Hundreds of cruise ship passengers long-stranded at sea by virus fears cheered as they finally disembarked Friday and were welcomed to Cambodia by the nation’s authoritarian leader who handed them flowers.
Local Cambodian authorities said the passengers could disembark only after clearing a health check, and if they had confirmed flight bookings from Sihanoukville International Airport.
Bloggers in at least two countries face possible prison time for postings as short as one sentence.
China on Thursday replaced its top officials in central Hubei province and its capital, Wuhan, the epicenter of a viral outbreak that has infected more than 45,000 people worldwide.
A cruise ship turned away by other Asian and Pacific governments because of virus fears anchored Thursday off Cambodia, which is checking the health of its 2,200 passengers and crew.
A statement on Holland America Line’s website said the Westerdam would arrive in Sihanoukville Thursday morning. It said the cruise will end there and passengers will disembark over several days and transfer via charter flights to Phnom Penh to catch flights home
Ken Loo, a director at GMAC, said on Monday that 60 percent of materials used in garment production were imported from China. Cambodia is heavily reliant on raw material imports given the lack of locally produced raw material or garment ancillary factories.
Ly Sovann, Health Ministry spokesman, told VOA Khmer on Monday that the man was allowed to leave Preah Sihanouk Referral Hospital and that the family was free to move around the country
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The 34-year-old ophthalmologist died overnight at Wuhan Central Hospital, where he worked and likely contracted the virus while treating patients in the early days of the outbreak.
Neighbors with old gripes against China now worry that Asia’s biggest power is downplaying the number of novel coronavirus infections.
Easing sanctions on North Korea is unlikely to make North Korea give up its nuclear weapons and could do more harm than good while talks remain stalled between Washington and Pyongyang, experts said.
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