MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 Intelligent . In-depth . Independent Issue Number 3659 / 4000 RIEL First China export buoys hopes for mango’s future Thou Vireak memorating the historic occasion. cultivation area now at around “Our company has a vision to ping containers in the Kingdom’s The official export came after the 100,000ha that yield over one million develop more facilities in mango maiden direct export of mangoes. THE private sector experienced a Chinese Customs Administration tonnes per season, he predicted a plantations to meet the export mar- “I am happy that we can export wave of renewed optimism that on April 26 officially approved a list rosy path forward for mango’s export ket. We will set up a drip irrigation mangoes directly to China, a major mango would become a valuable of 37 mango plantations and five potential, which he said would follow system similar to those in banana market in the region,” he said. agro-industrial export and prove packaging factories to export fresh a trajectory similar to bananas. plantations. We’ll also have a plant to Speaking at the ceremony, Minis- particularly attractive to investors, mangoes to China. He noted that the five packaging clean for packaging and a dried-man- ter of Agriculture, Forestry and Fish- after Cambodia on May 7 shipped Hun Lak, CEO of Rich Farm Asia Co plants approved by the Chinese Cus- go processing plant,” Lak said. eries Veng Sakhon voiced hope that around 100 tonnes of fresh mangoes Ltd, a local agricultural investor that toms Administration last month use Heng Sreng, general manager of the export volume of fresh mangoes to China, in the Kingdom’s inaugu- grows Keo Romiet mangoes in Kam- either hot water treatment (HWT) or Boeung Ket Planting & Indus- would continue to increase from ral direct export of the fruit to the pong Speu province, told The Post that vapour heat treatment (VHT) facili- trial Co Ltd, which invests in mango, year to year. East Asian market. direct exports to China would increase ties to sterilise their crops and exter- banana and natural rubber, was also “Sanitary and phytosanitary measures Cambodia and China jointly hosted a the market potential of the fruit. minate pests, and have a combined present at the May 7 ceremony. His ceremony in Phnom Penh that day, com- With a rapidly-expanding national capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year. company provided one of the ship- CONTINUED – pagE 6 Capital set to shrink red zones in jab drive Mom Kunthear ruary 20 community outbreak. The health ministry also HNOM PENH munic- reported six new deaths, bring- ipal governor Khuong ing the total to 120. Sreng said the author- The Ministry of National ities are looking into Defence’s vaccination working reducingP the size of the red group has immunised over zone areas from being imposed 350,000 people in the red on entire communes to desig- zones over the past eight days nating them at the village and in five districts – Meanchey, household level, as new Covid- Dangkor, Kamboul, Por Sen 19 cases in the capital have Chey and Russey Keo. dropped in recent days. Ith Sarath – Deputy Com- Sreng revealed these plans mander-in-Chief and Joint while inspecting the vaccina- Chief of Staff of the Royal Travel in the red tion campaign sites in the red Cambodian Armed Forces zone on the morning of May 9. who is heading up the red A couple of workers ride a scooter past the Chroy Changvar bridge as commuters cross the Tonle Sap River from Chroy Changvar district to Daun Penh district in the capital on Friday. HONG MENEA “I am evaluating with spe- zone vaccination effort – said cialists how to better con- on May 9 that the inoculation solidate control in the red process in the red zones was zones, and we saw that yes- generally going well and mov- terday there were only 200 ing along quickly as planned, Chinese rocket debris crashes into ocean more Covid-19 cases in though there were some dif- Phnom Penh, decreasing ficulties and complications A LARGE segment of a Chi- “After monitoring and anal- entered over the Arabian matched expert predictions from the over 500 per day due to the presence of Covid- nese rocket re-entered the ysis, at 10:24 [0224 GMT] on Peninsula at approximately that any debris would have seen previously,” he said. 19 in the area. Earth’s atmosphere and disin- May 9, 2021, the last-stage 10:15 pm EDT on May 8 [0215 splashed down into the ocean, “The point is that we will try He called on the vaccina- tegrated over the Indian wreckage of the Long March GMT Sunday]”. given that 70 per cent of the to place restrictions at the tion working group and local Ocean on May 9, the Chinese 5B Yao-2 launch vehicle