Government allocated land to nearly 500,000 families
Authorities have allocated land to nearly 500,000 families across the country.
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More than 18,000 poor pregnant women receive aid
18,725 pregnant women from poor families have received financial support.
City Hall project to aid urban poor
Over one million Euros for strengthening the capacity of sub-national administrations on urban planning and land management.
Ministry to ensure poor, disabled villagers access aid
Poor and disabled villagers have the right to access government aid with IDs.
Justice Ministry collaborating on national legal aid policy
Justice Ministry to create a national policy on providing legal aid for the poor.
Exports, unequal supply make poor people pay more for water
Yogita has to fetch water up to six times a day – sometimes going out in the middle of the night – from a hand pump about half a kilometer from her house in India’s Madhya Pradesh state, leaving her baby son with a neighbour.
Special legal team urged to aid pre-trial female detainees
PM urges to pay special attention to those in pre-trial detention without a lawyer.
Puffer fish poison Banteay Meanchey family
A woman died and her four children fell ill after consuming poisonous puffer fish.
With ‘on-the-go’ loans and tech, social firm boosts Myanmar farmers
A social venture in Myanmar is boosting farm outputs with customised technologies.
Gap between rich and poor growing: Oxfam
A new billionaire was created every two days last year, Oxfam International says.
India:10% reservation for general category gets president’s nod
President of India signs a legislation guaranteeing 10% of gov’t jobs for the poor.
Poverty-stricken state in Brazil plans to map slavery hot spots
Plans are underway to get ahead of human traffickers in one of Brazil’s poorest states.
Education at the margins
Mean Chey District is home to 26 organised urban poor communities comprised mainly of migrants from the provinces. For many parents here, school seems to be an afterthought for their children.
Bikes donated to poor families
The Ministry of Social Affairs signs an agreement with a Japanese NGO to provide free bicycles to villagers in poor communities.
Abandoned by banks, Indonesia’s poor farmers turn to crowdfunding
Indonesian poultry farmer Yohanes Sugihtononugroho faced ruin four years ago when plummeting prices forced him to slaughter all 100,000 of his chickens and shutter his business.
More Cambodians to work in Japan
Labour Ministry signs a MoU with the Japan and Cambodia Interactive Association to train more Cambodians to work in Japan.
Women masons help build stronger homes in quake-hit Nepal
On a recent summer morning, Suntali Rai was busy counting and stacking zinc sheets as she prepared to lay them on the roof of the house she had started building a month earlier.
India launches health insurance for 100 million families
Indian PM Narendra Modi launches the world’s biggest healthcare program.
Phnom Penh’s urban poor
A World Bank report this year says economic growth in Cambodia remains strong. It is even projected to slightly accelerate to 6.9 percent, a notch higher compared to last year’s 6.8 percent.
Hun Sen asks bar association to dispatch lawyers to provinces and rural villages
Prime Minister Hun Sen asks the Bar Association of Cambodia to assign its lawyers to provinces and rural areas across the country in a move to provide free legal assistance to the poor.
Prevention is the best migration cure
By 2030, most of the world’s poor will live in regions suffering from some form of ‘fragility’ forcing millions to flee their homes.
Social Land Concession for poor families in Kampong Thom
Tge Kampong Thom authority will provide land to about 700 poor families.
PM delivers aid for pregnant women
Pregnant women from poor families are to get cash help under a scheme announced yesterday by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
America’s poor are poorer under Trump
Poverty in the United States is extensive and is deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor, while rewarding the rich, a UN. human rights investigator has found.
Giving poor kids a FAIR GO in soccer
Whether in a real football pitch or in mere empty streets, Cambodia has an abundance of talented young football players.
Ten die in stampede
A stampede by thousands of poor villagers outside the home of a businessman distributing alms killed at least 10 women.
Prime Minister urges Red Cross to aid poor villagers
PM urges the Cambodian Red Cross to help build houses for poor people.
Universal health coverage curse
Half of the planet cannot access essential health services. For many people, paying to see a doctor or even getting immunised against common illnesses is a choice between staying healthy and slipping into poverty.
National Bank spreads its wings
The governor of the National Bank urges its new Prey Veng branch to keep to the law and implement regulations.
In the tradition of Battambang
There is usually a hive of activity in villages on the outskirts of Battambang city where families make traditional products such as rice paper, dried banana, and rice noodles.
