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NGO: role in child sex abuse case distorted
Child protection NGO Friends International said this week it will contest being officially cited as the originator of allegations of sexual misconduct at Our Home orphanage that led to the center’s closure last month and to the imprisonment of its director, Hang Vibol, on suspicion ...
Simon Henderson and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngo-role-in-child-sex-abuse-case-distorted-81395/
Law on NGOs to be discussed in May: Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday said that draft Law on Non-Government Organizations will be discussed and adopted at Cabinet in May 2015, and the law will be adopted by 50 percent plus one majority vote at the National Assembly. According to the figures of ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1IBJQBf
Cambodia's rice export increases by 77 pct in three months
Cambodia exported 149,464 tons of rice in the first three months of 2015, up 77 percent over the same period last year, according to data of the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1MVsDJK
Court delays trial of fugitive tycoon’s parents
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday delayed the trial of fugitive Defense Ministry official Thong Sarath’s parents, who are facing charges of possessing illegal firearms. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/court-delays-trial-of-fugitive-tycoons-parents-81399/
Cambodia Post sees 14 pct rise in revenue last year
Cambodia Post reported a 14 percent increase in 2014 revenues, as increasing consumer confidence boosted use of the once-fledgling service, a local media reported Wednesday. Cambodia Post currently dispatches mail to 192 countries. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-post-sees-14-pct-rise-in-revenue-last-year-8382
Tourism delegates fall sick after seafood meal
Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, three state exco members and 30 senior tourism officials from Asean countries attending a meeting here suffered severe food poisoning after a seafood meal at a fishing village in Umbai. Besides Malaysia, the meeting was attended by delegates ...
R.S.N. Murali
http://bit.ly/19QXCEG
Cambodia won’t renew dredging licenses amid industry study: ministry official
Authorities will not renew operating licenses for sand-dredging companies in Cambodia if impact studies on the industry are not completed by the time the licenses expire at year-end, a ministry official said Friday. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Fvo7ux
Preah Sihanouk police chief removed
The chief of police in Preah Sihanouk province has been removed from his position and will be replaced by Chuon Narin, deputy chief of the Phnom Penh municipal force, according to the Interior Ministry. ...
Matt Blomberg and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-sihanouk-police-chief-removed-81294/
Eleven arrested over illegal Sand dredging
Three owners of sand dredging companies were among 11 people arrested Thursday by military police—working in tandem with the Ministry of Mines and Energy—for operating without a proper license, according to a spokesman for the ministry. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eleven-arrested-over-illegal-sand-dredging-81320/
Gov’t offers bursaries for poor
The government will provide scholarships to poor public school students in grades 1 through 12 in an effort to curb drop-out rates. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-offers-bursaries-poor
Justice minister seeks briefing over years-old land dispute
The justice minister on Wednesday wrote to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court requesting that the judge in charge of a case surrounding a long-running land dispute report to the ministry, following intervention from the National Assembly’s human rights commission. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/justice-minister-seeks-topic-over-years-old-land-dispute-81308/
Foreigners reminded to get their work permits
The head of the Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration issued a statement on Wednesday reminding foreigners working in Cambodia that they are required to hold a work permit—and will face fines if they do not. ...
Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/foreigners-reminded-to-get-their-work-permits-81328/
Chinese influence in Cambodia grows with army school, aid
When Defense Minister Tea Banh addressed graduates last month at Cambodia’s prestigious Army Institute, he directed his thanks to the guests who made it all possible: a group of crisply dressed officers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). ...
Aubrey Belford and Prak Chan Thul
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/02/us-cambodia-china-military-idUSKBN0MT0SW20150402
Gov’t to raise taxes to clean up litter in cities
Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday announced the creation of a recurring annual $5-million fund to help Phnom Penh and every provincial capital clean up their trash-strewn streets, especially outside homes and restaurants. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-raise-taxes-to-clean-up-
Minister tells police to target drug gang bosses
Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday ordered police across the country to focus on investigating and arresting the leaders of illegal-drug syndicates rather than low-level traffickers and users. ...
Chris Mueller and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/minister-tells-police-to-target-drug-gang-bosses-81231/
UN Millennium Goal for education remains elusive
Cambodia has made some progress in improving its education system in line with its 2015 UN Millennium Goals, but dropout rates remain high, due to endemic poverty and corruption. Universal literacy and 9th-grade education were the second-highest goal in the development plan, whose progress Cambodia will ...
Men Kimseng
http://bit.ly/1EHV8Go
Meeting between Koh Kong families, development firm fruitless
Representatives for some 200 families in a yearslong land dispute with the Union Development Group (UDG) in Koh Kong province met for the first time with both company and government officials Tuesday but left with little to show. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/meeting-between-koh-kong-families-development-firm-fruitless-81149/
Fewer airport arrests lead to drop in drug seizures
Despite a 72 percent increase in the number of drug-related arrests last year compared to 2013, 50 percent less drugs were seized during the same period, an official from the National Authority for Combating Drugs’ (NACD) said Tuesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fewer-airport-arrests-lead-to-drop-in-drug-seizures-81147/
Cambodian lawmakers, educators discuss reform measures for educational system
Approximately 200 lawmakers, educators and civil society and development partner representatives met here on Tuesday to discuss reform measures to improve educational system in Cambodia. Hang Chuon Naron said Cambodia now has more than 7,000 primary schools with about 2 million students, 5,750 secondary schools ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Cscxiv
Cambodia reduces infant mortality
Cambodia is not meeting many of its UN Millennium Development Goals, which are coming due this year, but it has made progress in the reduction of infant mortality. Currently, 28 of 1,000 children born in Cambodia die before reaching the age of one. That number is ...
Men Kimseng
http://bit.ly/1IOq4mN
Int'l youth cultural symposium to kick off in Cambodia next month
Cambodia will host the first International Youth Cultural Symposium (IYCS) from April 12-17 in a bid to exchange culture between Cambodian youth and those from ASEAN and its dialogue partners, an education official said Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1IhJSOy
‘Same faces’ protest against PM’s comments
Incensed by the prime minister’s assertion last week that the “same faces” always show up at protests, a group of Phnom Penh’s most prominent anti-eviction activists picketed City Hall on Monday to vent their anger. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/same-faces-protest-against-pms-comments-81088/
Thirty-six still ill after eating tainted sandwiches
Thirty-six villagers remained hospitalized Monday afternoon after about 800 fell ill on Saturday from eating tainted sandwiches distributed at a World Vision event in Siem Reap province’s Chi Kreng district, officials said. ...
Mech Dara and Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thirty-six-still-ill-after-eating-tainted-sandwiches-81086/
Second Nauru trip yields no refugees to resettle
Cambodia’s second trip to the South Pacific island nation of Nauru to find refugees Australia is holding there who are willing to resettle in Cambodia has been unsuccessful, Interior Ministry immigration department chief Sok Phal said Monday. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/second-nauru-trip-yields-no-refugees-to-resettle-81092/