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This year, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) will breed more than 100 dogs to train them to sniff out mines in the Kingdom so that the nation will no longer need to rely on importing dogs for this purpose from abroad.
CMAC director Heng Ratana said that on Feb 9 a mine-sniffing dog had given birth to 11 puppies at CMAC’s Technical Institute of Mine Action.
He said CMAC was proud of the breeding programme, which the centre designed independently without help from abroad.
A successful breeding programme in Cambodia would mean the centre would no longer have to depend on importing dogs from abroad, especially Europe, he said.
This year, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) will breed more than 100 dogs in order to train them to sniff out mines in the Kingdom so that the nation will no longer need to rely on importing dogs for this purpose from abroad.
CMAC director Heng Ratana said that on February 9 a mine-sniffing dog had given birth to 11 puppies at CMAC’s Technical Institute of Mine Action (TIMA) in Kampong Chhnang province.
“So far we have seven or eight litters of puppies. Some of the litters have six puppies, some more than 10. We have over 40 puppies born already and there are still another seven or eight more litters on the way,” Ratana said.
The Kingdom’s Inter-Ministerial Committee to Combat Covid-19 and the working group overseeing logistics and implementation of the nation’s vaccination strategy have announced that a public vaccination campaign will begin from February 10.
The rollout will be done in phases according to the quantity of vaccines received over the course of the year.
Minister of Health and committee chairman Mam Bun Heng issued a press release on February 9 declaring who would be eligible to receive the recently delivered Sinopharm vaccine donated by China.
High-ranking national and provincial government officials and their children between the ages of 18 and 59 would be allowed to be vaccinated, as would all front-line medical specialists and professional journalists. Four facilities have been arranged as vaccination centres.
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The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) has cooperated with National Police forces to educate nearly 1.2 million people about mine accidents and explosive remnants of war. CMAC
More than one million people educated about mine-related accidents
Tue, 22 December 2020
In the first 11 months of this year, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) has cooperated with National Police forces to educate nearly 1.2 million people about mine accidents and explosive remnants of war.
CMAC director-general Heng Ratana said CMAC and National Police forces had visited almost 600,000 households to educate them about mine-related accidents.
“In collaboration with them [National Police], we have made 38 per cent more home visits this year than we did last year.