NSTDA and Mahidol join hands to research ways to fight COVID-19
The National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), led by Dr. Narong Sirilertworakun, NSTDA President, joins hands with The Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, led by Prof. Banchong Mahaisavariya, M.D., President of Mahidol University, to develop a method to extract The RNA of a ...
New hope for Mekong ‘megafish’
Weighing in at 661 pounds, a giant stingray hooked by a fisherman in Cambodia’s Mekong River earlier this month has taken the title of world’s largest freshwater fish. Nicknamed “Boramy,” or “full moon” in the Khmer language, the female ray — which was released — raises ...
Vanessa Bauza
Ransomware virus and its prevention measures
On 03 July 2021, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication announced about Ransomware virus and its prevention measures.Ransomware virus has the most serious impact on day-to-day operations caused by data used in encrypted transaction processes. This virus can infect computer systems through the use of unauthorized ...
Ministry of Post and Telacommunication
Drought spawns fish fears
Fishing communities along two of Cambodia’s principle rivers say their livelihoods are threatened by droughts that have reduced water levels and devastated fish numbers.“the Tonle Sap is 3 metres lower than last year,” Long Sochhet, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Fishing Communities, said yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Jamie Elliott
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-spawns-fish-fears
Top NEC candidate bows out
As the ruling and opposition parties yesterday edged closer to full agreement on a new National Election Committee law, one of the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s favoured candidates for a seat on the nine-member committee said she had removed herself from consideration. Kem Monovithya, the CNRP’s ...
Kevin Ponniah and Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/top-nec-candidate-bows-out
SIM card and internet users rise
More than 2.54 million SIM cards were registered during the first 10 months of the year while the number of mobile internet users grew by 3.3 million, according to the latest report from the Telecommunications Regulator of Cambodia (TRC). ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50673387/sim-card-and-internet-users-rise
CPP adopts strategies for commune polls campaign
Deputy Prime Minister Men Sam An, a member of the Standing Committee of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), said that the CPP adopted five measures for activists of the party to implement during the upcoming Commune Election campaign. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/934474/cpp-adopts-strategies-for-commune-polls-campaign/
Controversial union law set for final review
The head of The National Assembly’s legislation commission of Cambodia said he hoped to have a controversial draft union law passed “very soon” after The latest round of feedback from unions and employers during a public workshop at Parliament on 9 March. Cambodian People’s Party parliamentarian ...
Minister denies Thailand ‘importing’ plastic waste
Industry MInister Suriya Juangroongruangkit on Monday (August 3) dismissed rumours that the Department of Industrial Works had agreed to import 650,000 tonnes of plastic scrap.the mInister said the rumour was untrue because sInce 2018, the department had not issued a licence for the import of ...
The Nation Reporter
Third Covid wave rocks Thai economy
Thailand and many of its neighbours are struggling with the spread of Covid-19 cases while they await the beginning of mass vaccination programmes to counter the pandemic.Thailand’s financial system has been hit hard by the latest coronavirus outbreak and the central bank says its economy ...
Laos' ODOP sales centre highlights local wares
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Consumers wanting to purchase local One District, One Product (ODOP) offerings and other quality handmade items now have a convenient retail outlet with the opening of the Laos ODOP Consignment Centre.the centre, located on the first floor of the Vientiane Center ...
News Desk
New scheme targets social security for all
All Lao people, including general workers and farmers, who are not government officials or private sector members of the National Social Security Fund will be eligible for benefits under a new scheme.the Fund has announced the establishment of the Voluntary Social Security Project For All ...
Phetphoxay Sengpaseuth
Laos targets chemical, biological fertiliser registration
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Authorities are seeking to register more chemical and biological fertiliser companies to control the quality of the products and reduce any harmful impacts on people and the environment.Currently, only three chemical and biological fertiliser companies are legally registered – Savannakhet Fertiliser ...
News Desk
http://annx.asianews.network/content/laos-targets-chemical-biological-fertiliser-registration-106476
Cambodian, Chinese companies ink two business deals
Two business agreements were signed between 21 companies from East China Fujian province and their Cambodian counterparts at a business matching meeting here Sunday. Of the two agreements signed between the two sides, one was between China’s Fuzhou Yifeng Rice Company and Cambodia’s Mekong Oryza ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141214/cambodian-chinese-companies-ink-two-business-deals
Chinese mining firm suspended after attempted illegal export
The Siem Reap provincial department of mines and energy on Thursday ordered The temporary suspension of operations of a Chinese copper-mining firm that was caught transporting 40 tons of copper to Phnom Penh, though Their licenses expired more than a year ago. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinese-mining-firm-suspended-after-attempted-illegal-export-105678/
China a market for fragrant rice
Cambodia is campaigning to boost its luxury fragrant rice exports to China, the world’s largest market, said Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) vice-president Chan Sokheang on Thursday. Sokheang told the Post on Thursday that the CRF plans to achieve the quota that China provided Cambodia – ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-market-fragrant-rice
Wages not cutting into exports
Despite industry concerns that a minimum wage increase to $128 earlier this year would hurt Cambodia’s garment exports, the garment and footwear sector – a mainstay of the economy – showed robust growth for the first half of 2015, netting around $3 billion, according to ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wages-not-cutting-exports
Talks could restart after Rainsy return
Talks between the opposition and ruling parties to break the political deadlock that has now dragged on for more than six months could soon occur, Cambodia National Rescue Party officials said yesterday, ahead of party leader Sam Rainsy’s return from abroad. Kuoy Bunroeun, head of the ...
Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/talks-could-restart-after-rainsy-return
Two more Anonymous Hackers arrested
Two more alleged members of the hacking group Anonymous Cambodia were arrested Thursday for attacking the website of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and taking it offline for more than two hours this week, an official confirmed Friday. “We arrested two men and they were both sent ...
Kuch Naren and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-anonymous-hackers-arrested-57976/
Workers seek pension relief
Cash-strapped workers staged a May Day rally at the Labour Ministry yesterday demanding the Social Security Office (SSO) release 30% Of contributions they have made to a pension fund as they desperately need the money.they said they want the money released immediately as many Of ...
Bangkok Post Reporter