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2022-06-20 10:03:43 #Business

Donaco International fully opens casino ops in Poipet

ASX-LISTED casino operator Donaco International Ltd has fully reopened its Star Vegas establishment in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town near the Thai border, following the lifting of border restrictions between Cambodia and Thailand.

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2022-06-20 09:36:35 #Business

E-payment transactions up by over a third in 2021

Electronic payment transactions worth 415.5 trillion riel ($102 billion) were made nationwide last year, marking a 34.5 per cent rise over 2020, as the number of e-wallet accounts reached 13.6 million, amounting to more than 80 per cent of the total population, according to the central bank.

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2022-06-20 09:02:50 #National

Nearly $51M can factory planned for Kampong Speu’s east

Baosteel Can Making (Cambodia) Co Ltd plans to build a $50.7 million can factory in east-central Kampong Speu to cash in on the burgeoning Cambodian beverage industry.

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2022-06-20 08:33:39 #National

No new Covid cases in Cambodia

The Ministry of Health on June 20 reported zero new Covid-19 cases and no new deaths.

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2022-06-20 07:22:18 #National

Teams set to rumble at Robocon Cambodia 2022

Robocon Cambodia 2022, the top robot contest in the Kingdom, will return for its ninth edition on June 26, with selected university students bringing their automatons together under a theme and rules based on the southern Indian game of “lagori”.

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2022-06-20 06:57:03 #National

Capital’s Half Marathon set to be full-distance event: NOCC

The leaders of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) plan to turn the Phnom Penh International Half Marathon, a 21km race, into a full 42km marathon.

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2022-06-20 06:49:25 #Business

Nestle’s debut may spur dairy market

Leading confectionery manufacturer Nestle plans to invest in Cambodia by setting up an operation in the near future, a move majorly hailed by local dairy farmers as a means of boosting the fresh milk market in the Kingdom.

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2022-06-20 06:08:50 #National

Candlelight’s No2 lands in NEC defamation suit

The National Election Committee (NEC) on June 17 filed a lawsuit against Candlelight Party vice-president Son Chhay for “public defamation” for his remarks in a recent interview on the “Idea Talk” podcast hosted by the US-based Khmer-language online media outlet Cambodia Daily.

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2022-06-19 11:01:21 #Special Report

Not part of IPEF – Would that be so bad?

Unlike most of its peers in ASEAN, Cambodia was not included in the initial list of countries of US-borne IPEF. It is not a traditional free trade agreement. But it has commitments which must be met, or parties risk losing benefits

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2022-06-19 10:01:57 #Lifestyle

Khmer release for Ros Serey Sothea story

The Golden Voice, a 200-page graphic novel describing the life and career of Ros Serey Sothea, one of the most famous female singer of Cambodia’s “Golden Age” of the 1960s, is to be published in Khmer in December.

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