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Cambodia’s tourism industry is projected to rebound in 2022 after a two-year significant fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a tourism official said on Tuesday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on January 30 received 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines donated by Poland, after repeated delays due to bad weather conditions.   ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday said that the government has an order to purchase 3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, with China pledging to donate five million doses to accelerate the inoculation drive. ...

Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism, has stated that there were more than 210,000 tourists nationwide on the weekend from 29 to 30 January 2022. ...

The blow to Cambodia’s economy from the COVID-19 pandemic was among the most pronounced in East Asia, but the country can regain sustained economic growth by increasing productivity among firms and workers, diversifying exports, and taking steps to boost domestic investment, the World Bank says ...

A campaign named “Cambodia: Safe and Green Tourism Destination” launched last Thursday and aimed at reviving the COVID-19-hit tourism industry is seeing initial results with several airlines increasing frequencies and other mounting flights again after a two-year hiatus. ...

The Ministry of Health and its counterpart from China have signed an agreement to add traditional Chinese medicine to the Covid-19 treatment toolkit, under the guidance of a team of practitioners.   ...

About 300,000 doses of Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine from Poland will arrive Cambodia in the evening of January 25. ...

The Minister of Education, Youth and Sports has stated that Cambodia is working to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on the education system by shifting to a multidisciplinary approach in the education system. ...

The government will extend a cash handout programme from January-March for an eighth round, to provide cash assistance for poor and vulnerable households that have been significantly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

Cambodia exported 423,168.97 tonnes of fresh bananas last year, up by 27.02 per cent over 2020, valued at $4,323,719,300, according to preliminary data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA). ...

Cambodia recorded another jump in local and imported Omicron cases today. ...

The Labour Ministry decided to end the $40 allowance per month for garment, footwear, and travel products workers whose contracts were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the ministry will still continue to provide this allowance to workers in the field of tourism. ...

During the pandemic, children have been among the most affected by Covid-19 with school closures and worsening mental health, while those who are infected face discrimination at school and from their neighbours, even when they are fully recovered, experts have mentioned. ...

The working group overseeing the management, distribution and supply of strategic drugs in the fight against Covid-19 at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has begun distributing 200mg molnupiravir capsules with the brand name Molnatris at all branches of its Cambodia Post from January 19 ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen urged ASEAN to reopen tourism and trade now that many of the bloc’s member countries have vaccinated their populations. ...

Thailand has administered 3,900,995 doses of COVID0-19 vaccines to foreigners residing there between February 28, 2021 to January 6, 2022. ...

Australia has reaffirmed its support for Cambodia in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic, according to Scott Morrison MP, Prime Minister of Australia ...

The structure of the 45-storey, $230 million Chip Mong Tower on Russian Boulevard near the Techno flyover was finished on January 14, Chip Mong Group said in a statement. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that 14 more Omicron community cases had been detected in Cambodia in just three days, though no deaths from the highly transmissible coronavirus variant have been reported thus far. ...

The Japanese government has pledged an additional $185 million in low-interest loans to Cambodia to support the second phase of the Covid-19 crisis. ...

As the Omicron variant continues to spread locally, Governor of Phnom Penh, Khuong Sreng has urged authorities of all Khans and relevant departments to step up Covid-19 prevention measures. ...

Despite a modest improvement in the Covid-19 situation in Cambodia, the number of new projects outside of special economic zones (SEZ) approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) saw a sharp decline in January-November 2021 compared to the same period a year ...

Increasing orders for footwear and travel goods from international markets and the opening of new factories in the Kingdom have contributed to labour shortages in the sector, according to Cambodia Footwear Association (CFA) president Ly Kunthai. ...