R 3504 E MB U N SSUE I TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 Intelligent . In-depth . Independent www.phnompenhpost.com 4000 RIEL STUDENTS IN RUSSIA AGricultural CO2 EMISSIONS OF TOLD BY EMBASSY TO EXPortS HIT THREE TOP 1% TWICE THAT ‘BE COVID-CAUTIOUS’ MILLION TONNES OF POOREST HALF NATIONAL – page 5 BUSINESS – page 7 WORLD – page 10 Minister: More schools close to reopening Voun Dara to Directive No 43 dated September tors of his decision. All educational they receive a permit to reopen. the second phase more than a week 1, on the reopening of general educa- institutions which were issued Federation of Education Services ago, both the education ministry MINISTER of Education, Youth and tion institutions and private kinder- licenses by the OWSO in their juris- in Cambodia president Pech Bolen and schools have found a new way Sport Hang Chuon Naron on Monday gartens in the second phase. diction are eligible to reopen. said on Monday that the decision to properly accommodate students, authorised directors of education The ministry also pointed to its After directors inspect and evalu- reflects the efforts of the govern- parents and teachers. departments nationwide to sign a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) ate the educational institutions in ment and relevant ministries to pre- Ministr y spokesman Ros Soveacha Memorandum of Understanding and for the re-operating of educational line with the SOPs, they are then vent the spread of Covid-19 and their said on Monday that the decision issue permits for schools licensed by institutions in the context of the Cov- asked to send a report of the inspec- efforts to provide education to stu- was made after the ministry met their respective One Window Service id-19 disease dated August 4. tion and the permission letter to the dents in Cambodia. with the 25 provincial and capital Office (OWSO) to reopen. In a letter issued on Monday, ministry. They must send the docu- Bolen confirmed that after reo- education departments to discuss The Ministry of Education referred Chuon Naron informed the direc- ments no later than three days after pening educational institutions in controlling Covid-19. Rains wreak havoc in northern Cambodia Khouth Sophak Chakrya plies to some families victimised by floods in those areas.” HE mountainous On Saturday, a 41-year-old regions and plateaus woman named Seng Mao of northern and north- drowned during severe rains as western Cambodia she was walking with her hus- areT under increased threat by band and daughter across a the mounting rainfall the King- canal in Pailin which separates dom has recently seen. Thailand and Cambodia. Citizens’ homes, roads and The canal was flooded and the bridges have suffered damage current was strong, Bunly said. Royal archive and could face more danger as Mao was from Ponhea Kraek dis- The Queen Mother Library was inaugurated on Monday at the Sleu Rith Institute (SRI) on Preah Sihanouk Boulevard in Phnom Penh. ROYAL DU CAMBODGE STORY > 3 the monsoon season intensifies. trict’s Kandal Chrum commune Authorities in these flood-vul- in Tbong Khmum province. nerable areas have urged locals On Sunday, Battambang and tourists to exercise increased provincial authorities made an caution during this time. urgent announcement calling The administrative director for citizens who live along the Ten dead in India building collapse of Pailin Provincial Hall, Un Stung Sangke River to be more Bunly, told The Post on Mon- cautious about floods as water TEN people were killed and pulled 19 people from the Bhiwandi, said more than 40 assistance is being provided day that 70mm to 105mm of flowed from the mountains up to 25 are feared trapped rubble – including two boys emergency workers were to the affected.” rainfall has covered the King- and plateaus of the province. after a three-storey residential aged four and seven – to loud helping search for survivors. The cause of the accident dom over the last few days. Battambang Provincial Hall building collapsed before cheers from residents. Images broadcast on the was not immediately clear, but The deluge has caused water administrative director Mul dawn on Monday in western NDRF commandant Ithape NDRF’s official Twitter feed building collapses are com- levels to rise dramatically in riv- Thun told The Post that some India, officials said. Pandit said: “Total number of showed emergency workers mon during India’s June-Sep- ers and canals in Pailin. Many streets and people’s houses in The accident in the city of deaths is 10 . rescue opera- combing through concrete and tember monsoon, with old and hectares of citizens’ crops Rukhak Kiri district’s Prek Chik Bhiwandi, which neighbours tions are ongoing.” brick rubble with electrical wires rickety structures buckling including pineapple, cassava and Bassac communes were India’s