The prime minister released a 7-minute audio message late Tuesday night saying “Covid-19 had started again.” Ten cases were reported on Wednesday.
Eleven young indigenous filmmakers will showcase short films on their culture, language and hurdles facing their communities at a Phnom Penh film festival that starts Wednesday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen urged people to get a third dose of Covid-19 vaccines to prevent an outbreak among those who may have lost immunity against the virus.
Most people traveling down Phnom Penh’s St. 200 see it as just another unassuming thoroughfare; a small stretch they breeze past on their way to someplace else. But Chandara So sees it differently. He sees it as the exciting center of a new Cambodian film renaissance.
Four Vietnamese nationals have been arrested for shooting and injuring a police officer in Sihanoukville last night, while the city saw a second roadside shooting around 1 a.m., according to police.
State officials defended the promotion of ruling-party scions in government, though they denied knowledge of a leaked letter appearing to show the military’s chief of staff seeking Phnom Penh and Siem Reap deputy governor positions for his son and a nephew.
A Vietnamese man died at a Bavet casino run by a Hun To associate, while 22 Indonesians were rescued from a few locations around the border town, police said.
Two monks fled Vietnam 15 years ago, one “broken” between his Khmer identity and Vietnamese education, the other persecuted over pro-Khmer protests. They haven’t been back since, but still fight to preserve a fading heritage in a foreign country.
The ongoing Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam were only the second time Cambodian athletes competed at the games in kickboxing, and the fighters had to learn to avoid using their elbows and knees — as they were trained in another sport, local martial art kun khmer.
BALAING COMMUNE, Siem Reap province — A campaign promise from one of Cambodia’s minor opposition parties is bringing the issue of early childhood education onto the ballot.
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