9th new human cases of Avian Influenza H5N1 in Cambodia in 2014
The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia wishes to advise members of the public that one (1) new human case of avian influenza has been confirmed for the H5n1 virus. ...
Ministry of Health and World Health Organization
Vietnam border alert
Authorities in bordering provinces with Vietnam have reportedly increased the number of inspections of poultry imports to prevent a bird flu outbreak in the Kingdom. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50696041/vietnam-border-alert
Nat'l Assembly Approves UN Conventions
NatioNal Assembly voted Friday to ratify the U.N. CoNveNtioN oN the Rights of People with Disabilities aNd the U.N. Rotterdam CoNveNtioN, which promotes the respoNsible labeliNg Nd export of hazardous chemicals aNd pesticides. The assembly also voted iN favor of aN agreemeNt with Qatar to ...
Gov’t Asks UN to Help Prepare for Future Disasters
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor namhong yesterday asked the Un’s visiting head of humanitarian affairs for extra support in preparing for future natural disasters, according to ministry spokesman Koy Kuong. ...
Another montagnard in Phnom Penh, UN says
Another Montagnard asylum-seeker has arrived in Phnom Penh, joining 10 others who are still in the capital after having their requests to have their refugee claims processed rejected, according to the U.n. ...
Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-montagnard-in-phnom-penh-un-says-80918/
We want your business, UN tells local firms
The $1.6-billion Untac mission of the early 1990s injected a huge amount of money into Cambodia’s economy. now, the U.n. wants to pump millions more into the country—this time by buying up the offerings of local businesses. ...
Kang Sothear and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/we-want-your-business-un-tells-local-firms-85035/
Prime minister demands end to fake news on virus
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday criticised several outlets for spreading misinformation on the novel coronavirus outbreak and instructed the Ministry of Information to do more to eradicate fake news. Speaking at a press conference at the Peace Palace on Thursday, Hun Sen said a ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prime-minister-demands-end-fake-news-virus
Draft Accord on Domestic Workers Completed
Government and U.n. officials yesterday completed the draft of a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is designed to guarantee the fair treatment and safety of Cambodian domestic workers in Malaysia. The new draft MoU is an amendment to an earlier, much-criticized version create by Malaysia, ...
Minister tells UN ‘perfect democracy’ not realistic
Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn defended the government before the U.n. General Assembly in new York on Saturday, saying that the ruling party was being held to unrealistic expectations of a “perfect democracy” while the opposition was “committing very serious crimes.” Delivering his first major address to ...
Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-tells-un-perfect-democracy-not-realistic-118422/
Ministry blames ‘ineffective practices’ for over $400m in missing sand
Cambodia is overcoming “ineffective practices” and should not be held to the standards of developed countries, a Commerce Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday amid renewed calls for the government to investigate over $400 million in unrecorded sand exports to Singapore. ...
Ben Paviour and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-blames-ineffective-practices-400m-missing-sand-120025/
UN due to announce new human rights envoy
The U.N. was due to appoiNt its New humaN rights eNvoy to Cambodia oN Friday Night at the 28th sessioN of the HumaN Rights CouNcil (HRC) iN GeNeva, with British academic RhoNa Smith expected to be selected from a three-persoN shortlist. ...
Simon Henderson
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-due-to-announce-new-human-rights-envoy-80916/
Government releases draft law on food safety
The Commerce Ministry on Wednesday released a draft of the country’s first food law, which establishes a Food Safety Authority charged with protecting domestic consumers and ensuring that exports meet international standards. ...
Janelle Retka and Aun Chhengpor
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-releases-draft-law-on-food-safety-88533/
Wuhan coronavirus: Tourism industry could hit turbulence
Tourism industry officials and representatives expressed concern that the outbreak of the 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) will devastate Cambodia’s tourism industry following the Kingdom’s first documented case in the coastal province of Sihanoukville on Monday. At a press conference late on Monday, Minister of Health ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wuhan-coronavirus-tourism-industry-could-hit-turbulence
UN Delegates Call on Cambodia to Heed Envoy's Remarks
U.N. represeNtatives from JapaN, the EuropeaN UNioN aNd Australia called oN Cambodia to heed recommeNdatioNs made iN a report oN humaN rights aNd ecoNomic laNd coNcessioNs by the U.N.’s eNvoy Surya Subedi at the HumaN Rights CouNcil iN GeNeva Tuesday. While the E.U. commeNded Cambodia ...
UN hamstrung in Ratanakkiri as more montagnards arrive
Local officials in Ratanakkiri province are actively preventing a team of U.n. workers in the area from making any attempt to reach nearly 40 Montagnard asylum seekers now hiding in the province. ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-hamstrung-in-ratanakkiri-as-more-montagnards-arrive-78387/
Twenty-Two Years On, Paris Peace Agreement Far From Realized
More than two decades after the Paris Peace Agreement, which was meant to open the way for peace and multiparty democracy in Cambodia, legal experts and human rights advocates said Tuesday the government has largely abandoned the vision of the accord. Speaking at a conference on ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/twenty-two-years-on-paris-peace-agreement-far-from-realized-45702/
Hun Sen, Abe agree to strengthen economic relations: report
Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe agreed Sunday to strengthen economic relations between the two countries, Jiji Press reported. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1xtw3Xz
UN to investigate Montagnards in remote province
The Cambodian government will allow Un representatives to seek out a group of Montagnards reportedly in hiding in Ratanakkiri province. Interior Minister Sar Kheng gave the green light for Un offices of human rights and refugees to look into the case, where at least 13 Montagnards ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/un-to-investigate-montagnards-in-remote-province/2553646.html
UN and social affairs officials convene to discuss Prey Speu
Social affairs officials met Thursday with the U.N.’s Office of the High CommissioNer for HumaN Rights to discuss the Notorious Prey Speu social affairs ceNter, with the goverNmeNt giviNg permissioN for the U.N. to visit the ceNter Friday aNd ideNtify resideNts who require psychiatric assistaNce ...
Rights groups criticize UN as Montagnards return to Vietnam
As 24 Montagnards returned to Vietnam on Thursday after Cambodia refused to process their asylum claims, rights groups criticized the U.n.’s refugee agency for assisting the government in repatriating the group to a country where they claim to have fled from persecution. ...
George Wright and Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rights-groups-criticize-un-as-montagnards-return-to-vietnam-97029/