R 3449 E MB U N SSUE I TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2020 Intelligent . In-depth . Independent www.phnompenhpost.com 4000 RIEL CPP to inaugurate new MINISTRY SAYS $30 million headquarters SCHOOL OPENING Niem Chheng Located in central Phnom get the money from. My an- the Supreme Court-dissolved took 20 months to build. TO BE POSTPONED Penh, the $30 million build- swer to them is that we get it Cambodia National Rescue The construction company HE new headquarters ing was made possible by from all levels of membership Party (CNRP) for mobilising officially handed the building until year’s end of the ruling Cambo- contributions from CPP of the CPP ranging from work- money to build The Sun TV over to CCP vice-president NATIONAL – page 2 dian People’s Party members, Prime Minister ers, farmers and vendors to station, which has not been Say Chhum on Sunday. (CPP) will be official- Hun Sen said on Monday. millionaires and their children. operational since the idea The five-storey building sits lyT inaugurated on Sunday Speaking while visiting the “It’s not hard to get more was proposed before the dis- on 1.6ha on Norodom Bou- after its construction was construction site of a new in- than $30 million to build the solution of the party. levard in Chamkarmon dis- completed over the weekend. ternational airport in neigh- headquarters of the ruling According to the CCP website, trict’s Tonle Bassac commune. The inauguration comes on bouring Kandal province, he party,” he said. the new headquarters broke its 69th anniversary. said: “Some asked where we Hun Sen also hit back at ground in November 2018 and CONTINUED – page 2 New York SECC, CHINESE to remove FIRM WORK ON COMMODITIES, statue of FUTURES MARKET Roosevelt BUSINESS – page 6 NEW York City announced on Sunday it would remove a statue of former US President Theod- ore Roosevelt, long criticised as a racist and colonialist symbol. But the move drew criticism from President Donald Trump. The decision comes with the US gripped by widespread pro- tests against racial inequality – sparked by the killing in police custody of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American NORTH KOREA TO man – with demonstrators top- pling several statues of figures SEND MILLIONS with racist legacies. The bronze sculpture of Roo- OF LEAFLETS sevelt, which has been at the entrance of the American TO THE SOUTH Museum of Natural History WORLD – PAGE 9 (AMNH) for 80 years, depicts Smart hospital the former leader on horseback Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng (centre) presides over the launch of the first health technology solution in the Kingdom. The towering over a black man and programme enables patients and doctors to manage medical records and make appointments automatically. HENG CHIVOAN STORY > 3 a Native American man who are both on foot. Citing the ongoing movement for racial justice, the museum said: “We also have watched as NagaCorp to raise liquidity via notes the attention of the world and the country has increasingly Sangeetha Amarthalingam The latter, assuming there Hotel is operating with reduced 31, 2020, could shore up turned to statues and monu- is a remainder from the occupancy and limited food operating expenditure and ments as powerful and hurtful HIT hard by the temporary redemption of the 2021 notes, and beverage facilities while interest expenses with mini- symbols of systemic racism.” closure of the NagaWorld inte- it said in a filing with the Naga 2 is closed. Duty-free mal revenue for approxi- A Roosevelt family member WOMEN BEAR grated resorts due to Covid-19, Hong Kong Stock Exchange operations at NagaCity Walk mately 18 months. released a statement approv- Hong Kong-listed operator on Monday. remain in operation. “Although we have no oth- ing the removal. THE BRUNT OF NagaCorp Ltd plans to issue Its announcement said its It projects that after giving er existing facilities to pro- “The world does not need stat- senior notes to investors in actual level of cash operating effect to the proposed use of vide further liquidity, we ues, relics of another age, that VIRUS FALLOUT Asia and Europe to refinance expenses in coming periods the net proceeds from the believe that, after giving reflect neither the values of the its $300 million 2021 notes could be impacted by unfore- notes, liquidity including effect to the application of person they intend to honour IN WORKPLACE maturing next year, and other seen developments of events cash and deposits of $464.9 proceeds of the proposed nor the values of equality and expenditures of the company beyond its control. million as of March 31, 2020, justice,” said Theodore Roosevelt LIFESTYLE – page 12 and its restricted subsidiaries. Presently, the group’s Naga 1 and $527.1 million as of May CONTINUED – page 6 IV, 