
Sen David and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/psychological-distress-high-among-disabled