A delegation from the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has been set to sign pacts with the four Cambodian provinces of Koh Kong, PreahSihanouk, Kampot, and Kep on cooperation in the search for and repatriation of remains of Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and experts who died in Cambodian during wartime.

Authorities of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang and of Cambodia's Koh Kong province have signed a document on the repatriation of the remains of 10 Vietnamese volunteer soldiers unearthed in the latter in the 2023-2024 dry season.

After completing the COVID-19 inoculation drive in the capital city of Cambodia on June 22, the Cambodian army began to administer the COVID-19 vaccine in other provinces, with nearly 60,000 people residing in Preah Sihanouk, Koh Kong, Kampong Speu and Takeo having receiving the first shot.

The Royal Group, Cambodia’s biggest private firm of tycoon Kith Meng, has secured 168.8 hectares of land in Koh Kong’s Botum Sakor National Park under a leasing agreement to develop a 700 megawatt (mW) coal power plant, according to a government sub-decree.

Cambodia recorded 4.81 million international tourists in the first nine months of 2019, up 10 percent year-on-year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said on November 4.

The number of foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archeological Park dropped 7.3 percent in the first five months of 2019, a state-run Angkor Enterprise said in a press release on June 1.

A Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monument was inaugurated on October 16 in Khemara Phoumin city, Koh Kong province, about 300 km to the west of Phnom Penh.