Farmers harvest rice in Cambodia (Photo: VNA)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodia earned 2.09
billion USD from exporting
agricultural products in the first quarter 2021,
said Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
The Khmer Times cited Sakhon as saying that his
ministry has promoted and helped diversify the sector by assisting it to switch
from traditional methods of farming to more modern methods suited for the wider
international market.
The ministry has been busy preparing measures to
open the marketplace for domestic agriculture, he said, mentioning the recent
approval by the General Administration of Customs of China for the shipment of
A solution to the Myanmar issue can be worked out in the "Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) way," said Zaw Min Tun, spokesman for Myanmar military and the State Administration Council (SAC), in a recent interview with Xinhua.
Vietnamese nationals who came in close contact with COVID-19 patients.
Earlier, the embassy asked the Lao sides to provide optimal support for Vietnamese
COVID-19 patients, while calling the Vietnamese nationals to make health
declaration voluntarily, and work with the Lao authorities in COVID-19 tracing
if they are requested.
As of May 2, there were 933 COVID-19 infections in
Laos, nearly 900 of which
were detected from the beginning of April.
The same day, Cambodia reported a daily record of 730 new coronavirus cases and
six deaths, bringing the nation’s tally to 14,520 and 103, respectively.
The army medical corps started a large-scale campaign to vaccinate up to
A deserted street in
COVID-19 (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)
Vientiane (VNA) - Laos reported a decline in the daily number of new COVID-19 cases which stood at a double-digit figure for the past five days.
In a statement released in the afternoon of May 1, the country’s Ministry of Health said that 64 new cases were detected during the past 24 hours in four provinces nationwide, of them 49 were in Vientiane.
All 18 Lao provinces are under lockdown until May 5. The country to date has logged 821 cases, with 773 of them being reported from the start of April.
The Department of Communicable Diseases Control at the Laos’ Health Ministry announced that as many as 38 Vietnamese people in Thatluang in downtown Vientiane tested positive once with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on April 30.
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