Social development

Cambodian army voices backing for gov't as protests escalate

The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) on Friday voiced its support for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government as anti-government protests have intensified in recent weeks. “The RCAF vows to support the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Sen in the fifth term government,”the Ministry of Defense ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-01/03/c_133017350.htm

US urges 'Restraint' in Cambodia after violence

The United States on Friday appealed for peaceful dialogue and denounced violence in Cambodia after police opened fire on protesting garment workers, killing three people. “The United States deeply regrets the recent loss of life in Cambodia during violent clashes between protesters and government security forces,” ...

AFP News Staff
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iy83VmwV8EjDuptYbUme3o9-vdPw?docId=a4c09c59-b109-4dc0-9015-bbce4fa08a63

Official Says Logging-Related Deaths Down

The number of people shot dead while illegally logging luxury wood in Thailand decreased significantly in 2013 compared to 2012, although a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) official provided numbers much lower than provincial police officials, whose number also differed from human rights groups. Brigadier General ...

Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/official-says-logging-related-deaths-down-50068/

UN Expert Appeals For Restraint Over Cambodian Crisis

A United Nations independent human rights expert urged restraint by all sides today after military police opened fire on striking garment workers in Phnom Penh, reportedly killing at least four people, as high social and political tensions in Cambodia boiled over into deadly clashes. In statement ...

SpyGhana.com News Staff
http://www.spyghana.com/un-expert-appeals-for-restraint-over-cambodian-crisis/

Activist Monks, NGO Workers Held After Preah Vihear Protest

Prominent activist monk But Buntenh, head of the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice, was arrested in Preah Vihear province on Thursday, along with another monk and three NGO staffers who had traveled to the province to support a group of ethnic Kuoy villagers protesting ...

Julia Wallace and Khy Sovuthy
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/activist-monks-ngo-workers-held-after-preah-vihear-protest-49962/

Threats as police, WWF officer probe logging

Seven police officers and an NGO staffer in Mondulkiri province escaped a potentially violent confrontation with illegal loggers on Wednesday, while a soldier who was accompanying the group claimed he received death threats from military police connected to the logging operation. Khleuv Krak, 40, a Royal ...

Phak Seangly and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/threats-police-wwf-officer-probe-logging

Village Chief Starts Petition to Remove Opposition Monk

A village chief in Kompong Thom province has begun collecting signatures on a petition to remove the opposition-aligned head monk of his local pagoda, whom he has accused of embezzling the pagoda’s money. Kheang Khean, the chief of Krachab village in Stung Sen city’s Achar Leak ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/village-chief-starts-petition-to-remove-opposition-monk-49972/

Prison, prisoners join to build worship area

Detainees at Banteay Mean­chey Provincial Prison have joined forces with prison officials to pay for the construction of the first Buddhist worship hall in a Cambodian penitentiary. The 800 inmates contributed a minimum of 500 riel each to help construct the worshipping facility fitted out with ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prison-prisoners-join-build-worship-area

Wat Lanka Monks in Dispute With State Electricity Provider

About 200 monks from Phnom Penh’s Wat Lanka on Thursday called off a protest against the planned construction of an electricity distribution substation on the pagoda’s land by state electricity provider Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), pending negotiations with the company. Having assembled to make banners for ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/wat-lanka-monks-in-dispute-with-state-electricity-provider-49974/

Test changes target cheats

In an attempt to crack down on rampant cheating on nationwide testing, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) has announced that primary and high school teachers will begin individually authoring and writing final exams on the white board for the 2014 academic term, ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/test-changes-target-cheats

Teachers Group Threatened Over Planned Pay Protest

The Interior Ministry on Wednesday threatened to revoke the license of the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association (CITA) if it goes ahead with a planned demonstration next week seeking higher wages for the country’s educators. An official at the ministry said that the move to revoke the ...

Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teachers-group-threatened-over-planned-pay-protest-49855/

Global Fund’s probe saw little cooperation

Financial records the Global Fund requested for its investigation into widespread corruption in health grants to Cambodia were withheld and censored by grant recipients, the probe found, suggesting a systematic attempt to cover up wrongdoing. Out of a total of $220.3 million worth of expenses the ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/global-fund%E2%80%99s-probe-saw-little-cooperation

Taxi Drivers Hold Rally Against Electric Cars

Motorcycle-taxi and tuk-tuk drivers led a motorized rally of about a thousand people through Siem Reap City on Wednesday to call for lower petrol prices and a ban on the use of electric cars in the Angkor Archaeological Park. The rally, organized by the Phnom Penh-based ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/taxi-drivers-hold-rally-against-electric-cars-49857/

Anti-Corruption Unit Reports on Health Sector Bribe Case

The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Tuesday delivered its latest report on its review of allegations of massive bribe taking inside the Health Ministry leveled by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in November. Officials on Wednesday were mum about the review, however, ...

Khy Sovuthy and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/anti-corruption-unit-reports-on-health-sector-bribe-case-49863/

Authority will not use forces to crackdown on protesters: Governor

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong said that authorities will not use forces to crack down on protesters. The governor met with Phnom Penh officials to clarify the government’s position on how to deal with protests led by Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). Pa Socheatvong added the ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=NWQ0YTM1MTYxZjQ

Dengue, Malaria Cases Take Big Dip in 2013

Both dengue fever and malaria deaths have plummeted this year compared to the same period in 2012, which was a peak year for the cyclical dengue, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health. Dengue fever killed 59 people and infected 17,491 during the ...

Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/dengue-malaria-cases-take-big-dip-in-2013-49809/

CNRP backers' names taken

Indigenous Jarai people from Ratanakkiri province who attended the opposition’s mass protests in the capital in recent weeks have had their names taken by provincial police, raising concerns that they could face threats and intimidation. The names of 81 pro-Cambodia National Rescue Party Jarai from O’Yadav, ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-backers-names-taken

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