Phnom Penh Post - Japan funds maternal health care project
The government of Japan is providing over $172,000 for maternal and child health care in Prey Veng. The grant was announced February 28. SHARE, a Japanese NGO, aims to improve health services in the region by providing training for staff of six health centers as well as health volunteers and traditional birth attendants in areas where there is a shortage of health facilities.
Hungarian exposes 90 to Covid in Siem ReapThe Ministry of Health has discovered 90 people who have been exposed directly or indirectly to a Hungarian man infected with Covid-19. They all are required to quarantine at home and the hospital. The ministry is searching for other affected people. Among the 90, one is the
PM warns of ‘new Cold War’Prime Minister Hun Sen said the possibility of a so-called new Cold War has become a significant concern and that all countries have to reject outright, any attempt to allow history to tragically repeat itself. He made the remarks in a speech during 75th Session
PM: West unfair to Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen released a message celebrating the International Day of Peace on Monday, saying that some major powers and western countries had been systemically cooperating to put political pressure on Cambodia as they did in the 1970s and 1980s. Hun Sen said pressuring
‘Bad news is an investor’s best friend’ – unlocking investment potential in CambodiaIt is time to shop. Economic woes provide good pickings for investors if they know where to look The poem If, written by English Nobel laureate poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling for his son circa 1895, is widely perceived as fatherly advice for John who would
PM requests Russia’s Covid vaccinePrime Minister Hun Sen has requested that Russia provide Cambodia with its Covid-19 vaccine after the former announced it planned on mass vaccinating its population next month. The request came on Thursday through the prime minister’s Facebook page as he met with Anatoly Borovik,
First ‘mobile kitchen’ in Cambodia enters serviceA catering company recently rolled out Cambodia’s first “mobile kitchen” – a $50,000 container capable of serving up to 200 people at a time. The kitchen is the brainchild of Seng Hok Heng Catering Services. At 4.4m-high, 6.8m-long and 2.4m-wide (expandable to 6.8m), the kitchen is equipped
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Sokhonn to talk Covid with UK Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister Prak Sokhonn will meet with ASEAN leaders and a UK delegation on Wednesday to discuss dealing with Covid-19. ASEAN
Gov’t commits to HIV goals
Highway robbery: Police arrest 12 for brazen motorbike attacks
Court of Appeal takes a second look at drug case 
Municipal officials unable to intervene in private lake dispute