financial capital Mum- NDRF director-general Satya hanging over their heads. after days of non-stop rain. and corn in Sala Krao district’s flooded due to heavy rain. bai, happened around 3:40am Narayan Pradhan tweeted that Prime Minister Narendra More than 1,200 people Stung Trang and Stung Kach However, nothing was dam- (2210 GMT on Sunday), local specialist teams and sniffer dogs Modi expressed his condo- were killed in 1,161 building communes were badly flooded. aged beyond repair. authorities said. were trying to rescue another lences via Twitter. “Praying for collapses across the country Bunly said: “Authorities are Uch Umphiny Sara, the director Emergency workers from “20-25 feared trapped”. a quick recovery of those in 2017, the latest data from meanwhile quoting statistics the National Disaster An official at the Thane city injured. Rescue operations the National Crime Records and intervening to give food sup- CONTINUED – page 3 Response Force (NDRF) authority, which oversees are underway and all possible Bureau show. AFP Samlot farmer strikes gold THE PHNOM PENH POST Lifestyle with unique banana chips Inside page 13 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 WWW.phnompenhpost.COM National Pursat meth dealers, users busted in raid Kim Sarom in charge of serious crime, told The Post on Monday that NTI-DRUG police Koemsoeun was the only traf- questioned four ficker in the case, while the suspects at the Pur- other three suspects were sat provincial police drug users. Aoffice on Monday after they Chan Thea said Phnom Kra- were arrested for trafficking vanh authorities arrested Ko- 24 bags of methamphetamine emsoeun while he was selling on Saturday in Samrong com- drugs to users. mune, Phnom Kravanh dis- “After authorities arrested trict, Pursat. the drug trafficker, they or- Speaking to The Post on dered him to take them to ar- Monday, Pursat anti-drug of- rest the three other drug users. fice chief Sy Savin named the Drugs cause many problems four suspects as Sek Koem- not only to you and your fam- soeun, 41; Koy Kem, 29; Sam ily but they also affect security Samrach, 40, and Moeun Rin, and social order,” he said. 30. They all live in Samrong. A Ministry of Interior report “I have detained them at my said authorities investigated office for not more than 24 4,000 drug cases in the past hours yet. My officers are still six months, an increase of questioning them on Mon- 27 per cent compared to the day and preparing to send same period last year. documents to the provincial Authorities arrested over court,” Savin said. 8,000 offenders (8,369 Cam- He said the evidence includ- bodians, 96 Vietnamese, two ed 24 bags of methamphet- Lao, three Thai, 13 Chinese, Chea Hean (not pictured) has said traders are selling more than 150ha in the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary. CHEA HEAN VIA FACEBOOK amine – six large bags and a Burmese, an Indonesian, a 18 smaller ones – 10 phones, Singaporean, a Japanese and four motorbikes, two chain- a Nigerian) over the time- saws and 113 logs of wood. frame. The number of drug NGO asks interior minister to lend a Hun Chan Thea, the Phnom arrests increased by 26 per Kravanh district police chief cent from last year. hand in K Speu forest land protection Soth Koemsoeun of Ou Samrech Chesda, a well- the illegal possession and sale of provincial administration. known military official. land in that area. This forest land “I did not allow buying or sell- ANTI-CORRUPTION, Natural The land is located in Sre Kin must be kept as State property ing because it is State land pro- Resource Protection and Civil village in Oral district’s Trapaing and the trees should be replant- tected by a royal decree and Rights Protection (ACNCIPO) Chor commune in Kampong ed. The perpetrators must be there was a confiscation war- director Chea Hean said on Speu province. Samen is accused punished according to the law rant from the province. I did not Monday he is requesting help of conspiring with authorities to on protected areas,” Hean said. dare sign any document to buy from Minister of Interior Sar sell the land two weeks ago. Trapaing Chor commune or sell that land,” Nem said. Kheng to protect more than Hean said Samen had people chief Tep Nem said on Monday Sorn said on Monday he was 150ha in the Phnom Oral Wild- clear the land in 2018, but he he had seen a letter of sale and aware of the buying and selling life Sanctuary. had notified the Kampong transfer of land title signed by of forest land in the Oral Hean said traders are selling Speu provincial administra- Sre Kin village chief Im Sorn. Mountains in 2018, but recent- the forest land. tion to confiscate it. However, he did not sign for ly he did not sign for Samen to He told The Post on Monday Hean said Samen recently sold acknowledgement or allow the buy or sell land in the area.