DAP: The breaking news in Cambodia: “Cambodia's largest port reports 14 mln USD revenues, up 14 pct” plus 1 more

PHNOM PENH, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's largest Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) on Saturday reported that it earned the total revenues of about 14 million U.S. dollars in the first five months of this year, 14 percent rise from 12.3 million U.S. dollars at the same period last year.

The port's report showed that from January to May this year, the port had received some 100,000 twenty-foot-equivalent units ( TEUs or standard-sized containers), up 8 percent compared with the same period last year.

Goods exported through the port are mostly garment products and agricultural products including rice, rubber and cassava, whilst imported products include construction materials, agricultural machinery, petroleum, vehicles, coal, and garment raw materials.

Lou Kim Chhun, the SAP's director general, said the increase in shipments and revenues was thanks to growing business activities, especially in the fields of garments, rice, rubber, and cassava.

SAP, situated some 230 kilometers southwest of the capital Phnom Penh, is the main economic path between Cambodia and the globe. The state-owned port is going to list in the Cambodia Securities Exchange sometimes this year.

During the period, Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, the kingdom's second largest port, said that it received 31,000 TEUs, up 11 percent compared to the same period last year.

BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese charity organization held a ceremony on Friday to wave off its first group of medical volunteers to assist Sudan's maternity and family health care work.

Volunteers from the the China Foundation of Poverty Alleviation (CFPA)will bring medical equipment worth 200,000 yuan (31,746 U.S. dollars) to the Sudanese and help them set up a maternal and child healthcare system.

The mission is part of a five-year program that will see the foundation donate 60 million yuan (9.3 million U.S. dollars) to equip Sudan with more advanced medical facilities and technology.

War-ravaged Sudan suffers the world's highest maternal mortality rate. In July 2011, the CFPA, sponsored by PetroChina, the nation's largest oil producer, inaugurated the new China-Sudan Abu Ushar Friendship Hospital, 140 km south of Sudan's capital city of Khartoum.

The hospital was first built upon a barn left by British colonists with simple medical facilities. The number of local patients visiting the facility in the first six months after its renovation was 25 percent higher than in the six months before.

Since 2005, the CFPA has donated 63 million yuan to assist international charity missions in Indonesia, Cambodia, Guinea-Bissau and Sudan.