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Posted by: | Posted on: August 18, 2011

High School Exam Corruption Claims

MEAS SOKCHEA – PHNOM PENH POST

Corrupt officials should be punished by the Ministry of Education amid allegations that they leaked examination papers to students during nationwide high-school exams, a representative from the Cambodian Independent Teachers Association said yesterday.

May Sopheaktra, a member of CITA’s central committee, claimed yesterday that exam officials had leaked copies of the paper to students, and said that he had observed irregularities at five exam centres in the capital.

“At [one] centre, a student read the question of the examination out and five minutes later a relative of that student read the answer back to him,” May Sopheaktra said.

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Posted by: | Posted on: August 18, 2011

Tapping into Cambodia’s talent

Wednesday, May 18, 201

Garment factory workers return home after work on a trailer pulled by a tractor in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district. (Photo by: Will Baxter)
Graduates from the Royal University of Phnom Penh listen to a speech during a graduation ceremony earlier this year. (Photo by: Sovan Philon

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Liam Barnes, The Phnom Penh Post

The economy is not able to generate enough jobs in the formal sector to handle the large number of entrants….
Cambodia’s economy may be recovering from the global financial crisis, but experts point to continuing challenges finding higher-paid employment for the country’s young population.
Some 65 to 70 percent of the domestic labour force is employed in subsistence agriculture, but with about 48 percent of the Kingdom’s population currently under 20 years old, according to the United States Commercial Service’s 2011 Doing Business in Cambodia Guide, demand for higher-paying employment is expected to only increase.
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Posted by: | Posted on: August 18, 2011

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Posted by: | Posted on: August 16, 2011

Scope of land evictions revealed

By Phnom Penh Post

Venerable Loun Sovath, the senior monk in Siem Reap’ province’s Chi Kraeng district, said that evictions violated human rights and international laws. “I call on the government, relevant ministries and stakeholders to enhance respect for human rights and the law,” he said. Loun Sovath has become an outspoken voice on land rights issues over the past two years, combining human rights and a respect for the rule of law with peaceful advocacy grounded in Buddhist precepts.  His advocacy on behalf of communities involved in land disputes began after two members of his family were shot during a land dispute in 2009.

Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:01, John Anthony
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Photo by: Hong Menea

The Venerable Luon Sovath speaks during a meeting at the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights yesterday in Phnom Penh.

Land stats 2007-11

  • Worst provinces
    1. Phnom Penh –  22 conflicts
    2. Banteay Meanchey – 17
    3. Rattanakkiri – 17
  • Families: An estimated 47,342 families have been affected or could be in the future.
  • Resolution: About 90% of land conflict cases are unresolved.

Victims of land disputes nationwide are being encouraged to unite, as figures released yesterday highlighted the magnitude of what is often referred to as an “epidemic of land grabbing”.

Ownership of at least 5 percent of all land in Cambodia was a matter of dispute between 2007 and 2011, according to a study by the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights.

CCHR presented the findings of its study on land conflicts in Cambodia at a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday. As many as 47,000 families had been or could be affected by land conflict cases, some of which are ongoing, covered in the study.
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