Cambodia News

Remarks Kurt M. Campbell Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Carden Ambassador to ASEAN Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Phnom Penh, Cambodia February 3, 2012 ASSISTANT SECRETARY CAMPBELL: I'll just make a very quick statement.

Dr. Ian Harris, a professor from the University of Cumbria in England will bring his perspectives on Buddhist thought and culture to residents at the University of Toronto Scarborough on Wednesday, Feb.

Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday made public a joint communique on an enhanced engagement for promoting bilateral cooperation in various fields.

In the wake of what the opposition Sam Rainsy Party has called unprecedented gains in the senate election, the party has said that "virtually every SRP councillor" was approached by ruling Cambodian People's Party officials attempting to buy their vote in the election, a party statement issued yesterday said.

Former Borei Keila residents Joe Sreang, his wife Touch Kanha and their four young children in their tent at Srah Po village in Kandal province.

Eight families in Kampong Chhnang filed complaints with Adhoc over the weekend, reporting that their sons and daughters sent abroad to work as maids and fishermen were being mistreated and that in some cases, they had not heard from them in nearly a year.

The surprise ruling increased a lower court's 19-year sentence for Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch.

Now the future of Cambodia's most famous elephant is uncertain after a campaign by animal rights activists to force her into early retirement.

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA : The United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has increased the sentence of a former Khmer Rouge jailer to life in prison, the Phnom Penh Post reported on Friday.

Besides his passion for motorcycles, Danish Ambassador to Thailand Mikael Hemniti Winther wants to demonstrate the importance he places on road safety.

The Cambodian Photography Project is designed to empower children at Sunrise Children's Village, an orphanage in Siem Reap, by providing them with digital imaging and photography skills and then allowing them to document their lives through photos they will take themselves.

THE plan, on this Travelling Tilburys adventure, was to cycle with my sister the 1000km from Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

MANILA, Philippines - A third year high school student from Dagupan City, Pangasinan, who topped the 5th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Quiz national competition, will lead the group that will represent the Philippines in the ASEAN Quiz Regional Competition to be held in Phnom Penh,Cambodia in August.

A strengthening economy and increasing demands from both domestic and foreign markets have pushed trade growth in the Kingdom, further driving the shipping industry.

PHOTOGENIC TOUR GUIDE Congratulations to local tour guide Chansarak Noun for cracking the travel site Viator.com's Top Ten Private Guides List for 2011.

Cannes, Venice, Hollywood, step aside and make way. Siem Reap is the latest destination to become a movie Mecca, as the inaugural Angkor Wat Film Festival comes to town.

Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of assumptions about the mosquito-borne disease.

But despite the general high standard of hygiene that many of the places maintain, getting inked in the Penh is still something you should consider carefully.

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, center, arrives in the courtroom for a session of U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as the court gives verdict on appeal filed by Duch against his conviction Friday, Feb.

Funded by US$115,000 from Dong Thap People's Committee the building will have an area of 1,530 sq.m which is expected to be completed in four months, said GAVC president Chau Van Chi.