Social development
Cambodian youths dance to urge end of violence against women
Approximately 1,500 young Cambodian people on Saturday performed the “Madison,” a popular dance during Khmer wedding receptions and New Year celebrations, here in order to call for an end of violence against women and girls, an organizer said. Inala Fathimath, a gender program specialist at the ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141206/cambodian-youths-dance-urge-end-violence-against-women
Marching rights activists blocked at starting point
More than a hundred monks and rights activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day were blocked by soldiers and police at their starting point in Takeo province’s Kirivong district yesterday. ...
Vandy Muong
http://phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/marching-rights-activists-blocked-starting-point
Gov’t stands firm on Montagnards
A UN delegation met with Ratanakkiri province’s deputy police chief yesterday afternoon to discuss the fate of 13 Montagnard asylum seekers who have been hiding in the province in recent weeks. The provincial administration, however, has continued to call for the group’s deportation. Deputy police chief ...
Phak Seangly and Alice Cuddy
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-stands-firm-montagnards
Protest still on: youth leader
Ignoring objections and even vague threats made by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Cambodian activists in South Korea plan to stage a protest on Sunday ahead of a five-day summit Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to attend on December 10. Around 1,500 opposition supporters intend to ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/protest-still-youth-leader
Cambodia says focusing on maintaining growth, poverty alleviation
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that his government has mainly focused on retaining a sustainable economic growth and setting out strategies to ensure the gradual alleviation of poverty, according to a spokesman. Poverty rate in Cambodia has declined to 19.8 percent in 2011, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141204/cambodia-says-focusing-maintaining-growth-poverty-alleviatio
Cambodian police scour jungle for Vietnamese 'Montagnards' refugees
Cambodian police said Wednesday they were scouring remote northeastern jungles for a group of Vietnamese Montagnards who crossed the border in an apparent attempt to seek asylum. Rights groups say 13 of the hill tribe people, including one woman, fled persecution in Vietnam late last month ...
The Sun Daily News Staff
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1258248
Disability benefits to be broadened by gov’t
A Ministry of Social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/disability-benefits-be-broadened-gov%E2%80%99t
Cambodia's treatment of Montagnard refugees focuses critics on Australia's asylum seeker deal
Cambodian authorities are hunting more than a dozen ethnic minority hill people from Vietnam, drawing international criticism and raising further doubts about Australia’s controversial agreement to send refugees to Phnom Penh. Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), warned ...
Lindsay Murdoch
http://www.smh.com.au/world/cambodias-treatment-of-montagnard-refugees-focuses-critics-on-australias-asylum-seeker-deal-20141203-11z808.html
UN refugee agency joins search for Montagnards in Cambodia
A team from the United Nations refugee agency traveled to northeast Cambodia Wednesday to meet with 13 ethnic Montagnards seeking asylum in the country after fleeing alleged persecution in Vietnam, according to an agency spokesperson and a member of a local rights group. United Nations High ...
Joshua Lipes
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/search-12032014184633.html
Cambodia inches up corruption index
Cambodia has performed better than last year in its effort to fight corruption, but it is still slow, an international anti-corruption watchdog said Wednesday. The index ranks Cambodia 156 out of 175 countries this year, up from a 160 ranking last year. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/447010/cambodia-performs-better-in-corruption-index
Tally of goods linked to child labour grows
Four more goods made in Cambodia have been linked to exploitative child labour, adding to a mounting list of items the United States considers to be produced in violation of international rights laws. The mounting number of Cambodian goods found to use child labour runs ...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tally-goods-linked-child-labour-grows
CCHR delivers petition to Justice Minister calling for an end to impunity
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights said that it would deliver Tuesday a giant photo petition to the Ministry of Justice as part of its annual Campaign to End Impunity. A statement on Monday said that CCHR has collected 263 photos of people holding signs that ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cchr-delivers-petition-to-justice-minister-calling-for-an-end-to-impunity-7769
Gov’t advises to bundle up
As Cambodia braces for a cold snap expected to last through early January, the Ministry of Health on Sunday evening urged citizens to take precautions against common winter maladies. In a joint statement with the World Health Organization (WHO), the ministry warned that the Kingdom is ...
Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-advises-bundle
Impunity tops agenda for special rapporteur
A UN special rapporteur will take the cause of Cambodia’s land-eviction battles and the abuses faced by those waging them to the UN Human Rights Council, according to a report released today. Michel Forst, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, will file ...
Shane Worrell
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/impunity-tops-agenda-special-rapporteur
8 jailed activists threaten hunger strike
Eight land activists put in prison last month after a swift trial say they will hold a hunger strike if they are not released. The eight activists were part of a roundup in November for street protests against city officials and a development project at ...
Heng Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/eight-jailed-activists-threaten-hunger-strike/2541064.html
UN seeks to intervene in case of Christian Montagnards
Two ethnic Jarai Montagnards claiming to have fled religious persecution in Vietnam may have been arrested by local police in Ratanakkiri province, a rights worker has said. The UN is seeking to intervene in the case and has requested government cooperation while several more Christian Montagnards ...
Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN)
http://www.ucanews.com/news/un-seeks-to-intervene-in-case-of-christian-montagnards/72511
Cambodia organizes 3rd book fair to promote reading
The 3rd edition of the National Book Fair kicked off here on Friday with an aim of encouraging the habit of book reading, officials said. The 3-day event, held at the National Library of Cambodia, exhibited tens of thousands of books from about 30 libraries, ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141129/cambodia-organizes-3rd-book-fair-promote-reading
Cambodia's Hun Sen says no political motive behind recent arrests
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday lashed out at critics who claimed that the recent arrests of four opposition officials for their alleged roles in a violent protest were politically motivated, saying they had committed criminal acts and must be tried according to law. The ...
Big News Network News Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/228037539
Fee hike reduced after med students protest
Following a huge outcry from medical students, the University of Health Sciences agreed yesterday to lower a planned rise in annual tuition for those hoping to pursue a medical specialty beyond their general degree. The students then agreed to accept the rector’s offer of $2,250, ...
Chhay Channyda
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/fee-hike-reduced-after-med-students-protest
‘Alternative’ approach for drug addicts: gov’t
After facing heavy criticism for the conditions inside its drug-rehabilitation centres, the Ministry of Health has said it will begin offering an alternative community-based approach at health centres nationwide by 2015. According to Chhum Vanarith, a secretary of state in the Health Ministry, the alternative ...
Sen David and Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/%E2%80%98alternative%E2%80%99-approach-drug-addicts-gov%E2%80%99t
Cambodia awards enterprises for HIV/AIDS prevention
Cambodia’s Labor Ministry on Thursday awarded some of the best performing companies in the country for their work on HIV and AIDS education and prevention at workplaces. Labor Minister Ith Samheng handed over 124 awards to enterprises in a range of sectors, including the garment industry, ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2014-11/27/c_133818461.htm
Anger on the home front
More than 100 soldiers in Pursat province have threatened to resign en masse after being ordered to bulldoze their own lands, which are claimed by tycoon Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Company. The threat of mass resignations came two days after a soldier, Seng Pov, took ...
May Titthara
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/anger-home-front
Gov’t pares UN rights recommendations
Cambodia has drastically reduced the amount of human rights recommendations it will implement as part of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review, saying they were overly repetitive. While Cambodia was criticised for deferring recommendations, which dealt with issues such as freedom of expression and the ...
Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-pares-un-rights-recommendations
Ebola risk relatively low: govt
The risk of Ebola coming into Cambodia remains low despite a recent Ebola scare in Thailand, officials from the Ministry of Health’s Communicable Diseases Control said at a conference yesterday, while still noting that the Kingdom remains vulnerable to other, lesser-known diseases. CDC head Ly ...
Charles Rollet
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ebola-risk-relatively-low-govt