August 2010

Rice Growing Season Off to a Slow Start Due to Dry Spell

August 5, 2010 Agriculture

Late rains have forced a delay in rice planting in parts of the country, with farmer planting around 20 percent less of the staple than during the same period last years, officials and agricultural experts said yesterday. Chan Heng, director of the Ministry of Agriculture’s department of administrative affairs, said local droughts had forced farmers [...]

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Traffic Fatalities Down 6% in First Half 2010

August 5, 2010 Social

Traffic accidents killed 1,717 people in Cambodia last year, a 5 percent increase from 2008, a Road Crash and Victim information System report release said. However, traffic fatalities decrease 6 percent during the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2009, Him Yan, director of the Interior Ministry’s public order department [...]

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Government Bans Pig Imports; Swine Flue Deaths Persist

August 5, 2010 Health

The government has banned the import of pigs in order to curb a regional outbreak that has killed thousands of swine across Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. The ban came the same day that provincial animal health officials gathered in Phnom Penh to discuss how to control the spread of [...]

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Pig Disease Kills Hogs in Kampot and Battambang Province

August 3, 2010 Health

An unidentified disease has killed about 125 pigs in Kampot province’s Kampong Trach district in the past week, while dozens of pigs in Battambang have died of another unknown illness over the past three weeks, local officials said yesterday. Kompong Trach district governor Um Sinath said that the disease broke out in his district  on [...]

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