City Hall orders curbs on beggars
Phnom Penh municipality on Monday ordered a curb on vagrants entering the city and a roundup of beggars, homeless people and children selling items at traffic lights. In the directive, signed by deputy city governor Seng Ratanak, City Hall orders the 12 district governors, its social affairs department and select NGOs to monitor and educate those rounded up and attempt to place them in vocational training institutes. City Hall will “send expert officials to cooperate with Pour Un Sourire d’Enfant and other partner NGOs to monitor and round up street people, child beggars, newspaper sellers and flower sellers at [traffic] lights, with the aim of educating [them] to stop such activities,” says the statement, which was effective immediately. …
Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
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