Cambodia's Pchum Ben public holiday ends with over 664,000 tourists traveling across kingdom


PHNOM PENH, Oct. 9 (Xinhua): Cambodia's three-day Pchum Ben public holiday had come to an end with over 664,000 people traveling to various tourist attractions after the majority of the population had been inoculated against Covid-19, according to Cambodia's Tourism Ministry on Saturday.

Pchum Ben festival, or honoring-the-dead festival, from Tuesday to Thursday, is one of the largest religious festivals in the Southeast Asian nation.

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