ថ្ងៃចន្ទ ១២រោច ខែមាឃ ឆ្នាំឆ្លូវ ត្រីស័ក ព.ស.២៥៦៥ ត្រូវនឹងថ្ងៃទី២៨ ខែកុម្ភៈ គ.ស.២០២២
Monday the 12th Waning Moon of Māgha B.E.2565 equivalent to February 28, A.D.2022 Year of the Cow
USA Today

The White House announced Saturday that the United States and allies agreed to block select Russian banks from SWIFT, the global financial messaging system.

In a joint statement with leaders of the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, the officials said Russia being excluded from SWIFT ensures “that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.”

The announcement comes after President Joe Biden on Thursday told reporters that the penalties from the latest round of sanctions against Russia are “maybe more consequence than SWIFT.”

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ថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ ១១រោច ខែមាឃ ឆ្នាំឆ្លូវ ត្រីស័ក ព.ស.២៥៦៥ ត្រូវនឹងថ្ងៃទី២៧ ខែកុម្ភៈ គ.ស.២០២២
Sunday the 11th Waning Moon of Māgha B.E.2565 equivalent to February 27, A.D.2022 Year of the Cow
UN

Secretary-General António Guterres has announced that the UN will launch an appeal to fund its humanitarian operations in Ukraine, amid reports on Saturday of casualties and people fleeing their homes to seek safety as Russian military operations in the country intensify.

A readout issued by a UN spokesperson said that Mr. Guterres had spoken on the phone earlier in the afternoon with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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ថ្ងៃចន្ទ ១រោច ខែបុស្ស ឆ្នាំឆ្លូវ ត្រីស័ក ព.ស.២៥៦៥ ត្រូវនឹងថ្ងៃទី១៨ ខែមករា​ គ.ស.២០២២
Monday the 1st Waning Moon of Phussa B.E.2565, January 18, A.D.2022 Year of the Cow

Cambodia begins the new year as the first nation in Southeast Asia to publish a plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The roadmap, known officially as a “Long-term strategy for Carbon Neutrality (LTS4CN)”, was submitted to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on the 30th of December 2021. This fulfilled a promise by Prime Minister Hun Sen to present such a plan by the end of 2021 and it followed on the heels of his government’s pledge, at COP26 Glasgow last November, to reduce Cambodia’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than 40 percent of median levels by 2030.

“Implementation of the carbon neutrality strategy in Cambodia is expected to increase our nation’s GDP by nearly 3 percent and to create some 449,000 jobs by 2050” says Say Samal, Minister of the Environment for Cambodia. “Forestry sector reforms, decarbonization of transport systems and the promotion of low-carbon agricultural and goods production processes will lead the way to a greener economy and more sustainable prosperity for all”.

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