77, a great-grandson. AFP THE PHNOM PENH POST Gov’t has sufficient funds to National News survive Covid-19, PM says Inside page 4 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST JUNE 23, 2020 WWW.phnompenhpost.COM National Speeding driver in court after knocking officers Soth Koemsoeun POLICE sent a suspect to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Sunday after he allegedly knocked a police officer while speeding in his car at Chaom Chao circle in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district. Municipal traffic bueau chief Sem Ratana identified the sus- pect as Puth Monorom. “We sent the case to the Municipal Court, but we don’t know what the court’s decision will be. He drove very fast, caused a traffic police official The ministry said the delay is meant to prevent a second wave of Covid-19. MOEYS to fall [the official did not sus- tain serious injuries] and he did not listen to traffic police’s advice,” Ratana said. Municipal Court spokesper- School opening to be son Kuch Kimlong said on Monday that deputy court prosecutor Long Cheab is The man is accused of three offences – distracting police, using a fake working on this case. car number plate and attempting to flee the scene. POLICE delayed till year’s end “Cheab has not finished questioning him yet. The sus- day that his authorities were a road construction site in the Voun Dara Covid-19 spreads in Cambo- are three million students pect needs a defence lawyer. If not in charge of this case. area of Chaom Chao circle. dia, the country will be set enrolled at state general edu- the questioning is done or any “The municipal traffic police The report said Monorom HE Ministry of Educa- back 10 to 20 years, he said. cation schools. Among them, decision is made, I will inform are in charge of this case while was also driving using some- tion, Youth and Sport Chuon Naron said: “We 30 per cent can buy smart- you later,” Kimlong said. I am not related. I received the one else’s licence plate. will delay school have to wait a little longer phones and computers and Phnom Penh municipal dep- news that authorities sent the According to the report, Mono- openings and Bac- to see how it’s going in other 30 per cent can learn through uty police chief in charge of traf- case and suspect to the court rom is being accused of three Tcalaureate examinations until places. We are waiting to see television. fic Chev Hak declined to com- on Sunday,” Vuthy said. offences – distracting police dur- the end of the year to prevent what happens to countries “Among the three million ment on Monday. A municipal police report ing work, using a fake car number a second wave of Covid-19. that open their schools first. students, there are only one- Por Sen Chey district police said Monorom did not listen to plate and attempting to flee the Meantime, as the govern- “Opening school late is much and-a-half million who have chief Morn Vuthy said on Mon- traffic police officers’ advice at scene. ment moves to offer digital better than opening school with accessed the digital education learning services, about 50 high risks. This is the stance of system. The other half de- per cent of Cambodia’s three Prime Minister Hun Sen.” pends on the books published million students still cannot Chuon Naron said he al- by the ministry,” he said. fully access digital lessons. ready has a strategy for re- On April 8, the ministry is- ‘CPP built to last 50 to 100 years’ Minister of Education, opening schools, and that he sued a letter extending the Youth and Sport Hang Chuon would only like to re-open lower secondary diploma Continued from page 1 interrupt shipping. 90 per cent of his ability. Naron made the remarks at a them if they can adhere to examinations and the sec- “It is not a new thing that He said Manet becom- press conference for the con- high standards. ondary school diploma ex- The building itself covers Hun Sen has done this, and it ing prime minister depends struction of the “Centre for Any school which is crowd- aminations for the 2019-2020 50,000sqm. is so successful. When a nega- on the party and support Digital and Distance Educa- ed with students and cannot academic year to prevent the Hun Sen also clarified tive event happens, the private from the general public tion” at Preah Sisowath High implement guidelines by the spread of Covid-19. his reasons for buying 290 sector helps the army. That’s through a general election. School on Sunday. Ministry of Health and the The ministry said: “Delay military trucks, which were why there is a partnership be- Manet would be 53 years old He said the government’s World Health Organisation will the lower secondary diploma distributed last week to the tween the private sector and in 10 years, mature enough to stance is to continue be- not be allowed to re-open.