Vaccine trial for dengue ‘promising'
Researchers in Colombia have conducted a promising randomised trial of a vaccine for the dengue virus, a disease that affects thousands of Cambodians every year, according to results published in the September issue of The Lancet. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/vaccine-trial-for-dengue-promising/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vaccine-trial-dengue-%E2%80%98promising
KDC protests to go on
One of five villagers arrested in a land dispute with politically connected company KDC International told the Post after their release on Friday that he would keep protesting “until our community obtains a resolution from the government”. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kdc-protests-to-go-on/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/kdc-protests-go
Draft law puts high price on drunk driving
Drunk drivers could be fined $1000 under a new draft traffic law approved yesterday by The Council of Ministers. The legislation includes a raft of measures aimed at reducing the number of deaths and injuries on the roads. Among the draft law’s 92 articles are new href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/draft-law-puts-high-price-on-drunk-driving/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/draft-law-puts-high-price-drunk-driving
Concern over pollution as Yeak Loum Lake’s water changes colour
The water in Yeak Loum Lake, a main northeastern tourism site in Ratanakiri province, has changed its colour. . href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/concern-over-pollution-as-yeak-loum-lakes-water-changes-colour/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50816841/concern-over-pollution-as-yeak-loum-lakes-water-changes-colour/
APLE defends work on case
Child rights groups Action Pour Les Enfants and International Justice Mission have said they carried out a “detailed and impartial” investigation into claims of sexual abuse before removing six young boys from their families against their parents’ wishes last week. In a statement defending their work href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/aple-defends-work-on-case/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/aple-defends-work-case
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 href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cnrp-to-probe-organ-claims/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-probe-organ-claims
Capital clash sees 10 injured
At least 10 people, one a 4-year-old child, were injured in a clash in the capital yesterday when security forces used electric batons to disperse about 300 villagers from Kratie province embroiled in a land dispute with a South Korean agribusiness. The villagers, from Kratie’s Snuol href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capital-clash-sees-10-injured/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-clash-sees-10-injured
School lacks basic supplies
The facilities at O’Chrey Primary School in Battambang province are allegedly so basic that it’s difficult to conceive of it as an actual school. The 219 grade one to four students get their lessons crowded in a wall-less storage hut at the edge of a cornfield, href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/school-lacks-basic-supplies/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/school-lacks-basic-supplies
Cambodia has about 50,000 hectares of mangroves
Protecting mangrove will be a main agenda of the World Wetlands Day to be held on Feb. 2, 2021, according to a press release from the Fauna&Flora International (FFI)-Cambodia programme and other partners. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-has-about-50000-hectares-of-mangroves/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khner Time Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808689/cambodia-has-about-50000-hectares-of-mangroves/
Delay on maid deal: ministry
The Ministry of Labour plans to delay signing off on a controversial agreement to reopen a pipeline of Cambodian maids to Malaysia until a deal is reached on a second agreement regarding other migrant workers, a ministry official said yesterday. Labour Ministry spokesman Heng Sour told href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/delay-on-maid-deal-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/delay-maid-deal-ministry
Police officer among 3 accused of cheating
The Anti-Corruption Unit has announced that three people, including a police officer, who were arrested last week in Svay Rieng province after posing as students taking the grade 12 national exam, have been charged with using false identities. In a statement released on Monday, the ACU href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-officer-among-3-accused-of-cheating/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-officer-among-3-accused-cheating
Toll climbs as floods recede
The death toll from recent floods has climbed to 20 while rivers engorged with floodwater have completely swept away 10 houses, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management. In Prey Veng, the body of a police officer who slipped into a river while helping people href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/toll-climbs-as-floods-recede/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/toll-climbs-floods-recede
Temple may be heritage site
Sambor Prei Kuk, the seventh-century temple of the pre-Angkorian Chenla Kingdom built by Isanavarman I, is to be submitted for consideration as a World Heritage Site to UNESCO. The announcement came yesterday at a seminar on research and conservation on the temple complex, the most important href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/temple-may-be-heritage-site/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/temple-may-be-heritage-site
Unions in push for park rally
As the razor-wire came down from Freedom Park on Wednesday, a group of unions quickly filed a request to be the first people to hold a demonstration inside the park since it was put into lockdown in early January. The letter, obtained by the Post yesterday, calls on href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/unions-in-push-for-park-rally/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-push-park-rally
Turkey asks Cambodia to help develop its relations with ASEAN
Turkey is asking Cambodia to support the process of relationship-building with ASEAN nations that will help to expand closer cooperation with stakeholders across the region. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/turkey-asks-cambodia-to-help-develop-its-relations-with-asean/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501480071/govt-sets-up-alcohol-working-group-to-protect-consumers/
Troops to join UN’s CAR effort
Cambodia will send a detachment of 216 peacekeepers to the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), the Information Ministry has said. The Kingdom already sent a delivery of tanks, trucks and other materiel there on Friday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/troops-to-join-uns-car-effort/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/troops-join-un%E2%80%99s-car-effort
Bodies pulled from rubble
After four days of waiting amid a mounting death count, Yat Meng got a call that his younger brother, Pheng, was found dead yesterday, buried under the concrete slabs of a collapsed condominium just north of Bangkok. Pheng, 20, was one of two dead Cambodian migrant href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/bodies-pulled-from-rubble/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bodies-pulled-rubble
Wrangling over wage may spur new unrest
Unions representing garment workers have pledged to reignite protests if the minimum wage for the industry is raised to only $115 next year, a sum they say was offered by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia during a meeting on Friday. The Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/wrangling-over-wage-may-spur-new-unrest/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wrangling-over-wage-may-spur-new-unrest
Iv drips still the treatment of choice in Kratie
It used to be a common sight in Phnom Penh – a child wandering on a street with a needle in his hand, followed by a parent holding a bag of IV fluid. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/iv-drips-still-the-treatment-of-choice-in-kratie/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Aisha Down and Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13961/iv-drips-still-the-treatment-of-choice-in-kratie/
Countrywide census starts
Immigration officials from the Interior Ministry and Pursat province today are to begin a census of all foreigners living in the Kingdom, though it is expected to focus primarily on those of Vietnamese descent. Following a meeting in Pursat yesterday afternoon, Major General Khun Sambor, chief href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/countrywide-census-starts/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/countrywide-census-starts