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Gather Only With Family, No Water Play During Khmer New Year: City Hall
Sangkran events are canceled across the city and residents should gather only within households and avoid splashing water or lighting firecrackers as part of celebrations, Phnom Penh City Hall said on Monday, further tightening Khmer New Year public health measures.
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Cambodia’s economic recovery uncertain amid Covid
Cambodia is not different from other developing countries in the region, as tourism and garment are the most complex, worst-hit sectors that will take time to recover. In the first nine months of 2020, international arrivals reached just 1.25 million, down 26 per cent over the same period in 2019.
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Indebted Oil Company Reports Lower-Than-Expected Oil at Cambodian Block
KrisEnergy has warned that its current production rate at Cambodia’s Apsara offshore oil block has yielded only around half the company’s projected peak rate, and it has extended debt repayment deadlines and brought in an engineering firm to assess the situation amid “material uncertainty … to continue as a going concern.”
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NGOs Demand Cambodia Suspend Debt, Interest Payments Amid Latest Coronavirus Outbreak
More than 100 NGOs called on Cambodia’s government Tuesday to direct microfinance institutions (MFI) and lenders to suspend all loan repayments and interest accrual for at least three months to allow borrowers the ability to shelter at home during the country’s latest and deadliest coronavirus outbreak.
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Heavy rainstorm destroys properties and injures five
A heavy rainstorm destroyed 19 houses, a children’s playground, and two markets with 60 stalls in front of the Paramax casino in Poipet City on Sunday.
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HRW raises privacy concerns over the government’s ‘Stop Covid-19’ QR code system
New York-based, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Cambodian government’s “Stop Covid-19” digital contact tracing system “raises serious privacy and other human rights concerns,” and urged less invasive measures as Cambodia battles a new wave of Covid-19.
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Travel Ban for Two Weeks Announced
Travel between provinces has been banned for two weeks from Wednesday through April 20, spanning the Khmer New Year holidays amid the country’s worst Covid-19 outbreak to date, the government announced in a statement late Tuesday.
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Three Men Arrested for Party Allegedly Violating Covid-19 Measures
Three men drinking and singing through loudspeakers in a rented room in Phnom Penh late Sunday afternoon have been arrested for allegedly violating the city’s Covid-19 measures, which include a requirement for social distancing in all public and private areas except for people who live together and certain other exemptions.
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As lenders enjoy profits, more than 100 civil society groups call for government action to suspend loan repayments for stressed borrowers
On Tuesday, 103 non-governmental organizations, farmer communities, associations and worker unions publicly called on the government to direct financial institutions to suspend all loan repayments and interest accrual for at least three months, saying that loan restructure is not enough.
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Majority of Cambodians eager to get vaccinated
I am happy after getting the first dose of the vaccine. I was more worried about not receiving a vaccination than the side effects. When I took the vaccine, there were a lot of people but we made sure to distance ourselves from one another.
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UN human rights expert shares concerns on COVID-19 law, receives no answer from government
The outgoing UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights has expressed concerns a sweeping law intended to halt the spread of Covid-19 could be used to restrict civil rights in Cambodia.
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Land clearing accusations from 2008 under scrutiny
The Ministry of Environment has sent a team to investigate land disputes at two locations covering over 100ha.
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Investors Say Firm Linked to 2 Deputy PMs Is Diverting Blame After Losses
An investment firm run by a daughter and niece of two deputy prime ministers is suing ex-board members who it claims cheated the company out of $20 million — though some customers say they want the company to take the responsibility for the loss of their investments.
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Siem Reap Revival Plan Issued, but Some Say the Key Is Vaccines
Training, infrastructure and financing are the key pillars of the government’s plan to rebuild Siem Reap’s battered tourism industry, stakeholders said after an official roadmap was approved and issued last week.
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Two Suspicious Deaths in Cambodia’s Battambang Province Prompt Call For Probes
Two men have died under suspicious circumstances in Cambodia’s Battambang province, according to their family members and human rights groups, who say few details were released about their deaths and called on authorities to reinvestigate their cases.
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Crackdown on violators: Capital police take action against 155 curfew breakers
Phnom Penh police have adopted a no-nonsense stand and took action against 155 people who violated the 8pm to 5am curfew over the past two nights.
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PM congratulates Vietnam’s newly elected president
Cambodia is committed to consolidating its long-standing relationship with Vietnam, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a letter congratulating the latter’s newly elected President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
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O’Russei Market Closed; 100 vehicles confiscated during curfew
More than 100 motorbikes and cars were confiscated from people violating Phnom Penh’s COVID-19 curfew over the past three days and O’Russei Market was shut down and 5,000 vendors sent for testing on Sunday after vendors and security tested positive for the disease, officials said.
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Justice ministry setting up mediation training team
The Ministry of Justice is setting up a mediation training team to be made up of specialists from state institutions as well as national and international civil society organisations (CSOs).
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Cambodia logs 63 new Covid case, 21st death
The Ministry of Health on April 5 recorded the country's 21st Covid-19 fatality and another 63 infections linked to the February 20 community outbreak.
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