Several ministries, local and international civil organisations and the private sector are co-celebrating Earth Hour 2022 under the theme “The Future We Wish”. This comes as the Ministry of Environment announced its ambition to reduce gas emissions to zero by 2050. The announcement inspired participants to discuss how Cambodia should prepare for a sustainable future. The event was co-organised by the ministry and World Wide Fund for Nature Cambodia (WWF Cambodia) in collaboration with other organisations. In a joint press release, they said Earth Hour – marked this year at 8:30pm on March 26 – has become one of the…
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The Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is preparing a draft law on phytosanitation and the protection of plants in order to strengthen biosecurity measures on imported agricultural products and increase confidence of Cambodia’s trading partners. The Council of Ministers at a session presided over by Prime Minister Hun Sen on February 4 had approved the draft law, according to government spokesman Phay Siphan, who said in a statement that the bill is consistent with government policies and strategies, the pertinent domestic legal frameworks, and regional and international conventions and agreements on plant protection and phytosanitary matters. Minister of Agriculture,…
The Ministry of Tourism on March 15 virtually held a first meeting with Phnom Penh’s main safe-tourism management team, which has been tasked with compiling a report on attractions and establishments in the capital that comply with recognised health and hygiene standardised protocols, and ensure that visitors are and feel safe. According to the ministry, the “Executive Working Group for the Evaluation and Management of Phnom Penh Safe Tourism Destinations” and its Siem Reap provincial counterpart were established this year, under the “Public Private Working Group for the Rehabilitation and Promotion of Cambodian Tourism Sector during and post-Covid-19”, which was…
The Kingdom’s largest mobile operator, Smart Axiata Co Ltd, and Singapore-based Cloudera Inc, an enterprise data cloud company, have entered into a partnership agreement to accelerate their business growth, improve Smart’s customer service performance and better equip it to “deliver targeted offers that anticipate the needs of its eight million customers in Cambodia”. Cloudera said in a March 15 press release that with its support, Smart “moved from multiple data lakes and a traditional data warehouse to a single data lake”. “This streamlined the number of sources, allowing data lineage to be more easily tracked, presenting Smart Axiata with a…
The new investment law has been praised by investors and businesses alike because of its robust incentives, but experts say more has to be done Not too long ago, critics pointed out that Cambodia needed to be more discerning of its foreign direct investment (FDI), following the surge in real estate and construction investments that flooded the market. Although much of the investments – infrastructure, manufacturing and tourism – kept the economy buoyed for over a decade, the contention lay in the type of investments that flowed into some sectors, allegedly tainting the country’s image. The obvious ones being the…
With the travel industry increasingly placing emphasis on sustainable tourism, Mark Bibby Jackson – travel writer and founder of the Travel Begins at 40 website – outlines recent developments and its importance as ‘the ultimate feel good factor’. The Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities have placed a great deal of importance on sustainability as part of the recent master plan. Why is sustainability so important? Sustainability is vital everywhere. I was talking with a friend who works in investment, and he said how sustainability is not an option, it is an investment. If you are looking to the future then you…
South Korea reported a record of more than 600,000 coronavirus cases on Thursday, with authorities saying the country was near the peak of an Omicron-fuelled infection wave. According to World Health Organisation data, South Korea leads the world in newly reported cases in the last seven days with 2,417,174 infections, followed by Vietnam with 1,776,045. The 621,328 case tally recorded on Thursday is South Korea’s highest daily figure since the pandemic began. But critical cases and deaths remain comparatively low in the country of around 52 million where the majority of adults are fully vaccinated and have received a booster…
Hong Kong’s leader said on Thursday she was mulling easing some of the city’s coronavirus restrictions due to waning public tolerance, but could not provide a roadmap out of the current Omicron-fuelled crisis. Carrie Lam’s administration has been pummelled by all sides over its unclear public messaging and handling of Hong Kong’s fifth wave, which has brought nearly a million cases and 4,600 deaths in less than three months. The jump in case numbers comes despite the finance hub putting in place border restrictions since the pandemic’s start and deploying some of the harshest social-distancing measures outside mainland China. Since…
Four people were reported dead and more than 100 injured in Japan on Thursday after a powerful overnight earthquake rattled large parts of the east coast and prompted a tsunami warning, authorities said. The 7.4-magnitude quake off the coast of Fukushima derailed a bullet train, opened cracks in highways and threw products from shelves in shops. A tsunami warning for waves of up to 1m in parts of northeast Japan was lifted in the early hours of Thursday, after authorities recorded water levels up to 30cm higher than usual in some areas. Multiple smaller jolts continued to hit the region…
The UN voiced disappointment after a pledging conference on March 16 raised less than a third of the money it said was needed to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in war-torn Yemen. The UN was seeking $4.27 billion to help 17.3 million people – but raised only $1.3 billion, with some major hoped-for donors going missing. The UN considers war-torn Yemen as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that it must not be overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis. Nonetheless, the money raised fell far short of what was needed, leaving organisers considering a second conference later this…