Kandal, Cambodia News

Television is ubiquitous in Cambodia. Grainy screens flicker inside even the smallest street-side restaurants.

Neigborhood: Phnom Penh chicken dish covered in a white creamy sauce, and the mango crepes with ice cream.

You may be an adventurer seeking the road less traveled with nothing but a backpack and a copy of "Lonely Planet" or maybe you are simply trying to save some cash on your next business trip.

A FORMER child survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime's main torture centre sobbed on Thursday as he told Cambodia's war crimes court of his harrowing separation from his mother at the jail.

A distraught survivor of the Khmer Rouge's main prison begged his former jailer Wednesday to reveal the truth about his wife's death so he could finally know where to pray for her soul.

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge's main prison said Wednesday that his ability to paint larger-than-life images of the regime's late leader, Pol Pot, and portraits of other communist icons helped save his life.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Tuesday that he will visit France on July 13 to strengthen the bilateral cooperation.

One of the few survivors of a notorious Khmer Rouge torture centre from which thousands of people were despatched to their deaths has revealed how he and the other inmates scrabbled to find insects to eat to avoid starvation and ate their paltry meals alongside the corpses of those who had died.

Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint-Stock Bank, better known as Sacombank, opened its first branch in Phnom Penh earlier this week.

An explosion at an ammunition warehouse near Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's home injured at least two people Sunday night, according to police officers who asked not to be identified.

The Thai army put its troops on alert at the disputed border with Cambodia and said Thursday it would deploy more soldiers there, the latest sign that tensions are rising in a dispute over a 11th century Hindu temple.

Thailand s deputy prime minister yesterday said he would steer clear of a dispute over an ancient temple on the Cambodian border when he meets the neighboring country s leader this weekend.

A Cambodian editor whose newspaper published stories alleging corruption in the office of a senior government official was found guilty Friday of circulating disinformation in a one-hour trial and sentenced to a year in jail.

The Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum said Friday it will begin later this year inviting over staffers from Cambodia's Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum for workshops on running peace museums.

There was more than a 50 percent drop in the total number of malaria cases reported by public facilities in Cambodia between 2003 and 2008, according to the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control's annual report, which was released on Tuesday, the Phnom Penh Post reports.

Phnom Penh - Cambodia on Wednesday confirmed its first case of swine flu, according to a joint statement released by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation .

The international prosecutor at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court denied Wednesday that his sudden resignation from the tribunal was due to a dispute with his local counterpart.

Cambodia's National Assembly has voted to strip parliamentary immunity from two opposition members.

To make way for a Ministry of Tourism garden, 20 families with HIV-positive members have been evicted from their homes and moved outside of the city, reports the Phnom Penh Post .

Cambodian authorities evicted 20 families from their homes in Borei Keila - a community for families living with or affected by HIV/AIDS - forcing them to live on a small settlement 12 miles from the capital of Phnom Penh because officials plan to build new offices for the Ministry of Tourism, The Associated Press reports.