Diplomats, legal experts and political analysts all met in a forum in Phnom Penh Tuesday to discuss the implications of last year’s election and the ongoing political deadlock.
The Ministry of Interior has released a report, claiming $72 million in public and private damages, including to 95 different factories, from labor demonstrations.
The 2015 Asean integration will allow skilled workers in member countries to work legally in other member states.
The working group will have 26 members from a wide spectrum of government and nongovernment agencies to produce policy recommendations to Cambodia’s leaders.
Worldwide, cervical cancer kills some 250,000 women per year, 85 percent of whom live in low- or middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organization.
Vietnamese aircraft have flown over Cambodia since Wednesday, in search of clues for the missing Boeing 777.
Cambodia losses about 10 percent of GDP, or $1.7 billion annually, to corruption, according to a report release on Wednesday by International Labor Organization.
Workers have continued to call for a raise in the minimum wage, to $160 per month, and for the release of 21 people arrested in the Jan. 2 and Jan. 3 crackdowns.
Other sites heavily patrolled include National Road 4, the Bavet Industrial Zone near Vietnam, and factories in Svay Rieng and Kampong Cham provinces.
Union leaders say they are moving forward with plans for continued strikes as they continue their efforts to raise the minimum wage for factory workers to $160 per month.
FossAsia, a conference on open source and free software, will be held in the capital Feb. 28 to March 2—a free event open to students, developers and entrepreneurs.
The proposed union submitted its application on Jan. 5, two days following a deadly crackdown on labor demonstrators in Phnom Penh that left at least four people dead.
The proposed dam project is planned for later this year, despite challenges from environmentalists and Cambodian and Vietnamese governments.
Only about 5 percent of local elected officials are below the age of 30, according to statistics from the Khmer Institute for National Development.
At least four people were killed and dozens injured when police opened fire on protesters Jan. 3.
Security forces razed some 300 cottages of villagers in two provinces Thursday, lighting them on fire and kicking out their occupants in reserved forest areas.
Cambodia has seen 49 confirmed deaths from bird flu since 2005, with the majority of them children below the age of 14.
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party says a fraudulent election in July means a recall vote is needed before it will join the government.
The father of a 16-year-old boy who went missing during last month’s labor protest crackdowns says he now presumes his son dead.
About 100 youth came together for a conference in Phnom Penh to discuss how they might have better access to the political process.
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