Minister reiterates call for regulation of clinics
The minister of health once again urged his subordinates and local authorities yesterday to shut down the country’s unlicensed clinics and doctors to prevent another HIV outbreak. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/minister-reiterates-call-regulation-clinics
Cambodia ‘measles free’, WHO reports
The World Health Organization has declared Cambodia measles-free, having not registered a confirmed case in over three years, marking a success in combating what was once the country’s most deadly communicable disease. ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/cambodia-measles-free-who-reports
Ratanakkiri corpse is not from VN: villager
Villagers in Ratanakkiri province discovered yesterday that a corpse previously believed to be a Vietnamese Montagnard was a local man, as they reportedly met with a United Nations official to discuss the fate of asylum seekers still hiding in the area. A group of ethnic Jarai ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-corpse-not-vn-villager
Kem Sokha asks PM to rethink refugee deal
Kem Sokha, first vice president of the National Assembly and vice president of Cambodia National Rescue Party, has asked Prime Minister Hun Sen to reconsider the transfer of refugees from Nauru to Cambodia. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/kem-sokha-asks-pm-to-rethink-refugee-deal-7597
UN refugee agency joins search for Montagnards in Cambodia
A team from the United Nations refugee agency traveled to northeast Cambodia Wednesday to meet with 13 ethnic Montagnards seeking asylum in the country after fleeing alleged persecution in Vietnam, according to an agency spokesperson and a member of a local rights group. United Nations High ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/search-12032014184633.html
Cambodia investigates village's high HIV rate
Cambodian health officials are investigating an alarmingly high rate of infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in a remote village. At least 82 people have tested positive for HIV in Rokar, Battambang province, which has a population of 2,000 people. Officials said they suspected a ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-investigates-high-hiv-rate-remote-village/2561848.html
Cambodia village reports mass HIV/AIDS infection, likely by contaminated needles
Cambodian health authorities on Tuesday said more than 80 people – including children and the elderly – who tested positive for HIV/AIDS in a single remote village may have been infected by contaminated needles. ...
The Straits Times News Staff
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/cambodia-village-reports-mass-hivaids-infection-likely-contaminated-
Cambodia investigates health clinic in village HIV outbreak
Cambodian officials say they are investigating a health clinic in a small village where more than 100 people have now tested positive for HIV. Authorities say they fear the repeated use of an infected needle could be causing the devastating outbreak in northwestern Battambang province. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-investigates-health-clinic-in-village-hiv-outbreak/2563157.html
Cambodian villagers angry over HIV outbreak
Cambodia’s prime minister appealed Thursday to villagers in northwestern Cambodia not to lynch an unlicensed medical practitioner who they suspect caused more than 100 people to become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. ...
Fox News Staff
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/12/18/cambodian-villagers-angry-over-hiv-outbreak/
Cambodian unlicensed doctor faces charges of causing mass HIV infections in village
Cambodian police on Sunday sent a village medical practitioner to court to face the charges of causing mass HIV infections after over 100 people in a remote village were infected with the virus, a local police officer said. “The unlicensed doctor confessed that he had ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141221/cambodian-unlicensed-doctor-faces-charges-causing-mass-hiv-i
Remaining 5 Montagnard asylum seekers leave Cambodian jungle to meet UN team
Remaining five hill tribe Montagnards emerged from northeast Cambodia’s jungle on Saturday night after hiding for more than seven weeks since illegally entering Cambodia from Vietnam, a senior human rights activist said Sunday. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2014-12/21/c_133869193.htm
Indian delegation to visit Vietnam, Cambodia to discuss issues pertaining to pharma trade
A high level Indian delegation from the department of commerce and trade, government of India, is expected to visit Vietnam and Cambodia this month to discuss various issues pertaining to pharma trade and improve business ties with the two South East Asian countries. Rajeev Kher, secretary, ...
A Raju Hyderabad
http://www.pharmabiz.com/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=86004&sid=1
Infant becomes latest person to die in Cambodia’s mass HIV infection
A seven-month-old girl is the latest victim of Cambodia’s mass HIV infections in a remote western commune where an unauthorized medical worker reused syringes. The infant was the first to die of 16 members from an extended family of 50 who contracted the deadly virus that ...
Hum Chamroeun
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/baby-dies-of-hiv-01302015171651.html
Government to start small as it moves to end adoption ban
Cambodia is inching closer to lifting a self-imposed ban on inter-country adoptions and believes its efforts to reform will soon meet preconditions for restarting the adoption process with countries that outlawed the practice in response to numerous high-profile child trafficking scandals, the government said Tuesday. ...
Simon Henderson and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-to-start-small-as-it-moves-to-end-adoption-ban-79038/
Coca-cola guides ‘rebranding’ cambodia event
Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol evoked the late U.S. President John Kennedy on Friday at a seminar about “rebranding” Cambodia that quickly turned into a promotional event for Coca-Cola. ...
Matt Blomberg and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/coca-cola-guides-rebranding-cambodia-event-80912/
UN investigating possible refugee deaths
After 11 more Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam reportedly arrived in Ratanakkiri province late on Sunday evening, the United Nations yesterday said it was looking into unconfirmed reports from local villagers that eight others had been found dead in the province. While it was impossible ...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-investigating-possible-refugee-deaths
Study finds substandard malaria drugs, but no fakes
A new report suggests counterfeit anti-malarial drugs are far less prevalent in Cambodia than previously thought, but almost a third of the legitimate medicines are of substandard quality. According to the study, published on Monday by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, none of ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-finds-substandard-malaria-drugs-no-fakes
Mental health plan risky: experts
Earlier this year, a mob in Takeo province beat a mentally ill man to death, then dragged his body into the rice paddies and set it on fire. The 27-year-old was suspected of robbery. This week, Takeo Governor Lay Vannak launched a campaign to combat future ...
Rebecca Moss and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mental-health-plan-risky-experts
Ministry hits back over Union law
The Ministry of Labor issued a statement Friday claiming that the controversial draft Trade Union Law is aimed at protecting the rights of workers, after unions announced they would write to the ministry, the National Assembly and the European Union next week calling for the ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-hits-back-over-union-law-84636/
Meeting over NGO law on hold as PM’s deadline passes
A deadline set by Prime Minister Hun Sen to finalize a controversial draft NGO law by the end of May will be missed, as a government spokesman said discussions were put on hold while the Interior Minister is abroad. ...
Kuch Naren and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/meeting-over-ngo-law-on-hold-as-pms-deadline-passes-84645/