Myanmar punishes army officers for recruiting minors

Myanmar military authorities have recently punished 382 military personnel including 73 officers for recruiting child soldiers, the Committee for Prevention of Minors from Military Service announced yesterday. In March, Myanmar military released 46 such wrongly recruited child soldiers, earlier report said. The committee disclosed that it has been cooperating with the United Nations Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) since 2012 and until now the committee had brought 744 minors back to their families.

Cambodia receives 275,000 Chinese tourists in 4 months

Cambodia received some 275,000 Chinese tourists in the first four months of 2016, up 13 percent if compared to the same period last year, according to a Tourism Ministry report launched yesterday. The number of Chinese visitors to the Southeast Asian country accounted for 16 percent of total foreigners to the kingdom during the January-April period this year, the report said.  It added that China ranked the second largest source of tourists to Cambodia after Vietnam. 306,000 Vietnamese traveled to Cambodia during the period, down 3 percent year-on-year.