Goats turn hunters to herders
The Kampong Thom provincial Department of Environment has donated 10 goats to the Kang Meas Community Protected Area (CPA) in Sandan district’s Sochetr commune to assist in improving local communities’ livelihoods and providing an alternative way to make a living instead of by logging and ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/goats-turn-hunters-herders
MRC seeks joint efforts to tackle floods, drought
The Mekong River Commission (MRC) announced yesterday that flood and drought problems remain one of the key challenges for the Lower Mekong region, causing more damage and fatalities than any other natural disaster. The repercussions of floods alone account for $70 million annually. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50931880/mrc-seeks-joint-efforts-to-tackle-floods-drought/
World Vision Cambodia's WASH project reaches out to nine provinces
A report from World Vision International Cambodia said 80 per cent of people living in 24 districts in nine provinces, which are the target areas for its clean water project, have built places to wash their hands, an increase of 26 per cent compared to ...
Activists say mangroves under threat
Some of Cambodia’s fishing communities and civil society organisations are expressing great concern over the ongoing loss of mangrove forests in coastal areas due to illegal encroachment as well as legal coastal development projects. They called on relevant authorities to intervene on the matter. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-say-mangroves-under-threat
SSEZ imports, exports hit $1.77B in Jan-Oct
The value of imports and exports passing through the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) reached $1.767 billion in the first 10 months of 2021, marking a 38.81 per cent year-on-year uptick from $1.273 billion, the operator reported on November 17. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ssez-imports-exports-hit-177b-jan-oct
Prey Veng-Tbong Khmum road set to boost economy
Prime Minister Hun Sen thanked China for its help with the construction of National Road 11 connecting Prey Veng to Tbong Khmum provinces, saying it will facilitate trade and ease the flow of traffic on the route. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-veng-tbong-khmum-road-set-boost-economy
Nat’l Heart Party ready for hearing over registration
The Supreme Court has issued a summons for the founder of the National Heart Party (NHP), Siem Phluk, ordering that he appear with legal counsel at a hearing on December 24 to resolve a complaint he filed against the Ministry of Interior for refusing to ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/natl-heart-party-ready-hearing-over-registration
Ministry, WHO: Be prepared for Omicron variant
The Ministry of Health called on the public to be vigilant and prepared for the arrival of the Omicron variant in Cambodia so that they will not have any regrets when it gets here. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-who-be-prepared-omicron-variant
Kingdom, VN to step up defence, security co-op
Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed to strengthen cooperation in defence and security and to respect each other’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity by accelerating the demarcation of the remaining 16 per cent of the border. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/kingdom-vn-step-defence-security-co-op
KOICA holds policy dialogue forum on development plans
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Cambodian Rehabilitation and Development Board of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CRDB/CDC) had a policy dialogue forum to discuss development cooperation for 2022 and 2023, while KOICA’s estimated grant aid to Cambodia for 2022 totals ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koica-holds-policy-dialogue-forum-development-plans
Target groups get fourth dose
The Ministry of Health has authorised a fourth dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines for certain target groups in Phnom Penh beginning on January 14 at certain national hospitals and extending to other institutions at later dates. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/target-groups-get-fourth-dose
Ford plant may go online ‘early April’
Construction of RMA (Cambodia) Plc’s vehicle assembly plant is 100 per cent complete and installation of the facilities and equipment is nearing the 70 per cent mark, with all signs indicating that production could begin in early April, according to the locally-listed firm’s CEO Ngorn ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ford-plant-may-go-online-early-april
Mekong UXO search off until waters recede
Officials have requested modern technological equipment to enable them to continue their work Of collecting unexploded ordnance (UXO) in sunken warships in the Mekong River in four areas Of Kandal and Preveng provinces. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mekong-uxo-search-until-waters-recede
Japan to assist Cambodia to become a landmine-free nation
Japan’s assistance to Cambodia in the decade’s long battle to clear vast areas of landmines in the country would perhaps be close to taking yet another step forward, going by the words of Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hayashi Yoshimasa. ...
Anthony McGonigle
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501008717/japan-to-assist-cambodia-to-become-a-landmine-free-nation/
New Year held in 2022: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that the Khmer New Year celebration and holidays – which falls in mid-April – will be celebrated this year, following two years of cancellations of public celebrations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-year-held-2022-pm
Firms enlisted in online VAT drive
The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has said it will work with 49 businesses that provide online services in Cambodia to promote the implementation of value-added tax (VAT) on e-commerce transactions, in a move that responds to the recent boom in the online market. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/firms-enlisted-online-vat-drive
Commerce chief asks Canada to mull Cambodia trade deal
Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak has asked Canada to explore the possibility of establishing a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with the Kingdom as soon as practicable to improve trade flows between the two countries. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/commerce-chief-asks-canada-mull-cambodia-trade-deal
Ecotourism taking off in the Cardamom
Under the “Cambodia Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism Project”, the Ministry of Environment is developing its vision and investment plans for tourist destinations in the Cardamom Mountains, with a focus on establishing ecotourism in protected areas of Siem Reap, Kampong Speu and Koh Kong provinces. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ecotourism-taking-cardamom
Medical myths put pressure on pangolins
A senior Ministry of Environment official said pangolins were the most traded species of mammal in the world due to their use in traditional Chinese medicine while in Cambodia the species is widely threatened by illegal hunting and trapping carried out to supply that industry. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/medical-myths-put-pressure-pangolins
Over 300 birds dead in early March heatwave
More than 300 birds have died at the Tuol Porn Taley Boeung Sne conservation area in Prey Veng province since early March as a result of the hot weather, an area official has said, noting that conservation community members have been burying them to prevent ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-300-birds-dead-early-march-heatwave