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No sparing the rod: Some law enforcement officers caning curfew breakers
Law enforcement officers in some parts of the capital have resorted to corporal punishment and are caning curfew breakers to get them to comply with lockdown measures.
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Mass closure of garment factories leaves workers unpaid, struggling to survive in lockdown
Many of the thousands of garment workers now under Cambodia’s strictest COVID-19 lockdown restrictions are finding themselves unpaid, suspended indefinitely from the capital area’s hundreds of factories and, as of yet, with little help from outside.
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‘February 20’ Cluster in Numbers: 7,600 and Climbing
Phnom Penh has been at the center of the recent Covid-19 outbreak, reporting more than 2,000 cases in the past week, according to Phnom Penh City Hall data. The outbreak has spread rapidly through the city’s markets and factories — leading to the country’s first lockdown and the creation of “red zones.”
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Commune election concerns as testing process postponed
Some political parties yesterday expressed concern over the organisation of the upcoming Commune Council Election next year with the National Election Committee (NEC) postponing the election testing process due to the community outbreak of COVID-19.
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PM: Give food to monks in pagodas in lockdown and red zones
Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed all capital and provincial authorities to make sure that food is delivered to pagodas in lockdown and red zone areas.
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Tourists with expired visas also eligible for COVID-19 vaccines
All foreigners who are stranded in Cambodia with no flights to return home who have an expired tourist visa are eligible to take the COVID-19 vaccination.
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NGOs fear for vulnerable groups during lockdown
Twenty-four non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have urged the government to prepare for possible violence towards vulnerable groups in quarantine centres and various lockdown areas.
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Lockdown shopping relief: City Hall orders issuing of cards for people to buy essentials
Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday ordered all district authorities in the capital to issue “Shopping” ID cards for people to go out and buy food and groceries during the lockdown.
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Gov’t food distribution begins but with food stores closed, ‘red zone’ residents worry about feeding their families
Two weeks ago, garment workers at Din Han Enterprise factory went into quarantine after hundreds of workers tested positive for COVID-19. Long Sarem, 42, sealed herself and her son into her small rental room in Meanchey district’s Stung Meanchey 3 commune, surviving on inexpensive food from a nearby vendor. But just as that quarantine was set to finish, the entire commune was turned into a so-called “red zone
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Police Introduce Canes for Beating Lockdown Violators, 100 Arrested
Just over 100 people were arrested and fined in Phnom Penh in one day as authorities introduced canes for beating lockdown violators, a police official said on Wednesday.
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Phsar Chas closed, three more villages locked down as Covid spreads
A second garment factory and a popular Phnom Penh market have been shut down and three more villages have been placed under lockdown, as the COVID-19 caseload rose by another 277 cases on Monday, officials said, following weekend warnings that Cambodia was on the brink of a “national tragedy.”
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Vegetable Sales Shift, Go Underground as Over a Dozen Markets Shut Down
When Phnom Penh’s wholesale Doeum Kor market became a Covid-19 hotspot and was shuttered, some vendors quietly shifted to Stung Meanchey, sellers said.
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Military officer rams barricade with motorbike
Police in Phnom Penh yesterday morning arrested a military officer accused of violating the lockdown by driving his motorcycle into a barricade and causing injuries to a police officer.
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Phnom Penh police deny beating lockdown pedestrians but confirm stricter enforcement
In a measure that human rights monitors have blasted as extreme, Phnom Penh police have begun flogging people deemed to be violating the sweeping metropolitan lockdown order.
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Lockdown shopping relief: City Hall orders issuing of cards for people to buy essentials
Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday ordered all district authorities in the capital to issue “Shopping” ID cards for people to go out and buy food and groceries during the lockdown.
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Photoshopping history: The true story behind the smirking man of Tuol Sleng
An artist has caused uproar and anguish after photoshopping smiles onto the faces of inmates photographed at notorious Khmer Rouge prison camp S-21. Here, the brother of Khva Leang, incorrectly introduced as Bora in the piece, tells the true story of his long-lost kin
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PM promotes global governance with multilateralism
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called for global governance that upholds multilateralism and respects international laws and the sovereignty of each nation amid challenges stemming from intense “geo-political rivalries” between superpowers.
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Phnom Penh Residents Worry About Food Shortages, Income Loss Amid Stringent Lockdown
Phnom Penh residents are facing food shortages and financial strife as the capital and Takhmau city complete a week of the country’s first lockdown due to the increasing number of COVID-19 infections.
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Workers From More Than 100 Factories in Cambodia’s Capital Region Infected With COVID-19
Workers from scores of factories in the vicinity of Cambodia’s capital have been infected with COVID-19 amid the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak, authorities said Tuesday, as residents chafed against a lockdown that has left them without food for days, forcing several to risk arrest to obtain supplies.
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CPP urges more former CNRP to seek political rehabilitation
The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) yesterday called on more former opposition senior officials to request for political rehabilitation after seven more of them recently had their five-year political ban lifted, leaving former opposition leader Sam Rainsy more and more alone.
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