Four United Nations experts have written a joint letter to Cambodia’s Foreign Minister expressing concerns over the public intimidation early this year of a local rights group official after he spoke out against the arrests of activists who criticized the government’s coronavirus response.
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The international community will provide $20 million in aid to assist Cambodia with mine and explosive ordnance clearance
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The General Department of Immigration deported 48 Vietnamese nationals who were found to have entered the Kingdom illegally. It also banned them from the country for three years.
Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai have detained nine people for illegally entering from Cambodia.
South Korea and Cambodia have s launched the first round of free trade negotiations with Cambodia in a bid to penetrate deeper into the Southeast Asian market and overcome economic jitters by the virus pandemic.
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Thai immigration police said that they have arrested five Cambodian monks who had entered the country illegally at an abandoned housing project in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province.
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Alarmed over the number of Covid-positive passengers coming in via Malaysia and Indonesia, the government is temporarily suspending flights from both countries from August 1 until their infection rates decline.
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The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has issued a severe drought warning for southern Laos, northeast Cambodia and the Central Highlands of Vietnam amid low rainfall and complaints about water hoarding upstream.
Vietnamese and Cambodian officials exchanged border topographic maps at 1:25,000 scale at Moc Bai international border gate, the southern province of Tay Ninh on August 1.
The United States Embassy in Phnom Penh has been celebrating the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Cambodia. Ambassador W. Patrick Murphy has not allowed the novel coronavirus pandemic to stop the year-long celebrations, which is reflected in his and the embassy’s social media posts.https://bit.ly/3grJcOs;
