People and government
Tender to be called for highway upgrading
The Ministry of Construction will call for international firms to tender for upgrading works on a 40-mile section of the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay Highway starting at Yangon, the ministry’s Permanent Secretary U Kyaw Lin said on April 10. The upgrading works, which will use an ...
World Bank to loan $100 million to Myanmar financial development project
World Bank and government representatives recently signed an agreement for a US$100 million (K134.9 billion) World Bank loan to the Myanmar Financial Development Project in mid-April. The representatives signed the loan for SDR71.700 million, which equals US$100 million, from the World Bank with low interest. Ulrich ...
Children to receive free healthcare in 2017
Children will receive free healthcare treatment at government hospitals this year according to a new government policy aiming to reduce the rate of mortality of children under five. The policy known as the Strategy and Action Plan for Integrated Service on Reproductive Maternal, Newborn and ...
Shamed and exploited
Kneeling on the wooden floorboards of the Cambodian Prostitute Union’s “drop-in” centre, Bopha’s voice began to tremble as she spoke of the obstacles her daughter faced at school. Bopha, whose name has been changed to protect her identity as a sex worker, said her daughter’s ...
Tax collection soars
Tax collections rose to $768 million in the first quarter of this year, a 92 percent rise on the same period last year. General department of taxation director-general Kong Vibol told a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth on April 23 that the collection figure ...
Health Ministry issues hot weather warning
The Health Ministry has warned all Cambodians to drink lots of water and keep cool, as hot season temperatures near 40C. The ministry’s Communicable Disease Control department also advised the public to avoid alcohol and drink only boiled or filtered water to prevent food poisoning ...
Hundreds caught at illegal border crossings
Banteay Meanchey provincial police intercepted hundreds of Cambodian laborers as they tried to cross illegally to Thailand over the weekend. Provincial deputy police chief Ork Samnok said there had been a surge in workers trying to cross after Khmer New Year. “Our provincial officers cooperated with ...
Vietnamese workers face deportation
The Immigration Department has detained 27 Vietnamese migrants suspected of being in Cambodia illegally. The undocumented workers, 20 men and seven women, were arrested on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district. Chief investigator at the Immigration Department, Major General Uk Hiesela, said they were arrested ...
Health authority warns public of possible dengue fever outbreaks
The Health Authority has warned the public of possible outbreaks of dengue fever this year with the aim to prevent and control the disease. The total numbers of dengue fever cases were over double the number of cases during the same period in 2016. From ...
Foreign ministers of US, ASEAN to meet in May
The U.S. Department of State on April 20 said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will chair a meeting with his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, to be held on May 4 in the U.S. capital. The foreign ministers will discuss China’s maritime aggression ...
