A 21-year-old migrant worker has tested positive for Covid-19 after returning to Cambodia from Malaysia on June 16, according to the Health Ministry, marking the 129th recorded case of the virus in the country since January 28.
Sixty-five families living on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva peninsula say their lives are in limbo with tycoon Pung Khieu Se’s Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) trying to seize their land to build a $3-billion satellite city.
Four former members of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) have been arrested since May 31 for their alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the government last year, bringing the total number to 14 such arrests since January.
A recent call to Noun Saroeun was picked up by her young son, who passed the phone to his mom as other family members chatted loudly around her at her home in Poipet. What might seem like a normal day spent with loved ones had become a special moment after Saroeun, a 40-year-old migrant worker, was stranded in Thailand for months amid the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown. On June 2, she was reunited with her family at last.
Authorities in Koh Kong province on Wednesday briefly stopped environmental activists as they were cycling from Koh Kong to Phnom Penh in a campaign to have Koh Kong Krao island designated as a protected area.
A 65-year-old British woman on a river cruise in Kampong Cham province tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday, with the boat’s 64 other passengers and crew members now barred from disembarking.
The number of Cambodian workers migrating abroad declined by 80 percent last year, the Labor Ministry’s annual report says — though spokesman Heng Sour rejected the comparison that was made in his ministry’s report.
