Streets crowded with tuk-tuks carrying visitors to Angkor Wat; bustling restaurants and bars; hotels and guesthouses pre-booked for the Water Festival – these scenes vanished when the COVID-19 pandemic stopped international and domestic tourists from visiting Cambodia’s sights. Although the ...
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They Were Once Luxury Venues. Now They Are Grim Covid Camps
As an outbreak seizes Cambodia, patients who test positive for the virus say they are being forced into quarantine centers that are more like makeshift prisons than hospitals. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift ...
$4.5B in 2021 fiscal revenues
Cambodia is expected to collect more than $4.5 billion in fiscal revenues this year, as the economy rebounds from a 3.1 per cent contraction in 2020 to growth of around three per cent this year, partially driven by the reopening ...
Belt and Road projects yield fruits, forge ahead amid pandemic in Asia-Pacific, especially Cambodia – Khmer Times
The China-funded 60,000-seat Morodok Techo National Stadium, built in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, was handed over to Cambodia in September. The country is now ready to host the Southeast Asian Games in 2023.“The stadium serves as another bridge to connect ...
Singapore launches vaccinated travel lanes with Thailand, Cambodia, Fiji, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Turkey
Five of these countries have already reopened their borders to vaccinated travellers from Singapore. A longtail boat at East Railay Beach in Krabi, Thailand (left) and Buddhist monks walking in the compound of the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap, ...