Disasters

As the number of COVID-19 cases and hotspots related to the “February 20 Community Incident” increase day by day, more than 10,000 Phnom Penh residents have been placed in quarantine after being directly or indirectly in contact with the patients. ...

The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration released a report yesterday that in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they decided to commandeer 29 hotels, apartments, casinos, buildings and shopping malls to be used as quarantine centres. ...

The Council of Ministers has approved the draft Law on Measures to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 amid the community outbreak. ...

As Cambodia is dealing with the third wave of COVID-19 community infection, which can be traced back to people’s stubbornness and lack of willingness to cooperate by escaping quarantine, the government is pushing for institutionalisation of the COVID-19 rules.   ...

The Ministry of Tourism has temporarily banned all gym activities in Phnom Penh and provinces in the light of worsening COVID-19 outbreaks.   ...

Preah Sihanouk Provincial administration yesterday identified four more hotspots in Sihanoukville amid concerns of a COVID-19 community spread and has urged its residents not to leave the city in a bid to contain the situation.   ...

Logistics industry insiders in the Kingdom have not seen evidence of imports and exports growing noticeably in early 2021 but are hoping to see that change as the availability of COVID-19 vaccine inoculations widens in the country and region. ...

All sports activities and sports clubs have been asked to suspend their operations again in Phnom Penh, Kandam and Preah Sihanouk Provinces. ...

All public and private educational institutions in Sihanoukville and Stung Hav district of Preah Sihanouk province have been ordered to be shut down temporarily for two weeks. ...

Foreigners who do not comply with the measures of the Ministry of Health against the COVID-19 pandemic will face legal action and deportation with no re-entry to the Kingdom if found guilty.   ...

Cambodia continued to reel from the disastrous effects of the February 20 Community Event when another 38 COVID-19 positive cases were reported today, along with two imported cases.   ...

The Chinese government donated 100,800 face masks to Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday to help fight the recent COVID-19 outbreak. ...

The Ministry of Education has ordered all public and private schools in Phnom Penh and Kandal province to be temporarily closed over the February 20 Community Incident. .  ...

Seventy-eight garment factories have been closed and 64,942 workers left jobless in Kandal province due to the COVID-19 crisis, provincial authorities have announced. ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports has ordered the temporary closure of several schools in and around Phnom Penh. ...

More than 1,900 public and private institutions, restaurants, hotels and factories were registered to implement a QR Code “Stop COVID” to increase the efficiency and speed of prevention and control of the spread of the COVID-19 virus. ​ ...

The government yesterday issued a new sub-decree to impose a heftier fine for those who evade quarantine in a bid to stem the spread of COVID-19. The new sub-decree comes after Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered authorities to raise the current fine of $250 because ...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) registered a pre-tax profit of $2.85 million last quarter, a 25 percent decrease over the same period in 2019, according to its quarterly report.  ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has allotted an additional 1.5 billion riel ($368,000) to four provinces bordering Thailand for support of returning migrants in quarantine. Meanwhile, more than 7,000 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the first five days of the campaign by the ministries of ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on February 16 signed an agreement to begin a project that will directly support 10,000 of the most vulnerable people affected by the economic fall-out from Covid-19 in Siem Reap ...

Illegal burning of rice stubble and land at the periphery of forests continues to occur throughout the Kingdom’s rural areas, especially in the north and northeast regions, according to officials who documented the activities on site. ...

The Cambodian government today reported that it has found the first cases of new variants  among the foreigners  from India and China who entered into Cambodia earlier this month. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the Health Ministry and all governors of provinces bordering Thailand to prevent migrant workers from illegally crossing the border in a bid to curb COVID-19 community transmission. ...

Just under 1,500 people received the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in Cambodia between Wednesday and Friday last week, according to a three-day report from the Ministry of Health. ...