EU invests $3.5 million to fight Covid-19 and health threats
The European Union (EU) will invest about $3.5 million over a three-year period through The World Health Organization (WHO) to support Cambodia’s preparedness and response to Covid-19 and future health security threats. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50867227/eu-invests-3-5-million-to-fight-covid-19-and-health-threats/
Pestech awarded $100M transmission line contract
Malaysian-owned power infrastructure provider Pestech (Cambodia) Ltd has been awarded a contract to build a 230-kilovolt transmission line valued at $100 million to connect Koh Kong province’s Stung Tatai hydropower dam to Phnom Penh, according to a filing on the Malaysian stock exchange. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/pestech-awarded-100m-transmission-line-contract
Cambodian PM's visit to Nanning a success: senior official
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s just-concluded visit to China’s Nanning city for the 11th ASEAN-China Expo is a “success”, contributing to further enhancing Cambodia’s ties with China and ASEAN, a senior official said Tuesday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/16/c_133647747.htm
Binh Duong-Ho Chi Minh City-Cambodia bus line opens
Binh Duong-Ho Chi Minh City-Cambodia bus line has been launched on December 6 by Phuong Trinh Joint Stock Company. The new service will be operational with six daily trips from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. using 45 and 28-seat high class luxury passenger buses. ...
Duc Trung
http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Travel/2014/12/111816/
After talks, workers return to jobs at M&V garment factory
A weekslong strike by more than 2,000 workers from a Phnom Penh factory that supplies global fashion brand H&M ended Wednesday after unions scaled down their original demands and backed down over a condition that workers receive their full salaries for the strike period, representatives ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-talks-workers-return-to-jobs-at-mv-garment-factory-85362/
Cambodia to spend $500 million to foster labour and vocational training for 2021-2025
Cambodia will invest nearly $500 million to foster the country’s labour and vocational training from 2021 to 2025. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50799788/cambodia-to-spend-500-million-to-foster-labour-and-vocational-training-for-2021-2025/
Kingdom’s development funding trending to domestic financing
Cambodia is fronting more money for its own development financing according to a new report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). ...
Michael Firn
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50896696/kingdoms-development-funding-trending-to-domestic-financing/
Preah Vihear temple to get visitor’s centre
Preah Vihear authorities yesterday started work on building a Visitor Centre for tourists to the region’s famous Preah Vihear temple. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50908740/preah-vihear-temple-to-get-visitors-centre/
Cambodia provides cash assistance to pandemic-hit families for another 3 months
The Cambodian government will continue providing cash assistance to about 700,000 families hit by COVID-19 for anoTher three months from October to December, according to a decision released on Wednesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50955991/cambodia-provides-cash-assistance-to-pandemic-hit-families-for-another-3-months/
China to help Cambodia build a vaccine filling factory
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday said that the country will continue to provide vaccine assistance according to Cambodia’s needs and help Cambodia build a vaccine filling factory. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50983142/china-to-help-cambodia-build-a-vaccine-filling-factory/
CMAC, APOPO sign cooperation agreement on landmine clearance
The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) and APOPO, a non-profit organization that trains African giant pouched rats to save lives by detecting landmines, have reached a partnership and cooperation agreement on landmine clearance. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501083052/cmac-apopo-sign-cooperation-agreement-on-landmine-clearance/
France pledges to provide over 300 mln euros to Cambodia for development projects
The French Development Agency (AFD) has committed to providing over 300 million euros ($316 million) to Cambodia to support development projects for three years, said its press statement on Wednesday. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501073952/france-pledges-to-provide-over-300-mln-euros-to-cambodia-for-development-projects/
China eyes its next prize – the Mekong
Beijing’s islands-building in the South China Sea and their militarisation, replete with surface-to-air missiles, is near complete. With guile, threat, and coercion, China can now seize control of one of the main transport arteries of Southeast Asia, making a mockery of international laws and norms.Keep ...
Elliot Brennan
Collaboration for the climate
A commitment to cooperation between countries in Southeast Asia remains the key to tackling climate change as its impact continues to take a greater toll on the region’s economy and people, say experts.the mutually beneficial results of such a commitment are clear, one of them ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Shell commits to ‘Believe-Become-Belong’ concept
The Shell Company of Thailand Limited recently participated in The Thailand SDGs Forum 2018: Localising The SDGs (Thailand’s Sustainable Business Guide) seminar organised by online news agency Thaipublica and The Thailand Sustainable Development Foundation.Keep reading. ...
The Nation Reporter
Smoking rate on the rise despite govt efforts
More than 70,000 Thais die from smoking-related illnesses each year, and the number of new smokers — some as young as 10 years old — is on the rise, despite the country’s decades-long effort to curb smoking rates, which was initiated by the late Privy ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Bt200m tipped into fund for startups, IT upgrades
The Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) is putting about Bt200 million into a DEPA Fund that will support startups and help oTher businesses that want to integrate information technology into Their operations.Keep reading ...
Jirapan Boonnoon
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Restaurant workers rehired after new year leave dispute
More than a dozen employees fired from a Phnom Penh eatery on Monday after a dispute over pay during the Khmer New Year holiday were rehired on Tuesday following a protest that prompted negotiations with their employer, according to union representatives and Labor Ministry officials. ...
Buth Kimsay and Sonia Kohlbacher
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/restaurant-workers-rehired-after-new-year-leave-dispute-111519/
Unions meet with lawmakers, raise concerns on draft law
Union leaders raised their concerns with a draft law aiming to regulate their activities—including a provision that they must report their finances every year—during their first meeting with CPP lawmakers on a new bipartisan committee formed to review the controversial bill before it goes to ...
Sek Odom and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/unions-meet-with-lawmakers-raise-concerns-on-draft-law-104126/