Cambodia's new Covid-19 rules restrain holiday celebrations

Balloons are released at the Independence Monument during a ceremony marking Cambodia's Independence Day in Phnom Penh on Monday (Nov 9, 2020). Cambodia is celebrating its 67th anniversary of its independence from France in 1953. - AFP

PHNOM PENH, Nov 9 (AP): Cambodians marked their Independence Day holiday Monday, but new Covid-19 (coronavirus) restrictions kept them from celebrating at karaoke parlors, beer gardens, museums, cinemas and other entertainment venues, which have been ordered shut until further notice.

Students in Phnom Penh, the capital, and the satellite town of Kandal will not be returning to schools on Tuesday (Nov 10) as an Education Ministry order to contain the spread of the virus has shut them down in those places for two weeks.