{"id":8935,"date":"2020-08-12T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T09:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:50:00","slug":"cambodia-allows-casinos-in-sihanoukville-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cambodia-allows-casinos-in-sihanoukville-to-reopen","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia allows casinos in Sihanoukville to reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cambodia&#8217;s casinos are slowly going back to normal after four months of closure due to Covid-19 measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Cambodia.- Health authorities will allow casinos in Sihanoukville to reopen after more than four months of closure due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local press, the Cambodian health ministry has given the green light to casinos to begin a phased reopening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casinos will be permitted to resume operations one province at a time \u2013a process is intended to allow officials to monitor that Covid-19 is not being spread in each district. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Sihanoukville, another province will be allowed to reopen in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>QueenCo casino was already resumed operations last week after the Health Ministry gave the OK to its Covid-19 protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All casinos had to shutdown on April 1. Although Prime Minister Hun Sen said properties would be allowed to operate from July 3, the process has been delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NagaCorp\u2019s Nagaworld was the first to reopen and Donaco International said it hopes to reopen its Star Vegas property in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All venues have to undergo an inspection by the Ministry of Health to ensure they have imposed Covid-19 protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia&#8217;s casinos are slowly going back to normal after four months of closure due to Covid-19 measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Cambodia's casino sector is commencing a phased reopening following a four-month COVID-19-induced shutdown, with Sihanoukville properties, including QueenCo and NagaCorp's Nagaworld, receiving initial regulatory approval. The Ministry of Health is mandating strict adherence to health protocols, with further provincial reopenings anticipated in September. This signals a gradual return to operational capacity for integrated resorts and gaming venues.","focusai_entities":"QueenCo, NagaCorp, Donaco International, Hun Sen, Ministry of Health","focusai_location":"Cambodia, Sihanoukville","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Projections?","query":"What are the revised GGR recovery projections for Cambodian integrated resorts, considering the phased reopening and potential for ongoing operational restrictions?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Challenges?","query":"What specific regulatory compliance challenges are operators facing in implementing and maintaining the mandated COVID-19 health protocols, and how are these being monitored by the Ministry of Health?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338,158],"tags":[30,12436],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-cambodia","tag-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8939,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8935\/revisions\/8939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}