Day: July 19, 2022

The 10th plenary session of International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP) in Morocco supported Cambodia’s initiative to create a centre for peace and food science and appointed Cambodian delegate in its leadership role.

The decision was shared in a press release issued on July 18 by the Secretariat General of Cambodian National Assembly (NA).

H.E. Suos Yara, the Chair of the National Assembly Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Propaganda and Information led a Cambodian delegation to attend the IPTP session from July 12 to 16.

According to the release, on behalf of Cambodia, H.E. Suos Yara proposed to the IPTP to create a centre for peace and food science to scientifically research and solidly recommend peace and food security programme implementation where necessary in the world.

The IPTP session supported the initiative and called on the private sector and development partners to contribute to the effort.

It also agreed to appoint H.E. Suos Yara as IPTP vice president and nominated him as a president candidate for 2023.

The IPTP session was attended by delegations from 65 of the global body’s 90 member countries.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

A total of 226,441 national and international visitors toured Cambodia in the third weekend of July.

The figure suggested a decline of about 20 percent compared to the previous weekend, according to a report of the Ministry of Tourism, explaining that the decrease is due mainly to the unfavorable weather conditions.

Of the tourists, 204,481 were national visitors and 21,960 were internal foreign tourists.

The most visited tourist destination was Battambang province, followed by the provinces of Kampot, Preah Sihanouk, Siem Reap, and Phnom Penh capital. Kep, Kandal, and Pursat provinces came in 6th, 7th and 8th respectively.

The Ministry of Tourism and the Provincial and Municipal Tourism Departments continued to enforce the implementation of safety standard operating procedures (SOPs) introduced by the ministry to prevent possible transmission of COVID-19.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Four new investment projects worth in total US$96.8 million have been approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), according to the council’s press release of issued yesterday.

The newly-approved projects are expected to generate some 2,000 jobs for the locals, said the same source.

Located in the provinces of Kratie, Preah Sihanouk, and Svay Rieng, the four investment projects will cover the production of solar panels, clothes, plywood, and steel pipe casting.

Such investment demonstrates confidence of investors in Cambodia’s macroeconomic, political and social stability as the country is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Daily new COVID-19 confirmed cases in Cambodia was recorded at 22, similar to that of yesterday; bringing the tally to 136,499.

According to a press release of the Ministry of Health made public this morning, the new infections are all of locally transmitted Omicron variant.

At the same time, 17 more recoveries were registered; the total recovered cases rose to 133,319, while there is no new death case reported; the death toll thus remains at 3,056.

The Kingdom began to register new cases of COVID-19 since June 29, 2022 after 52 days of zero infection.

Recently, Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen appealed to his compatriots to increase their vigilance against the COVID-19 pandemic as the Omicron subvariants – BA.4 and BA.5 – are spreading in the country.

The Premier reaffirmed that there will be no closure of towns, schools and markets, but urged once again his fellow citizens to adhere to the health safety rules, particularly the “Three Dos, Three Don’ts” measure and to get vaccinated, both the basic and booster doses.

The first COVID-19 case was detected in Cambodia in late January 2020 in Preah Sihanouk province.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press