Day: July 2, 2022

Minister of Labour and Vocation Training has spoken highly of the contribution of Decent Employment for Youth (DEY) in Cambodia to the country’s economic growth and job creation for youth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The minister H.E. Ith Samheng who is also a Co-Chair of DEY Board of Directors, expressed the appreciation in a meeting with Mr. Sardar Umar Alam, UNESCO Representative in Cambodia and UN Interim Coordinator for Cambodia here in Phnom Penh on June 30.

H.E. Ith Samheng underlined that DEY phase II focuses on professional technical training and skill set for employment.

It also looks into upskilling and reskilling youth whose careers were adversely affected by the COVID-19, he added.

H.E. Minister was positive that DEY phase II and next phases will significantly contribute to achieving Cambodia’s goal to be an upper middle-income country in 2030 and to meet the sustainable development goals (SDG).

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Wrestling Federation of Cambodia (WFC) has set an ambitious target to get more than four gold medals at the 32nd SEA Games 2023 in Cambodia.

The target was unveiled by WFC President H.E. Vath Chamroeun during the federation’s recent general assembly to review the past achievements and set out its 2021-2025 mandate at its headquarters here in Phnom Penh.

According to the WFC president, the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) as well as the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports have set the gold medal index of two for the federation.

Driven by the good performance of the athletes, solid training by the coach Mr. Komeil Ghasemi (a gold medalist), and strong commitment among all players, H.E. Vath Chamroeun is positive that it can win more than four gold medals from the 2023 SEA Games.

The WFC president also encouraged the families of the athletes to continue motivating them to achieve the target not only to advance the sport, but also to profile Cambodia as the SEA Games host.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Ministry of Information is running another review of Cambodian draft law on access to information.

Addressing participants joining the review on July 1, Minister of Information H.E. Khieu Kanharith explained that the draft law was comprehensively consulted with various stakeholders including civil society organisations.

Participating civil society organisations along with other stakeholders had agreed on the result of the consultation, so the ministry submitted the draft law for technical review by concerned ministries, especially the Ministry of Justice.

With technical endorsement by those ministries, the Ministry of Information submitted the draft law for the concurrence by the Council of Ministers, he added.

Nevertheless, some of the participating civil society organisations recently filed a request to the office of the Prime Ministers to review the draft law again.

Therefore, the Ministry of Information was tasked to run another review of the law, he continued.

According to H.E. Khieu Kanharith, the Ministry of Information in collaboration with UNESCO as well as relevant partners, ministries and institutions worked hard to draft the law in a participatory and consultative manner.

This law sets out the rights and obligations of receiving and providing information, as well as the principles, rules, procedures to access confidential information and protection of whistle-blowers in order to ensure that every member of the public has the right to receive information from public institutions in accordance with the Cambodia’s Constitution.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Cambodia Office will organise next week a training course on “Cambodia Court Administration Improvement (Cambodia)” to enhance court administration services and strengthen the capabilities to build an electronic administration system in Cambodia.

The online training course, to be held from July 4 to 13, will be attended by 20 mid-level officials from Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Court Administration Secretariat.

On July 1, KOICA conducted an online pre-orientation to introduce the participants about the course flow.

According to a KOICA’s press release, this intensive training course is designed to provide Korea’s experiences as reference for Cambodia’s legal and Judicial sector, to assist in the improvement and modernisation of the court administration system in Cambodia, and to help reinforce responsibility and ethical awareness of legal and judicial officials.

The Cambodian participants have also prepared a country report by analysing the current issues and major challenges the country is facing, said the source, adding that it is part of the Action Plan building process in which participants will get involved throughout the training programme.

In Cambodia, it continued, KOICA works in several technical areas on various programmes and projects that substantially impact Cambodia’s development such as improving students’ nutrition and wellbeing, strengthening teacher capacity, public health, agriculture and health infrastructure, and innovation.

“KOICA will continue to support and implement programmes in Cambodia that target the development of human resources,” reaffirmed the press release.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) has resumed its commercial flight services between Siem Reap, Cambodia and Da Nang, Vietnam

On July 1, 2022, the inaugural flight, K6 840 from Siem Reap to Da Nang departed at 15:35 pm and took around 2 hours flying time to arrive Da Nang International airport.

The return of CAA on this route after more than two years break due to COVID pandemic and by the code sharing with Vietnam Airlines shall promote travelling demand between Siem Reap and Da Nang; especially the motivation of international inbound to those both destinations, said CAA in a news release.

All passengers on the inaugural flight received warmly welcome with scarfs as gifts from CAA and enjoyed safe flights.

According to CAA, initially it will conduct 3 flights per week on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday by ATR72 and plan to increase to 5 flights per week from September 2022.

Cambodia Angkor Air is the National flag carrier and is also the first and only IOSA registered Operator in the Kingdom of Cambodia (the prestigious operation safety certificate by IATA audit).

At the moment, CAA serves the highest frequency between Cambodia and Vietnam with 30 roundtrip flights per week from Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Sihanoukville in Cambodia to Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang in Vietnam.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press