The Ministry of Education asked all exercise venues and sporting activities to cease immediately, except for those broadcast on TV.
The Health Ministry on Thursday reported 28 new infections linked to the February 20 cluster, with Preah Sihanouk reporting a total of 80 cases since the start of the outbreak.
A worker at Phnom Penh’s Y&W Garment Factory tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday.
Court hands down sentences from 20 to 25 years, effectively ensuring key Cambodia National Rescue Party leaders will never return home.
The Cambodian government started vaccinating priority groups on February 10 using the Sinopharm vaccine, which is produced in China.
Prince Norodom Ranariddh will return as president of the Funcinpec party and lead it into the 2022 commune election and the 2023 national ballot.
In 2020, Cambodia’s aquaculture sector produced 400,000 tons of fish product, an increase of 30 percent over 2019, according to Agriculture Ministry statistics.
On January 3, 2020, a six-floor building in Kep province collapsed, killing 36 people and injuring 23 others.
Hun Sen reportedly ordered authorities in provinces neighboring the Thai border to limit border crossings to three checkpoints and to take health measures to put migrant workers returning to Cambodia in quarantine.
Hun Sen said Cambodia had also set aside $100 million to $200 million to meet the demand for additional vaccines and that $48 million had been raised through public donations.
A former CNRP lawmaker said party activists and officials living in exile across the region, the United States, Australia, France, and other countries would attempt to return to Cambodia on January 4, 2021.
A group of eight U.S. senators and representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo directing his attention to the worsening human rights situation in Cambodia.
67 former officials of the CNRP will now join 58 other party officials, including senior members Sam Rainsy, Mu Sochua, and Eng Chhai Eang, who have been asked to attend the trial starting November 26.
Spike in arrests and legal threats to journalists who report critically on ruling party is threat to press freedom, statement says.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned former CNRP leaders, including Sam Rainsy, Eng Chhay Eang, Mu Sochua, and former lawmakers Ho Van, Long Ry, Ou Chanrith, and Kong Saphea, as well as lower-level officials and former commune councilors.
Friday marks the 29th anniversary of the historic Paris Peace Agreement that saw four warring factions end civil strife that had plagued Cambodia since the 1970s.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there were “credible reports” that Dara Sakor “could be used to host (Chinese) military assets.”
Hun Manet said outside forces were trying to break up the military by trying to plant and exploit internal dissent.
The Ministry of Interior released a document on Monday removing Ouk Kosal from his position as Kampong Thom police chief and also made a request to demote him from the rank of lieutenant general to colonel.
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