The Ministry of Health on May 23 reported zero new Covid-19 cases and no new deaths.
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) continues to request that people living in the centre of Phnom Penh use water sparingly to help reduce shortages in the western and southern suburbs, as around 40,000 families residing in villages in those areas do not have enough water to use.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has revealed that Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed on roughly three-eighths of the remaining undemarcated borders between the two countries, in a varied speech to members of the Cambodian diaspora in Europe, in which he also discussed the upcoming commune council elections.
The Council for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) is working closely with relevant ministries and partners to develop the second National Strategy for Food Security and Nutrition (NSFSN) as part of efforts to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The national Covid-19 vaccination committee will begin administering the fifth dose of Covid-19 vaccines from June 9.
Four construction workers died and another was hospitalised after an elevator plunged 15 storeys in the coastal Preah Sihanouk province.
The number of children with severe wasting was on the rise even before the Ukraine conflict plunged the world further into a global food crisis, UNICEF has warned, noting that in Cambodia, 10 per cent of children are actively affected by severe malnutrition.
The Ministry of Justice has declared 2022 the year for “strengthening work discipline and ethics for officials in the judicial sector” in an attempt to overhaul its working processes, amid increasing concerns that the Cambodian judiciary is being bought over by business interests.
Prime Minister Hun Sen called on compatriots across the country to maintain peace while building society, family, community and the nation so that the genocidal Democratic Kampuchea regime led by the Khmer Rouge would not return.
The National Police’s anti-drug department is continuing its investigation after seizing over 60kg of chemical substances believed to be intended for the production of illegal drugs, at a mango plantation in Yeay Mao Pich Nil commune’s Srol village of Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district
Cambodia has joined the International Transport Forum (ITF) as the organisation’s 64th member country. Ministers of transport from the 63 current member states agreed to admit the Kingdom to the ITF on May 19 at their Summit in Leipzig, Germany.