International tourism up but fears for the future
Cambodia earned around $4.91 billion, up 12.4 percent year-on-year from international tourism receipts last year, with 6.61 million international visitors, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Tourism. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50695677/international-tourism-up-but-fears-for-the-future
Cambodia’s famed Angkor sees 37 percent drop in foreign tourists in first 2 months
Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archeological Park received 341,494 foreign tourists in the first two months of 2020, down 37 percent over the same period last year. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50697592/cambodias-famed-angkor-sees-37-percent-drop-in-foreign-tourists-in-first-2-months
Announcement of the Ministry of Health on the response, preventive measure and the preparation for the COVID-19 outbreak and other infectious diseases in the kingdom of Cambodia
On 02 March 2020, the Ministry of Health has posted an announcement on their official Facebook page about the government’s response, preventive measures and preparation of the COVID-19 outbreak and other infectious diseases. From the announcement, the ministry has claimed that, as of 02 March ...
Ministry of Health
Cambodia puts 44 people under quarantine for contact with COVID-19-infected Japanese man
Cambodia’s health authorities have put 44 people under quarantine for having contact with a Japanese man reportedly diagnosed with COVID-19, said a Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control Department statement on Thursday evening. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50698739/cambodia-puts-44-people-under-quarantine-for-contact-with-covid-19-infected-japanese-man
COVID-19: Gov’t to set up new economic measures
Despite no new cases of COVID-19 reported in Cambodia since January, the government is planning new measures to tackle the financial effect the virus continues to have on the country. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50698578/covid-19-govt-to-set-up-new-economic-measures
Press Release to all the tourism industry associations and tourism operators to comply with the announcement of the Ministry of Health of Cambodia on the impose of an entry restriction measure on the foreigners into Cambodia
In regard to the announcement of the Ministry of Health dated on 14 March 2020, the Ministry of Tourism, on the same date, has released a press to announce to all the tourism industry associations, tourism operators, especially inbound tour operators who have partnership with ...
Ministry of Tourism
Cambodia’s COVID-19 cases rises to 12
Four new cases of COVID-19 was reported late yesterday, bringing the total number of victims to double digits since the virus outbreak started in late December in Wuhan, China. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50702156/cambodias-covid-19-cases-rises-to-12/
Kingdom casts it export net wider to mitigate exit of major US and EU markets
Due to COVID-19’s devastating economic effect causing the collapse of Cambodia’s two major export markets, the United States and the European Union, representing about 75 percent of total market share, is forcing a refocus on expanding the Kingdom’s highly concentrated export market. ...
Harrison White
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712402/kingdom-casts-it-export-net-wider-to-mitigate-exit-of-major-us-and-eu-markets/
Nation’s banks adopt NBC’s COVID-19 crisis measures
As COVID-19 continues to carve out a path of economic destruction in the Kingdom, several financial institutions are considering re-classifying their loan-repayment structures to help relieve customers in fiscal trouble, in line with recent guidelines released by the National Bank of Cambodia. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712853/nations-banks-adopt-nbcs-covid-19-crisis-measures/
90 percent of garment workers turn up for duty on New Year’s Day
The Labour Ministry said more than 90 percent of garment factory workers reported for work on the first day of Khmer New Year yesterday. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712802/90-percent-of-garment-workers-turn-up-for-duty-on-new-years-day/
Education Ministry postpones exams over coronavirus
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has decided to postpone secondary and high school exams in response to the pandemic. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50711143/education-ministry-postpones-exams-over-coronavirus/
Exports soar 24% in first two months
Cambodian exports soared 24 per cent year-on-year to $2.563 billion in the first two months of this year, despite the reverberating local and global effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/exports-soar-24-first-two-months
Gov’t call for urgent action on food security
Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon has ordered all agriculture departments to take immediate measures to ensure the food security of the country in response to the the outbreak of COVID-19. ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50712467/govt-call-for-urgent-action-on-food-security/
Samdech Techo Hun Sen's remarks at the 36th session of the Special ASEAN Summit on Covid-19
On 14 April 2020, Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and other ASEAN leaders held a special meeting on Covid-19 related issues, conducted through video conference. During the video conference, the ASEAN leaders highlighted the major ...
Royal Government of Cambodia
Religious gatherings banned after COVID-19 infection surges
Prime Minister Hun Sen today announced a ban on all religious gatherings as COVID-19 infection surges in the Kingdom. The ban came after 11 Cambodian who had recently returned from a religious congregation in Malaysia tested positive for COVID-19. ...
Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50702722/pm-bans-all-religious-gatherings-in-wake-of-covid-19-pandemic/
COVID-19 cases double to 24
The Health Ministry has detected 12 new cases of COVID-19 in Phnom Penh and five other provinces, bringing the Kingdom’s total to 24. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50702670/covid-19-cases-double-to-24/
Announcement on the finding of four new cases of positive COVID-19 of Khmer Muslims in Preah Vihear, a Cambodian-Frenchmen and a child of French
On 15 March 2020, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on four new COVID-19 cases includes two Cambodian Muslims in Preah Vihear province, a Cambodian man from France and the son of a 35-year-old Frenchman. According to the announcement, the patient was treated at ...
Ministry of Health
Royal Palace to temporarily hold off visitors
The Royal Palace Ministry yesterday announced the temporary closure of one of the Kingdom’s most iconic buildings amid fears of new Coronavirus infections. ...
Som Kanika
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50703245/royal-palace-to-temporarily-hold-off-visitors/
Announcement on the 11 new positive COVID-19 cases of Cambodian-Muslim who has traveled to attend religious ceremony in Malaysia and 1 new positive case of Cambodia man who traveled to Thailand
On 16 March 2020, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the finding of 12 new positive COVID-19 cases. The cases is as follow:1. In Banteay Meanchey province: Two cases of Khmer Muslim man and one Cambodian from Thailand 2. In Phnom Penh: 2 ...
Ministry of Health
