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Thai Military Closes all Border Checkpoints With Cambodia Amid Border Tensions Breaking

23 Jun 2025 9:31 PM|
Khuon Narim|

Breaking: Senior officials in Banteay Meanchey province confirmed on Monday night that the Thai military has ordered the closure of all border crossings with Cambodia.

Residents from the red zone arrive at a COVID-19 testing center in Phnom Penh, April 24, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Mandatory COVID-19 testing ordered for Phnom Penh market vendors and all red zone residents

25 Apr 2021 8:15 AM|

Phnom Penh City Hall announced late Friday night that all people living in the red zones must be tested for COVID-19, as infections continue to rise in spite of a…

Kuoch Chamroeun, Preah Sihanouk provincial governor inspects barricades in Sihanoukville placed to prevent people from entering or leaving the locked down area, in a photo posted on the provincial administration’s Facebook page, April 23, 2021.

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Sihanoukville placed under COVID-19 lockdown, with five villages designated ‘red zones’

24 Apr 2021 8:28 AM|

Early Friday morning, Sihanoukville was placed under lockdown, making it the third city in Cambodia to face lockdown amid a worsening COVID-19 outbreak. Five villages were designated “red zones,” subjected…

Asean Summit in Phnom Penh, November 18, 2012. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Civil society blasts ASEAN for inviting military junta to Jakarta summit

23 Apr 2021 10:42 PM|

Ahead of a special ASEAN summit Saturday in Jakarta to address the escalating conflict in Myanmar after the February 1 military coup, Prime Minister Hun Sen has been clear that…

Authorities block the street at the border of the Phnom Penh and Takhmao City, Kandal, on the first day of lockdown , April 15, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Two-star general among latest to be arrested for illegally transporting people amid COVID-19 travel bans

23 Apr 2021 9:42 PM|

An RCAF major general was arrested Thursday, along with six others, for unlawfully transporting people out of Phnom Penh and between provinces in violation of travel bans aimed at slowing…

A woman receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Phnom Penh, April 1, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Slowing vaccinations amid lockdown may hamper Cambodia’s outsized inoculation success story

22 Apr 2021 9:24 PM|

Even as Cambodia struggles to contain a worsening outbreak of COVID-19, it has far surpassed its neighbors in vaccinations, with nearly 1.3 million people having received at least one dose,…

Garment workers stand in front of their rented apartments in the Stung Meanchey III commune of Meanchey district, one of the strictly patrolled COVID-19 red zones in Phnom Penh, April 22, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

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Mass closure of garment factories leaves workers unpaid, struggling to survive in lockdown

22 Apr 2021 8:33 PM|

Many of the thousands of garment workers now under Cambodia’s strictest COVID-19 lockdown restrictions are finding themselves unpaid, suspended indefinitely from the capital area’s hundreds of factories and, as of…

Chinese nationals line up to receive the first dose of vaccine at Preah Ket Mealea Hospital in Phnom Penh, April 10, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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About 10,000 Chinese nationals living in Cambodia have received at least one dose of Sinopharm

22 Apr 2021 9:06 AM|

Some 10,000 Chinese nationals have received at least the first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine in Cambodia, the Chinese Embassy announced Wednesday, and government data shows nearly 1.3 million Cambodians…

Police patrols have been keeping residents in their homes in the Stung Meanchey I commune, one of seven areas designed as "red zone" lockdown site. Videos shared on social media have shown police beating people with bamboo sticks to force them into their homes, April 21, 2021. CamboJA/ Panha Chhorpoan

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Phnom Penh police deny beating lockdown pedestrians but confirm stricter enforcement

21 Apr 2021 5:58 PM|

In a measure that human rights monitors have blasted as extreme, Phnom Penh police have begun flogging people deemed to be violating the sweeping metropolitan lockdown order.

Thai Military Closes all Border Checkpoints With Cambodia Amid Border Tensions Breaking

Mandatory COVID-19 testing ordered for Phnom Penh market vendors and all red zone residents

Sihanoukville placed under COVID-19 lockdown, with five villages designated ‘red zones’

Civil society blasts ASEAN for inviting military junta to Jakarta summit

Two-star general among latest to be arrested for illegally transporting people amid COVID-19 travel bans

Slowing vaccinations amid lockdown may hamper Cambodia’s outsized inoculation success story

Mass closure of garment factories leaves workers unpaid, struggling to survive in lockdown

About 10,000 Chinese nationals living in Cambodia have received at least one dose of Sinopharm

Phnom Penh police deny beating lockdown pedestrians but confirm stricter enforcement

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Thai Military Closes all Border Checkpoints With Cambodia Amid Border Tensions Breaking

Mandatory COVID-19 testing ordered for Phnom Penh market vendors and all red zone residents

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Civil society blasts ASEAN for inviting military junta to Jakarta summit

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Slowing vaccinations amid lockdown may hamper Cambodia’s outsized inoculation success story

Mass closure of garment factories leaves workers unpaid, struggling to survive in lockdown

About 10,000 Chinese nationals living in Cambodia have received at least one dose of Sinopharm

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