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Speaking at the inauguration of a new school building in Kampong Thom province—funded by the Cambodian Oknha Association—Prime Minister Hun Manet asked the association’s sanctioned chairman, Ly Yong Phat, to help fund additional school infrastructure.

Prime Minister Hun Manet has directed all public schools to strictly prohibit students from using phones during class, noting that earlier restrictions have proven ineffective.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet praised AI as "smart" after listening to its answers to his questions.

Yesterday, Cambodia deported 21 Indonesian nationals for illegally entering and working in the country.

Several Koreans have been sentenced to prison for joining a Chinese-led scam syndicate in Cambodia that swindled fellow Koreans out of billions of won through romance scams and other fraud schemes. koreajoongangdaily.com/korea…

In another effort to save the cruise, three of the passengers started a resident-backed investment company to buy and assume operating control of the ship. That initiative collapsed over the weekend after the residents failed to reach an agreement with the lender and realized, after reviewing Villa Vie’s financial records, that the ship had more debt than they had expected. While the operators said they were still looking for investors to salvage the cruise, most residents said they were financially tapped out. Cherie Ohlsson, 77, a genealogist who sold her home in Florida before embarking on the cruise, said she spent almost $1.5 million on her cabin and various payments to try to save the voyage but had nothing left to give. nytimes.com/2026/11/02/trave…

"She said she had spent several years working at a scam company in Sihanoukville. Now, with her former workplace shut down amid the crackdown, she was working at a bar where women drink with customers and sometimes provide sexual services. Former colleagues had approached her about moving to Malaysia to continue scamming, but the offer was only around $1,000 a month. She wasn’t interested. Instead, she was waiting. She told Lao Tao that her former company might reopen in December. If it did, she hoped to return."

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet emphasized the country’s humanitarian stance regarding the stranded passengers from the Odyssey cruise ship: "As a sovereign country, we have full rights to reject the ship from docking in our port, as well as not allowing stranded passengers onto our shore. Yet, Cambodia has taken the opposite actions by providing our warm welcome and genuine care to those stranded passengers as well as crews. This is what we Cambodians do to other people in times of needs, without looking for any benefits in returns."

According to a Sihanoukville Autonomous Port official, the Odyssey cruise ship is expected to depart Cambodia tomorrow evening after facing a financial crisis that suspended its operations and forced all passengers to leave the ship.

According to the Ministry of National Defense spokesperson, draftees are not allowed to take days off to visit their families during the first three months, having to wait until after that period for their first family visit.

According to a Ministry of National Defense spokesperson, the second round to select 5,000 draftees to complete the 10,000 quota for 2026 mandatory military service will begin three months after the first round starts on November 9.

According to local media, around 60 stranded passengers from the Odyssey remain in Cambodia as of 2 November. More than two-thirds of the 203 passengers have left the country after being ordered off the cruise ship due to an operational halt, which was triggered by soaring fuel costs.

Residents of Villa Vie Odyssey — which remains stuck in Cambodia — have been informed the cruise ship is now under control of its lender, according to a message sent to residents and obtained by CBS News. The ship will soon be moved from Cambodia to Singapore, where it could eventually be auctioned off, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Company leadership, however, said they're optimistic they can get the ship back — if they find an operational partner. "This is a 30- to 90-day process, and, during that process, we have time to get a restructure done," Mike Petterson, the company's founder and executive chairman, told CBS News. cbsnews.com/news/creditor-ta…

Thirty-four physical casinos in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, received about $1.07 billion in cryptocurrency from January 1 to September 7, 2026. Casinos linked to networks designated by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) accounted for $687 million, or 64% of the total. From April 23 to September 7, entities linked to Xihu Resort Hotel received $184 million. Entities attributed to Huan Hai Bo Lai International Investment received another $129 million during the same period. cryptopotato.com/cambodias-c…

Interior Minister Sar Sokha chaired a monthly meeting with provincial authorities to review the progress of crackdowns on online scams.

Today, Cambodia's authorities provided fresh fruit to the crew of the stranded cruise ship Villa Vie Odyssey, which remains docked at Sihanoukville Port due to the company's financial troubles caused by surging fuel costs.

According to local property agencies in sales videos, condo and apartment owners are reselling their units at a one-third loss compared to the prices they paid during Cambodia's real estate boom.

Local news reported that many stranded passengers from the Villa Vie Odyssey cruise ship are still in Cambodia, visiting local tourist sites. The Cambodian government is supporting them by offering free transportation and tour guides, as well as helping them get hotel discounts of 40% to 50%. They were ordered to leave the cruise ship on October 27 following suspended operations due to soaring fuel costs.

Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn will hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the 11th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Beijing, held on November 3–4.

Cambodia deported 37 Indonesian nationals yesterday for involvement in online scam operations. Around 500 Indonesians have been deported from Cambodia over online scams in the past month.