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Year's crime ranged from brutal to bizarre
Law and order in Cambodia this year has been a strange mix of the brutal and the bizarre. From horrific murders to the police’s decision to deliver crystal meth to phony hostage-takers during a bank heist, crime has continually made headlines in a year when the ...
Shane Worrell and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/years-crime-ranged-brutal-bizarre
Cambodia Factories Grapple With Issue of Underage Workers
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia—In this quiet beach town, Lim Loeung says she spends up to 80 hours a week gluing soles onto shoes at a factory that does work for companies including Japanese sneaker-maker Asics Corp. 7936.TO +0.95% The factory believes Ms. Lim is at least 18 ...
Kate O' Keeffe
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303799404579287353595133592
Program aims for safer workplaces for women
A new program launched yesterday has its sights set on ending the endemic problem of sexual harassment against women in the workplace. A ceremony at the Hotel Cambodiana marked the start of Safe Workplaces, Safer Communities, a project run by CARE Cambodia. The three-year program, which will ...
Sean Teehan and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/program-aims-safer-workplaces-women
Cambodia sends 4th batch of troops to Lebanon for U.N. peacekeeping mission
Cambodia on Tuesday dispatched the fourth batch of 184 soldiers to Lebanon to replace the third batch’s forces, whose one-year United Nations peacekeeping duties have come to an end. The civil engineering group would perform their one-year duties by clearing landmines, constructing roads, bridges, shelters and ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-12/17/c_132974000.htm
High school meth use up: UN
High school students are increasingly using methamphetamines and other stimulants to relax or help them study, according to the UN. A spike in trafficking of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) across the borders with Thailand and Laos over the past two years has gone hand-in-hand with a rise ...
Daniel Pye and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/high-school-meth-use-un
Complaint Filed With UN Over Police Shooting of Civilians
A law student who filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s police and military police chiefs over the fatal shooting of a bystander by authorities during a protest last month took his complaint to the U.N.’s human rights office on ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/complaint-filed-with-un-over-police-shooting-of-civilians-48961/
Cambodia: Drug Centers Detain, Abuse ‘Undesirables’, Says HRW
Cambodian authorities unlawfully detain hundreds of drug users and others deemed “undesirable” in centers where they face torture, sexual violence, and forced labor, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch called for the immediate closure of the country’s eight detention ...
Eurasia Review News Staff
http://www.eurasiareview.com/09122013-cambodia-drug-centers-detain-abuse-undesirables-says-hrw/
Micro-insurance needs revamp: UN
The UN urged government and financial organisations to stimulate Cambodia’s flailing micro-insurance industry yesterday, after a study found the country’s poor are vulnerable to indebtedness during a crisis. The United Nations Development Business (UNDB) hosted a working group yesterday at Phnom Penh’s Sunway Hotel launching the ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/micro-insurance-needs-revamp-un
Regional peers urge gov’t to probe deaths
An organisation made up of current and former elected representatives from across Southeast Asia has called on the United Nations to investigate the deaths of two people shot by police during protests over the past three months. In a statement released yesterday, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human ...
Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/regional-peers-urge-gov%E2%80%99t-probe-deaths
Strikers, police clash
A woman was killed and at least six others shot yesterday morning when police fired live ammunition into a crowd of hundreds of rioting garment workers in the capital’s Stung Meanchey district. UN reports said police also arrested 37 people, including seven monks, as a result ...
Sean Teehan, Mom Kunthear and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/strikers-police-clash
Preah Vihear temple: Disputed land Cambodian, court rules
Cambodia should have sovereignty over disputed land around the Preah Vihear temple on the border with Thailand, the UN’s highest court has ruled. The International Court of Justice in the Hague said Thailand must withdraw any soldiers from the area. Cambodia sought a clarification of the ...
BBC News Staff
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24897805
Speed up FOI law, PM says
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on the Ministry of Information to accelerate the drafting of a long-awaited freedom of information law that could see more transparency in the Kingdom’s government. According to a press release issued by the Council of Ministers after a cabinet meeting ...
Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/speed-foi-law-pm-says
NGOs see gap in rights record
A group of NGOs condemned rampant abuses of sexual and reproductive health rights in Cambodia last week, just days before the government submitted a human rights progress report to the United Nations. The Cambodian Center for Human Rights, in cooperation with the Asia Pacific Network of ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-see-gap-rights-record
Gov’t rights report to be sent to UN
The government will today submit its second report to the UN Human Rights Council as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process that takes stock of human rights progress in each UN member state. Governments are required to report to the council every four and ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-rights-report-be-sent-un
Myriad flood challenges remain
As the flood levels recede in most of the 20 affected provinces, victims continue facing scores of recovery challenges including sanitation, food security, health and shelter concerns, as well as a lack of potable water. In its fourth report on the flood situation, released yesterday, the ...
Mom Kunthear, Amelia Woodside and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/myriad-flood-challenges-remain
Cambodian trade unions urge garment workers not to join opposition’s mass protest next week
A Cambodian trade unions leader on Saturday called on garment workers not to participate in the opposition party-planned mass demonstration next week against the results of July’s election that handed victory to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party. “I would like to appeal to all workers ...
Nzweek News Staff
http://www.nzweek.com/world/cambodian-trade-unions-urge-garment-workers-not-to-join-oppositions-mass-protest-next-week-90198/
Cambodia’s flooding brings specter of disease
Flooding is a perennial pain in Cambodia, the low-lying, deeply impoverished nation squeezed between Thailand and Vietnam. About this time each year, rivers swell, lakes expand and villages sink beneath soupy brown waters. But this year’s flooding woes are proving particularly miserable. More than 100 are dead, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/cambodia/131011/cambodia-floods-again-disease-dengue
Cambodia to host Asia-pacific region on tourism development in cultural and natural heritage in November
In cooperation with UN world tourism organization, Cambodia will host the tourism conference of Asia- Pacific region on tourism development in cultural and natural heritage in November in Siem Reap province. “There will be 40 countries from Asia- pacific region and 200 delegates will participant in ...
The Southeast Asia Weekly News Staff
http://www.thesoutheastasiaweekly.com/?p=7750
Activists seek UN monitors
Anti-logging activists wrote to the United Nations yesterday to call for the monitoring of a lawsuit in which they accuse hundreds of officials in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary of illegal deforestation. The Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization (NRWPO) listed 241 officials it ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-seek-un-monitors
Cambodian to meet some MDG goals, deal landmine issues: envoy
Cambodia will meet some of the Millennium Development Goals by the end of 2015 and will continue to deal with landmine threats, said a Cambodian envoy to UN Tuesday at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly. The number of people below the poverty line ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-10/02/c_132767290.htm
Cambodian Garment Factories Come Under Scrutiny
A monitoring group backed by the United Nations said it would begin to publicize garment factories’ compliance with worker rights and safety standards in Cambodia, a controversial program that its organizers say will be the world’s most extensive initiative to improve working conditions at plants. The ...
Kate O'keeffe
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303818704579089810120675896.html
Verdict Due in Case of Brutally Slayed Reporter
A verdict in the brutal slaying last year of an investigative journalist in Ratanakkiri province is due to be handed down by the provincial court today following a reinvestigation into the case. Hang Serei Odom, 42, a reporter for the Virakchun Khmer Daily, was found hacked ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/verdict-due-in-case-of-brutally-slayed-reporter-41062/
Cambodian Boy Becomes The 10th H5N1 Bird Flu Death Of The Year
A 9-year-old boy has become the 10th person this year to die of bird flu in Cambodia, the World Health Organization announced Monday. The U.N. agency said the boy from a village in northeastern Battambang province came down with fever and vomiting on July 26 and ...
Cambodia Delays US Military Aid
Cambodia postponed U.S.-backed military assistance programs immediately after the July 28 national election, officials of both countries confirmed Tuesday, in a move that analysts said reflects a strain in relations after years of strengthening military ties. The U.S. has in recent years expanded training and other ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-delays-us-military-assistance-39509/