A female domesticated elephant under the care of the Airavata Khmer Elephant Foundation gave birth to a calf on December 26 – known as “Boxing Day” in some parts of the world – in Ratanakkiri province, bringing Christmas joy to the wildlife conservation community and Ministry of Environment officials.
Legal and judicial reform is at the core of the goverment’s agenda for the Sixth Legislature of the National Assembly. The Ministry of Justice is the government’s administrative arm in charge of managing and improving the courts and judicial system as well as being tasked recently with the development and implementation of enhanced out-of-court dispute resolution mechanisms.
After Health Queries and Consent Forms, Cambodian Journalists Get Vaccinated
11 February 2021
VOA Khmer
A man receives a vaccine as Cambodia starts its coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine rollout with 600,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine donated by China in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, February 10, 2021. (REUTERS/Cindy Liu)
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
Before Chea Thyrith, a local Cambodian journalist, was vaccinated on Wednesday, questions were asked about his health condition. Thyrith was informed that he needed to sign a consent form before getting the COVID-19 vaccine and that the state would not bear any responsibility if he died.
“The signature is to show that I agree and take responsibility for any risks that I have been informed about,” said the Bayon TV reporter on Thursday.
New incentives for authors of Khmer HE resources
Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and Ministry of Economy and Finance started an initiative to provide financial support to writers and researchers in higher education through a “research, creativity and innovation” programme that will author textbooks for use in higher education, writes Voun Dara for
The Phnom Penh Post.
Education ministry spokesman Ros Soveacha said the funding initiative is intended to aid students by creating sufficient resources for the study of topics in higher education in the Khmer language.
He reiterated that the purpose of these programmes was to boost the overall quantity and quality of higher education textbooks available in Khmer. It will also help to remedy a lack of resources in higher education for studying in the Khmer language, which hinders students and researchers.