Schools get climate change textbook
The Environment and Education ministries have unveiled the official textbook on climate change for upper secondary schools. Under-secretary of state of the Environment Ministry Khut Chandara said at the official launch of the book on Monday that education played an important role in social, economic ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50507849/schools-get-climate-change-textbook/
Dengue outbreak sees 1,691 kids hospitalised in a month
A total of 1,691 children were hospitalised at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital between October 21 and November 21 after an outbreak of haemorrhagic dengue fever. Another 1,626 children were hospitalised at other Kantha Bopha hospitals during the same period, according to a report from the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-outbreak-sees-1691-kids-hospitalised-month
Lull in battle for Battambang forest
Several weekS after villagerS on the outSkirtS of a community foreSt in Battambang Province began clearing treeS and Seizing land, foreStry adminiStration officialS Say there haS been a lull in deforeStation. SS='cambodia-color'>...
James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17648/lull-in-battle-for-battambang-forest/
Refugees from Nauru move out of Phnom Penh villa
The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with Australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the Australian government said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/refugees-from-nauru-move-out-of-phnom-penh-villa-97334/
Immigration police raid Cambodia beer site
Immigration police rounded up nearly 80 Vietnamese migrant workers along with six European engineers at the construction site of a new Cambodia Beer factory in Phnom Penh on Monday afternoon because they did not possess work permits, according to an immigration official. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/immigration-police-raid-cambodia-beer-site-97743/
Commission makes changes in first union draft law meeting
A joint commission of 10 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties yesterday met for the first time to review the draft law on trade unions, and two of 21 articles that were flagged as controversial by unions have changed slightly. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/19441/commission-makes-changes-in-first-union-draft-law-meeting/
Environmental experts concern of the extinction of rare fish in the northeast province
Environmental experts concern of a drop in the number of rare species of fish in the river in the northeastern province including of the Upper Mekong Basin, srepok River and se san river. The worry after a number of exotic fish caught in the area’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Men Sothy
http://www.rfa.org/khmer/news/environment/concern-over-fishes-losing-02062016035808.html
US spending bill ties aid to end of government ‘violence’
A spending bill approved by the U.s. senate Appropriations Committee last week proposes to make U.s. aid to Cambodia in 2017 contingent on an end to the government’s harassment of the opposition and civil society. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-spending-bill-ties-aid-to-end-of-government-violence-114950/
Permanent committee to meet today
The National Assembly’s Permanent Committee will resume meeting this morning to discuss proposals related to draft laws and to set a date for the seventh plenary session, while the opposition party is still considering ending its parliamentary boycott, aiming to seek ways to settle the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30313/permanent-committee-to-meet-today/
Immigration plans crackdown on foreign citizenship documents
The Immigration Department warned Interior Ministry officials on Wednesday not to issue Cambodian citizenship documents, such as birth certificates and ID cards, to foreigners living in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22940/immigration-plans-crackdown-on-foreign-citizenship-documents/
‘Sealing’ program fights rampant tooth decay in children
The teeth of some 60,000 Cambodian children have been “sealed” to help prevent tooth decay under an oral health project that recently concluded, but many more continue to be in need of such service, given the country’s significantly high tooth-decay rate. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sealing-program-fights-rampant-tooth-decay-children
Hospital founder seriously ill
Beat Richner, the founder and head of the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital and a Health Ministry adviser, is seriously ill and has resigned from his position as managing director. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37053/hospital-founder-seriously-ill/
CPP official quits district post to secure commune seat for ruling party
In a country known for its political patronage networks, volunteering for a demotion is rare. But Moeung Visalsok, 46, a ruling Cambodian People’s Party district council member in Kampong Chhnang province, is doing just that. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Commune elections 2017: CPP wins 70%
The Cambodian People’s Party won 70 percent of the country’s 1,646 commune councils at yesterday’s elections, according to unofficial results published by a government-aligned media outlet – a marked drop from the 97 percent it won in 2012 but one far smaller than the opposition ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-wins-70-communes-0
Child labour identified in Siem Reap
The National Committee for Counter Trafficking’s (NCCT) six-month report, released on Monday, identified two cases of child labour in brick-making factories in siem Reap, though officials and a rights group monitor said the use of such labour had decreased in the province. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-labour-identified-siem-reap
Prime Minister vows to keep children’s hospitals running
Prime Minister Hun sen ordered the government to draw up a plan to fund the country’s popular Kantha Bopha children’s hospitals on Monday, four months after the long-serving director of the foundation that runs them resigned. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/prime-minister-vows-to-keep-childrens-hospitals-running-2-132837/
As young enjoy fashionable new hang-outs, memory of violent evictions fades
A new million-dollar night market in Phnom Penh has become a fashionable hang out spot for young Cambodians, but in 2009 the Dey Krahorm community was violently expelled from the area and their homes razed in one of Cambodia’s most high profile forced evictions. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vann Chansopheakvatey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/as-young-enjoy-fashionable-new-hangouts-memory-of-violent-evictions-fades/4016083.html
China to help modernize military, defense minister says
Chinese aid and expertise—and perhaps some fighter jets—will help modernize Cambodia’s military, Defense Minister Tea Banh said on Monday as navy vessels from China and the U.s. paid courtesy calls to Cambodia’s ports. speaking after his return from the 7th Xiangshan Forum, a regional security summit ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-help-modernize-military-defense-minister-says-119421/
Post-Khmer Rouge PM dies
Pen Sovann, Cambodia&rSquo;S firSt prime miniSter after the VietnameSe invaSion in January 1979 that Swept the Khmer Rouge from power and a Serving oppoSition member of parliament, paSSed away at hiS home in Takeo province&rSquo;S Duan Keo town on Saturday evening aged 80. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31437/post-khmer-rouge-pm-dies/
Encryption aid deal inked
Vietnam inked a deal with Cambodia on Friday to provide more than half a million dollars’ worth of training in encryption coding, prompting some to question the wisdom of accepting foreign help to protect state secrets. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/encryption-aid-deal-inked