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Public and private universities are experiencing an exponential rise in the number of students opting for two-year associate degrees rather than four-year bachelor’s programs following last year’s disastrous high school exit examinations, education officials said yesterday. Passing rates plummeted by…
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Widely condemned NGO laws like those ratified in Russia on the weekend and in neighbouring Indonesia two years ago should serve as a warning of the potential “chilling effect” Cambodia’s highly controversial draft NGO law could have on civil society…
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Despite the fact that Cambodia is slated to reach the six internationally agreed-upon education goals set by Unesco for 2015, the Kingdom’s education system continues to face systemic problems, according to the Ministry of Education’s annual report. The report’s final…
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Despite Cambodia’s unofficial freeze on inter-country adoptions, the Ministry of Social Affairs recently urged partner countries to reforge, in principle, their adoption partnerships with the Kingdom. In a statement issued on Monday, the ministry opened the application process for international…
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Physicians are scrambling to update treatments to combat the growing threat caused by a new strain of malaria that is unique to Cambodia and resistant to the drug that dictates whether patients are ultimately cured. Since the strain was detected…
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The Kingdom has seen vast improvements in nutrition, general health and mortality rates over the past four years, according to the preliminary results of the fourth Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey (CDHS) released yesterday. The survey assessed Cambodians’ utilisation of…
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City Hall cited the potential for terrorist threats in banning the use of drones without a permit yesterday, after a man allegedly flew his quadcopter over the Royal Palace within view of the Queen Mother as she performed her daily…
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“Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea momentarily broke his silence during the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday to pose two questions to veteran journalist and witness Elizabeth Becker regarding the United States’ criminal role in the historic destruction of Cambodia. Choosing to…
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Hi! I’m Sarah, a Canadian freelance multimedia journalist, serial expat and self-proclaimed third culture kid. Specialising in tech, travel, immigration, culture and health, I have followed my sixth sense for news to various places in North America, Asia and now, Europe. When I’m not writing or editing, I’m losing sleep over travelogues and fantasy books or planning motorcycle trips from the Old Continent.
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