Embalming chemical found in Takeo prahok
Takeo provincial authorities yesterday confiscated and destroyed more than 180 kilograms of contaminated prahok from four production sites, according to an official with the Cambodia Import-Export Inspection and Fraud Repression Directorate-General (CAMCONTROL). ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/embalming-chemical-found-takeo-prahok
Team clears clinic in child death
A Banteay Meanchey province clinic accused of malpractice after the death of a 4-month-old baby last week was cleared of wrongdoing by a group of investigators from the provincial Health Department. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/team-clears-clinic-child-death
Cambodia becomes dialogue partner in SCO
Cambodia has officially become a dialogue partner in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The memorandum was signed on Thursday in the framework of the Eurasian Economic Forum in China’s north-western city of Xian by Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and SCO Secretary General Dmitry Mezentsev. ...
Russia & India Report News Staff
http://in.rbth.com/news/2015/09/24/cambodia-becomes-dialogue-partner-in-sco_427465
Luxury timber seized in Pursat, Ratanakkiri
Authorities have seized large amounts of luxury wood following busts on two separate illegal timber transporters in Pursat and Ratanakkiri provinces.Local Forestry Administration officials together with Phnom Kravanh district police forces on Friday reported intercepting some five tractor loads containing 29 tbeng logs. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/luxury-timber-seized-pursat-ratanakkiri
ASEAN peacekeeping meeting concludes in Cambodia
This week, senior peacekeepers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) met in Phnom Penh for the 3rd ASEAN Peacekeeping Centers Network Meeting. ...
Prashanth Parameswaran
http://thediplomat.com/2015/10/asean-peacekeeping-meeting-concludes-in-cambodia/
UNICEF steps in to help disabled
UNICEF yesterday awarded $400,000 to six NGOs to work with disabled people around the country through a series of community based programs. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17210/unicef-steps-in-to-help-disabled/
Kratie villagers, soldiers in land row
Six families in Kratie have accused military officers of stealing 20 hectares of their land, destroying their crops and threatening them with rifles. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-villagers-soldiers-land-row
Jailed Unionists in factory dispute released
Two workers from a garment factory in Kompong Speu province who were charged with a slew of crimes following their attempt last month to break away from the only union operating at their factory were released from jail on Friday, a court official and union ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/jailed-unionists-in-factory-dispute-released-99777/
Child protection in schools under review
The Ministry of Education is working with NGOs to draft a policy document to protect schoolchildren from abuse at the hands of educators and fellow students, an NGO specialist told the Post yesterday.More than 40 government and non-government representatives gathered in the capital on Friday ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-protection-schools-under-review
Ratanakkiri clinic blamed in outdoor birth
A pregnant woman was forced to give birth on an outdoor bench with only neighbours to help because staff at a government health centre in Ratanakkiri province had left the facility unmanned, according to friends and family. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-clinic-blamed-outdoor-birth
Forest patrols duel in Prey Lang
As activists from Prey Lang forest received the prestigious Equator Prize in Paris on Monday, another, parallel network was asserting itself in Kampong Thom province – one with close ties to the security forces and local governor.The Prey Lang Forest Community Network (PLFCN), funded by ...
Daniel Pye and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-patrols-duel-prey-lang
Four more arrested in Bavet: org
A rights group claimed yesterday that four additional people have been arrested over recent violent garment worker protests in the Svay Rieng province town of Bavet, although police officials vigorously denied the claim. ...
Mech Dara and Bun Sengkong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-more-arrested-bavet-org
Authorities monitoring Zika virus in Cambodia
A disease expert in Cambodia said on Friday that although the Zika virus—which has recently been linked to birth defects and paralysis in South America—had circulated in Cambodia in the past, there had been no reported cases of the virus here for three years, though ...
Taylor O'Connell
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/authorities-monitoring-zika-virus-in-cambodia-106228/
Shots fired in Mondulkiri timber chase
A former Mondulkiri provincial military police officer, Sou Marith, fired on authorities who had chased a car carrying timber to his home, but managed to make good his escape in the hours it took authorities to procure an arrest warrant, local authorities said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shots-fired-mondulkiri-timber-chase
Shots fired in Mondulkiri timber chase
A former Mondulkiri provincial military police officer, Sou Marith, fired on authorities who had chased a car carrying timber to his home, but managed to make good his escape in the hours it took authorities to procure an arrest warrant, local authorities said. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/shots-fired-mondulkiri-timber-chase
Worker road deaths spike in ‘15
The number of workers killed and injured by traffic accidents nearly doubled in 2015, according to a report released by the National Social Security Fund yesterday. ...
Sen David and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/worker-road-deaths-spike-15
Illegal Cambodian loggers detained in Thailand
Four Cambodian nationals were arrested by Thai authorities on illegal logging allegations after the suspects were caught in a Surin province wildlife sanctuary with felled Siamese Rosewood trees and logging tools on Monday, according to officials. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21479/illegal-cambodian-loggers-detained-in-thailand/
HIV testing ends in Kandal village
The Health Ministry is planning no further HIV tests in Kandal province’s Peam village, where a disproportionate cluster of infections has been discovered, despite two-thirds of the village still remaining untested. ...
Jack Davies and Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hiv-testing-ends-kandal-village
Prey Sar inmates in ‘meth cartel’
A man arrested over the weekend allegedly in possession of more than 3 kilograms of meth and more than 100,000 yama tablets has been linked to a drug-trafficking network operating out of Prey Sar prison, according to a police report made public yesterday. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-sar-inmates-meth-cartel