R 3495 E MB U N SSUE I WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 Intelligent . In-depth . Independent www.phnompenhpost.com 4000 RIEL MINISTRIES URGE MILLED-RICE France’s MACRON MEDIA FIRMS TO EXPORTS SEE 31 URGES LEBANON REGISTER NAMES PER CENT SPURT gov’t FORMATION NATIONAL – page 2 BUSINESS – page 7 WORLD – pAGE 9 Tuol Sleng chief Duch in ‘critical’ condition Long Kimmarita on Tuesday that doctors at the Chey ment on Duch’s condition. district, Duch was placed in military committed at Tuol Sleng prison. He was Chumneas Referral Hospital in Kan- But Kandal Provincial Court spokes- detention by the Cambodian Military initially sentenced to 35 years in prison. KAING GUEK EAV, the former Tuol dal province made the decision. man Tin Sochetra told The Post on Tues- Court between 1999 and 2007 before To compensate for the 10 years he served Sleng prison chief better known as He is currently being treated but day that Duch’s condition is critical and being detained by the Extraordinary in prison before the ECCC establishment Duch, was transferred to the Khmer- doctors decline to reveal details doctors are treating him attentively. Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and the six years served during the hear- Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom about his condition. He will be “The information that we received (ECCC) on July 31, 2007. ing, he would only have to serve 19 years. Penh on Monday night for symptoms allowed to receive treatment at the is that he remains at hospital. His Khmer Rouge tribunal spokesman But prosecutors pushed for a longer sen- of fatigue related to his old age. hospital until he gets better. children said his condition is very Neth Pheaktra told The Post on Tues- tence and the ECCC’s Supreme Court Duch, 78, is currently serving a life “It is necessary to let him continue serious. Doctors are giving him strong day the ECCC received news about Chamber sentenced him to life in prison sentence for the crimes he committed to get treatment because he is very medicine. We will continue to observe Duch’s condition. on February 3, 2012. during the Khmer Rouge regime. old,” Savna said. his health,” Sochetra said. Duch was punished by the ECCC’s “On July 06, 2013, Duch was sent to General Department of Prisons Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital Hailing from Peam Bang commune Trial Chamber on July 26, 2010, for Kandal provincial prison for his remain- spokesman Nuth Savna told The Post director Ngy Meng declined to com- in Kampong Thom province’s Stoung crimes against humanity and war crimes ing prison sentence,” Pheaktra said. Covid-19 response a ‘catalyst’ to axe poverty Niem Chheng It said Cambodia has achieved impressive rates of STUDY published on economic growth over the past Monday by the UN 15 years while keeping income Development Pro- inequality in check. The pov- gramme (UNDP) said erty rate has fallen dramati- theA Covid-19 pandemic has been cally from about 50 per cent of a catalyst for the large-scale the population in 2007 to development of Cambodia’s below 10 per cent in 2016. social protection schemes. But social assistance was Mass rebellions It said the Kingdom should lacking in Cambodia, as there Activists from the climate protest group Extinction Rebellion wear personal protective equipment as they perform during a march through be able to reduce the poverty was no social protection floor central London on Tuesday, at the start of their new season of ‘mass rebellions’. AFP rate to below three per cent at for Cambodians living in pov- a price tag representing at erty, the report said. In 2017, most 1.5 per cent of its gross Cambodia introduced the domestic product (GDP). National Social Protection The report, entitled Meeting Policy Framework, which the Cost and Maximising the demonstrated a political com- Samsung heir charged with fraud Impact of Social Protection in mitment to fixing the issue. Cambodia, said the govern- The authors of the report SOUTH Korean prosecutors other offences when two other deploying “various unfair likely to prove a distraction as his ment’s cash transfer pro- raised two models of social pro- indicted the heir to the Sam- subsidiaries, Samsung C&T transactions” that damaged firm seeks to navigate the effects gramme represented a political tection as examples: either allo- sung empire on Tuesday over and Cheil Industries, merged other shareholders’ interests. of the coronavirus pandemic. and institutional development cating cash transfers alone or a controversial merger of two in 2015, the prosecutors said. Lee is already separately being Lee’s legal team rejected the that could pave the way for per- providing a balance of cash and business units seen as a key Ten other current and retried on charges of bribery, charges, calling them “one- manent, more effective and asset transfers, so-called gradu- step towards his succession, former top Samsung execu- embezzlement and