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PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia recorded about 1.04 million domestic and foreign tourists during the celebrations of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said on Wednesday (Jan 25).

With high winds and heavy seas forecast, the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration has appealed to fishermen and ferry operators in coastal regions and on islands to temporarily suspend taking to the open water. The appeal came after the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology announced that coastal areas will experience large waves and blustery winds from January 25-30.

Over the Lunar New Year 2023 holiday in Preah Sihanouk province, six road accidents occurred resulting in two deaths, according to Kim Song, chief of the provincial police’s traffic bureau.

China Road and Bridge Corporation presented feasibility studys preliminary results on the upgrading of the Phnom Penh-Poipet railway to the ministry.

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia has planned to upgrade its existing northern Phnom Penh-Poipet railway to become the kingdom's first high-speed rail, which is expected to cost more than US$4 billion, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said in a news release on Tuesday (Jan 24).

Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Kuoch Chamroeun urged members of the Prek Ta Sok ecotourism community in Doeum Thkov village, Koh Rong commune of Koh Rong town to focus on creating more job opportunities for the islanders to improve their livelihoods.

A January 19 inter-ministerial meeting discussed potential incentives and other measures that could be used to address the issue of the hundreds of unfinished buildings and investment projects dotting Preah Sihanouk province.

The Ministry of Tourism on January 18 held a meeting to finalise plans for hosting the Mekong Tourism Forum 2023 in Preah Sihanouk province in April.

A veterans’ cemetery for soldiers who laid down their lives in Koh Kong province during the civil war was inaugurated on January 17 in a ceremony presided over by Minister of National Defence Tea Banh.

Royal Group Koh Rong Development Co Ltd is partnering up with the civil aviation regulator to move ahead with plans for a 4C-class international airport on Preah Sihanouk province’s Koh Rong island that is expected to be completed “in the next five years”, after more than a decade on the back burner.