Cambodia News

A stint in Cambodia teaches you to appreciate road rules. Traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, the give-way rule and seat belts reveal themselves as true blessings.

If former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra resigns or is replaced as economic adviser to the Cambodian government, the diplomatic row between Thailand and Phnom Penh will cool down, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said on Friday.

The order by the Cambodian government came after Phnom Penh filed charges yesterday against Sivarak Chutipong, a Thai engineer working for CATS.

Closing arguments begin next Monday in the trial of chief Khmer Rouge interrogator Duch, the first senior Pol Pot cadre to face a U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal investigating Cambodia's genocide.

The Thai business community remains hopeful the Thai-Cambodian border will not be shut, as the loss of trade would be hugely damaging to both sides.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has decreed that only he and two other senior politicians may use sirens to clear the streets for their motorcades, local media reported Thursday.

Cambodia will guarantee safety and security for Thais including diplomats, business people and travelers in the country, government official said on Saturday.

Cambodia conducts a search on Wednesday at Cambodia Air Traffic Services in Phnom Penh, the company where a Thai engineer arrested for allegedly spying worked, an informed source said.

The Global Issues Club at Assumption High School does a lot more than take an interest in world affairs from afar.

The Hanoi-based Youth Theater will present its mime a oeStereo Mana at the Mekong Arts and Media Festival to be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from November 23 to 27.

Buses may be cheap and mercifully air-conditioned in Cambodia, but they have a rather painful habit of screening screeching karaoke which seems to gradually increase in volume over the 6 hours of endurance until you feel like its beating a disco beat inside your head.

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Thailand's cabinet was reviewing aid to Cambodia on Tuesday, a government official said, the latest move in a diplomatic row triggered by a visit by fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to the neighbouring country.

A Swedish businessman visiting Cambodia has been murdered and his body dumped outside Phnom Penh, reportedly after he met a woman with whom he had corresponded online, national media reported Monday.

Within the Palace ground visitors are only allowed to visit the Silver Pagoda and its surrounding areas.Once inside the temple visitors are not allowed to take photographs.Many areas are out of bound to visitors.

A seminar of China-Cambodia Business and Investment was held Monday in Phnom Penh with the participation of more than 100 Cambodian and Chinese business people.

The People's Alliance for Democracy delivered a six-point statement attacking convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at a major gathering in Bangkok yesterday.

Former US president Jimmy Carter launched a campaign Monday in which thousands of volunteers will build homes for the poor in five nations along the Mekong River, a humanitarian group said.

Cambodia's parliament has stripped opposition leader Sam Rainsy of his immunity from prosecution.

Protesters from Thailand's nationalist People's Alliance for Democracy demonstrate Sunday in Bangkok over Thaksin's visit to Cambodia and statements in an interview considered by some to be insulting to the king.