Day: February 3, 2023

Cambodia and Thailand have highly appreciated good bilateral cooperation between the two neighbouring countries.

The appreciation was exchanged in a meeting between Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Samdech Krolahom Sar Kheng and newly appointed Thai Ambassador to Cambodia H.E. Cherdkiat ATTHAKOR at the ministry in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.

Samdech Sar Kheng welcomed H.E. Cherdkiat ATTHAKOR and congratulated him on his appointment to this important role, stressing that Thailand and Cambodia share a long border and are both members of ASEAN.

Therefore, both countries have a very close relationship at all levels.

The Thai ambassador expressed his commitment to building on the success of his predecessors in elevating the close tie between the two countries to the next level.

He highlighted the importance of border crossing facilitation, the strengthening of security cooperation to fight against transnational crimes, and extended cooperation on disaster relief and management.

H.E. Cherdkiat ATTHAKOR also thanked Samdech Sar Kheng for Cambodia’s assistance in rescuing Thai victims of human trafficking and returning them to their homeland.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Cambodia and China have discussed more cooperation on tourism, especially the push for one million Chinese tourists to visit Cambodia in 2023.

The discussion took place here in Phnom Penh on Feb. 1 between H.E. Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism and Mr. Du Tian Qiao, Executive Director of Business Cooperation, Regional Economy and International Trade Association of the People’s Republic of China.

Mr. Du Tian Qiao informed H.E. Thong Khon of his intention to organise tourism, cultural, and sports events; Cambodia-China tourism investment and Business Forum; and Cambodia-China music performance.

The tourism, cultural and sports events raised will include Marathon, Golf and martial arts performance, especially the Cambodia’s Lbokator and the Shaolin of China, he added.

From his end, H.E. Thong Khon encouraged the association to prepare a clear and detailed plan for ministry’s inputs and support with a technical working group for the implementation.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

Cambodia will win more medals for World Taekwondo (WT) at the 32nd SEA Games to be hosed by the country this year.

Mr. Choi Yongsok, South Korean Coach of Cambodian national WT athletes, share the optimism in an interview with AKP on Feb. 1.

He added that the Cambodian athletes are highly committed and training hard for the forthcoming games.

There are 36 WT athletes and coaches including 32 national athletes joining an intensive training camp: one group at Booyoung building and another group at the National Olympic Stadium’s sports training centre, said the coach.

Among the 32 national athletes, 28 will join the SEA Games – 16 of them will take the fighting disciplines and 12 others will take the performance disciplines.

Cambodia Taekwondo Federation will send its national athletes to get trained in the Republic of Korea in March where they will also join a WT South East Asian Championship to draw more experience and sharpen their capacity.

Cambodia won 5 medals for WT including 1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze at the SEA Games 2022 in Vietnam.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press

The National Authority for Preah Vihear and Ministry of Tourism have convened a meeting on site inspection for the establishment of tour circuit at the Preah Vihear world heritage site.

The meeting took place on Feb. 1 in Preah Vihear province under the chairmanship of Mr. Chraloeng Somethea, Deputy Director General of Industrial Tourism Management and Deputy Secretary General of the National Committee for Clean City Assessment.

Director and Deputy Director of Preah Vihear provincial Tourism Department, officials from the Ministry of Tourism, and other concerned authorities joined the meeting.

The meeting aimed to gather information from the world heritage site and associated key tourism resorts to be lined up as tourism destinations along the circuit.

Source: Agency Kampuchea Press