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China Gifts US$150M National Stadium To Cambodia

China has handed over to Cambodia a US$150 million stadium in Phnom Penh, with officials saying Sunday it is the result of Beijing's biggest ever infrastructure grant to the country.The 60,000-capacity venue is the latest project under China's trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a plan to fund infrastructure projects and increase its sway overseas.The presentation of the arena, intended as the main venue when Cambodia hosts the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in 2023, was ma

13 September 2021
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All Aboard The Cambodian Cafe Train To Nowhere

Train travel has largely ground to a halt in Cambodia due to the coronavirus but railway fans can still get their fix aboard a stationary carriage converted into a hipster cafe.The country has more than 600 kilometres of track extending from its northern border with Thailand to the southern coast, but decades of war and neglect have left vast stretches damaged and coronavirus has shut many remaining services.A new airport rail link was closed last year and passenger trains to the seaport of S

12 June 2021
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Cambodia Bans Media From COVID 'Red Zones'

Cambodia on Tuesday ordered journalists to stop reporting from blockaded coronavirus "red zones" and from chasing ambulances as the country battles against a record surge in infections.The country has seen COVID-19 cases surge since February, when an outbreak was first detected among its Chinese expatriate community.On Tuesday, officials announced a record 938 new infections, bringing the total cases to 16,299 with 107 deaths.Authorities have transformed schools and wedding party ha

5 May 2021
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Cambodia On 'Brink Of Death': Hun Sen

Spiralling COVID-19 cases have put Cambodia "on the brink of death", its strongman premier Hun Sen has warned, as the country imposed lockdowns in the capital city of Phnom Penh as well as in a nearby city.The Southeast Asian kingdom has seen COVID-19 cases surge since February, when an outbreak was first detected among its Chinese expatriate community. Authorities said last week that hospitals in Phnom Penh were running out of beds and that they had transformed schools and

16 April 2021
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Cambodia Bourse Sees First Bank Listing

Cambodia's largest commercial bank listed on the country's stock market Monday, the first lender to trade on the fledgling exchange, despite uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic.ACLEDA Bank became the sixth firm to join the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), which opened in 2011, joining a garment factory, two state-owned ports, and a special economic zone (SEZ). But initial fanfare for the kingdom's trading future has dimmed, with the country's lack of

26 May 2020
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Cambodia’s ambitious tourism plans

Last week, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed that the number of tourists visiting Cambodia had increased substantially over the years and now the country is expecting 12 million tourists by 2025. He was rationalising the building of new airports in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap to 18,000 workers in the Kandal province."France’s Vinci, the company overseeing airports in Cambodia, never expected the high growth of tourists travelling by air to Cambodia.

7 December 2018
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Democracy sours for Cambodia as opposition leader denied bail

Cambodia’s leader of the opposition, Kem Sokha was not granted bail, three weeks after police descended to his home and carted him away to a prison at the Cambodia-Vietnam border."The court decided to uphold the provisional detention warrant (of Kem Sokha)," Touch Tharith, a spokesman for the Court of Appeals, was quoted by the AFP (Agence France-Presse).However, the opposition politician and leader of the CNRP (Cambodia National Rescue Party) was not present at the court hearing am

27 September 2017
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