Social development
Evicted villagers fear for their safety
Resident from Nyaung Ni village tract, who were forcefully evicted from purported military-owned land, are concerned for their safety as they have been warned not to leave the village, or they will face arrest starting 1 February. “This morning, when the children went to school, they ...
Laos, EU seek more effective poverty reduction
Laos and its development partner the European Union have sought ways to strengthen their cooperation on the implementation of focal work to ensure more effective results from projects in Laos. Keep reading ...
Hanoi to provide 6,000 Pentaxim vaccine doses
As many as 6,104 doses of the five-in-one Pentaxim vaccine will be distributed in Hanoi for the second phase of the serviced vaccination programme, beginning on 4 February. Keep reading ...
Boeung Kak protesters pelt World Bank office with eggs
Villagers evicted by the development of Boeung Kak lake took their protest to the World Bank headquarters in Phnom Penh on 1 February, demanding to meet with the bank’s Cambodia country manager, Alassane Sow, and pelting the building with eggs after being rebuffed. Keep reading ...
Official details Cambodia's drug problems
Cambodia’s drug czar on 1 February described a prison and rehab centre system in which drugs were being sold under the noses of the authorities and suggested police estimates of the number of drug users in Cambodia were “not enough” as he spoke at the Interior ...
Leprosy patients suffer months with no medical care
After nine months without medical care, the posting of a single doctor to a “leprosy village” in Yangon is only a small consolation for its nearly 200 residents. For months, the villagers depended on donors to provide medicine and on health assistants or volunteers to administer ...
Schools need to better vocational training methods
Vietnam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has acknowledged that while the quality of vocational training has improved, there remain areas of inefficiencies, as many vocational schools are not operating at full capacities. In a written answer to a question raised by Nguyen Van Phuc, ...
Students debate forest protection measures
A group of university students in Phnom Penh on 31 January organised a debate on how to protect Prey Lang, with the winners standing to receive a trip to the critical forest preserve. The “Prey Lang Forum”, held at Zaman University in Phnom Penh, sought to raise ...
Evicted families promised land but face food, supply shortfall
Thousands of Myanmar families evicted from military-owned land have been promised new plots in exchange for the 560 acres they were allegedly squatting on. The minister for security and border affairs in Yangon said the government has a compensation plan, but was light on the ...
Next step in malaria strategy: paying for it
Following the announcement on 27 January of an ambitious new five-year plan to eliminate malaria in Cambodia, National Centre for Malaria officials and donors met again on 28 January, this time to discuss patching up a $22.8 million budget gap to fund the strategy’s first two years. Financial ...
