Phnom Penh residents are facing food shortages and financial strife as the capital and Takhmau city complete a week of the country’s two-week lockdown.
Earlier this week, the government also turned another wedding venue Koh Pich Convention & Exhibition Centre into a field hospital housing about 1,800 beds.
The government last Wednesday enforced a 14-day lockdown in Phnom Penh and Takhmau due to the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases.
King Norodom Sihamoni on Saturday signed royal decrees, allowing the seven former CNRP senior members to participate in political activity. Most notably, former CNRP lawmaker Yem Ponhearith and Kem Sokha’s chief of staff, Muth Chantha, will now restart their political careers.
In this essay, Youk Chhang states that Cambodia could be a country in which the survivors of mass atrocities and genocide receive reparations that involve restorative medical care, services, and support from the international community.
In a 39-page report released this week, the Samakum Teang Tnaut organization warned that current land allocations at Tamok lake “could lead to severe deleterious effects for the country.”
Mao Ayuth was also a secretary of state at the Information Ministry.
There has been an explosion of COVID-19 cases in Cambodia, centered in Phnom Penh’s garment factories and public markets.
With the vaccination campaign still at an early stage, the Health Ministry reported 178 news cases on Wednesday, including 145 plus two deaths in Phnom Penh.
The Cambodian government lashed out at the United Nations' criticism that its approach to mitigating the spread of the novel coronavirus was breaching people’s right to privacy.
Vice has since taken the article off its website and released a statement saying it was investigating the issue.
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