Post-Lockdown Day 10

The Khmer Times is a pro-government newspaper so it was rather surprising to find this editorial rather strongly criticizing the government’s handling of the restrictions caused by Covid-19. Click here to read the editorial. Notice, though, that the writer was careful to applaud the prime minister while speaking ill of his “minions.” The writer’s harsh comments are very valid.


And here is the prime minister himself saying the police have done a good job.

Post-Lockdown Day 9

Headline from Khmer Times

One of the problems with controlling the spread of Covid-19 in Cambodia is the porous nature of the borders with Vietnam on the east and Thailand on the west. A good number of Chinese make their way to Vietnam and then illegally cross the border into Cambodia while on the Thai border, there are numbers of people going both directions, some with the reported help of the Thai military.

Post-Lockdown Day 8

When several hundred protestors showed up at a Red Zone barrier, today the police let them through! Red Zones have the strictest controls over movements; people are not even allowed out of their houses. At least that is the way it was enforced before. Now people saying they needed to get to banks to collect their salaries and to get vaccinated were allowed through the barriers. Such erratic enforcement is not unusual in Cambodia.