Priority groups on Thai border get third Covid booster doses
The seven Cambodian provinces bordering Thailand have begun vaccinating frontline workers including medical staff and military personnel with third booster doses, as the Kingdom’s vaccination drive reaches over 50 per cent of its total population of 16 million. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/priority-groups-thai-border-get-third-covid-booster-doses
Train track squatters told to clear out
More than 60 families living in Boeung Kak I commune of Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district were ordered by local authorities to remove fences and crops lining railway tracks by August 19. However, the people have protested and refused to follow the order. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/train-track-squatters-told-clear-out
Dangkor district getting tough on waste littering
Heang Nhor, deputy head of Dangkor district’s Office of Public Works, Transport, sanitation, Environment and Public Order, said the district hall had stopped 12 trailers in the first six months of the year and another four in July. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dangkor-district-getting-tough-waste-littering
COVID-19 leads to $3.6 billion financing flow losses for Cambodia last year
COVID-19 has led to financing flow losses of $3.6 billion for Cambodia, accounting for 19.8 percent of the country’s total financing flows in 2020, said a new report by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50895602/covid-19-leads-to-3-6-billion-financing-flow-losses-for-cambodia-last-year/
Ministries, 2 provinces talk waste management
The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Administration co-chaired a two-day online meeting from August 16-17 with two provincial administrations on identifying locations for landfills, while the Ministry of Environment continues to assist sub-national administrations in procedures to manage urban solid waste. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministries-2-provinces-talk-waste-management
Kep plans prison intended to be a ‘place of education’
The Kep Provincial Administration, through the General Department of Prisons (GDP), has requested that 5ha of land be designated as state private property to be used for the construction of a new provincial prison in Andong sar village of Damnak Changaur district’s Poang Teuk commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kep-plans-prison-intended-be-place-education
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-kick-covid-booster-shot-campaign-oct-11
Students fed despite school closure
The Ministry of Education, Youth and sport has pitched in to help with Covid-19 relief efforts by distributing rice to over 13,000 students in six provinces as part of the government’s efforts to implement social protection policies. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/students-fed-despite-school-closure
World Bank to address concern about proposed Kandal landfill
The World Bank said they will address concerns raised by 292 families regarding a landfill project in Kandal province’s sa’ang district through meetings with all stakeholders. The families have requested that the landfill project in the Prek Raing reservoir area be relocated. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-bank-address-concern-about-proposed-kandal-landfill
Over 80% of Cambodia's population get Covid jabs
More than 80 per cent of the Kingdom’s total population of 16 million have been vaccinated against Covid-19, at least with their first doses, according to the Ministry of Health. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-80-cambodias-population-get-covid-jabs
Mystery over Stung Treng cleared forest land to be solved
SeSan diStrict governor Said he will Solve the myStery Surrounding illegally cleared foreSt land after more than 50 familieS appealed to the Stung Treng provincial authoritieS for an inveStigation into the clearing of hundredS of hectareS in Kbal RomeaS commune&rSquo;S Krabei Chrom village. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...
Yin Soeum
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50949090/mystery-over-stung-treng-cleared-forest-land-to-be-solved/
Study set to pinpoint trade flow bottlenecks at ports
The results of a crucial ongoing study will enable Cambodia to set out a framework of strategies to enhance the efficiency of the trade facilitation environment and the Kingdom’s competitiveness on the international stage, according to General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) director-general Kun ss='cambodia-color'>...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/study-set-pinpoint-trade-flow-bottlenecks-ports
Bat-proof netting at Angkor Wat installed to stop stone erosion
The Apsara National Authority (ANA), a body tasked with managing the Angkor Archaelogical Park, is installing a net in the roof of the Angkor Wat gallery to prevent bats from entering the structure as Bat urine is a source of moisture and salinity which combined ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bat-proof-netting-angkor-wat-installed-stop-stone-erosion
Ministry rehabilitates parts of Preah Vihear with rosewood
Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have distributed and planted nearly 50,000 rosewood saplings across seven communes in Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district to restore and protect two of the endangered species – Dalbergia cochinchinensis and Dalbergia oliveri. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-rehabilitates-parts-preah-vihear-rosewood
Kampot proposes live fire grounds
The Kampot Provincial Administration is preparing a proposal to the Ministry of National Defence through the Army Command to register nearly 30ha of land in Koh Touch commune’s Prek Ampil Village of Bokor town as a live fire training ground for the Kampot military operational ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-proposes-live-fire-grounds
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. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/veterans-association-members-families-get-funds-covid-deaths
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/goats-turn-hunters-herders
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 ss='cambodia-color'>...
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&rSquo;Svay Sen Chey diStrict&rSquo;S Preah Rumkel commune are now faced with extinction aS there iS only one dolphin left remaining of the pod that waS living there SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/stung-treng-fisheries-head-calls-dolphin-revival-plan
Activists say mangroves under threat
Some of Cambodia&rSquo;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. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-say-mangroves-under-threat