Ban on Travel Lifted, Museums to Reopen
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Independent www.phnompenhpost.com 4000 RIEL Millions Ban on travel lifted, fall into ‘extreme NEW TOOLS TO museums to reopen poverty’ MONITOR AIR AND Long Kimmarita A Ministry of Health and foreigners, they had to and must adhere to the gov- THE head of the World Bank announcement on travellers hold certificates confirming ernment’s measures. warned on Tuesday that the WATER QUALITY TARTING May 20, for- read: “Please revise measures that they had no Covid-19. “All travellers, including novel coronavirus crisis threat- eigners from Iran, to prevent, stop and respond to The certificates are to be Cambodians and foreigners ens to push some 60 million IN PHNOM PENH Italy, Germany, Spain, the Covid-19 pandemic for all released by the health who arrive in Cambodia must people into extreme poverty, NATIONAL – page 3 France and the US travellers by air, road and water authorities recognised by be sent to waiting rooms to wiping out the gains made Swho were banned from enter- to enter Cambodia. Repeal the the governments of each test for Covid-19 and wait for over the past three years. ing Cambodia since the novel ban on foreigners.” country within 72 hours of a result from the Pasteur The global lending institu- coronavirus broke out will be Its minister Mam Bun Heng arriving in Cambodia. Institute. In case one or many tion is already financing aid allowed to visit the Kingdom said in the announcement He said foreigners must travellers are detected with programmes in 100 countries, as normal. They were banned that even though all travellers have health insurance docu- Covid-19, other passengers under its commitment to from entering the Kingdom are allowed to enter Cambo- mentation of at least $50,000 spend $160 billion over the since mid-March. dia including Cambodians while staying in Cambodia CONTINUED – page 3 next 15 months, bank presi- dent David Malpass said. “That’s home to 70 per cent of the world’s population. This represents a significant milestone,” Malpass told a conference call. FIRMS CATCH Malpass said the bank antic- ipates a five per cent contrac- ELECTRICITY tion in the world economy this year, with severe effects on the BREAK FROM poorest countries. “We estimate that up to 60 GOVERNMENT million people will be pushed BUSINESS – page 6 into extreme poverty, erasing all the progress made in pov- erty alleviation in the past three years, and our forecasts indicate a deep recession,” Malpass said. Nearly five million people have been infected by the coronavirus around the world, and more than 300,000 have died since it first appeared in China in late 2019. So far, the World Bank has spent $5.5 billion to shore up IN CHINA, DRUG beleaguered health systems, economies and social services SAID TO STOP in poor countries. But Malpass stressed that CORONAVIRUS the World Bank’s efforts alone were insufficient, and urged WITHOUT VACCINE donor nations to step up bilat- WORLD – PAGE 9 eral aid to poorer countries to ensure a durable recovery. Danger cyclone He said restoring the flow of A man looks out as waves hit a breakwater at Kasimedu fishing harbour in Chennai, India. Millions of people were being remittance payments and moved to safety on Wednesday as one of the fiercest cyclones in decades barrelled towards India and Bangladesh. AFP STORY > 9 tourism – key sources of income for developing coun- tries – would be “critical steps in the reopening”. A year-long moratorium on ‘Three million at risk of Covid-19’ debt payments by less developed countries – called for by the G20 Soth Koemsoeun World Health Assembly, which soap are unavailable. hygiene, but it remained con- in mid-April – has gained grow- was held virtually on Monday, Cambodia’s health facilities cerned about the three mil- ing acceptance, he noted. AROUND three million Cam- WaterAid urged Cambodia’s can only effectively challenge lion Cambodians without Malpass said 14 countries RESTAURANTS, bodians are at risk of Covid-19, Ministry of Health and rele- the virus when doctors, nurs- water and soap, as well as the have agreed to such a suspen- as well as other epidemics, vant institutions to make es and midwives are ade- healthcare facilities that sion of debt payments, anoth- RESORTS STAGE because of a lack of proper hygiene a priority in the coun- quately protected and lacked such essentials. er 23 are expected to request hand cleaning stations, while try’s overall plan. equipped, it said. “Even though hand cleans- it, and 17 were giving it seri- A COMEBACK AS 10 per cent of healthcare facil- In a press release, the NGO WaterAid offered support to ing is a priority to prevent the ous consideration. ities in the country