Second can factory will cater to locals’ thirst
Crown Holdings, a metal packaging company, said this week it would build a second factory in Cambodia to keep up with the Kingdom’s growing beer industry. The Sihanoukville factory, which is expected to produce 725 million aluminium cans a year, will be begin operating in the ...
Cambodia’s Deportation of Uighurs to China Remembered
Four years after the forcible deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers from Cambodia to China, an advocacy group has said it remains “deeply concerned” about their fate and has called on China to lift a veil of secrecy surrounding their treatment. In a statement, the World ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-deportation-of-uighurs-to-china-remembered-49549/
At UN, Hun Sen calls on rich nations to fulfill aid pledges
Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech to the U.n. General Assembly on Saturday to call on developed nations to fulfill their pledges to commit at least 0.7 percent of their annual income to foreign aid.Speaking at a summit on the U.n.’s development goals, Mr. ...
Alex Willemyns
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-un-hun-sen-calls-on-rich-nations-to-fulfill-aid-pledges-95604/
Exclusive: Cambodia fm softens tone after scathing attack on ‘hypocritical’ west
Cambodia’s foreign minister last week launched a scathing attack on Western democracies, labeling them hypocritical and only interested in promoting human rights and democracy when it was in their own self-interest. ...
Cambodia confirms no case of H1N1
Ministry of Health has confirmed that Cambodia has no case of swine flu or H1n1, yet encouraged the public to take appropriate precaution to protect themselves and their families from the disease. ...
Mom Chandara Soleil
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=106994
Pilot project to boost nutrition for Cambodian garment workers
A study by the International Labor Organization, the U.n.’s labor body, shows most Cambodian garment workers do not eat enough nutritious food and that, as a result, many are anemic and even underweight. now, a pilot project will feed workers at five factories a free ...
Robert Carmichael
http://www.voanews.com/content/pilot-project-to-boost-nutrition-for-cambodian-garment-workers/2483260.html
Chickens from Vietnam banned
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon to take action to prevent the spread of bird flu (H5n1) from Vietnam into the Kingdom as an outbreak of the disease plagues southern Vietnam. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chickens-vietnam-banned
Ministry of Health issued a press release on the death of a 2-year-old girl from bird flu
On 10 October 2023, the Ministry of Health issued a press release on the death of a 2-year-old girl from bird flu.Recently, there was another case of bird flu in a 2-year-old child who died in Chhma Lot village, Smaong Khang Tboung commune, Kamchay Mear ...
Ministry of Health
South Korean firm faces off with tycoon Kok An over land
A group of South Koreans and Cambodians employed by a Korean developer faced off with an excavator and a bulldozer clearing land for a wealthy local businessman in a dispute over 6 hectares of land in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on Wednesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/south-korean-firm-faces-off-with-tycoon-kok-an-over-land-94483/
US Packager to Open Plant in Sihanoukville
American packaging firm Crown Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday it would build a new can manufacturing plant in Sihanoukville that will become operational in the second half of 2013. Although it did not say how much the project was worth, the factory will produce 725 million 33 ...
Warning of swine flu
The Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control Department yesterday issued a statement urging citizens to be aware of the influenza strain H1n1 that has the potential to spread rapidly during the rainy season. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5076381/warning-swine-flu/
Cambodia Signs Landmark Arms Trade Treaty
Cambodia has signed an international treaty designed to regulate the trade in conventional weapons, becoming the 114th country to formally pledge its support for the agreement, which was adopted by the U.n.’s General Assembly in April. Sea Kosal, Cambodia’s ambassador to the U.n. in new York, ...
Ben Woods
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-signs-landmark-arms-trade-treaty-45904/
PM urges precaution amid virus outbreak
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Sunday called on all Cambodians to bump up precautions to avoid contracting the 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that has already killed more than 50 people in China. The prime minister told the public to remain calm but alert about the ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-urges-precaution-amid-virus-outbreak
Announcement on a positive case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Preah Sihanouk province and measures to prevent from the Novel Coronavirus
The Ministry of Health issued an announcement to the public that the ministry found a positive case of the 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) at 3pm on 27 January 2020. The infection was detected by the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia on 60-year-old Chinese national Jia Jianhua, ...
Ministry of Health
Aid to shore up IDPoor programme
The UN DevelopmeNt Programme (UNDP), with the support of the AustraliaN goverNmeNt, doNated 1,700 computer tablets aNd software packages to the MiNistry of PlaNNiNg oN WedNesday. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/aid-shore-idpoor-programme
Democracy About More Than Polling Day
The U.N.’s eNvoy for freedom of assembly oN Tuesday preseNted a report to the U.N. GeNeral Assembly that calls for aN approach to electioN moNitoriNg that looks beyoNd polliNg day to assess whether electioNs iN couNtries such as Cambodia are “free aNd fair.” The report, compiled ...
Alex Willemyns and Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/democracy-about-more-than-polling-day-46461/
UN envoy makes first address to rights council in Geneva
Rhona Smith, the U.n.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, on Tuesday addressed the U.n. Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva for the first time, telling the body that she planned to focus on marginalized people in the country. ...
Anthony Jensen
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-makes-first-address-to-rights-council-in-geneva-95957/
Vietnamese, Cambodian officials meet over bird flu concerns
Health officials from Cambodia and Vietnam met on Monday in an effort to cooperate on avian influenza. ...
Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/vietnamese-cambodian-officials-meet-over-bird-flu-concerns/1877914.html
Cambodia reduces hunger, meeting UN goal
The portion of the Cambodian population that is undernourished has been reduced by half since 1990, meeting a U.n. Millennium Development Goal ahead of the deadline at the end of the year, according to a report released Thursday. ...
Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-reduces-hunger-meeting-un-goal-84583/
Cambodia detects first Wuhan virus case on Chinese national
Health Minister Mam Bun Heng yesterday announced the Kingdom has detected its first novel Coronavirus infection in Preah Sihanouk province. He said in a press conference yesterday evening the infection was detected by the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia yesterday on 60-year-old Chinese national Jia Jianhua, ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50684361/kingdom-detects-first-wuhan-virus-case-on-chinese-national