has “It is unknown if the debris planet is covered by water. house or building level and authorities to work together space agency said, following re-entered the atmosphere,” impacted land or water.” Because it was an uncon- open the village to travel, only to accelerate vaccinations fevered speculation over the China Manned Space Monitoring service Space- trolled descent, there was closing down the places with and work even faster and where the 18-tonne object Engineering Office said in a Track, which uses US military widespread public interest Covid-19 positive patients. We more efficiently. would come down. statement, providing coordi- data, said that the location in and speculation about where are studying this issue and “People who do not live in Officials in Beijing had said nates for a point in the Indian Saudi Arabia was where US the debris would land. once we are finished, I will let the red zones have to be there was little risk from the Ocean near the Maldives. systems last recorded it. The launch of the first mod- you know more,” he said. patient because they will freefalling segment of the It added that most of the seg- “Operators confirm that the ule of China’s space station On May 9, the Ministry of eventually be vaccinated, but Long March-5B rocket, which ment disintegrated and was rocket actually went into the was a milestone in Beijing’s Health reported another 520 we will do it after we finish in had launched the first module destroyed during descent. Indian Ocean north of the ambitious plan to establish a Covid-19 cases, all but five of of China’s new space station The US military’s Space Maldives,” it tweeted. permanent human presence which were linked to the Feb- CONTINUED – pagE 2 into Earth orbit on April 29. Command said the rocket “re- The segment’s descent in space. AFP WORKERS, STUDENTS CAMBODIA PREPARED IN RED ZONES EXEMPT TO GRADUATE FROM FROM WATER CHARGES LDC STATUS: OFFICIAL NATIONAL – pagE 4 BUSINESS – pagE 6 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 10, 2021 WWW.phnompenhpost.COM National 55 drivers detained for UN rapporteur’s statement on trying to run red zones environmentalists’ trial ‘false’ with workers Nov Sivutha Nov Sivutha HE Permanent Mis- sion of the Kingdom POLICE on May 8 impound- of Cambodia to the ed 42 vans and detained 55 UN Office in Geneva drivers and bus conductors Tdenounced the statements who were transporting gar- by Professor Mary Lawlor, the ment workers out of the Red UN Special Rapporteur on Zone in Chaom Chao I com- the situation of human rights, mune of Phnom Penh’s Por regarding the trial of the ac- Sen Chey district in violation tivists from Mother Nature of the lockdown order. Cambodia (MNC). District police chief Morn On May 5, three MNC mem- Vuthy told The Post on May bers – Long Kunthea, Phuon 9 that of the workers trans- Keoraksmey and Thun Ratha – ported from the red zones, were sentenced to between 18 only 49 remained on vehicles and 20 months in prison and that were stopped while the fined four million riel by the others were pursued back to Phnom Penh Municipal court their places of origin. on charges of incitement re- He added that in the ve- lated to environmental issues. hicles were 55 drivers and Two days after the trial, bus conductors. He did not Lawlor issued a statement know whether they would be saying the activists had been quarantined as it is a mat- imprisoned since September ter for district governor Hem 2020 for attempting to pro- Darith to decide. tect Boeung Tamok Lake on Vuthy said the vehicles had the outskirts of Phnom Penh. come from different prov- “I am saddened to learn inces. The drivers had tried that three human rights de- to rush workers back to their fenders from MNC have been hometowns as Phnom Pen sentenced to 18 to 20 months was put into lockdown with in prison. Protecting the en- On May 5, three MNC members – Long Kunthea, Phuon Keoraksmey and Thun Ratha – were sentenced to between 18 and 20 months in prison and some areas designated as vironment peacefully is not a fined four million riel by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on charges of incitement related to environmental issues.SUPPLIED red zones. crime,” she said. The drivers, bus conduc- Cambodia’s permanent officially dissolved itself in ens those who break the law, It described Lawlor’s re- checked and understanding tors and workers are being mission to the UN said Law- 2017, but the organisation spread fake news and incite marks as inappropriate and national legislation and the detained at a school in the lor’s statement was false and continued on illegally exploit- violence and social division – an interference in the na- UN Charter, it said.