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National deadline for orphanage registration extended—again
The deadline for the country’s orphanages to register with the Ministry of Social Affairs has been extended once again as the government continues its months-long efforts to begin regulating the residential child care system. ...
Taylor O'connell and Khy Sovuthy
Somaly Mam Foundation closes down
Months after announcing the resignation of its founder and promising to start afresh to continue its “vital work” protecting vulnerable girls in Cambodia, the U.S.-based Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF) announced Saturday that it has ceased operations, telling supporters to turn to other organizations to help ...
Chris Mueller
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/somaly-mam-foundation-closes-down-70300/
Roundup of vagrants begins; numbers kept secret
The Phnom Penh municipality on Tuesday began its latest campaign to clear the city’s streets of vagrants, rounding up truckloads of beggars and sellers at traffic lights and holding them at district offices and the municipal social affairs department. Street people across the city were seen ...
Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/roundup-of-vagrants-begins-numbers-kept-secret-61049/
