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    Chaom Chao interchange near airport 80% complete

    The construction of the Chaom Chao overpass and underpass in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district, just east of Phnom Penh International Airport, has been 80 per cent complete and is expected to be ready as planned by next March. ...

    Voun Dara
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chaom-chao-interchange-near-airport-80-complete

    Government accelerating procedure for sovereign bonds

    The Ministry of Economy and Finance is accelerating the preparation of legal documents for the implementation of the law on sovereign bonds. ...

    Chea Vanyuth
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919680/government-accelerating-procedure-for-sovereign-bonds/

    Kandal province to designate landfill area to improve the management of waste

    Kandal Provincial Administration plans to designate the Prek Reang Meteorological Area in Prek Reang Village, Teuk Vil Commune, Saang District, Kandal Province for a landfill site and to improve the management of waste and plastic under the World Bank financing project. ...

    Khmer Times Staff
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50920070/kandal-province-to-designate-landfill-area-to-improve-the-management-of-waste/

    Cambodia sees cultivation of rainy season rice surpass target

    The total amount of cultivation of rainy season rice has achieved more than 2.6 million hectares or 101.90 percent of the yearly plan. ...

    Khmer Times Staff
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919987/cambodia-sees-cultivation-of-rainy-season-rice-surpass-target/

    Bold innovation roadmap outlines the Kingdom’s tech progress

    Cambodia is undertaking a bold five-pronged approach to foster digitalisation in its aim to reach  upper-middle-income country status by 2030 and high-income designation by 2050, the government’s Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Roadmap 2030 reveals. ...

    Husain Haider
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919479/bold-innovation-roadmap-outlines-the-kingdoms-tech-progress/

    Oddar Meanchey rushes to cope with dire situation

    Oddar Meanchey province has embarked on the construction of a 3,000-bed treatment centre and a 3,000-bed quarantine centre in order to meet the deluge of returning migrant workers from Thailand through its borders. ...

    Yim Sreylin
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919674/oddar-meanchey-rushes-to-cope-with-dire-situation/

    Four provinces extend restriction against the Delta variant

    Even as the government lifted Covid-19 restrictions in most parts of the country on August 19, at least four provinces have decided to extend the measures for another week in a bid to contain the highly contagious coronavirus Delta variant. ...

    Mom Kunthear
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-provinces-extend-restriction-against-delta-variant

    Kantha Bopha treats 20K children in July

    The Kantha Bopha Foundation received over $70,000 in July from donors while more than 20,000 children were given outpatient care or admitted for treatment at its five pediatric hospitals in Cambodia. ...

    Ry Sochan
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kantha-bopha-treats-20k-children-july

    Street in Phnom Penh’s Riverside district closed for 3 days due to suspected ‘Delta’

    The Sub Committee for COVID-19 says that it has closed a Phnom Penh street for 3 days in order to investigate a possible outbreak of the ‘Delta’ variant. ...

    Khmer Times Staff
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919857/street-in-phnom-penhs-riverside-district-closed-for-3-days-due-to-suspected-delta/

    Stranded Chinese nationals clash with police after asking Embassy for repatriation help

    Around 70 Chinese nationals assembled outside of the gates of the Chinese Embassy in Mao Tse Toung Blvd, Phnom Penh, yesterday to ask for the Embassy’s assistance in returning back home. ...

    Khmer Times Staff
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919901/stranded-chinese-nationals-clash-with-police-after-asking-embassy-for-repatriation-help/

    Oddar Meanchey’s authorities issue warning to land encroachment instigators

    The Oddar Meanchey Provincial Administration issued a public to people who incited people to illegally encroach on state land to cease their illegal activities immediately. ...

    Khmer Times Staff
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919920/oddar-meancheys-authorities-issue-warning-to-land-encroachment-instigators/

    Australia provides $65M for development in Cambodia

    The Australian government announced an aid package of approximately $65 million to Cambodia for its five-year development programme. ...

