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Phnom Penh - Cambodia has banned the import of pigs from Vietnam and Thailand after swine infected with blue-ear disease were smuggled into the country from neighbouring Vietnam and infected others.

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disease were smuggled into the country from neighbouring Vietnam and infected others.The ban was announced by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday, who also asked market vendors to keep pork prices sta...

WORD@WORK HINDERANCES Luke 10:4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road. (NIV) Jesus was briefing 72 disciples (in addition to the twelve trainee-apostles). He tells them to go without any visible means of support, nothing in reserve, just the provision that God would arrange for them. In today's terms, no overnight...

Abhisit Vejjajiva interpreted a letter from the Cambodian king's adviser as a welcome gesture, saying the idea to make the Preah Vihear a symbol of reconciliation between the two countries sounde...

PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA has banned imports of live pigs owing to fears they may be infected with blue-ear pig disease, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday. 'The so-called blue-ear pig disease is spreading, and is now present in Cambodia,' Mr Hun Sen told a university graduation ceremony, noting there had been outbreaks of the disease in neighbouring Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.

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Salamander announced that the Bang Nouan-1 exploration well in the Savannakhet PSC, Lao PDR has been plugged and abandoned. The Bang Nouan-1 exploration well was completed on May 6, 2010. A drill ste...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia's prime minister, a frequent critic of the UN-backed trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders, said Wednesday his government recognizes the tribunal's independence and ...

Cambodia authorities on Wednesday imposed ban on import of pigs from neighboring countries, fearing the spread of disease.

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WICE as many Cambodian migrant workers found jobs in Malaysia through recruitment firms during the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, according to figures provided yesterday...

HUT Ngan Cheur admits that she is afraid of her own skin. Gingerly, as if to prove that she has cause for worry, she displays the gnarled surface of her palms and feet, which are encrusted with yellow...

ROVINCIAL court officials yesterday denied having a backlog of illegal logging cases, following a claim made by Agriculture Minister Chan Sarun that around 70 percent of reported forestry, agriculture...

HNOM Penh Municipal Court has charged three people injured by a police officer in a shooting spree last month with intentional battery, a court official said yesterday. On July 20, Vong Saneath, a pol...

GRICULTURE officials plan to hold an emergency meeting today to discuss an epidemic spreading through the Kingdom’s swine population that some officials have blamed on infected Vietnamese pigs they ...

ROUND 100 new cases of the A(H1N1) influenza virus, commonly known as swine flu, were diagnosed last month, according to figures from the Health Ministry’s Communicable Diseases Control Department.F...

A COALITION of 13 union leaders sent a letter to the Ministry of Labour and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia yesterday threatening to organise strikes unless talks are scheduled by Au...

A 45-YEAR-OLD woman whose house stands to be affected by a railway project in Banteay Meanchey province has fled after a local official accused her of attempted murder, a charge her husband yesterday ...

P OLICE in Oddar Meanchey province arrested and briefly held a man accused of trying to smuggle 26 migrant workers through the O’Smach international border gate into Thailand, officials said yesterd...

ANDAL provincial court has charged two men with illegal detention following a raid on a recruitment firm in Kien Svay district, when authorities discovered 35 underage girls being trained to work as d...

A GUARD at Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh was among a group of three men charged with drug trafficking and placed in pretrial detention this week, an official said yesterday. Yim Socheat, chief of the ...

Cambodia's premier said on Wednesday his government respected the landmark conviction of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief and would not interfere in the UN-backed war crimes court. Kaing Guek Eav, b...