Three men who were separately setting up home clinics in Kampong Speu province have apparently fled after they applied for medical licenses using fake diplomas in response to an inspection by provincial authorities.
The Mines and Energy Ministry is seeking bids to dredge sand from more than 2,000 hectares along the coasts of Koh Kong and Preah Sihanouk provinces, saying the work is needed to “restore waterways.”
More than 1,000 African Swine Fever outbreaks across the border in Vietnam last year have kept up the pressure on pork prices here, as over 5,000 pigs died or were also culled in Cambodia in 2020 due to the disease.
Dozens of supporters gathered at former opposition leader Kem Sokha’s Phnom Penh house over the weekend as he continues to toe the line around his ban on political activities.
Amid a cluster of Covid-19 cases originating at a seafood market, Cambodian workers in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province say they are getting tested or being asked to not leave from their workplaces and dormitories to avoid the spread of the disease.
A new sand dredging operation has commenced on the Tonle Bassac river in Phnom Penh within the past month, a local official said, with more than 90 companies now dredging rivers and streams in the country, according to the Mines and Energy Ministry.
A pipe installed under a Phnom Penh pagoda burst on Tuesday while moving dredged sand from barges on the Tonle Bassac river to landfill on Choeng Ek lake, with a pagoda representative saying City Hall had pushed for the pipe to pass through their grounds despite their reluctance.
A Covid-19 patient says she could never have imagined that a visit to a Phnom Penh clothing store would result in dozens of people being driven by authorities for testing and quarantine, and her face being plastered over national news.
VOD speaks to four Covid-19 patients in the “November 28” cluster about their conditions, treatment and hygiene at their hospitals, and fears of discrimination from a wary public.
The prisons department says it still has not conducted any Covid-19 testing for prisoners, who are showing some symptoms of coughing, fevers and runny noses due to changing weather, even though the latest local cluster originated from the prisons director’s family.
Hundreds of people have been caught violating the countrywide inter-provincial travel ban, landing them in quarantine, including one man fined $250 after fleeing quarantine in Kandal and traveling to Pursat.
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