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Passengers alight from a Phnom Penh public bus last March, shortly before City Hall decided to shut down the fledgling public transport service because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Panha Chhorpoan

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As Phnom Penh students embraced public buses, the pandemic brought the service to an abrupt stop

16 Feb 2021 5:04 PM|
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Every morning, Tha Mengsrean would leave his home at 5:35 a.m., walk around 200 meters to the bus stop and take the 5:40 bus to Bak Touk High School. The 17-year-old student took the bus from his home in Chroy Changvar district in northeast Phnom Penh to Prampi Makara district daily.

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As Phnom Penh students embraced public buses, the pandemic brought the service to an abrupt stop

16 Feb 2021 5:04 PM|
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A rights monitor talks to a girl who reported a case of attempted rape. Licadho released a report Thursday, where a third of rape cases it investigated involved a relative as the perpetrator. LICADHO

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Cambodian legal system failing people raped by a relative: Licadho

10 Dec 2020 4:57 PM|
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One in three rape cases investigated by local rights group Licadho involved a relative as the perpetrator, according to a new report illustrating the NGO’s findings on access to justice in rape cases in Cambodia.

A student from Bak Touk high school in Phnom Penh has her temperature checked before entering the classroom in September. Panha Chhorpoan

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Exam-bound Students Worried About Second Wave of Online Learning

18 Nov 2020 5:07 PM|
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High school students Rithy Leakena and Bun Theath Panharith are back at a Takhmao café studying for the national grade 12 examination next month. While…

Construction workers offload materials at a worksite in Phnom Penh on November 8. Panha Chhorpoan

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Workers face unpaid wages as pandemic, flooding stonewall construction activity

11 Nov 2020 11:56 AM|
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Mech Sareoun had not been paid in months and was relying on small loans from his employer to support his family. The COVID-19 pandemic had adversely affected the construction sector and its nearly 150,000 workers. But, the construction worker, who lives in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, was heading for another economic shock last month.

A man walks cross Boeng Trabek High School in Phnom Penh on November 8. Panha Chhorpoan

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Schools, entertainment venues ordered to close after new Covid-19 case

8 Nov 2020 8:05 PM|
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After a bodyguard who accompanied a Covid-19 positive Hungarian minister during his trip to Phnom Penh last week also tested positive for the virus, the government announced November 8 that schools and entertainment venues in Phnom Penh and Kandal province would close for at least two weeks.

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New storm expected to worsen floods as thousands evacuated

16 Oct 2020 7:35 PM|
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More rain is expected this weekend when a tropical storm arrives in Cambodia, worsening floods that have already killed 18 and forced more than 25,000 people to evacuate to higher ground in 19 provinces since early October, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management.

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Ministry says peacekeeper with Covid-19 had no community interaction

11 Aug 2020 4:54 AM|
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A female Cambodian peacekeeper who returned from a United Nations mission to Mali in July tested positive for Covid-19 on August 8but has not been in recent contact with anyone outside of her family in Takhmao City, according to the Health Ministry.

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Doubts raised over plan to urge former migrants to farm

20 Jul 2020 5:52 AM|
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Siem Reap province - Pai Pun was excited when he was invited to join a meeting in May on a new work opportunity at Kantraing commune office in Siem Reap province's Prasat Bakong district after returning to Cambodia from Thailand at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown there two months earlier.

As Phnom Penh students embraced public buses, the pandemic brought the service to an abrupt stop

As Phnom Penh students embraced public buses, the pandemic brought the service to an abrupt stop

Cambodian legal system failing people raped by a relative: Licadho

Exam-bound Students Worried About Second Wave of Online Learning

Workers face unpaid wages as pandemic, flooding stonewall construction activity

Schools, entertainment venues ordered to close after new Covid-19 case

New storm expected to worsen floods as thousands evacuated

Ministry says peacekeeper with Covid-19 had no community interaction

Doubts raised over plan to urge former migrants to farm

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