other sided allegations”. ambitious programmes. ation-based programmes. in the latest legal blow to the tives were also charged. offences in connection with the “Every process for the merg- “This would not only pro- “Whichever social assistance sprawling conglomerate. Lee and his subordinates corruption scandal that brought er was carried out legally,” mote economic recovery but programme Cambodia choos- Lee Jae-yong, vice-chairman had carried out “a systemic down former South Korean they said, adding the indict- also open the way for the es to implement, we estimate of Samsung Electronics Co scheme to take control of the president Park Geun-hye. ment against Lee was “not establishment of a social pro- Ltd, committed stock manipu- Samsung Group with the least The businessman was not only beyond comprehension, tection floor,” the report said. CONTINUED – page 2 lation, breach of trust and cost”, said the prosecution, by detained, but the charges are it’s lamentable”. AFP THE PHNOM PENH POST Cambodian workers allowed National News to stay in Thailand until 2022 Inside page 3 2 THE PHNOM PENH POST SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 WWW.phnompenhpost.COM National Schemes Ministries urge could cut media firms to poverty rate to sub 3% register names Continued from page 1 Long Kimmarita order, social morality, or good that it will cost approximately traditions of the nation. $80 million in current terms to HE ministries of “All natural and legal per- halve the incidence of poverty, commerce and infor- sons who do business or allowing 500,000 Cambodians mation on Tuesday service in the information to meet their subsistence issued an inter-min- and audiovisual sector have needs,” the report concluded. Tisterial prakas on the man- to request trade registration. It said even if the cash trans- agement of trade registration, [These persons] can also re- fer programme was temporary, brand protection and trade- quest brand and trademark it promised to achieve signifi- mark for the information and registration at the commerce cant poverty reduction in both audiovisual sectors. ministry within six months rural and urban settings. For The ministries are giving of the signing. If necessary, as long as it lasts, the new those who do business in the the commerce ministry can emergency social protection sectors six months to register decide to delay another six scheme created in response to at the commerce ministry. months,” the prakas said. Covid-19 could lift over one Co-signed by commerce Information ministry million Cambodians out of minister Pan Sorasak and spokesman Meas Sophorn poverty and improve the liveli- information minister Khieu told The Post on Tuesday that Co-signed by commerce minister Pan Sorasak (left) and information minister Khieu Kanharith on August 28, hoods of many more. Kanharith on August 28, the the ministries’ decision is the prakas said the aim is to manage trade registrations for the sectors. MINISTRIES OF COMMERCE AND INFORMATION “This represents an unprec- prakas said the aim is to man- not meant to put pressure or edented political stance and age trade registrations for the burden on such institutions. ing names or trademarks of News, supported the move. age too. It also affected public institutional progress towards sectors. Rather, it encourages them to each unit,” he said. Besides receiving legal protec- interests when incorrect in- more permanent and ambi- It ensures that the identities participate further in protect- Sophorn said that as of the tion, the measure helps pro- formation is disseminated,” tious programmes, including of each unit do not overlap ing their legal rights. first semester of this year, the tect the interests of companies he said. towards the establishment of other units and prevent un- “The aim of this joint prakas information ministry had reg- and the public, he said. Delux said obedience of the a social protection floor,” the fair competition. is to encourage an institution istered 452 newspaper units, “As long as there is piracy or law not only helps his insti- report said. Consisting of six chapters to register at the information 196 magazine units, 22 bul- trademark fraud, it affects se- tution protect against piracy, Cambodia’s budget surplus and 14 articles, the prakas ministry. The institution has letin units, 621 page and TV riously. We work profession- but it also helps maintain in 2018 was approximately added that all natural and to receive legal protection of online units, 221 radio station ally, but if other news outlets confidence in his partners. $150 million. If it was used for legal persons will not be al- using trademark and brand units and 239 TV station units. that have a similar brand do All information institutions social safety nets, it could close lowed to use brands and registry in its information Leang Delux, executive di- not register and do work pro- should be registered and obey the poverty gap, it said.