The E.U. has listed Cambodia as one of 12 “high-risk” countries with deficient anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing efforts, but the government on Friday said officials were working hard to get the nation off international watch lists.
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France has committed 400,000 Euros to support three research projects on COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia. The French diplomat also informed Minister about the 2-million-Euro project of the French Development Agency (AFD) to support leading laboratories in Southeast Asia, including the Institute Pasteur du Cambodge, which has close cooperation with France, in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
Following the outbreak of the epidemic in Cambodia, China sent medical teams to the country and provided urgently needed anti-epidemic supplies, Wang said, stressing that this fully embodies the friendly tradition of mutual support and assistance between the two nations.
Vietnamese soldiers have already started dismantling tents they set up at a disputed border stretch in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district, provincial governor Kong Sophorn said. CSOs urging government authorities to demand that Vietnam remove a string of military shelters set up in a disputed border area, calling the tents’ presence on the border an attempt to encroach on Cambodian territory. The Vietnamese Embassy and Consulates General in Battambang and Preah Sihanouk presented gifts to about 3,000 families of Vietnamese nationals across Cambodia.
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A World Health Organization (WHO) representative on May 5 warned that Cambodia remains at high risk of a second wave outbreak of Covid-19, although the country has achieved a good response to the first phase of the epidemic.https://bit.ly/2ztSd8U;
