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Bilawal discusses bilateral relations with Cambodian PM

August 6, 2022 by Kumail Soomro

Bilawal called on Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh The foreign minister is on an official visit to attend the 29th ARF Ministerial Meeting Both agreed to intensify bilateral engagement and dialogue at all levels ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, who is currently on a visit to Cambodia to attend the 29th … Read more

Nancy Pelosi may visit Taiwan in July, China Minister told: US

August 3, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

The US House Speaker’s trip to Taiwan was discussed with China’s foreign minister last month. But there were no preparations for the two nations’ top diplomats to meet this week in Cambodia. Beijing reacted angrily to the highest-level US visit to Taiwan in a quarter-century by increasing military activities. A senior US source said Wednesday … Read more

Bilawal departs for Cambodia to attend ASEAN ministerial meeting

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 by Kumail Soomro

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday left for Cambodia to attend the ASEAN ministerial meeting. The foreign minister will lead the country’s delegation at the 29th ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) being held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from August 4-6. In his pre-departure statement, Bilawal … Read more

ICC grants membership status to three new countries

July 27, 2022 by Muzzammil Mehboob

The council added 3 more countries. Now a total of 25 teams are registered with the ICC from Asia. Russia has been terminated. The ICC granted membership to three new nations on Tuesday, July 26 during the ongoing ICC Annual Conference in Birmingham. Cambodia, Uzbekistan, and Côte d’Ivoire were all granted Associate membership status, bringing … Read more

Cambodian ruling party celebrates 71st birthday

June 28, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) celebrated its 71st birthday on Tuesday. The party pledged to safeguard peace and political stability for Cambodia’s sustainable socio-economic development. Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said that Cambodia has gone through many times of pride, struggle, and danger. PHNOM PENH: The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) celebrated its … Read more

‘World’s biggest’ freshwater fish netted in Cambodia

June 21, 2022 by Abdul Hadi

A fisherman on the Mekong River in Cambodia caught the largest freshwater fish ever recorded – a 300-kilogram stingray. The four-metre-long freshwater stingray measured 13 feet from snout to tail. It weighed more than twice as much as a typical lowland gorilla. According to scientists, a fisherman on the Mekong River in Cambodia caught the … Read more

Scientists the world’s biggest freshwater fish in the Mekong

June 21, 2022 by Sarfaraz Rizvi

The 300-kilogram (661-pound) Cambodian beam caught in the Mekong is the largest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists say. In 2005, it broke the previous record of 293 kg of Mekong fish caught in Thailand. There are no official records or databases of the largest freshwater fish in the world. The 300-kilogram (661-pound) Cambodian beam caught in the Mekong is the largest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists say. In 2005, it broke the previous record of 293 kg of Mekong fish caught in Thailand. There are no official records or databases of the largest freshwater fish … Read more

Cambodia arrests 2 for trafficking drugs

June 14, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

Cambodian police seize 54.4 kg of illicit drugs, including heroin, crystal meth and ketamine. Drug dealers in the Southeast Asian country do not face the death penalty. In the first five months of this year, police detained 6,168 drug suspects, including 80 foreigners. PHNOM PENH: The National Officers stated on Tuesday that Cambodia anti-drug police … Read more

Cambodians vote in local polls as revived opposition vies for seats

June 5, 2022 by Laiba Khan

Cambodians vote in local elections aimed at weakening Prime Minister Hun Sen’s hold. Voters hope to take the country’s political pulse ahead of national elections in 2023. Rights groups accuse Hun Sen of creating a climate of fear. Cambodians cast votes in local elections on Sunday, hoping to weaken Prime Minister Hun Sen’s decades-long hold … Read more

Cambodia arrests four foreigners over drugs

May 26, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

Cambodia’s anti-drug police arrested four foreigners on Thursday for making, possessing, and trafficking more than 40 kg of illicit drugs, according to the country’s Anti-Drug Police Department (ADP). After a two-month investigation, the four men were apprehended on May 19 at two hidden drug labs, one on mango orchards in western Kampong Speu province and … Read more

Cambodia arrests three foreigners ,seizes drugs

May 25, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

Three foreigners were detained by Cambodian anti-drug police on Wednesday for allegedly making, possessing, and trafficking more than 30 kg of illicit substances, according to the National Police. One suspect was detained at a condo in Phnom Penh’s capital, while two others were apprehended in Preah Sihanouk’s coastline region, police said, adding that they were … Read more

Cambodia prohibits selling and drinking alcoholic

May 24, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

The Cambodia Ministry of Tourism issued a regulation on Tuesday prohibiting the sale and consumption of all sorts of alcohol for two days, the day before and the day of the commune election. The measure is intended to assist in guaranteeing that the commune election on June 5 is free and fair, free of violence, … Read more

Cambodia launches “zero-snaring” campaign to protect animals

March 3, 2022 by Sarfaraz Rizvi

PHNOM PENH – Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment and partner groups on Thursday launched a “zero-snaring” campaign in protected areas to protect animals from being trapped and killed, officials said. The ministry’s secretary of state and spokesman Neth Pheaktra said the six-month campaign will be conducted in protected areas in provinces situated in the eastern side … Read more

Cambodia sends 8th batch of peacekeepers to the Central African Republic

February 20, 2022 by Sana Fatima

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) — Cambodia on Sunday dispatched the eighth batch of 219 peacekeepers, including 28 women, to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR). Speaking at the departure ceremony held at the Phnom Penh International Airport, Gen. Sem Sovanny, director-general of the National Center for Peacekeeping Forces, … Read more

