Cambodia among 40 using HKU quick COVID-19 testing technology
Cambodia is among one of the 40 countries who have resorted to using a quick testing technology for the novel coronavirus developed by the University of Hong Kong to help contain the worldwide spread of the epidemic. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-among-40-using-hku-quick-covid-19-testing-technology/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50701257/cambodia-among-40-using-hku-quick-covid-19-testing-technology/
Campu Bank donates 10,000 surgical masks 31,500 pairs of plastic gloves to Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital
As a corporate social responsible citizen, the Bank had on 10 April 2020, donated 10,000 surgical masks and 31,500 pairs of plastic gloves to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital which is appointed by the government to conduct screening test and treatment for COVID-19. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/campu-bank-donates-10000-surgical-masks-31500-pairs-of-plastic-gloves-to-khmer-soviet-friendship-hospital/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712363/campu-bank-donates-10000-surgical-masks-31500-pairs-of-plastic-gloves-to-khmer-soviet-friendship-hospital/
Nation’s banks adopt NBC’s COVID-19 crisis measures
As COVID-19 continues to carve out a path of economic destruction in the Kingdom, several financial institutions are considering re-classifying their loan-repayment structures to help relieve customers in fiscal trouble, in line with recent guidelines released by the National Bank of Cambodia. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/nations-banks-adopt-nbcs-covid-19-crisis-measures/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712853/nations-banks-adopt-nbcs-covid-19-crisis-measures/
World Bank: Real-estate boom could backfire on economy
The World Bank has warned that the significant growth recorded in the construction and real-estate sector, considered one of the country’s economic pillars, could ultimately affect overall growth due to a trinity of unanticipated and now negative factors. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/world-bank-real-estate-boom-could-backfire-on-economy/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712701/world-bank-real-estate-boom-could-backfire-on-economy/
Four Cambodian river cruise vessels denied docking in Vietnam
Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered his officials to intervene in helping four Cambodian river cruise vessels which are stuck at Vietnam’s water border as its authorities denied their docking due to fear of a COVID-19 outbreak. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/four-cambodian-river-cruise-vessels-denied-docking-in-vietnam/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/702304/four-cambodian-river-cruise-vessels-denied-docking-in-vietnam/
Kingdom closes border with Vietnam over outbreak
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday shut down the border with Vietnam amid COVID-19 fears. “We will be closing down the border [today],” Mr Hun Sen said. “This is not a response to Vietnam’s closure of its border with us.” href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/kingdom-closes-border-with-vietnam-over-outbreak/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Sun Mesa
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50703485/kingdom-closes-border-with-vietnam-over-outbreak/
Cross-border deal inked to maintain trade amid Covid-19
Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed to allow cargo trailers to enter the common Bavet-Moc Bai border, located in Cambodia’ Svay Rieng province (Bavet) and Vietnam’s Tay Ninh province (Moc Bai) after movement restrictions were enforced to prevent a Covid-19 outbreak. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cross-border-deal-inked-to-maintain-trade-amid-covid-19/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cross-border-deal-inked-maintain-trade-amid-covid-19
Governors told to look at public land seizures
The Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers, Hing Thorasky, has issued a report ordering ministers and three provincial governors to check for irregularities among lower-level officers who have illegally seized public land. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/governors-told-to-look-at-public-land-seizures/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/governors-told-look-public-land-seizures
Cambodia’s aviation sector hard hit by Coronavirus pandemic
Cambodia has recorded a staggering 40 percent decline in flights coming in or going out due to COVID-19. Of the three international airports, Siem Reap is the worst hit as international flights have all but dried off with many countries going into lockdown mode. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodias-aviation-sector-hard-hit-by-coronavirus-pandemic/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706043/cambodias-aviation-sector-hard-hit-by-coronavirus-pandemic/
High-ranking police officers disciplined for negligence
Interior Minister Sar Kheng issued a warning against five high-ranking police officers in Kampong Thom province after they failed to carry out their duties. However, details of their offence were not disclosed, documents obtained yesterday revealed. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/high-ranking-police-officers-disciplined-for-negligence/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50722517/high-ranking-police-officers-disciplined-for-negligence/
