Social development

Pesticides blamed for sickening 31 in Battambang

Water contaminated by pesticides has been blamed for poisoning 31 people in Battambang’s Samlot district.   ...

Kong Meta and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pesticides-blamed-sickening-31-battambang

Two at Ratanakkiri hospital axed for fund mismanagement

Two Ratanakkiri Referral Hospital officials have been ousted from their posts following an audit that found that more than $13,000 from the hospital’s travel allowance account was mismanaged, causing the hospital to run out of money to pay staff. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/two-ratanakkiri-hospital-axed-fund-mismanagement

As fast food takes hold, health fears grow

As the temperature in Phnom Penh crested 39 degrees celcius on Tuesday, a young British couple stepped into the air-conditioned embrace of Burger King.   ...

Ben Paviour
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-fast-food-takes-hold-health-fears-grow-112289/

Prisons granted more funds to develop libraries

Cambodian’s prison libraries are set to receive an extra $600,000 in funding from the French Agency for Development and literacy NGO Sipar, according to a statement released yesterday. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24670/prisons-granted-more-funds-to-develop-libraries/

Protesters to march on ACU despite city hall ban

Activists organizing a protest march to the Phnom Penh headquarters of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) say they will continue with their plans despite City Hall’s decision on Thursday to reject their request.   ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/protesters-to-march-on-acu-despite-city-hall-ban-112240/

Cambodia waiting for WHO dengue vaccine approval

Although the number of dengue fever cases in Cambodia nearly tripled during the first 17 weeks of 2016 compared to the same period last year, a health official said a vaccine for the mosquito-borne virus still needs to be vetted by the WHO before local ...

Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-waiting-who-dengue-vaccine-approval

Non-communicable diseases rising threat

Health Ministry officials said that 43 percent of deaths in the Kingdom in 2014 were caused by non-communicable diseases, a figure which is expected to rise. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24623/non-communicable-diseases-rising-threat/

Homeless ‘don’t look good’

Police forcibly removed a dozen of the city’s homeless – four of them children – from the streets of central Phnom Penh yesterday, carting them off to the notorious Prey Speu Social Affairs Centre, where two people died last November. ...

Kong Meta and Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/homeless-dont-look-good

Activists request to march on ACU HQ

Land rights activists from 10 communities in the capital yesterday submitted a request to City Hall requesting permission to march to the Anti-Corruption Unit’s headquarters and deliver a petition in support of human rights activists jailed this week. ...

Chhay Channyda and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-request-march-acu-hq

Government rolls out ambitious plan to eliminate hunger

Backed by the U.N., Cambodia on Wednesday launched a national action plan to completely eliminate hunger in the country by 2025, the first step in an ambitious initiative that the government signed on to last year. ...

Janelle Retka and Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-rolls-out-ambitious-plan-to-eliminate-hunger-112190/

Agriculture minister to ban low-grade imported meat

The Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries has announced a ban on all imported low-grade meat from neighboring countries as part of a national reform of the Kingdom’s meat industry. ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24621/agriculture-minister-to-ban-low-grade-imported-meat/

Prince made new head of ‘civilised royalists’

Sisowath Chakreynupol, a prince from one of Cambodia’s royal families, has taken over the reins of the Cambodian Liberty Party, a recently started micro-party. ...

Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prince-made-new-head-civilised-royalists

Cambodian journalists to receive training in the US

Cambodian journalists will visit the U.S. to observe the presidential election in November to learn from their American colleagues’ experience of covering the polls, a media development group has said. ...

Say Mony
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodian-journalists-to-receive-training-in-the-us/3313932.html

New baby makes waves on way to hospital

A baby was born at sea on Monday afternoon in Koh Kong province after a mother went in labor on a boat on her way to hospital. ...

Srey Kumneth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24536/new-baby-makes-waves-on-way-to-hospital/

Embassies keep wary eye on cases against rights workers

Foreign diplomatic missions in Phnom Penh say they are closely watching the handling of the cases of human rights monitors and a national election official charged and jailed on Monday in connection with a sex scandal being prosecuted against an opposition leader.    ...

Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/embassies-keep-wary-eye-cases-rights-workers-112137/

Information law a step closer

The information minister announced yesterday that the government is one step closer to establishing an access to information law, in response to demands for a more transparent and responsive government. ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24538/information-law-a-step-closer/

School budgets to be used to buy water

In an attempt to solve the water shortages plaguing schools across the country, the Minister for Education advised all schools to use money from their own budgets to buy water, despite some schools saying they do not have the funds to do so.   ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24540/school-budgets-to-be-used-to-buy-water/

Disease-carrying bats to be tracked

Scientists are attaching tracking devices to a colony of flying foxes near Phnom Penh in a bid to prevent a possible outbreak of a deadly virus. ...

Brent Crane
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disease-carrying-bats-be-tracked

Ministry cuts school hours amid severe heat wave

With the country grappling with drought and soaring temperatures, the Ministry of Education issued a directive on Monday cutting the amount of time students sit in sweltering classrooms for the remainder of the hot season. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-cuts-school-hours-amid-severe-heat-wave-112071/

Officials identify leader of capital’s sex trafficking ring

Military police have identified the suspected leader of what they believe to be a sex trafficking ring masquerading as a masseuse-training agency as a 40-year-old businesswoman with Cambodian and Thai citizenship who owns karaoke parlors in both countries.   ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-identify-leader-of-capitals-sex-trafficking-ring-111901/

Wheels set in motion to support mobile education in Cambodia

Australians could help children in Cambodia receive an education and avoid the possibility of life in child sex trade by funding an innovative mobile centre.   ...

Catholic Leader Team
http://catholicleader.com.au/news/wheels-set-in-motion-to-support-mobile-education-in-cambodia

Calls for increased budget for school development

Members of civil society have called on the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport to increase the budget for development in schools by at least five percent to fix country-wide educational issues. ...

Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24320/calls-for-increased-budget-for-school-development/

Minister wants malaria eliminated by 2025

In recognition of this year’s World Malaria Day on Monday this week, the Health Minister reconfirmed Cambodia’s commitment to eliminate the disease by 2025 during a speech in Pailin on Monday. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24322/minister-wants-malaria-eliminated-by-2025/

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