Nurse volunteering in Cambodia

Josephine Gillespie | 28th December 2010 University of Queensland Ipswich nursing student Elissa Jackson will volunteer at a Cambodian military clinic at the foot of Phnom Bok Mountain from January 5. Sarah Harvey IT is a world away from the quiet streets of Flinders View, but for nursing student Elissa Jackson, spending her holiday volunteering in a Cambodian health clinic is a dream come true. The 23-year-old is among a group of 15 University of Queensland (UQ) students who, accompanied by three clinical lecturers, will depart on January 5 for a new military clinic at the foot of Phnom Bok Mountain, near Siem Reap in Cambodia’s north-west. For Elissa, the trip will be her first overseas. “I think it will be a once-in-a-lifetime...

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Vietnam, Cambodia to open more border gates

if (207148 = 194673) $("#pTitle").css("display", "none"); CAN THO - Viet Nam and Cambodia will open three new international border gates early next year to fulfil an agreement on road transportation between the two countries. They will be in Le Thanh (Gia Lai Province, Viet Nam) - Oyadav (Andong Pich-Rattanakiri, Cambodia), Hoa Lu (Binh Phuoc) - Trapeang Sre (Snoul-Kratie), and Bu Prang (Dak Nong) - O Raing (Mundulkiri). The plan was agreed upon at an annual conference between the leaders of Viet Nam's Directorate for Roads and Cambodia's General Department of Transport yesterday in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho. With this development,...

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Evangelicals offer redemption at Cambodia's girlie bars

Western men looking for love in Cambodian girlie bars deserve redemption, too, volunteers say. (function() { var s = document.createElement("SCRIPT"), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName("SCRIPT")[0]; s.type = "text/javascript"; s.async = true; s.src = "http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js"; s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1); })(); 48diggsdigg By Andrew Burmon — Special to Globalpost Published: December 27, 2010 06:07 ET in Asia Women and motorbike taxi drivers wait outside one of Phnom Penh's many hostess bars on Street 136. (Vinh Dao/GlobalPost) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Jesus, who...

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Vietnam, Cambodia to open three more border gates

Vietnam and Cambodia will open the last three border gates of the seven international ones at the beginning of next year under an agreement on road transportation between the two countries. At an annual conference between the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam and the Cambodian General Department of Transport on December 27 in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, the two sides agreed to open the border gates of Le Thanh (Gia Lai) – Oyadav (Andong Pich-Rattanakiri), Hoa Lu (Binh Phuoc) – Trapeang Sre (Snoul-Kratie) and Bu Prang (Dak Nong)- O Raing (Mundulkiri). Over the years, the two countries have effectively carried out the agreement to ensure the flow of traffic...

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Nearly 800 Cambodian garment workers fired over strike

By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Sixteen Cambodian factories producing clothing for big brands such as Adidas AG and Gap Inc have dismissed nearly 800 employees for taking part in a nationwide strike, a union leader said on Friday. Unions were preparing to issue demands to the factories to reinstate the 799 sacked workers by Dec. 15 or face legal action and possibly more strikes, which could further disrupt a sector that is a big currency earner for the impoverished country. "We will take action in accordance with the law and we are trying to avoid a strike," Kong Athit, deputy president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCAWDU), told Reuters. "The government and the courts have already ordered that these workers be reinstated, so these...

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Japanese photographer arrested over photo festival images

Phnom Penh - Cambodian police have charged a Japanese photographer with pornography after they claimed he took pictures of sex workers in the tourist city of Siem Reap, local media reported Friday. Go Takayama, a 28-year-old participant in a workshop at the Angkor Photo Festival, was arrested in late November and charged Thursday. He faces up to one year in prison, said Siem Reap provincial prosecutor Ty Soveinthal. 'Making or publishing pornographic pictures is absolutely prohibited in Cambodia and is in violation of Cambodian law, so the court will make a decision on this next week,' Ty Soveinthal told the Phnom Penh Post newspaper. The police said he had taken dozens of photographs of sex workers at a brothel in the city. However Jessica Lim, who helped to coordinate the...

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37 years after escaping killing fields, a Cambodian returns as US Navy commander

US Navy Commander Michael Misiewicz docked the USS Mustin in Cambodia Friday. He last saw his homeland, and many of his relatives, as a boy fleeing the murderous Khmer Rouge. By Clancy McGilligan, Contributor / December 3, 2010 Sihanoukville, Cambodia US Navy Cmdr. Michael Misiewicz watched today as relatives prepared to board his destroyer, which was docked a few miles off the shore of Cambodia. He had not seen any of them since he left the Southeast Asian nation as a boy 37 years ago, escaping civil war and the murderous Khmer Rouge. // This photo released by the...

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