Cambodia steps up surveillance on dissent

February 20, 2022 by Sarfaraz Rizvi

PHNOM PENH – Cambodia is powering up its new National Internet Gateway, a move activists say will allow the government to further silence the country’s embattled opposition voices. UN rights experts warn the gateway, which will funnel all web traffic through a state-controlled entry point from February 16, will have a “devastating” effect on privacy … Read more

Stress-free travelling for Cambodia

February 13, 2022 by Sarfaraz Rizvi

Linking Kratie provincial town and Sambour district in northeast Cambodia, the China-funded 93.5-km-long stretch of National Road No. 7 has brought closer contact between rural and urban dwellers and facilitated goods transport in the province. “This road was previously devastated by floods and travel was very difficult,” Phong Lida, a 27-year-old resident in Kratie provincial … Read more

China-Laos Railway carries over one million travellers

February 6, 2022 by Sarfaraz Rizvi

KUNMING/VIENTIANE – The China-Laos Railway has transported over one million passengers and 500,000 tonnes of cargo since it was launched in December 2021, while business operators from Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar are now using the same facility to import and export goods to and from China and beyond, according to a Lao official. The … Read more

Cambodia reports zero deaths from COVID-19 for 20 days

January 24, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

PHNOM PENH – Cambodia had seen zero deaths from the COVID-19 for 20 days straight, the country’s health ministry said in a statement on Monday. According to the health ministry, the number of confirmed Omicron COVID-19 variant cases in Cambodia has risen to 625 after 40 new infections were detected. “Among the new cases, 15 … Read more

Cambodia’s Omicron cases rise to 332 with 45 new infections

January 15, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — The number of confirmed Omicron cases of the COVID-19 variant in Cambodia has increased to 332 after 45 new cases were reported, the health ministry said on Saturday. It said 29 of the new infections were imported and 16 were locally transmitted. The southeast Asian country recorded the first … Read more

Cambodia urges high-risk groups to receive 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine

January 10, 2022 by Sarfaraz Rizvi

PHNOM PENH – Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Monday urged high-risk groups in capital Phnom Penh to receive the fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine starting from Jan. 14. The fourth-dose campaign will begin with frontliners including leaders of the government, the senate, the National Assembly, frontline doctors, government officials, the army … Read more

Cambodia to donate 3 mln face masks, medical supplies to Myanmar for COVID-19 fight

January 6, 2022 by Shaista Zafar

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) — Cambodia will provide millions of face masks and a number of medical supplies and equipment to Myanmar to help it fight the COVID-19 pandemic, a health official said on Thursday. The assistance includes 3 million face masks, 200,000 N95 masks, 100,000 goggles, 30,000 sets of personal protective equipment, 30,000 … Read more

Cambodia’s Omicron cases rise to 94 after 9 new infections detected: PM

January 5, 2022 by Muhammad Zubair

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) — The confirmed cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Cambodia have risen to 94 after nine new infections were detected, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said here on Wednesday. “Nine new Omicron cases were confirmed by the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia (on Tuesday evening), and all of them … Read more

Over 2/3 of Chinese-invested expressway in Cambodia completed

December 12, 2021 by Sarfaraz Rizvi

PHNOM PENH: Nearly 71 percent of the construction work on the Chinese-invested Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway has been completed despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) said in a news release on Sunday. MPWT’s secretary of state Yit Bunna visited the construction site in southwestern Kampong Speu province on Friday, … Read more

Cambodia arrests 12,193 drug suspects, seizes over 1.7 tons of illicit drugs in 11 months

December 1, 2021 by Sarfaraz Rizvi

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) — Cambodia have arrested 12,193 drug-related suspects during the first 11 months of 2021 and confiscated more than 1.7 tons of illicit drugs, an anti-drug department’s report said Wednesday. Some 7,686 suspects were involved in drug trafficking, storing or manufacturing, and 4,507 were related to drug use, the report said, … Read more

Sino-Pakistan Institute of Electric Power unveiled

November 29, 2021 by Muhammad Zubair

BEIJING: The online opening ceremony of Sino-Pakistan Silk Road Institute of Electric Power was held simultaneously at Zhengzhou Electric Power College (ZEPC), China and the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan. This Institute of Electric Power aims at strengthening the communications and research in the electric power technology between ZEPC and UET, Lahore, … Read more

Cambodia: Lets meet landmine-detecting rat ‘Magawa’ who has saved countless lives

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 by Shariq Tahir

Meet Magawa, an African pouched rat who has long been a landmine detector rat. To date, the huge rat has unearthed 39 landmines and 28 unexploded munitions in Cambodia. He learned his trade after a year of training with the organization APOPO. Magawa is the charity’s most successful rat, having cleared more than 141,000 square … Read more

Cambodia’s Delta variant cases climb to 3,323 with 669 new infections

September 9, 2021 by Web Desk

PHNOM PENH: The total number of Delta variant cases in Cambodia has jumped to 3,323 after 669 new ones were reported, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement on Thursday. A total of 1,113 cases have been detected in the capital Phnom Penh, while the rest were found in 23 provinces, the statement … Read more

The life-saving rat known as Magawa has saved many lives in Cambodia

June 10, 2021 by Web Desk

Awarded a medal for his bravery, the life-saving rat has been detecting landmines for a long time now, which has saved many lives.

People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PSDA), awarded a gold medal to the African poached rat who has been detecting landmines for a long time now.

A total of 39 landmines and 28 unexploded ordnance has been discovered by the life-saving rat in Cambodia, saving many lives.

APOPO, an anti-personnel landmines removal product development charity organization, where Magawa got his skills from, consider the life–saving rat their most successful rat as he cleared more than 141,000 square meters of land.

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