    Ry Sochan
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/australia-provides-65m-development-cambodia

    Dangkor district getting tough on waste littering

    Heang Nhor, deputy head of Dangkor district’s Office of Public Works, Transport, Sanitation, Environment and Public Order, said the district hall had stopped 12 trailers in the first six months of the year and another four in July. ...

    Post Staff
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dangkor-district-getting-tough-waste-littering

    Irrawaddy dolphin exhibit prepared in Stung Treng

    Local authorities and community members in Stung Treng province have prepared an Irrawaddy dolphin skeleton for display at Ochheuteal Dolphin Canyon in Borei O’Svay Sen Chey district’s Preah Romkel commune for exhibit to the public. ...

    Ry Sochan
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/irrawaddy-dolphin-exhibit-prepared-stung-treng

    Thailand expected to open door to Cambodian longan

    Cambodia expects Thailand to allow Pailin longan imports into its market as usual, after China on August 17 partially lifted a ban on Thai longan that it imposed four days earlier over contamination with mealybugs. ...

    Thou Vireak
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thailand-expected-open-door-cambodian-longan

    Master plan in works for transport systems

    The government is preparing a master plan to develop intelligent transport systems (ITS) to properly consolidate and invigorate the technological development and capabilities in the industry, in the expectation of a soft launch in 2023. ...

    Thou Vireak
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/master-plan-works-transport-systems

    2021-23 plan for economic recovery on way: minister

    Cambodia is getting ready to launch a 2021-2023 plan to lift the economy out of the Covid-19 rut and chart a course for sustainable and inclusive growth, according to Minister of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth. ...

    Hin Pisei
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/2021-23-plan-economic-recovery-way-minister

    Jabs could swell 2022 GDP by 6%: think-tank

    Cambodia’s “well-strategised and rapidly-executed” Covid-19 vaccination programme are set to underpin economic growth that may top six per cent next year, eclipsing the preponderance of regional and global peers, according to a new report from consulting firm Mekong Strategic Partners Co Ltd (MSP). ...

    May Kunmakara
    https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jabs-could-swell-2022-gdp-6-think-tank

    Flexibility key for relations with China and US, says RAC president

    At a round table conference yesterday on the theme “Cambodia between the great powers of China and the United States”, Royal Academy of Cambodia president Sok Touch said that Cambodia needs to be flexible between China and the US by remembering that “a good friend ...

    Tin Sokhavuth
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919480/flexibility-key-for-relations-with-china-and-us-says-rac-president/

    Samphan denies committing genocide

    Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan yesterday denied participating in genocide against fellow Cambodians, saying that all he had been doing was trying to defend the country which was at war with Vietnam. ...

    Son Minea
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919675/samphan-denies-committing-genocide/

    RCEP is key to post-pandemic recovery here

    As a member of the world’s largest trade deal, Cambodia’s post-pandemic economic reality is likely to be forged by the 15-nation deal that will encompass about 30 percent of global gross domestic product, according to experts. ...

    Husain Haider
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918763/rcep-is-key-to-post-pandemic-recovery-here/

    PM decides to end ‘Campaign to strengthen measures to prevent and prevent the spread of COVID-19’

    Prime Minister Hun Sen has just issued a directive announcing the end of the 21 day ‘Campaign to strengthen measures to prevent and prevent the spread of COVID-19’. However, the directive stresses that individual provinces may still continue to impose restrictions depending on their individual ...

    Khmer Times Staff
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50919433/pm-decides-to-end-campaign-to-strengthen-measures-to-prevent-and-prevent-the-spread-of-covid-19/

    Senate nod for draft APTERR law on agri ties

    The Senate yesterday approved the draft law on amendments to the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR), a regional cooperation aimed to strengthen food security, poverty alleviation, and malnourishment eradication within the region without distorting normal trade in the global market. ...

    Chea Vanyuth
    https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50918767/senate-nod-for-draft-apterr-law-on-agri-ties/

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