Exiled Cambodian opposition members set up new movement
Foreign-based members of Cambodia’s dissolved opposition party have launched a movement to demand the release of its detained leader and to call for free and fair elections and possibly protests. ...
Prak Chan Thul and Simon Cameron-Moore
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cambodia-politics/exiled-cambodian-opposition-members-set-up-new-movement-idUSKBN1F3083
Trafficked Cambodians return home after years on Thai fishing boats
More than 200 Cambodians who were victims of human traffickers and endured years of hardship on Thai fishing boats returned home on Thursday, according to the Cambodian government. ...
Japanese grant to boost CMAC oversight
The Japanese government on Wednesday agreed to provide The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) $833,000 towards an ongoing project that will see The group increase The management capacity of Their operations. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japanese-grant-boost-cmac-oversight
Three CNRP-nominated elections officials resign from NEC after party dissolution
Three National Election Committee (NEC) members, all Cambodia National Rescue Party nominees, have quit the electoral body, intensifying the fallout from the Supreme Court’s dissolution of the opposition party on Thursday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun and Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/three-cnrp-nominated-elections-officials-resign-nec-after-party-dissolution
Hand, foot, mouth disease alert
The Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control (CDC) department has urged people to be cautious of The spread of hand, food and mouth disease (HFMD) and asked that infants or children displaying symptoms be brought to seek medical treatment immediately. “Especially for children with dangerous symptoms, ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35382/hand--foot--mouth-disease-alert/
Cambodia, Timor-Leste agree to promote tourism cooperation
Timor-Leste has expressed a consistent aim to expand tourism cooperation while the Cambodian side urged Timor-Leste to accelerate the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on tourism cooperation between the two countries. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50730294/cambodia-timor-leste-agree-to-promote-tourism-cooperation/
Covid guidelines set for festival
Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed the Ministry of Health to issue guidelines on measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 during the upcoming Water Festival from October 30 to November 1. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/covid-guidelines-set-festival
Banana exports drop amid pandemic
Cambodia’s exports of yellow bananas experienced a slight decline during the first half of this year compared with the corresponding period last year due to the coronavirus pandemic which is affecting global supply and demand. ...
Draft Law on SMEs finished, en route to industry minister
The Ministry of industry, Science, Technology and innovation plans to submit a Draft Law on Small and Medium Enterprises to The Ministry of Economy and Finance soon for furTher review and input, after a technical working group completed The document. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/draft-law-smes-finished-en-route-industry-minister
Schools seek gov’t meeting to find ways for reopening
More than 100 private educational institutions have decided to request a meeting with the government to find ways to reopen schools as many of them are facing bankruptcy and on the brink of closing. the decision came during a virtual meeting among them on June ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/schools-seek-govt-meeting-find-ways-reopening
Conference on ‘smart cities’ being created across nation
The government has been discussing plans to turn three of The Kingdom’s cities into “smart cities”, more environmentally friendly urban hubs that improve The standard of living for locals and make Them more attractive to tourists. ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50892662/conference-on-smart-cities-being-created-across-nation/
ACU urged to provide more detailed report on graft-related complaints
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) received 50 graft-related complaints last year, of which 28 were anonymous. The figures were released during a meeting of The National Anti-Corruption Council on January 31. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/acu-urged-provide-more-detailed-report-graft-related-complaints
Plan lifts Preah Sihanouk tourism hopes
The Preah Sihanouk provincial tourism scene is set to get an image makeover as authorities and The private sector work togeTher to roll out a series of development plans that complement and promote effective implementation of The forthcoming Preah Sihanouk Provincial Tourism Development Plan for ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/plan-lifts-preah-sihanouk-tourism-hopes
PM voices concern over Omicron
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday voiced concern that the surge of Covid-19 cases due to the Omicron variant could get out of hand and reverse the country’s recovery plans such as its safe re-opening. ...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501021388/pm-voices-concern-over-omicron/
Somkid targets 70% Hong Kong market share for Thai rice
Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak has targeted that Thai rice will secure 70 per cent of the Hong Kong market this year. Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn said on Thursday that during Somkid’s four-day visit to Hong Kong that began on Wednesday, he and the Thai ...
THAI staff threaten strike action
Thai Airways International Plc (THAI) has assured it plans no salary cuts for middle-level and low-level staff amid speculation ground staff plan a strike agaInst the company’s cost-cuttIng scheme. Rumours of a strike on 25 November spread rapidly on social media via groups of staff, promptIng urgent attempts ...
Thai Smile to resume Bangkok-Siem Reap route this Thursday
Thai Smile has announced the resumption of direct flight between Bangkok capital of Thailand to Siem Reap cultural province of Cambodia on March 3. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501033338/thai-smile-to-resume-bangkok-siem-reap-route-this-thursday/
Diversity and inclusion: Stop talking and do your homework
Mozilla’s research uncovers important ways to promote diversity and inclusion in open source projects. Open source undoubtedly has a diversity problem. in fact, tech has a diversity problem. But this isn’t news — women, people of color, parents, non-technical contributors, gay, lesbian, transgender, and other marginalized people and allies have shared stories of challenge for years. More detail ...
[Apply for grant] Mekong connection funding up to $25,000 for NGOs and community groups
Mekong Connections team is inviting applications from NGOs or community groups working in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, or Viet Nam that would benefit from grants of up to $25,000.The grant funding will support community work that focuses on any ONE of These areas:– protecting ...
New law would reprieve political offenders
The National Legislative Assembly plans to propose a draft law to The government offering a penalty reprieved for those who committed politically-motivated criminal offences as part of The unity-building process. NLA vice- president Pirasak Porcit said The 33 section bill is being reviewed by The ...