The Filipino spirit of bayanihan (community spirit) still prevails even abroad. A total of 52 Filipinos in Cambodia, including personnel of the Philippine Embassy there, recently gathered to assist Cambodian volunteers build homes for members of Svay Chek Thmey community in Sangkat Kork Rokar,...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The 55th ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Foreign Ministers' Meeting and related meetings kicked off here on Wednesday, with a focus on post-Covid-19 pandemic recovery and key regional and global challenges. Cambodia is the chair of ASEAN for 2022, which...
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo has tested positive for Covid-19, and thus will not be able to attend his first ever ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) as the department's chief in Cambodia this week. DFA Secretary Enrique Manalo (Photo courtesy of Permanent Mission...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia had reported 1,354 dengue fever cases in the first five months of 2022, up more than 100 percent compared to the same period last year, the health ministry said in a press release on Saturday. The disease killed three children during the January-May period this...
President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. met with ambassadors of Italy and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-countries on Monday, June 6, and discussed future cooperation between the Philippines and these nations. From Left to right: Executive Secretary-designate...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia will start offering a fifth dose of Covid-19 vaccines to priority groups from June 9 onwards, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Friday. The priority groups include leaders of the government, the senate, the parliament, frontline health workers, government...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia reported no new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, the first time since the third wave of community transmission broke out in February last year, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said. "Today, it is the first time since Feb. 20, 2021 that Cambodia has found not even a...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Ninety-three percent of the people in Cambodia, aged 3 years old and over, have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccines, Health Ministry's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said on Saturday. The southeast Asian nation launched a national vaccination...
SIEM REAP, Cambodia -- As dawn breaks, foreign tourists gather by the ancient towers of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, some of the lucky few to see the World Heritage Site with the crowds thin as the country recovers from the coronavirus. Hopes are high that the temple complex, recently revitalised from...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Cambodia Li Ailan said on Sunday that Cambodia's successful vaccine rollout has saved lives, stabilized the health system and contributed to the kingdom's economic recovery. A girl receives her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine...
Cambodia is listing 39 sports when it debuts as host of the Southeast Asian Games next year. Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Bambol Tolentino disclosed this Monday following the SEA Games Federation meeting held over the weekend in Siem Reap. The 32nd edition of the biennial meet is...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen announced on Thursday that all inbound travelers are no longer required to present a medical certificate for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours prior to their arrivals to the country....
