A local market in Kandal province has been closed down while another in Kampong Chhnang is being sprayed down with disinfectant as health authorities trace the contacts of patients who tested positive for Covid-19 this week.
Armed military police officers locked more than a dozen local government officials inside the gates of a riverside compound on Wednesday following a “misunderstanding” related to the complex’s construction on state land, a city spokesperson said.
Phnom Penh’s 32-story Canadia Tower office building was closed for the day on Thursday after an employee at a bank in the building tested positive for Covid-19, with hundreds of people who worked on the same floor kept inside for testing.
Hundreds of people are being tested and quarantined in provinces across the country even for having had indirect contact with the country’s prisons director more than two weeks before he tested positive for Covid-19.
Hearings are underway at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for more than 100 supporters of the dissolved CNRP who were charged with incitement and plotting. Arriving defendants and their colleagues say the occasion is a chance for the persecuted opposition to show solidarity.
Authorities claiming to be looking for weapons thwarted a small handful of supporters of the banned opposition CNRP from gathering outside the party’s former headquarters in Phnom Penh on Monday, the three-year anniversary of its dissolution.
Informal workers will be able to receive free medical care by signing up for the National Social Security Fund, the government said this week, though questions remained about how accessible the registration process was.
Taking precautionary measures, some staff at news outlets and government bodies have gone into two-week quarantine following the visit of a Hungarian foreign minister who later tested positive for Covid-19.
More than a year since the courts reopened their investigation into two Radio Free Asia journalists, and almost three years since they were first arrested for treason, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of the continuing investigations.
A conservation organization recorded sharp declines in banteng, gaur and other species of land-dwelling hooved mammals in Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary over a 10-year biodiversity study, suggesting four animals are at risk of disappearing from the protected area within a few years — like tigers and wild water buffalo before them.
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