ASEAN FMs talk Myanmar
ASEAN’s foreign ministers renewed calls for intensified engagement with all conflicting parties in Myanmar, as the crisis has dragged on just over two years since the military took power from the former civilian administration led by Aung San Suu Kyi. ...
Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/asean-fms-talk-myanmar
Feb 20 incident C-19 scourge spreads to factory
The February 20 Community Incident continues to plague the Kingdom with a woman linked to it, becoming the country’s first factory worker to be infected with COVID-19. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50819890/feb-20-incident-c-19-scourge-spreads-to-factory/
Surge in cases a matter of concern with number surpassing 1,000
Coronavirus cases are continuing to soar and the number has surpassed the 1,000 mark with more than half of them linked to the February 20 Community Incident. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50822145/surge-in-cases-a-matter-of-concern-with-number-surpassing-1000/
Schools in PP and Kandal closed over Feb 20 incident
The Ministry of Education has ordered all public and private schools in Phnom Penh and Kandal province to be temporarily closed over the February 20 Community Incident. . ...
Brian Badzmierowski
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50816770/schools-in-pp-and-kandal-closed-over-feb-20-incident/
Kingdom at risk from 56 missing C-19 positive people
Phnom Penh authorities are searching for 56 missing people who have tested positive for COVID-19. ...
Tith Kongnov
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50837346/kingdom-at-risk-from-56-missing-c-19-positive-people/
Scourge vanquished: PM declares official end to devastating Feb 20 Event
After 10 months of tragedy brought about by the February 20 Community Event, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday declared an official end to the scourge. ...
Yim Sreylin
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50991965/scourge-vanquished-pm-declares-official-end-to-devastating-feb-20-event/
Over 10,000 quarantined in capital, government allowance for the poor
As the number of COVID-19 cases and hotspots related to the “February 20 Community Incident” increase day by day, more than 10,000 Phnom Penh residents have been placed in quarantine after being directly or indirectly in contact with the patients. ...
Taing Rinith
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50819891/over-10000-quarantined-in-capital-government-allowance-for-the-poor/
Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand to host three major meets
Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand are set to organise three important leaders’ meetings in the Southeast Asia region later this year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501069359/cambodia-indonesia-thailand-to-host-three-major-meets/
Acleda HQ Expansion to Start in Three Months
Acleda Bank will break ground on a 20-story tower directly behind its current headquarters on Monivong Boulevard in September to become the third bank in the country to push ahead with a high-rise property in the capital, officials at the bank said yesterday. John Brinsden, Acleda’s ...
Cambodia Comforts Worried Summit
While the financial problems of Europe created a worried mood for the Group of 20 leaders at Los Cabos, Mexico, last week, a bright spot was Prime Minister Hun Sen’s representation of Cambodia’s ASEAN chairmanship, according to lawyer and government adviser Sok Siphana, who accompanied ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012062757035/Business/cambodia-comforts-summit.html
Grant to save S-21 victims’ clothes
US ambassador to Cambodia Patrick Murphy and Minister of Culture and Fine Arts Phoeurng Sackona on Thursday signed an agreement granting $75,000 in funds to preserve textiles belonging to the victims who perished at S-21, the notorious genocide prison from the Khmer Rouge era. The ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-kr-tribunal/grant-save-s-21-victims-clothes
Kingdom, WTO call on US to drop tariffs
Both Cambodia and the World Trade Organisation this week called on the United States to follow China’s lead in promising zero-tariff treatment to Least Developed Countries. Chinese President Hu Jintao, in a speech at the G20 summit in Cannes, France, on Friday, announced China would grant ...
Hun Sen calls for reform of global financial architecture
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen told the Group of 20 summit in Mexico that international financial architecture could not be sustained without reforms, sources said. Speaking in his capacity as Asean chairman, Hun Sen said the association supported any measures to reinforce financial stability ...
Exports to Korea jump 80pc
Cambodia’s first-quarter exports to South Korea soared nearly 80 per cent year-on-year, driven mostly by garments and agriculture products, but imports still accounted for most of the trade between the two countries. Total exports to South Korea jumped to US$30 million for the first three months of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051056080/Business/exports-to-korea-jump-80pc.html
Hor Namhong to attend ASEAN-EU meeting next week
Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will lead a delegation to attend the 20th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, next week, according to a statement issued Friday by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The statement said the meeting invited by Mrs Catherine ASHTON, high ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1
Prime Minister to Attend G-20 Summit Next Week
Prime Minister Hun Sen, in his capacity as Asean chairman, will lead a delegation to Mexico on Monday and Tuesday to attend the Group of 20 summit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Foreign Minister Hor Namhong will join Mr. Hun Sen at the summit, which ...
Cambodia prepares for G20
If it were a Group of 180 nations meeting, Cambodia would be invited. But the Kingdom’s chances of attending the so-called G20 summit, which brings together the world’s largest economies, are unlikely, says Mey Kalyan, a government adviser who last week became the first Cambodian to ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012051456136/Business/cambodia-prepares-for-g20.html
CDC approvals rise by 247pc, January to July
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved 75 investment projects worth US$5.5 billion between January and July, according to council statistics. This growth represents a 247 per cent, year-on-year increase in the value of approved investment projects, 60 of which were in the industrial ...
ASEAN projects to receive Around 1 07 million tourists in 2015
Cambodia’s tourism minister Thong Khon said this week that ASEAN is protected to gain around 107 million international tourists in 2015 as the bloc will create the community that year. Speaking at closing ceremony of the 10th Tour Guide Training and the Opening of 11th Tour Guide Training for Phnom Penh city at ...
Tax revenue rises 20%
Tax revenue in the first seven months of the year was $955 million, an increase of 18.91 percent over the same period last year, according to a report from the General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28505/tax-revenue-rises-20-/