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Cellcard announces Cambodia’s first 5G use case to help the Kingdom during Covid-19
Cellcard has today announced Cambodia’s first 5G use case – a telemedicine service at four locations across Phnom Penh to help the nation’s most critically ill during the Covid-19 crisis. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706678/cellcard-announces-cambodias-first-5g-use-case-to-help-the-kingdom-during-covid-19/
Cashew nut growers feel the pinch as their price plunge
A representative of a cashew growing association has said that market prices for the fruit have dramatically decreased in the last fortnight, blaming border restrictions and a reduction in demand. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50707164/cashew-nut-growers-feel-the-pinch-as-their-price-plunge/
NA to vote on new ministers
The National Assembly (NA) on Monday will put a vote of confidence in appointing and reshuffling five ministers and appointing five senior ministers, said NA spokesman Leng Peng Long in a press release issued by the General Secretariat of the National Assembly on Friday. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-vote-new-ministers
Cambodia new investments totaling $900 million spread over nine provinces
Cambodia registered 40 new investment projects worth more than US$900 million in the first three months of this year, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706552/cambodia-new-investments-totaling-900-million-spread-over-nine-provinces/
A man detained for trapping wildlife
The provincial court of Mondulkiri province on Tuesday evening ordered police officers to temporarily detain a man in prison accused of “trapping wildlife” in Sre Pork Wildlife Sanctuary ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://bit.ly/2ULWhbW
Soldiers, residents trade blame over illegal logging in Mondulkiri
Indigenous people in Mondulkiri province plan to file a complaint with the provincial court against a military officer from the Army Base “K1” in O’Raing district’s Dak Dam commune, for clearing forest land for personal ownership within the Phnom Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-residents-trade-blame-over-illegal-logging-mondulkiri
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. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706043/cambodias-aviation-sector-hard-hit-by-coronavirus-pandemic/
Government permits tax exemptions on specific goods
The government has issued income tax exemptions for the textile and garment, footwear and luggage sectors that produced export goods hit by the European Union’s 20 percent Everything but Arms (EBA) tariff-free status withdrawal in February. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706195/government-permits-tax-exemptions-on-specific-goods/
Beer gardens ordered to be shuttered to stem COVID-19
The Tourism Ministry yesterday issued a directive for the indefinite closure of beer gardens across the Kingdom in a bid to quell rising COVID-19 figures. ...
Som Kanika & Srey Kumneth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706074/beer-gardens-ordered-to-be-shuttered-to-stem-covid-19/
Passenger from Cambodia detected COVID-19 positive in China
A 27 year old female passenger, Chen Moumou, of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, was tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival in Guangdong on 25th March, 2020. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706385/passenger-from-cambodia-detected-covid-19-positive-in-china/
Fighting corruption in business
The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) yesterday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Japanese Business Association in Cambodia (JBAC), to build trust and create a better investment environment for Japanese companies and other investors in Cambodia. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706190/fighting-corruption-in-business/
Cases of Coronavirus surge to 98
The Health Ministry has confirmed two new cases of Coronavirus in Siem Reap province, bringing the Kingdom’s total to 98. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706135/cases-of-coronavirus-surge-to-98/
Sar Kheng orders local authorities to care for 40,000 returnees
Interior Minister Sar Kheng today ordered all provincial authorities to take good care of about 40,000 migrant workers who have returned to the Kingdom since the Thai-Cambodia border closure. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706133/sar-kheng-orders-local-authorities-to-care-for-40000-returnees/
City bus, water taxi services shut down to prevent spread of coronavirus
The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration today temporarily closed public city bus and water-taxi service linking the northern part of Phnom Penh to Takhmao city in Kandal province via the Mekong River amid the COVID-19 outbreak. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50706134/city-bus-water-taxi-services-shut-down-to-prevent-spread-of-coronavirus/
Ministry to clear case backlog
The Ministry of Justice plans to launch a six-month campaign to clear a backlog of some 10,000 court cases, of which 70 per cent involve drug crimes, said Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-clear-case-backlog
Kandal villagers allege collusion
Some 200 families in Anlong and Boeung Krochab Choeung villages, in Prek Tameak commune, Khsach Kandal district, in Kandal province, have expressed concern over the clearing and landfilling activities in the natural lake area. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kandal-villagers-allege-collusion
Kampong Chhnang villagers sent to court for clearing wetland
The names of four Kampong Chhnang villagers were sent to the provincial court on Thursday for further legal action. The villagers are accused of involvement in clearing some 3ha of wetland in Koh Tamov village, in Boribor district’s Koki commune. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-chhnang-villagers-sent-court-clearing-wetland
Japan requested to recruit 100,000 for skilled workforce
Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, Ith Sam Heng, has asked Japan to increase the number of Cambodian workers to 100,000 in future as it plans to recruit 30,000 skilled workers in building maintenance alone. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japan-requested-recruit-100000-skilled-workforce
Olympia City on schedule despite pandemic
While development projects have delayed construction due to the Covid-19 pandemic, construction of the two tallest buildings in Olympia City has not slowed, according to its project manager, Meng Chamroeun. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/olympia-city-schedule-despite-pandemic
National Assembly approves 1,000 MW coal-fired plant projects
National Assembly this morning approved coal-fired power projects with a production capacity of nearly 1,000MW. The approval was made in an extraordinary parliamentary session chaired by Samdech Akka Moha Ponhea Chakrei Heng Samrin, President of NA, with 108 lawmakers in attendance. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/706085/national-assembly-approves-1000-mw-coal-fired-plant-projects/
Pandemic means that Digital 2020 postponed
The escalating health crisis that Cambodia is experiencing because of the Coronavirus outbreak has led to the postponement of several major business-related events supposed to be held this month in the Kingdom, including Digital Cambodia 2020. ...
Jose Rodriguez T. Senase
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50705451/pandemic-means-that-digital-2000-postponed/
More than 3,000 rooms reserved for coronavirus patients: PM
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said the government has reserved more than 3,000 rooms in anticipation to treat coronavirus patients across the Kingdom. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50705888/more-than-3000-rooms-reserved-for-coronavirus-patients-pm/
New power supply will miss dry seaon because of virus
The combined 400 mega Watt (mW) supply of power plants proposed to run on heavy fuel oil in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district will not generate power as planned in the first part of this year because construction has been suspended by COVID-19. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50705761/new-power-supply-will-miss-dry-seaon-because-of-virus/
Gov’t calls for new mining exploration bids
The Mine and Energy Ministry has called on local and foreign companies to bid for mining exploration licences. ...
Chhut Bunthoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50705869/govt-calls-for-new-mining-exploration-bids/