Education Ministry Pushes for Online Classes, as School Closures Extended

PHNOM PENH —  The Education Ministry last week released more detailed guidance asking higher education institutions to start conducting classes online, as the government extended indefinitely the closure of schools and universities. The April 15 notification asked all higher education institutions to prepare for online classrooms and course work for April and May,...

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E-Learning moves to TV in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH: The Education Ministry yesterday started airing distance learning progra- mmes or e-Learning on the National Television of Kampuchea and some cable TV channels for students in the capital and provinces throughout the country. Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron announced yesterday the launch of the TV programmes was carried out following an instruction by...

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Cambodia: Unemployed to get $40 per month

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training has instructed enterprises, business owners and travel agencies in five provinces to prepare the proper forms for the suspension of employment contracts. This, it said, will make it easier for the ministry to transfer $40 a month to workers and employees via Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialized Bank. On...

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COVID-19: Cambodia extends school closure

Phnom Penh (VNA) – The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) of Cambodia has announced that the re-opening of schools has been postponed until further notice as preventive measures against the COVID-19 pandemic continues. According to a directive issued by the ministry on April 17, the extension of school suspensions covers all educational institutions at all...

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Cambodia extends ban on visitors from US, Iran and four European countries

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia on Thursday (April 16) extended a ban on foreign travellers from the United States, Iran, and four European countries in a bid to stem the spread of Covid-19, according to a foreign ministry's letter. In the letter to the ambassadors, consul-generals, and honorary consults of Cambodia to foreign countries, Foreign Ministry secretary of state...

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Cambodia postpones annual exams over COVID-19

PHNOM PENH, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has decided to postpone secondary and high school exams in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Khmer Times reported on Thursday. Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Hang Chuon Naron issued a notice on Wednesday, saying the ministry had decided to postpone the two national exams,...

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2 Historic Khmer Statues Returned to Cambodia

WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State and Cambodia Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, returned two Khmer statues to Cambodia during a repatriation ceremony at the National Museum of Cambodia April 3. The first item is an 11th Century sandstone Khmer statue...

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Cambodia orders mandatory quarantine for all incoming passengers

PHNOM PENH: With as much as 66 out of the 115 infected with Covic-19 being imported cases who then went on to infect locals with cluster infections, the government has ordered the mandatory quarantine of all incoming people into Cambodia. This includes all border entries such as land, water ways, sea ports and airports through which many infected victims have come through. Some...

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Cambodia Closes Massage Parlours, Health Spas to Curb Corona Virus

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia decided to temporarily close all massage parlours and health spas across the kingdom in order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said on Tuesday (April 7). In a letter sent to governors of all cities and provinces, the minister asked them to take action to shut down all massage parlors and...

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Discover Angelina Jolie’s Cambodia and Why She’s so in Love

The Tomb Raider star has been enamored of the Southeast Asian country since 2000 Cambodia is the place that has reconnected  Angelina Jolie with herself time and time again. The Southeast Asian nation was where her eldest son Maddox was born, and where she first met him as a baby before she adopted him as her first child. She also chose Cambodia as the setting...

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Statue Fragments Found Near Cambodia’s Bayon Temple

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—The Khmer Times reports that large statue fragments have been recovered from a canal near the Gate of the Dead at Angkor Thom by members of Cambodia’s Department of Monuments and Preventive Archaeology, the heritage police, and agents from the Apsara Authority. “The god statue found by the working team has four pieces, while another giant statue has...

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Cambodia: Emergency Bill Recipe for Dictatorship

COVID-19 Crisis Pretext for Hun Sen to Seek Unlimited Powers, Go After Critics (New York) – The Cambodian government should withdraw its draft state of emergency law, which would empower Prime Minister Hun Sen to override fundamental human rights protections, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 31, 2020, the Council of Ministers approved the “Law on Governing the...

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