IUCN Officials Visit Laos To Update On Hin Nam No Transboundary UNESCO Nomination
(KPL) An IUCN team led by Mr. Peter Shadie, the new Director of the World Heritage Programme of the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN), is on a working visit to Laos to join a local technical taskforce to review recent progress made on ...
KPL News Desk
http://kpl.gov.la/En/Detail.aspx?id=48250
Scepticism over government statistics
Getting reliable statistical data remains a challenge for Cambodia’s government, as a lack of cooporation among the ministries and corruption still distort what is reality. Industry insiders say this is a problem, especially as reliable data are the base of reference when the Association of Southeast ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052165728/Business/scepticism-over-government-statistics.html
No progress on new Vientiane-Champassak highway
One year has passed but the new Vientiane-Champassak highway survey and design has not progressed following a Chinese company signing an agreement with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. “We are now writing a letter to the company informing them that if they cannot perform ...
Cambodia’s Deportation of Uighurs to China Remembered
Four years after the forcible deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers from Cambodia to China, an advocacy group has said it remains “deeply concerned” about their fate and has called on China to lift a veil of secrecy surrounding their treatment. In a statement, the World ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-deportation-of-uighurs-to-china-remembered-49549/
Agriculture scholarships to help nurture local talent
A new agriculture scholarship and research grant were launched yesterday with the aim of nurturing local expertise by providing students opportunities to pursue graduate degrees and conduct research. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5086816/agriculture-scholarships-help-nurture-local-talent/
Luxembourg injects 23m euro to develop rural areas
The government of Luxembourg has granted 23 million euro (205 billion kip) to Laos to carry out local development projects in four target provinces. The programme aims to improve infrastructure and nutrition, ease poverty, and bolster sustainable environmental management as outlined in the 8th national socio-economic ...
A reporting guide during COVID-19 pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the World Health OrganizatiOn declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, journalists around the world have played an extremely important role in providing the public with informatiOn about the pandemic and anti-epidemic efforts by governments.To help operatiOnal journalists ...
MDI
Cambodian PM defends Australia refugee deal
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is trying to ease concerns over the social and economic costs of the country’s plan with Australia to receive refugees. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch has called for the deal to be halted until Cambodia improves its refugee support system. Hun Sen ...
Ron Corben
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodian-pm-defends-australia-refugee-deal/2531839.html
Storm-proof home initiative transforming living conditions
The recent storms causing misery in central Vietnam may have left large wounds in the lives of poor residents in the south-central province of Quang Ngai. However, many of them are able to avoid the very worst thanks to firm shelters provided through a jointly-funded ...
Democracy About More Than Polling Day
The U.N.’s envoy for freedom of assembly on Tuesday presented a report to the U.N. General Assembly that calls for an approach to election monitoring that looks beyond polling day to assess whether elections in countries such as Cambodia are “free and fair.” The report, compiled ...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/democracy-about-more-than-polling-day-46461/
Kampong Cham piques the interest of developers
Kampong Cham may no longer be the quiet city it is today if its purported economic potential continues to be realised. Local developers have already taken a keen interest in the town with the development of the first borey underway. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/kampong-cham-piques-interest-developers
Greater riel use could boost foreign reserves
When Cambodia began accumulating foreign reserves in 1997 – after it switched from a centrally planned market to an open economy – the central bank deposited the $276 million it had saved at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and allowed it to manage ...
Riel Gains
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36512/greater-riel-use-could-boost-foreign-reserves/
Kualao Unveils New Function Halls In Honor of 25th Anniversary
Kualao Restaurant, recognized as one of the country’s most popular authentic Lao food restaurants, celebrates its 25th anniversary in business by launching two fully renovated function rooms on the 2nd floor of the restaurant side compound, with a new and modern look.“It has been a ...
Latsamy Phonevilay
UK Sugar Firm Investigating Child Labor Claims
U.K. sugar firm Tate & Lyle on Wednesday said it was looking into recent allegations of child labor on two plantations in Koh Kong province it has been buying sugar from since 2010, but rebuked NGOs for not bringing the claims to its attention sooner. The ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-sugar-firm-investigating-child-labor-claims-36637/
Failed students weigh future
As the new public school year gets under way this week, grade 12 students reeling from en masse failure at the national exam have a choice to make: repeat their grade or forfeit their diploma. In total, just 33,997 test-sitters, or 40.6 per cent of ...
Laignee Barron and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/failed-students-weigh-future
Campaign focused on reducing deaths
Amid a continually rising rate of industrial accidents and deaths, the Ministry of Labour introduced a campaign focused on identifying workplace hazards before tragedy strikes. Since the ministry began keeping track of 960 Cambodian factories in 2009, workplace accidents have risen by nearly 375 per cent, ...
Sen David and Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/campaign-focused-reducing-deaths
Laos boosts hydropower, explores coal deposits for shale gas
Laos aims to sharply boost its hydropower generation to 10,000 megawatts by 2020 and is exploring for shale gas as part of plans to export electricity to its neighbours, its vice minister of energy and mines said on 26 October. Laos is among Asia’s poorest countries ...
Vietnam, Japan boost cooperation in ICT
Vietnam hopes to expand cooperation with Japan in three priority areas in information and communications technology following a Vietnam-Japan policy dialogue on ICT in Hanoi on September 15. The priority areas are identified as policies and a strategy for the development of 4G/5G networks after the ...
Singapore investment up
Total fixed assets of Singaporean investment in Cambodia last year reached $82.7 million, a 500 per cent increase from $13.8 million in 2011, data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) show. Singaporean entrepreneurs who have already entered the Cambodian market said they expect ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022561574/Business/singapore-investment-up.html
DPM Prak Sokhonn briefs UN Security Council on developments In Myanmar
PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in his capacity as the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar, addressed a closed-session briefing For the Council’s Members via videoconference on May 27 on the implementation of the Five-point ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501083932/dpm-prak-sokhonn-briefs-un-security-council-on-developments-in-myanmar/