Khmer translated by ODC

The Ministry of Environment has called on residents of Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province to not disturb the wild elephants there as well as participate in their protection. ...

In the latest round of financial assistance, the Labour Ministry will distribute $26 million to 9,972 employees at 40 companies who have lost their jobs in the garment and tourism sectors. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has expressed his high appreciation to the government and people of Vietnam which has donated $200,000 to support Cambodia’s fight against COVID-19. ...

The Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday ordered an 8pm to 5am curfew across the capital for two weeks with immediate effect. ...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith and the Ministry of Health launched a large scale vaccination campaign for journalists and information officials, which started yesterday and will run until April 9. ...

A total of 102 live pigs imported from neigbouring countries were culled yesterday, after they were found infected with African Swine Flu (ASF). ...

The Japanese government has donated nearly $1 million to Cambodia through UNICEF to support the Cambodian government in its COVID-19 vaccination efforts. ...

The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), will provide $875,000 in additional humanitarian assistance to strengthen preparedness and response capacities for natural hazards and shocks in Cambodia. ...

The Ministry of Environment rejected a report from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime which claimed that Cambodia had lost more than 50,000ha of forest cover in Prey Lang Wildlife and Preah Rokar-Chheb Wildlife Sanctuaries over an 18-year period.   ...

The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia (UJFC) has called on journalists and social media users to put greater focus on moral and ethical considerations when disseminating information in order to avoid spreading fake news. ...

Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district administration is investigating a land dispute in Phnom Tbeng II commune’s Kdak village after a provincial court deputy prosecutor, Vuth Savy, was beaten while leading a force to stop forest encroachment in the area on March 24. ...

The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that it will start vaccinating people in Cambodia with the Sinovac vaccine from today after 1.5 million doses  purchased by the government arrived in Cambodia from China on Friday. ...

All 10 ASEAN member states have faced a sudden increase in unemployment in 2020 compared to the year previously as a consequence of the global pandemic, but Cambodia has the lowest unemployment rate in the bloc. ,,, ...

National Assembly president Heng Samrin has encouraged the newly appointed ambassadors of two Asean nations, Singapore and the Philippines, to promote more cooperation, according to a statement released on his official Facebook page yesterday. ...

Kampong Cham provincial governor Un Chanda has ordered a lockdown of a village in the province after several people tested positive for COVID-19 linked to the February 20 community event. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on March 31 issued a sub-decree detailing administrative measures to contain the spread of Covid-19, including potential travel restrictions, public gathering, curfew, and lockdown to certain areas, among others.   ...

Stung Hav district authorities in Preah Sihanouk province have removed soil that was dumped into the sea along the coast to create new land in an area without authorisation and are working to determine the identity of the responsible parties.   ...

OXFAM Cambodia and the NGO Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (ANSA) will jointly implement a project aimed at providing input to the government’s mineral resource development fund.   ...

A senior Ministry of Environment official has rejected the Cambodian Youth Network (CYN) report detailing 100 illegal logging incidents they claim took place in early 2021 in Prey Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province. ...

A total of 700,000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine donated by China are expected to arrive in Cambodia on March 31 with 400,000 to be administered by the Ministry of Health and 300,000 by the Ministry of National Defence.   ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) plans to hold a pilot election on May 23 to test the accuracy of registered political parties, candidate and voter lists, and vote counting using information technology. The election is in preparation for the upcoming commune and national elections set ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided to create Bokor town in Kampot province’s Bokor area by combining three communes from the province’s Teuk Chhou district to ease administration and aid development. ...

The government has bought a private hospital in Phnom Penh to specifically treat Covid-19 patients as public hospitals are running out of bed space to accommodate the daily influx of increasing numbers of new patients. ...

Another Covid-19 patient has died while undergoing treatment at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh, the Ministry of Health announced in the early hours of March 28 after confirming the country’s ninth fatality from the disease. ...