Gov’t called upon to stamp out child labor
The government must make more of an effort to not only eradicate child labor, but also its underlying causes, and ensure that children attend school, local rights group Licadho said Thursday. In a statement released ahead of World Day Against Child Labor, the group said the ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-called-upon-to-stamp-out-child-labor-61337/
Cambodian families calling relatives to return from Thailand
Fearing a military crackdown on illegal workers, Wiang left his construction site in Bangkok without even receiving a single baht for many weeks of work. “My employer said he could pay on June 28. But we can’t wait till then,” the 32-year-old Cambodian lamented yesterday as ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YzU1OGJiNjJjYWV
Reform needed with new appeal courts on the way
As part of a trio of long-awaited judicial laws passed last month by the National Assembly, the country’s judicial system is set to integrate a number of new provincial appeal courts, expanding access to the appeal process to people imprisoned outside Phnom Penh. But the only ...
Lauren Crothers and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/reform-needed-with-new-appeal-courts-on-the-way-62217/
Gov’t rejects 4 human rights recommendations
Cambodia on Thursday rejected four recommendations for improving its human rights situation that it initially accepted earlier this year during its second universal periodic review at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. It also “noted” 38 recommendations—meaning it has not committed to implementing them—some relating ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-rejects-4-human-rights-recommendations-62584/
Boeng Kak factions brawl over police base
The once unified fight of the Boeng Kak lake community against their forced eviction visibly fractured over the weekend, as factions within the community accused each other of literally casting the first stone in a brawl that broke out Saturday over a new military police ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/boeng-kak-factions-brawl-over-police-base-62731/
Concern for children as Cambodian workers begin to flood back
Cambodian workers are migrating back to Thailand en-masse following a mass exodus last month in the wake of the coup. This movement has sparked safety concerns for young children travelling alongside their parents, says World Vision, one of the world’s largest aid agencies. “Our staff working ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Concern-for-children-as-Cambodian-workers-begin-to-30238410.html
Cambodia Urges China Visa Restrictions
Cambodia says it has asked China to restrict the number of visas it issues to single Cambodian women, to prevent the brokering of marriages to Chinese men. The appeal comes as an increasing number of Cambodian women are finding their way into Chinese marriages and becoming ...
Thida Win
http://www.voanews.com/content/cambodia-urges-china-visa-restrictions/1971535.html
CNRP to probe organ claims
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party plans to launch an investigation into organ trafficking in Cambodia following the mysterious case of an alleged kidney ring operating out of a military hospital in Phnom Penh. Mu Sochua, a CNRP lawmaker and head of the newly formed National ...
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-probe-organ-claims
Villagers questioned over dispute with senator
The Koh Kong Provincial Court questioned four villager representatives Tuesday over alleged violence and property damage in an ongoing land dispute with CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Koh Kong Special Economic Zone company. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-questioned-over-dispute-with-senator-67200/
Press release on second session of Bac II examination on 13 October 2014
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has a great honor to inform parents and candidates to aware that the ministry will organize second session of Bac II examination on 13 October 2014 for both pure science classes and social science classes that failed the first ...
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Pilot project to boost nutrition for Cambodian garment workers
A study by the International Labor Organization, the U.N.’s labor body, shows most Cambodian garment workers do not eat enough nutritious food and that, as a result, many are anemic and even underweight. Now, a pilot project will feed workers at five factories a free ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/pilot-project-to-boost-nutrition-for-cambodian-garment-workers/2483260.html
Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital nationalised
Siem Reap’s Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital, which has provided free medical treatment since 1998, has been transferred to the Ministry of Health, the Post has learned. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/kantha-bopha-childrens-hospital-nationalised
Nearly 18 pct of applicants pass 2nd high school graduation exam in Cambodia this year
The Cambodian education ministry announced Friday that 10,871 applicants, or 17.94 percent, of the total 60,611 candidates passed the second and final high school graduation exam for 2014. The ministry organized the second test after only 25.72 percent of the total 89,937 high school students ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2014-10/31/c_133757216.htm
No cheating in exam finals marks sea change for Cambodia
Cambodia’s final exam results for 2014 were disastrous, with more than half of the 90,000 students failing. The reason? The authorities stamped out cheating – the first of a series of reforms designed to fix the impoverished country’s broken education sector. The new policy is ...
Big News Network News Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/229087639
Minister to be questioned over HIV outbreak
Health Minister Mam Bunheng has been summoned for questioning next week by the National Assembly’s health commission over the outbreak of HIV among villagers in Battambang province’s Roka commune, the commission’s secretary-general said Friday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-to-be-questioned-over-hiv-outbreak-76629/
Police draft plan to protect foreign nationals and investors
With petty crime on the rise in Cambodia, the National Police on Friday drafted a plan to protect foreign nationals and investors throughout the country, a police spokesman said Sunday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-draft-plan-to-protect-foreign-nationals-and-investors-79840/
Customs official’s son quizzed on night club shooting
The son of a high-ranking customs official suspected in a nightclub shooting that left one man injured was questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday but has yet to be charged, officials said. ...
Saing Soenthrith and Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/customs-officials-son-quizzed-on-nightclub%E2%80%88shooting-79863/
Poor education poses future risk for Cambodia
The Minister of Education, Hang Choun Naron, has officially announced on Monday that the second exam for 12th graders who fail this year exam will take place either at the end of September or early October. The announcement came after the Minister was reported that ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MThlYjFiMmJiMGF
ANZ refuses to help evictees of senator’s sugarcane farm
About 100 villagers who lost land to a sugarcane plantation, which was until recently financed by ANZ Royal Bank, traveled to Phnom Penh to protest in front of the bank’s headquarters Thursday, but failed to convince the bank to help them. Several hundred families in Kompong ...
Aun Pheap and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anz-refuses-to-help-evictees-of-senators-sugarcane-farm-66579/
Wildlife group raises alarm over Asia's bear trade
At least 2,800 bears in Asia were traded for their parts over the past decade, according to a report issued Thursday by an anti-wildlife trafficking group. The figure was arrived at after analysing nearly 700 bear-related seizures, and it likely represents a fraction of the overall ...
The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Wildlife-group-raises-alarm-over-Asias-bear-trade-30241431.html