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The small cuts bleeding Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake

July 27, 2022

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Climate change, dam construction and sand dredging imperil the existence of one of the most bountiful lakes on Earth.

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Thailand’s first monkeypox patient found after fleeing to Cambodia

A Nigerian man who went on the run after becoming Thailand’s first monkeypox case was found in Phnom Penh Saturday and taken to hospital, the Cambodian Health Ministry said. It comes the same day the World Health Organization officials in Geneva declared the monkeypox outbreak as a global health emergency on Saturday. The 27-year-old tourist — who had overstayed his visa in Thailand — was diagnosed with monkeypox in the resort city of Phuket on Monday, a Thai health official said.

China represents 43% of $2.99-bn foreign investment in Cambodia in H1

In the first half of this year, Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment from China worth $1.29 billion, the Council for the Development of Cambodia reported recently. As the top foreign investor there, China accounting for 43 per cent of the total foreign investment worth $2.99 billion the country approved during the January-June period. Other foreign investments during the first half came from Thailand, Samoa, British Virgin Islands, South Korea, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Malaysia, Japan and Australia, the CDC report said. Investment projects were focused on agriculture and agro-industry sectors, manufacturing, tourism and infrastructure.

SEA Games: Cambodia brings water polo and sailing back for 2023, but bowling, shooting to miss out

With less than a year before the 2023 SEA Games in Phnom Penh, the SEA Games Federation is set to meet in a matter of weeks to finalise the list of sports and events that will be contested in the Cambodian capital. That final list for the May 5-17 event may raise some eyebrows, with a number of sports that have featured regularly in recent editions of the biennial event on the verge of missing out. At the most recent SEA Games Federation meeting at the Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh last week (July 11-13), a provisional list of 40 sports included mainstays like athletics and aquatics, with water polo returning after missing the last edition in Hanoi in May 2022, which had been postponed by seven months due to the pandemic.