As expected, the United Nations Human Rights Council has officially
appointed Thai scholar Vitit Muntarbhorn as the new UN’s human rights envoy
to Cambodia, replacing an outspoken Briton Rhona Smith who completed her two
three-year term mandates.
As Cambodia awaits the arrival of 1.5 million Sinovac vaccines from China
on Friday, a total of 323,689 people have already got their first shot of
the Sinopharm or AstraZenaca COVID-19 vaccines with another 140,183 getting
the second dose of the Sinopharm. China is donating an additional 300,000
doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to Cambodian military, said Defence Minister
General Tea Banh.
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Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) announced granted around $7
million to enhance the ICT capacity building of lower secondary education in
Cambodia.
The World Bank says Cambodia has one of the world’s lowest data costs and
the highest use of mobile data per capita among low and lower-middle-income
countries.
Finland’s delegate Kirsti Kauppi had made the statement on March 22 during
an earlier session of the same conference that was highly critical of
Cambodia’s human rights records. “We call for the government of Cambodia to
cooperate with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights (OHCHR) in order to ensure full respect for all political and civil
rights while finalising their draft law on measures to prevent the spread of
Covid-19 and other diseases, and to make this cooperation a promising
example [for future actions],” she said. Cambodia's Ambassador and
Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, has expressed deep
disappointment with an official statement by the Finnish delegation that
human rights situation in Cambodia continued to
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