Photo: Reuters
Cambodia has around 200 government-provided land concessions, totally 2 million hectares.
Full Story
There are six million people in the Asia Pacific living with HIV, about 15 percent of the world total.
Some of Wednesday’s female protesters tore off their shirts as they faced off with riot police carrying batons and shields.
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party received about 78 percent of the votes, with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party taking the remainder.
Nearly 80 land cases involved government land concessions that affected more than 30,000 families.
Sia Phearum told “Hello VOA” people are being forced off land they earned through “backbreaking” work.
Overcoming such trauma is not easy and going back into the past does not help either, Sam Keo said.
Nearly 400 families were forcibly evicted from the Borei Keila site this month.
In 2002, as many as 13 percent of Cambodian blood donors tested positive for the antigen of the Hepatitis-B virus.
HRW also detailed what it views as severe violations of human rights in nations including Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Phan Imex was supposed to build 10 buildings to house evicted residents and built eight instead.
Escapees climbed over the walls or jumped the metal gates of the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center Wednesday in full view of observers.
-by+Heng+reasmey-voa+khmer1.jpg)
With 14 million people, Cambodia is only able to employ a small number of the 300,000 university students who graduate annually.
The demonstrators were seized Wednesday, where they had demanded the courts release eight representatives arrested earlier this month.
An estimated 20,000 Cambodians are trafficked throughout the region each year.
The site, at Phnom Bath mountain, is 50 kilometers outside the capital and lacks clean water, electricity, and health care facilities.
Campaigning for the Senate election, which is held for representatives of eight regions, will go from Jan. 7 to Jan. 27.
The virus has more than 40 types, Taing Tek Hong, a Florida-based physician told “Hello VOA.”
According to Adhoc, there are more than 15,000 prisoners nationwide in a detention system that cannot hold them.
Chea Vichea was a powerful labor leader able to amass large rallies, his killers have never been brought to justice.
Abney’s injury in the attack prompted an FBI investigation that was ultimately abandoned.
