Cambodia and Malaysia Swap Proposals on Maid Agreement
The negotiations between Cambodia and Malaysia over a bilateral agreement on improved working conditions for Cambodian migrant maids are slowly progressing as both governments are exchanging draft agreements, according to officials from both countries. Ministry of Labor Secretary of State Othsman Hassan said that Cambodia recently ...
Women’s Cancer Hospital to Open in Phnom Penh in 2015
The construction of a new $17.5 million women’s cancer hospital specializing in gynecological services will break ground this summer, one of the co-founders said yesterday. Janne Ritskes, the director of Tabitha Cambodia, an organization that works to improve the lives of poor Cambodians, said the 220-bed ...
Laos aims to build Mekong dam this year, testing neighbours
Laos wants to start construction this year on the $3.8 billion (Bt115 billion) Thai-financed Xayaburi hydropower plant on the Mekong River after changing the design of the dam to placate neighbouring countries opposed to the project. Laos completed a review of the dam recently to ease ...
Parents, Teachers Lose Out in Closing of International Schools
Two more Set International Schools (SIS) have closed due to financial troubles, leaving hundreds of primary school students looking for a place to study, parents and a teacher’s union official said yesterday. The closing of the two SIS schools – in Kompong Cham and Pursat provinces ...
Capacity building: New schools pop up in rural areas
Children in rural areas are reaping the benefits of the government having completed 306 of the 580 schools it began constructing last year, senior ministers said yesterday. ...
Bunong seek to oust Mondulkiri provincial governor
More than 800 indigenous people in Mondulkiri province are seeking to oust the provincial governor, who is accused of violating the rights of the ethnic minority. ...
Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/bunong-seek-to-oust-mondulkiri-provincial-governor/2994073.html
Health ministry confirms first case of measles in four years
Three months after the Health Ministry proclaimed Cambodia measles-free—after tests on a child suspected to be carrying the disease came back negative—it announced on Wednesday that a 7-month-old in Kompong Speu province has contracted the highly contagious virus. It is the first confirmed case in ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/health-ministry-confirms-first-case-of-measles-in-four-years-106654/
Health authorities remain on alert for MERS
Cambodian health officials say they remain on alert for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS. Cambodia has trained hundreds of health workers to respond to the disease, though no infections have yet been reported in Cambodia, Ly Sovann, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/health-authorities-remain-on-alert-for-mers/2972400.html
PM Inaugurates a new international school in Phnom Penh
Prime Minister Hun Sen presided over here on Saturday the inauguration ceremony of the International School of Phnom Penh (ISPP), an international school in Cambodia, according to the State News Agency-AKP. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/pm-inaugurates-a-new-international-school-in-phnom-penh-8972
Program builds mobile app skills for Cambodian coders
After graduating from Setec Institute in Phnom Penh in 2014 with a degree in information technology, Chhit Chanmony, 23, is confident in her ability to build a website using various scripts. ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/program%E2%80%88builds-mobile-app-skills-for-cambodian-coders-98080/
Expensive NGO phone apps gather digital dust
In August last year, The Asia Foundation launched three new smartphone apps designed to end violence against women and girls in Cambodia. ...
Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/expensive-ngo-phone-apps-gather-digital-dust-108937/
No reply to request for help for addicts in jail
The Health Ministry has yet to respond to a request from the Interior Ministry last week seeking assistance in dealing with drug abuse in the country’s prisons and rehabilitation centers, Interior Ministry secretary of state Nuth Sa An said yesterday. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22807/no-reply-to-request-for-help-for-addicts-in-jail/
No2 priority shows results
More than 600 villages, home to more than half a million people, have been declared “open-defecation free” as a result of a major program aimed at boosting the number of Cambodians who have access to hygienic toilets, according to Plan International. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no2-priority-shows-results
Cham lawmaker envisioned
A Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker is calling on young Cham party activists to rally support for the opposition party, expressing a desire to see a politician from the Muslim minority join the National Assembly. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cham-lawmaker-envisioned
Letter urges Kerry to pressure government on human rights
Ahead of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s planned visit to Cambodia this week, local and international NGOs have urged Mr. Kerry not to sign any new bilateral agreements unless Cambodia vows to improve its human rights and democracy efforts. ...
Peter Ford
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/letter-urges-kerry-to-pressure-government-on-human-rights-106254/
NGO: more public libraries needed
Reading has always been a popular hobby for Cambodian children, but NGOs are now saying it is difficult for children in remote areas to access books and magazines. ...
Va Sonyka
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15548/ngo--more-public-libraries-needed/
Government remains optimistic on economic growth
The government yesterday slightly lowered its growth forecast for this year – from 7 to 6.9 percent – citing slowing growth in China and Europe as well as the appreciation of the US dollar as the reasons for the cut. ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17012/government-remains-optimistic-on-economic-growth/
Preah Vihear disputants allowed to keep land
More than 250 Preah Vihear families who have been living under the threat of eviction since 2010 are to be allowed to keep their homes, according to a letter from the Interior Ministry obtained yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-disputants-allowed-keep-land
Minister demands loyalty to CPP from civil servants, warns protesters they will be ‘hit with bamboo’
Social Affairs Minister Vong Soth said on Monday that all civil servants must support the Cambodian People’s Party or resign from their jobs, and warned that the government will use bamboo rods to bludgeon anyone who protests after next year’s election. ...
Preah Vihear land dispute families block tractors
Representatives of 40 families locked in a decade-old land dispute with a Chinese sugar company in Preah Vihear province blocked tractors from clearing land that the villagers say belongs to them, while 50 families in a separate land dispute in Koh Kong took their complaints ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-land-dispute-families-block-tractors