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As the deadline approaches, the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority(CMAA) continued to call for partner countries to join hands with the Cambodian government to ensure it meets its goal of a mine-free Cambodia by 2025.

The small motorboat chugging through southern Iraq’s marshes is similar to those tourists use to explore the vast swamplands, the reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden.

Authorities in the capital and major population centres have reminded the public to refrain from dangerous activities during the Khmer New Year celebrations, including those involving the use of water, powder, fireworks and explosives, as provincial authorities prepare to organise festive events.

The artist, singer, model, DJ and actor known as Christ Diva is a rare beauty with a strange name whose unique personal style can sometimes distract people from immediately recognising the remarkable amount of talent she possesses as a true modern renaissance woman who refuses to limit herself to just one artistic discipline or career pursuit.

This year’s leading Grammy nominee Jon Batiste soared past his heavyweight competition to win the coveted Album of the Year award for “We Are” – a triumph for the jazz and R&B artist with less global name recognition than his pop star peers.

The GAVI Alliance and other COVAX partners have committed to continuing their support for Cambodia by supplying additional Covid-19 vaccine doses equivalent to 30 per cent of the population – up from the 20 per cent originally pledged – based on the “good results” of vaccination rates in the Kingdom, according to a senior Ministry of Health official.

In the snowy Arctic darkness Suvi Kustula throws bundles of lichen to her excitable herd of reindeer, their antlers lit up by her van’s headlights. “I was just a few months old when I fed my first reindeer,” the 24-year-old laughed, saying she “pretty much always knew” she would follow her father and grandfather into herding.

In the first quarter of 2022, market inspections by the General Directorate of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF) resulted in the write-up of 359 offences by CCF inspectors with fines levied as penalties in response.

Around this time two years ago, Indonesia’s entertainment industry was left helpless as the COVID-19 pandemic swallowed the country. Movie theaters and concert stages were devoid of their biggest income – the audience.

Trying to maintain his balance on a dam, Canadian trapper Ray Gall advances cautiously as he tries to retrieve a large black beaver snared in one of his traps. Few people in the country still manage to make a living solely in the business, which dates back 400 years to the first Indigenous trades of pelts to European explorers.