Officials in flu warning
The Health Ministry has called on citizens to be wary of influenza during the rainy season, even though there has not yet been a serious outbreak. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5078543/officials-flu-warning/
Cambodia confirms no case of H1N1
Ministry of Health has confirmed that Cambodia has no case of swine flu or H1N1, yet encouraged the public to take appropriate precaution to protect themselves and their families from the disease. ...
Mom Chandara Soleil
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106994
Warning of swine flu
The Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control Department yesterday issued a statement urging citizens to be aware of the influenza strain H1N1 that has the potential to spread rapidly during the rainy season. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5076381/warning-swine-flu/
A road paved with promise
Land prices along one of Cambodia’s main highways have seen a slight increase in the first half of 2017, thanks to road improvements and residential developments, insiders say. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5073593/road-paved-promise/
Hundreds of poultry culled in Svay Rieng after bird flu outbreak
Hundreds of chickens and ducks infected with H5N1 bird flu have been culled in Svay Reing province after an outbreak of the virus last week, the first reported cases since November 2015. ...
Drivers flee after truck crash injures 75 workers
More than 70 garment workers in Svay Rieng province were injured on Wednesday evening, four seriously, when two trucks transporting them home from work collided during heavy rain, police said Thursday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/drivers-flee-after-truck-crash-injures-75-workers-94682/
Storks die of H5N1 in Prey Veng province
The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday said that the more than 500 storks which died in Boeng Sne Tuol Porntaley, Prey Veng province, in Ba Phnom district’s Batheay commune since March 17 were due to avian influenza virus (HPAIV) of subtype H5N1. ...
Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50830258/storks-die-of-h5n1-in-prey-veng-province/
Villagers in land dispute summoned to court
Seven ethnic Bunong villagers in a land dispute with a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province have been summoned by the provincial court for questioning after the company accused them of illegally occupying its land in Keo Seima district. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-land-dispute-summoned-to-court-76166/
Sequencing ties new Cambodia H5N1 avian flu cases to older clade
The detection of two recent human H5N1 avian flu infections in Cambodia, genetic sequencing led by scientists at the Pasteur institute in Phnom Penh revealed that the virus belongs to the 2.3.2.1c clade, similar to viruses that have been circulating in the region over the ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501375309/sequencing-ties-new-cambodia-h5n1-avian-flu-cases-to-older-clade/
Ministry imposes measures as Svay Rieng man dies of H5N1
Ministry of Health, together with local authorities, has taken steps to prevent the spread of H5N1 bird flu in Svay Rieng province after a 50-year-old man died of the disease. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501373946/ministry-imposes-measures-as-svay-rieng-man-dies-of-h5n1/
Activist arrest in Preah Vihear
A couple was arrested in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district yesterday morning after the woman in the pair – a local land activist – protested against being moved from the area to make way for a local infrastructure project. Military police, forestry police and other ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activist-arrest-preah-vihear
Chickens from Vietnam banned
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon to take action to prevent the spread of bird flu (H5N1) from Vietnam into the Kingdom as an outbreak of the disease plagues southern Vietnam. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chickens-vietnam-banned
More than 50 US deportees expected in Cambodia on Thursday
The US is deporting 51 Cambodians who are expected to arrive in the country on Thursday, the single largest group of deportees in the history of the contentious 15-year repatriation program. The group is expected to include deportees with chronic mental and physical health conditions, ...
Daphne Chen
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-50-us-deportees-expected-cambodia-thursday
Phones Go Up In Flames at Prey Sar Prison
Prey Sar prison officials on Friday set fire to 1,705 mobile phones that had been confiscated from inmates there over the past three years. Yin Kun, deputy chief of Prey Sar’s Correctional Center 1, said that the public burning of phones would remind prisoners that communicating ...
Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phones-go-up-in-flames-at-prey-sar-prison-61422/
NGO: Use bail to tackle ‘appalling’ overcrowding
The number of people being held in Cambodian prisons has reached epidemic proportions, leading to overcrowding and corruption, and causing families to suffer unnecessarily, claims a report by local NGO Licadho. However, Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin rejected the findings, saying the rise in ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-use-bail-tackle-appalling-overcrowding
Vietnamese, Cambodian officials meet over bird flu concerns
Health officials from Cambodia and Vietnam met on Monday in an effort to cooperate on avian influenza. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/vietnamese-cambodian-officials-meet-over-bird-flu-concerns/1877914.html
Poverty falling at rapid pace, says UNDP
Poverty in Cambodia has fallen dramatically over the last two decades, and continues to fall at a rapid pace, said a high official of the UNDP to Khmer Times yesterday. All the poverty rateslines, either based on income and other dimensions, have seen big reductions at a ...
Kazi Mahmood
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539134/poverty-falling-at-rapid-pace-says-undp/
UN ‘apologizes’ to end row with Cambodia over poverty level measurement
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Cambodia has reportedly “apologized” to the Cambodian government for publishing poverty statistics almost three times as high as the official estimate. ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/un-apologizes-to-end-row-with-cambodia-over-poverty-level-measurement/4607615.html
The macro challenges in Cambodia’s microfinance sector
In August, two local Cambodian organizations, Licadho and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) published Collateral Damage: Land Loss and Abuses In Cambodia’s MicrofInance Sector, a report about the dangerous growth of the country’s microfInance sector. It spotlighted an issue that researchers have been warnIng about for years. A report ...
David Hutt
https://thediplomat.com/2019/10/the-macro-challenges-in-cambodias-microfinance-sector/
Bird flu outbreak halted
Health officials in Svay Rieng province, which was hit by an outbreak of bird flu (H5N1) early this month, said the virus has been stopped and there was no sign of a continuing outbreak. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35658/bird-flu-outbreak-halted/