Four provinces extend restriction against the Delta variant
Even as the government lifted Covid-19 restrictions in most parts of the country on August 19, at least four provinces have decided to extend the measures for another week in a bid to contain the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-provinces-extend-restriction-against-delta-variant
Phnom Penh to kick off Covid booster shot campaign Oct 11
The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration calls on residents in the capital’s 14 districts who have received their second dose of Covid-19 vaccine to get their booster shot after a four-month interval. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-kick-covid-booster-shot-campaign-oct-11
Wafers made from hill area rice set to expand overseas
Local rice miller and exporter Amru Rice (Cambodia) Co Ltd is looking for distributors and importers based in Australia, France, the US and UK for edible organic rice paper sheets made from ingredients sourced from small-scale farmers in the hilly regions of north and northeastern ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/wafers-made-hill-area-rice-set-expand-overseas
Police all set to beef up security during festival
With the 15-day Pchum Ben festival approaching, Phnom Penh municipal police have mobilised nearly 2,000 officers for duties like maintaining security and public order during the celebrations, while municipal governor Khuong Sreng urged police in the capital to also pay attention to enforcement of Covid-19 ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-all-set-beef-security-during-festival
Cambodia's infantry told to prepare for unforeseen disasters
Hun Manet, deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF), has instructed all units under the army to get ready to execute the tasks assigned to them and other orders from the government, especially rescue operations for any unforeseen disasters. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-infantry-told-prepare-unforeseen-disasters
Floating fish farms still adrift in limbo
Vietnamese settlers living on floating houses and working fish farming cages on the Mekong River in Phnom Penh have relocated to the lower area of the Mekong River near the border with Vietnam. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/floating-fish-farms-still-adrift-limbo
Korea trade surges 6.2% in Jan-May
Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea in the first five months of 2021 was worth $377.05 million, up by 6.17 per cent year-on-year from $355.11 million, according to data from the Korea International Trade Association (Kita). ...
Hin Pisei
https://phnompenhpost.com/business/korea-trade-surges-62-jan-may
Battambang to buy longan till Sept 13
The Battambang Provincial Administration has said it will continue to buy Ta Ngen and Kra’op (fragrant) longan directly from farmers till September 13, in an extension of a purchasing initiative meant to offset market stresses created by Covid-related export problems. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/battambang-buy-longan-till-sept-13
Veterans association members’ families get funds for Covid deaths
The Cambodian Veterans Association (CVA) last week delivered Prime Minister Hun Sen’s financial support of 80 million riel ($20,000) to assist 20 households in Phnom Penh who are CVA members and lost relatives to Covid-19. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/veterans-association-members-families-get-funds-covid-deaths
Koh Kong prepared to wrap up first-dose vaccination drive
The Koh Kong Provincial Administration has instructed local authorities to determine the number of people in territories under their jurisdiction who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 as the province’s first-dose vaccination campaign is approaching an end. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-kong-prepared-wrap-first-dose-vaccination-drive
Rules set for police, RCAF plates
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has announced that privately-owned vehicles bearing police and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) licence plates or other official insignia must pay registration fees as the exemption only applies to vehicles that are registered as state property. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rules-set-police-rcaf-plates
Kandal closes successful vaccinations drive effort
Kandal province closed the vaccination campaign for people aged 18 and over on September 8, making it the first province to end the programme, with nearly 100 per cent of the targeted population vaccinated and about 1.5 per cent remaining unvaccinated. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-closes-successful-vaccinations-drive-effort
GIZ launches climate action training course
GIZ fabric – a project of the German international development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to promote sustainability in the textile and garment industry in Asia – on October 18 launched the “Climate Action Training for the Fashion Industry” to support the industry’s ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/giz-launches-climate-action-training-course
Stung Treng Fisheries head calls for dolphin revival plan
Stung Treng provincial Fisheries Administration officials warn that the Irrawady dolphins in the Ochheuteal dolphin pleasance in Borei O’Svay Sen Chey district’s Preah Rumkel commune are now faced with extinction as there is only one dolphin left remaining of the pod that was living there ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-treng-fisheries-head-calls-dolphin-revival-plan
Hun Sen blasts analysts for UNTAC-era nostalgia
Prime Minister Hun Sen blasted unnamed analysts for statements indicating their desire to bring the Paris Peace Agreements back into force somehow. He said that calling for a reversion to that agreement was tantamount to calling for foreigners to take control of the country again. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/hun-sen-blasts-analysts-untac-era-nostalgia
No payment required for travellers taking rapid Covid tests on arrival
Ministry of Health officials said there would be no payment required for the rapid Covid-19 tests given to travellers who arrive in Cambodia from November 15 onwards after the quarantine requirement is lifted for fully vaccinated people. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-payment-required-travellers-taking-rapid-covid-tests-arrival
An industry first as Canadian mineral exploration firm helps indigenous communities
Angkor Resources Corp., a Canadian company engaged in mineral and oil/gas exploration in the Kingdom, has reported that implementation of its industry-first, precedent-setting agreement with the indigenous Jarai communities in northeastern Cambodia is off to a ‘good start’. ...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50977878/an-industry-first-as-canadian-mineral-exploration-firm-helps-indigenous-communities/
Wat Phnom monkey troop captured and conveyed to forests
Eighteen monkeys living in the neighbourhood of Srah Chak and Wat Phnom communes in the capital’s Daun Penh district were rounded up and taken to the Phnom Tamao Zoological Park and Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) to protect the animals and nearby residents. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wat-phnom-monkey-troop-captured-and-conveyed-forests
Bokor National Park squatters told to clear out by December 15
The Kampot provincial Department of Environment warned people who have encroached upon land in Preah Monivong Bokor National Park and claimed it as their own to voluntarily remove their boundary posts or huts by December 15 or face legal action. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bokor-national-park-squatters-told-clear-out-december-15