Disasters and emergency response

Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the Ministry of Health and Phnom Penh City Hall to distribute two million masks to poor communities in Phnom Penh. ...

Students are expressing concern over the upcoming National Examination and exit examinations, after the government announced that schools should reclose after the “November 3 incident”. ...

Business activities, especially tourism-related services, have started to see the impact of the fear of a potential second wave of COVID-19. ...

Cambodia will not declare the state of emergency with the current situation of COVID-19 transmission in the country, stressed Prime Minister Hun Sen in a voice message Monday evening.   ...

A 35 year old American female became Cambodia’s 301st COVID-19 positive victim. She was found to be infected after arriving from the United States via Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday, 4 November. ...

The Ministry of Health on Tuesday (Nov.10) said that 1,166 people have been tested for COVID-19 after coming into close contact with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó during his Nov. 3 visit to Cambodia. ...

More than 290,000 hectares of paddy fields were inundated and over 87,000 hectare of paddy fields were damaged across the country as of Oct 27 because of flash flooding, according to a  report from the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that he has gone into self-quarantine after reports that Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó who visited Cambodia on Tuesday reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. ...

Top Cambodian officials are going into quarantine after Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, who visited the country on Tuesday and signed three agreements in front of Prime Minister Hun Sen, tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving in Thailand on Wednesday. ...

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) has estimated that more than 5,000 tonnes of rice seeds will be used for distribution to flood-stricken farmers, as 1,000 tonnes have been already distributed so far. ...

The U.S. Embassy provided food assistance to over 2,500 flood-affected households in the Cambodian province of Pursat last week, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and distributed through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). ...

The Embassy of Sweden has announced a COVID-19 response package to financially support rural communities in Cambodia through tree planting activities. ...

Vongsey Vissoth has reiterated the Royal Government of Cambodia’s promising response to the fallouts of the COVID-19. National budget has been reprioritised to allocate about $1 billion to address the emergency areas. ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia has announced to distribute to each flood-hit farmer family 100 kilogramme of rice seed, and six types of subsidiary crops to other affected families that do not do the rice cultivation. ...

The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) reported that the ongoing flash floods have so far killed 40 people. ...

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology yesterday announced that tropical storm Molave, currently causing havoc as it crosses the Philippines, will soon drop further rain on Cambodia, already suffering from devastating floods. Cambodia expects the impact of Molave from October 28 through 29, with ...

The flooding was caused by torrential rainfall from tropical storms, and has killed at least 12 people and affected more than 30,000 households across 17 provinces nationwide, according to the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM).​ ...

The National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) has reported that the ongoing flash floods have so far killed 39 people, of them 22 in Banteay Meanchey province. ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that Cambodia will receive COVID-19 vaccines for three percent of the population when they are officially released.   ...

Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Motegi Toshimitsu announced yesterday Japan will provide $239 million in emergency financial assistance to support Cambodia, saying it “has suffered from adverse economic impacts as a result of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).”   ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has appealed to all banks and microfinance institutions nationwide to understand the difficulties faced by flood victims who owe them, asking them to delay repayment or reduce the interest rate during the flooding. ...

In two consecutive days, Cambodia registered another new imported case of COVID-19 on a Polish man today, raising the tally of infections to 286.   ...

Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has claimed that the floods, which have had the biggest impact on the agriculture sector, will not hurt the country’s rice exports this year. ...

Flooding has created uncertainty over the Kingdom’s economic outlook this year, with various figures bandied about and thousands of households and paddies affected. ...