The funding of 1 million Danish krone (US$192,000) is given by Danida, the Danish government’s development agency, to the Cambodia’s National Audit Authority (NAA) in order to implement for the second stage until 2011. During the first stage of implementation from 2007-2008, Danida funded 3 million krone to NAA. “The first phase isn’t completely finished [...]
In an effort to tighten social security and to track criminals, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications called for all local Internet service providers (ISPs) to block the use of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call to local mobile phone but does not apply to calls made using VoIP to phones outside the country and [...]
After testing positive for the swine flu A(H1N1) virus on Friday, A 22-year-old Irish women have been found the infliction of A(H1N1) influenza virus. She traveled to Cambodia from Vietnam and then she was in Siem Reap for testing virus. Ly Sovann, deputy director of the Communicable Disease Control Department at the Ministry of Health, [...]
Reportedly, 16 Cambodian villagers living in Choam Ksan district’s Kantuot commune have been detained by Thai police on Saturday evening, by accusing of illegally logging in Thai territory while walking from Preah Vihear province into Thailand. According to district deputy police chief Pang Vanndy, the villagers were in Cambodian territory when they were detained, reported [...]
Kuala Lumpur-based 28th commercial bank – Malaysia’s Hwang DBS commercial bank- opened its first branch in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, setting up with capital of $20 million and will serve small-to-medium-size enterprises as well as individuals and foreigners in Cambodia. And it is the fourth Malaysia bank to have invested in Cambodia. Han Peng Kwang, senior [...]
With the increasing number of A(H1N1) influenza cases in Southeast Asia, and the spread of influenza infliction in Thailand, the Ministry of Health has asked all Cambodian people to delay travel to and from Thailand in order to avoid to contract swine flu virus. It was noticed that a large number of A(H1N1) individuals in [...]
The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has already approved the license for the Hanoi-based Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) to open its representative office soon in Phnom Penh, which bought a local commercial bank- Prosperity Investment Bank, which began its operation in August 2007. Tal Nay Im, NBC’s director general, was quoted [...]