Municipal court charges two men for land fraud
Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged and detained two land brokers accused of defrauding $1.5 million from a real estate businessman living in Phnom Penh over the sale of nearly 200 hectares of land in Kampong Speu province’s Oudong district last year. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/municipal-court-charges-two-men-for-land-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50726479/municipal-court-charges-two-men-for-land-fraud/
Sanctuary head sued for not stopping forest occupations
Four Bunong and an Adhoc official filed a joint lawsuit against Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary head Prum Vibol Ratanak at the Mondulkiri Provincial Court for failing to stop illegal land occupation and the buying and selling of forest land. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/sanctuary-head-sued-for-not-stopping-forest-occupations/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-head-sued-not-stopping-forest-occupations
Three investment projects worth $246 million approved, to create 1,500 jobs
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has given the green light to three new investment projects with a total investment capital of $246.1 million. According to the council, the newly approved projects are expected to create some 1,547 jobs for the locals. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/three-investment-projects-worth-246-million-approved-to-create-1500-jobs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50727869/three-investment-projects-worth-246-million-approved-to-create-1500-jobs/
PM marks Int’l Children Day with call for improvements in welfare
Prime Minister Hun Sen has issued a six-point message on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of International Children’s Day on June 1, Cambodian Children’s Day, also on June 1 and the 19th anniversary of the World Day Against Child Labour on June 12. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/pm-marks-intl-children-day-with-call-for-improvements-in-welfare/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-marks-intl-children-day-call-improvements-welfare
Cambodia spent nearly $1 billion on import pigs and poultries each year
The representatives of the Cambodian Livestock Raisers Association said that if we use the $ 1 billion to raise pigs and poultry locally, we could generate more jobs for the people in the country and they do not need to migrate to work in a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-spent-nearly-1-billion-on-import-pigs-and-poultries-each-year/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Preah Vihear excavator driver hit by sharpnel
An 18-year-old man was rushed to the Choam Ksan district referral hospital after he sustained serious head injuries on Sunday when the excavator he was using to dig a canal hit an anti-tank mine in Kamprak village, Yeang commune, Preah Vihear province. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/preah-vihear-excavator-driver-hit-by-sharpnel/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-excavator-driver-hit-sharpnel
Tools monitor air, water quality
A factory has volunteered to install new systems to check air and water quality while the Ministry of Environment is pushing another 20 factories to install this tool and connect it to the central station of the ministry so that it can check environmental quality href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tools-monitor-air-water-quality/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tools-monitor-air-water-quality
NGOs call on Hun Sen to shun ‘Hitler’ comments
Sixteen local NGOs released a joint statement Thursday calling on Prime Minister Hun Sen to publicly repudiate National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha’s January 15 speech in which he said he learned strategy from Adolf Hitler. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/ngos-call-on-hun-sen-to-shun-hitler-comments/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony and Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-call-on-hun-sen-to-shun-hitler-comments-76579/
Eight charged, jailed over gateway arson
Eight men who were arrested last week for their alleged involvement in the arson of a decorative gateway built for the Angkor Sankranta New Year festival in Siem Reap City were charged Friday and sent to the provincial prison, officials said Sunday. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/eight-charged-jailed-over-gateway-arson/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eight-men-charged-jailed-over-gateway-arson-in-siem-reap-81938/
Cambodia labour abuse claims disputed
UK retailer Marks & Spencer and the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) have disputed the details of a report alleging labour rights abuses are still rife in the country’s garment factories, with both claiming they are committed to providing and supporting safe working conditions. href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-labour-abuse-claims-disputed/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...
Katie Smith
http://bit.ly/1Ckp3lx