Police officers walk among new vehicles delivered to municipal and provincial departments on Feb 16, 2021. - PPP
PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has issued instructions to the newly formed National Police reform commission to train officers in professionalism, integrity and other pertinent skills as he pushes to further reduce crime with the construction of more police stations.
At a ceremony to hand over new vehicles to municipal and provincial police on February 16, Sar Kheng said the current reforms are intended to affect social justice.
“We have been reforming, and there is no end to the process. The scope of reforms includes addressing the ranks of officials, the structure of the organisation and training for officers, including on the subject of ethics, ” he said.
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PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Locally-assembled electric auto-rickshaws could hit the Cambodian market as soon as early in May after the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) gave the greenlight to an investment project at the weekend.
According to a CDC press release, it will issue a final registration certificate to Onion Mobility Co Ltd’s $20 million electric motorbike and auto-rickshaw assembly plant in Kandal province’s Suvannaphum Special Economic Zone (SSEZ), which is expected to generate 380 jobs.
A farmer harvests ridged Luffa (Luffa acutangula) in Chroy Changvar district’s Prek Leap village. - PPP
PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Ten local companies on Feb 15 signed buy-sell agreements and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with representatives of 16 agri-business clusters to supply 3,400 tonnes of produce and chicken meat valued at about US$1.4 million.
The produce outlined in the deal includes mangoes, cassava, watermelon and “safe vegetables”, or those with a reduced dependence on chemicals that are free of microbiological hazards.
The contract farming agreements were signed at a ceremony presided over by Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon.
Environment ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra during a press conference about Cambodia’s climate change plans in Phnom Penh on Feb 8, 2021. - PPP
PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Cambodia is focusing mainly on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to meet the country’s goal of reducing its emissions by 21 million tonnes per year in order to combat climate change, according to Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra.
The remarks came at a conference organised at the ministry on Feb 8 to give an update report on the progress of the Kingdom’s implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The first shipment of 600,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine donated by China arrived in Cambodia on Feb 7 and was received at Phnom Penh International Airport by Prime Minister Hun Sen together with Chinese ambassador Wang Wentian.