Cambodian PM Warns Culture of Nepotism and Cronyism for Appointing Governmental Positions
Friday, 20 August 2010 09:50 DAP NEWS / VIBOL
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, AUGUST 20, 2010-Cambodian PM Hun Sen said on Friday that the ministry and other governmental agencies have eliminated the culture of appointing the state positions based on the nepotism and cronyism.
They also have to eliminate the culture of intervention of exchange of position in state agencies, the statement from Cabinet’s meeting said, adding that this way will encourage the active officials in work, help to promote them for ranks and push them to work effectively and it also implements the reform policy of administrative unit of country.
Not only civil side but also armed forces have to eliminate the culture of appointing through nepotism and cronyism. All ministry and relevant state agencies must stop appointing through overlapping its agencies of power in public administrative unit.
PM Hun Sen used to warn his relatives of using his name to gain own benefits through doing bad things in society and it destroyed his families’ names. In Cambodia, whenever people have the simple conflicts, they have always called to their people who could help and prevent them from punishing the legal system.
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Strengthens ASEAN Member States Preparation for Pandemics
Friday, 20 August 2010 08:34 DAP NEWS / Soy Sophea
CAMBODIA, Phnom Penh, August 20, 2010- A major international pandemic preparedness exercise closed in Phnom Penh on Friday 20 August, having explored key issues that Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) need to consider when preparing to face future pandemics, according to a statement on Friday.
The event, which was a first-of-its-kind anywhere in the world, saw ASEAN Member States work together in a 5-day simulation to prepare for the occurrence of a major pandemic.
ASEAN Member States and the international community, including humanitarian organisations and technical experts, identified possible impacts of a severe pandemic on essential services such as energy, transportation and finance, and the key challenges associated with responding regionally and internationally to such a crisis, it said, adding that participants gained more understanding of the existing regional preparedness and response plans, current gaps in those plans, and mechanisms that can be used in response efforts.
Participants also confirmed the essential service sectors that must be supported in a response and identified planning and response elements, and issues required to ensure continuity of operations by governments and civil society at national and regional levels.
The participants identified points for action by ASEAN, the Member States, and other regional and international organizations and nations that provide assistance, as well as addressing improvements to how ASEAN Member States should coordinate and cooperate amongst themselves, with the United Nations (UN) and other key international agencies. The lessons learnt from the exercise will facilitate participants to make improvements in their respective strategies, protocols and plans, and strengthen existing standard operating procedures, and plans for interagency and cross-border cooperation.
The week long event, which was hosted by ASEAN, the UN and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), saw the participation of over 130 high-level participants from governments, UN agencies, international bodies, non-governmental organisations and ASEAN Member States Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam.
Speaking during the event, the Minister of Health of the Royal Government of Cambodia, Dr. Mam Bun Heng, said that, “the exercise has been instrumental in highlighting the non-health sectors that can be disrupted during a pandemic, preventing a government from responding to its full capacity. The exercise has also shown how, by working together across Member States, we can better prepare for times of crisis, to the benefit of our individual nations and the region as a whole. The simulation has showcased the true merits of collaboration in times of disaster and has left us better placed to deal with future pandemics”.
Also speaking at the closing ceremony of the exercise, ASEAN Secretariat’s Director for Cross-Sectoral Cooperation Directorate, Dhannanjaya V. Sunoto, said that, “I feel that we have emerged stronger as a region after this week. However, a greater task lies ahead. We now have to work closer together to strengthen our pandemic preparedness and response plans.”
The ‘Southeast Asia Regional Multisectoral Pandemic Preparedness and Response Table Top Exercise: Managing the Impact of Pandemics on Societies, Governments and Organisations’, was funded with support from the USAID.
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Cambodia Expressed Concern about Child Birth Rate for 40,000 Per Year
Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:42 DAP NEWS / VIBOL
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, AUGUST 19, 2010-Cambodian scholars and researcher on Thursday expressed their concern about the child birth rate in human resources when the neighboring countries stand about one million child birth rate per year like in Vietnam and Thailand but Cambodia has birth spacing policy.
According to the research, our country gets the 40,000 child birth rate per year after the health ministry set up the policy of birth spacing in the family in purpose of reducing poverty and help the mother to live with healthy and firm, Klot Thida, head of royal academy of Cambodia said in a seminar about using chemicals.
Sometimes, we could not compete with neighboring countries in terms of human resources because we have small number of population. And sometimes, the diseases also caused the baby die. Using chemicals in food and other materials including in milk is one of concern for growing child and those who are human resources from the country, she said.
In Cambodia, birth spacing is widely spread for Cambodian families to reduce number of children and the government also helps people to meet with millennium development goals.
For Cambodia, the total population rose to 13.4 million in 2008 and on July 11th, 2010, it will have 14.3 million with population growth rate about 1.55 percent in each year; Cambodia families have 3-4 children in average. So, in 2025, Cambodian population could increase to 17.5 million.
The report added that the population in the whole world is about 6,855 million and will rise to 7, 000 million at the end of 2011. In every second, 4-5 babies in average are born on the planet and a woman could be able to deliver 2-3 babies in average. The women living in developed countries have about one or two children and the women living in developing countries have 4-5. The number of babies was born is estimated at 130 million for each
year.
According to statistics, about 50 million people die of other factors including half million of women dying related to pregnancy and delivering babies each year. Accordance with data, the population in the world every year will increase by about 80 million, which are the challenging matters for the future, he noted.
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