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Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Monday (July 18, 2022)

The government of Japan has donated 10 new bin lorries to the Ministry of Environment, which has added an additional five trucks. The fifteen sanitation support vehicles will be distributed to several provinces in order to expand waste collection services.

NEW DELHI -- The second Monkeypox case was detected in India on Monday in its southern state of Kerala, confirmed an official in the state health department. Th

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has yet to announce a date when the public will be able to use the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway. The ministry is currently in consultations with the road’s builders to establish a toll system for the road, and expects that the expressway will be in use soon.

The government has extended tax exemption – except for VAT – for the tourism sector for another three months for tourism businesses in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Preah Sihanouk provinces, to help stabilize them because the industry was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (NCM) has provided 24,800 mosquito nets to community members living in natural protected areas in six provinces which have had a high prevalence of malaria this year.

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Approximately 500 people participated in the clean-up of Ochheuteal Beach in Preah Sihanouk province for the “Clean and Green Cambodia” event, which aimed to inspire people and businesses to maintain a clean environment to attract tourists in advance of the upcoming sea festival in December.

Snake attacks are an under reported public health concern in many tropical countries, and Cambodia is no exception. According to a WHO report released last September, an estimated 3 million victims all over the world are bitten by snakes annually.

The Preah Sihanouk and Koh Kong provincial administrations have instructed authorities to warn people not to cross the sea or fish, as the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has issued a warning for bad weather July 11-14.