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UN trains 3,000 in mental health
The UN in Cambodia has trained nearly 3,000 health workers nationwide to provide mental health and psychosocial support to Covid-19 vulnerable people. ...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-trains-3000-mental-health
Posts ministry offers rapid test kits at cost from S Korea, China
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has announced that it will distribute two types of Covid-19 antigen rapid tests from South Korea and China, which will be made widely available at cost price. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/posts-ministry-offers-rapid-test-kits-cost-s-korea-china
WHO donates three vaccine cooling vans for Covid campaign
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Cambodia has donated more than $320,000 in medical supplies to the Ministry of Health for pandemic prevention and response efforts. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/who-donates-three-vaccine-cooling-vans-covid-campaign
Local authorities urged to educate public on virus risk
A senior Ministry of Health official has urged local authorities to disseminate all information regarding preventive health measures to prevent large-scale community transmission of Covid-19 and other contagious diseases. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/local-authorities-urged-educate-public-virus-risk
Push to make more people aware about climate change
The Environment Ministry is pushing for more education to make Cambodians aware of climate change. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922372/push-to-make-more-people-aware-about-climate-change/
Cambodia to change to electronic system to manage National Budget
Cambodia’s commitment to reform public financial management through a financial management information system (FMIS) is on the right track. ...
Sar Socheath
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922444/cambodia-to-change-to-electronic-system-to-manage-national-budget/
Cambodian migrant children face added risk in Thailand
Of 97,060 migrant workers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar who were infected with Covid-19 between March last year and August this year, 4,202 of whom are under the age of 18 themselves. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922414/cambodian-migrant-children-face-added-risk-in-thailand/
Sustainable pathways needed for water-secure Asean region
The inaugural Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Mekong River Commission (MRC) Water Security Dialogue held last week has tabled three thematic solutions related to policy, technology, and partnership that can help countries in the Mekong and broader Asean address existential water security challenges ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922443/sustainable-pathways-needed-for-water-secure-asean-region/
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
Nat’l Road 48 project set to break ground
The National Road 48 reconstruction and improvement project, which connects the coastal provinces of Preah Sihanouk and Koh Kong, will break ground at the beginning of November with a budget of more than $78 million under concessional financing from South Korea. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/natl-road-48-project-set-break-ground
Cambodia promotes digitalisation of economy and society
Digital technology will play an increasingly important role in spurring economic recovery after the COVID-19 crisis as well as promoting a new, sustainable and more resilient economy, President of the Cambodian National Assembly Heng Samrin said at the first plenum of the 42nd General Assembly ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922385/cambodia-promotes-digitalisation-of-economy-and-society/
Driver’s licence service resumes
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has announced the resumption of service for driver’s licences in Phnom Penh after the pandemic forced its suspension for about three months. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drivers-licence-service-resumes
Ministry issues updated guide on Kingdom’s sub-divisions
The Ministry of Interior has published an updated directory listing the names of Cambodia’s cities, provinces, districts, communes and villages. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-issues-updated-guide-kingdoms-sub-divisions
ANA promotes planting of trees, donates 100K saplings
Every year, the Apsara National Authority (ANA), a state body tasked with managing the Angkor Archaeological Park, gives away more than 100,000 tree saplings to encourage the growth of forest cover in Cambodia, especially in the Angkor area, and has requested members of the public ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ana-promotes-planting-trees-donates-100k-saplings
Cambodia organises online child protection workshop
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in collaboration with the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, is organising a workshop on online child protection. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922324/cambodia-organises-online-child-protection-workshop/
Cambodian scholar sees brighter prospects in Sino-Cambodian ties
Cambodia-China ties would be deeper-rooted in the future thanks to their solidarity, frequent exchanges of high-level visits, frank dialogues, and mutual respect and support, said a prominent scholar in Cambodia. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922348/cambodian-scholar-sees-brighter-prospects-in-sino-cambodian-ties/
Water security in the Mekong and ASEAN key to a safe and sustainable future
The inaugural ASEAN-MRC Water Security Dialogue held last week has tabled three thematic solutions related to policy, technology, and partnership that can help countries in the Mekong and broader ASEAN address existential water security challenges that confront the region. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50922336/water-security-in-the-mekong-and-asean-key-to-a-safe-and-sustainable-future/
Mondulkiri population of Asian elephants now an estimated 300 strong
Wildlife researchers from the Mondulkiri provincial Department of Environment and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Cambodia) have recently completed collecting 85 Asian elephant dung samples for analysis to identify population size and migratory patterns. ...
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
Crayfish market boom, prospects boil down to wide adoption
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon is pushing for more investment in the domestic farming of Australian red-claw crayfish, to raise supply to the local market and potentially export down the line. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/crayfish-market-boom-prospects-boil-down-wide-adoption-sakhon
Added push to wrap up first, second Covid shots
Or Vandine, head of the national Covid-19 vaccination committee, has urged municipal and provincial governors to accelerate their campaign for both first and second doses after noticing slow progress in recent days. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/added-push-wrap-first-second-covid-shots
38 heading to Thailand busted hopping border
Kamrieng district police in Battambang province are searching for a suspected people broker who fled after 38 individuals were arrested while attempting to illegally cross the border into Thailand on the night of August 21 near the Ou Chamlang Bridge in Ou Chamlang village of ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/38-heading-thailand-busted-hopping-border
Samrin addresses ASEAN assembly
National Assembly (NA) president Heng Samrin on August 23 addressed the Annual Meeting of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA), urging the regional legislature to build digital capacity and raise awareness of cyber security to strengthen regional security management. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/samrin-addresses-asean-assembly
New digital push for MSMEs
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) on August 18 launched an open joint effort to build an inclusive digital ecosystem aimed at sparking the development of a robust post-Covid-19 economy. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-digital-push-msmes