lack clean said the world’s poorest the government and endorsed spread of Covid-19, about 21 “That’s a very welcome and VIRUS FEARS EASE water and soap, NGO WaterAid communities are struggling the idea of promoting hand per cent of Cambodians very fast response and positive Cambodia said on Monday. with the novel coronavirus hygiene and disseminating response to the G20 countries’ LIFESTYLE – page 12 In anticipation of the 73rd because clean water and information regarding CONTINUED – page 2 commitment,” he said. AFP one month’s free VIP subscrIPTION White-shouldered THE PHNOM PENH POST Ibis nests found in National News Inside page 5 FOR THE FIRST 1,000 PHNOM PENH POST R’kiri sanctuary READERS WHO REGISTER! 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST MAY 21, 2020 WWW.phnompenhpost.COM National VN embassy: Covid-19 Hun Sen recalls life in war patient may not have Khorn Savi nieces, nephews and grandchil- dren would not have seen their HILE official grandmothers and parents alive. come from Cambodia gatherings for January 7 is a second birthday the National Day for all Cambodians,” he said. Khorn Savi istries of health, and informa- of Remembrance The Royal Academy of tion, to discuss the exchange Won May 20 were cancelled due Cambodia’s International Re- THE Vietnamese embassy of information and methods to the Covid-19 pandemic, lations Institute director Kin in Phnom Penh has rejected for preventing infections. Prime Minister Hun Sen com- Phea said the Day of Remem- media reports that one of However, health ministry memorated the day by post- brance is an important day its citizens who tested posi- spokeswoman Or Vandine said ing appeals to the public on for many reasons. tive for Covid-19 in Vietnam on Wednesday she is unaware Facebook to maintain peace. First, he said, it is a politi- had carried the disease from of a meeting between the two He also published a video cal message for all people to Cambodia. sides. “I haven’t received such detailing his personal strug- learn the lessons of social di- The VnExpress report had information,” she said. gles during the Khmer Rouge’s visions from the past. drawn the ire of Cambodian The VnExpress reported on reign. The country was torn by health officials, who accused Saturday that four Vietnam- The Day of Remembrance civil war, thereby leading to the online newspaper of pub- ese nationals returning from commemorates the genocide tragedy and destruction for lishing the story without any overseas tested positive for which claimed more than two the whole nation. solid proof to substantiate it. Covid-19, bringing the total million lives in Cambodia un- Secondly, the day repre- They said the report under- number of infections in the The Day of Remembrance commemorates the genocide which claimed der the Khmer Rouge’s rule more than two million lives in Cambodia. HENG CHIVOAN sents a message for people to mined Cambodia’s efforts to country to 318. from 1975 to 1979. May 20 place a high value on peace. fight the pandemic. It said one of the four – a 39- marked the start of mass kill- scribing his decision to leave His wife, Bun Rany, was five “We see that National Day Through its Facebook page, year-old from Tan Chau district ings by the communist regime. for Vietnam on June 20, 1977, months pregnant at the time. of Remembrance causes con- the Vietnamese embassy in the southeastern province of Through his Facebook to seek the support of the Viet- Cambodian People’s Party troversy between the ruling quoted its ambassador Vu Tay Ninh which borders Cam- page on Wednesday, Hun Sen namese army in a desperate (CPP) spokesman Sok Eysan party and the former oppo- Quang Minh as saying the bodia – travelled by bus from asked citizens to remember bid to liberate Cambodia from said the Day of Anger, which sition party. [The opposition man was never officially con- his hometown to Siem Reap the atrocities and blackouts Pol Pot’s genocidal regime. was later renamed as Day of party] views the day as a vic- firmed to have imported the on January 10 and returned to that occurred while looking In the video, Hun Sen leaves Remembrance, is a day to tory for the CPP. disease from Cambodia. Vietnam illegally on May 2 as forward to the future. Cambodia with four other com- remember the suffering in- “But I find that we should He said besides being con- the borders remained closed “We must remember to keep rades. Between the five of them, flicted on people during the not forget and discuss the firmed Covid-19 positive, of- amid the pandemic. the regime from returning they have only three rifles and genocidal regime of Pol Pot. problem today because the ficial medical records did not It said the man took a mo- and to maintain long-lasting two bombs.