Saturday, 20 March 2010

DAP News ; Breaking News by Soy Sopheap

via CAAI News Media

PM Orders Gambling, Brothel, Karaoke Crackdown again

Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:27 DAP-NEWS

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday again ordered all levels of authority to crack down all illegal brothels, gambling establishments and karaoke joints, saying these enterprises lead to trafficking of women and are a drag of society’s development.

The premier also recommended that businesses not be allowed to reopen shortly after they have been closed, as has sometimes previously been seen.

“For the year of 2010, we have to crack down these illegal activities. I want to know that the law is solid and we are strong,” the premier said at a Education, Youth and Sports Ministry convention, which more than 1,000 officials and teachers attended.

The premier ruled that Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chutema must take action to crack down on these activities. PM called on all teachers to inform authorities of any gambling around schools, and send a copy of the letter to his cabinet to check whether the local authority has taken action or not.

The PM warned he would remove any officials who support such criminality.

Medical Enterprise Exports to Africa

Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:26 DAP-NEWS

PPM Medical Enterprise, a Cambodian company producing medicines, is now exporting products to 15 countries in Africa worth US$3 million, the Health Ministry on said Thursday.

MoH Secretary of State Chou Yinsim said the six factories export 32 products to Africa

General Manager of PPM Chheng Eangtek told DAP News Cambodia that the company was established in 1996 and sells around 100 medical products locally.

Director of the MoH’s Department of Food and Medical Equipment Heng Bunkeat said the MoH is proud of PPM’s achievement.

He asked the company continue exports and provide products for the national market.

Chou Yinsim said Cambodia lacks investors in the medical sector and Cambodia imports medicine worth US$4-5 million a month.

Lon Nol Root of War in Cambodia: PM

Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:26 DAP-NEWS

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday blamed Lon Nol regime as the cause of 40 years of war in Cambodia.

On March 18, 1970 Lon Nol, backed by the US, toppled former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk, then a prince, 40 years ago.

“It is not by chance that 40 years ago Cambodia fell to war, but now we want to inform the world that Cambodia is at peace, stable and developing,” the PM said during the inauguration of National Road 78 in Ratanakiri province.

The premier, himself a former Khmer Rouge cadre, also stated that, without the Lon Nol regime, there would have been no murderous Pol Pot regime (1975-79).

The premier criticized opposition officials who refuse to accept January 7, officially called Victory Day, as the day of liberation from Pol Pot regime. So-called ‘Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers’, including the PM and other current high-ranking members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), forced the Khmer Rouge from the capital. Opposition leaders and those Cambodians skeptical of Vietnamese motives have instead dubbed the national holiday ‘Invasion Day’.

The government must protect the country and “fight with all criticisms both inside and outside,” the PM said.

Tuberculosis Cases Increasing in 2009: MoH

Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:25 DAP-NEWS

Ministry of Health found about 40,000 cases of Tuberculosis in 2009, an increase on 2008 figures, a senior health official said on Thursday.

Secretary of State of the MoH Eng Hourt said 2010 would be struggle, though there would be significant by 2015. “Prevention is better than cure,” he stressed.

A report in 2009 said, Cambodia is a country which spread Tuberculosis and AIDS at least 11.8 percent in 2003, but 2009 it decreased to 6.4.

National Anti-Tuberculosis Director Mao Tann Eang told DAP News Cambodia that the MoH’s five year plan hopes to curb the spread of TB by about 75-80 percent.

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