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Beggars in boats cause chaos for tourists in Cambodia - EARTHtimes, April 20, 2008 Chinese company completes restoration of Cambodia's National Road No. 7 - People's Daily, April 29, 2008 National Road No. 7in northeastern Cambodia totally opened Tuesday, after an over-three-year restoration work by the Shanghai Construction Group of China... Angkor Wat: A Temple to Tourism? - BusinessWeek, April 25, 2008 Cambodia, a country for sale - Guardian Unlimited, April 25, 2008 Almost half of Cambodia has been sold to foreign speculators in the past 18 months - and hundreds of thousands who fled the Khmer Rouge are homeless once more... Menu dispute lands Thai chef in hot water in Cambodia - Monsters and Critics, April 25, 2008 ... Food is a frequent bone of contention between Thais and Cambodians, with both claiming superiority and authenticity... A decade after Pol Pot's death, some Cambodians ask the spirit of once feared despot for luck - Sin Chew Jit Poh, April 14, 2008 Cambodia's 'happy pizza' faces chop in drug crackdown - EARTHtimes, April 8, 2008 ...Legendary amongst travelers for more than a decade, this hippy's little helper version of pizza is simply the traditional Italian favourite with a Cambodian twist - the rich tomato base comes heavily laced with marijuana. Although officially illegal for several years, locals have traditionally used marijuana in soups or medicinally. Pioneering travelers crossing the Lao-Cambodian border previously even reported a small garden of the stuff being lovingly tended by customs officials... Rare water birds repopulating in Cambodia's Tonle Sap lake - IHT, April 3, 2008 Cambodia suspends foreign marriages: official - AFP, April 2, 2008 Cambodia has suspended marriages between foreigners and Cambodians amid concerns over an explosion in the number of brokered unions involving poor, uneducated women, an official said Thursday... Human Right Watch wants Thai Govt to prosecute soldiers for mistreatment - Bernama, March 26, 2008 Prosecuting soldiers for mistreatment of people in the restive southern Thai can actually help calm the situation and rebuild trust with the Muslim community, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today... Chinese dams threaten Cambodia's forests, farmers - Reuters, March 26, 2008 Cambodia breaks ground on first skyscraper - Straits Times, March 14, 2008 Thailand and Cambodia will solve boundary issue - The Nation, March 12, 2008 Mr Ric Souen might be excused for his misunderstanding, which apparently arose from The Nation's reporting that "Bangkok opposes Phnom Penh's plans to list it [Preah Vihear Temple] as a United Nations' World Heritage site before ownership is settled." Two separate issues are pertinent here, namely, the ownership of the Preah Vihear Temple and the listing of the temple as a World Heritage Site. To set the record straight, I wish to state the following points... Cambodia to end trade in key ecstasy ingredient - People's Daily, March 5, 2008 Cambodia is seeking ways to include the illicit trade in oil from the rare M'reah Prov tree into its anti-drug legislation, local media reported Thursday. "Introducing legislation is crucial to stopping all forms of trade in M'reah... Renewed fears for rare Mekong dolphin in Cambodia - Planet Ark, March 5, 2008 A sharp drop in the number Mekong dolphins born in Cambodia has renewed fears for the survival of the rare mammals, wildlife experts said on Wednesday... Cambodia bans songs deemed to incite marital infidelity - EARTHtimes.org, February 27, 2008 ...The offending songs, If I Can't Be First Can I Be Second?, Love Another's Husband and May I Have a Piece of Your Heart Too? have been banished from the nation's thousands of karaoke restaurants, Khmer-language Koh Santepheap reported... Cambodia's "Bamboo Railway" goes modern - ADB, February 18, 2008 Today, the Asian Development Bank and the Royal Government of Cambodia launched a project that will restore rail traffic between Thailand and Cambodia by 2010... Cambodia excited to be touted as the new trendy cuisine - EARTHtimes, January 1, 2008 Cambodia: Decades after the bombs, enter the beatboxers - AlterNet, December, 2007 Cambodia ready for railway to Viet Nam - Viet Nam News, December 20, 2007 Thai-Cambodia agreement: Single-visa plan for visitors to both countries - Bangkok Post, December 13, 2007 Cambodia plans hunting safaris for VIP tourists - planetark.org, December, 2007 Cambodia is considering laying on hunting safaris for well-heeled foreign tourists in its remote jungle-clad northeast, to the consternation of green groups who say it could be a recipe for disaster... Cambodia: Air Finland's arrival creates direct Cambodia-Europe air route for the first time - Sin Chew Jit Poh, December 7, 2007 A direct commercial air route between Cambodia and Europe was opened for the first time Friday (7 Dec) with the arrival of an Air Finland flight, officials said... Cambodia: Forced evictions must end - Amnesty International, November 22, 2007 Two people dead, many injured and thousands homeless: two recent forced evictions demonstrate the urgent need for the Cambodian authorities to immediately end this practice... 8-Foot giant catfish caught in Cambodia - National Geographic, November 19, 2007 Fortunes fading for Cambodia's palmists - AFP, November 10, 2007 Cambodia landmine clearance pushed back 10 years - AFP, November 5, 2007 Cambodia, one of the world's most heavily landmined countries, will not be clear of the devices until at least 2020, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday, adding another decade to demining efforts... Khmer Rouge anthems making an unlikely comeback in Cambodia - Earthtimes, November 7, 2007 ...The Angkar, as the Khmer Rouge called itself, played the songs at the mass dining halls as thin gruel was served to millions of citizens put to hard labour in the fields. There is no mention of love in the music, which often follows an aggressive theme. With catchy titles such as "We do as the Angkar tells us, and thus have bumper crops" and "Every day we must rise up and attack", the songs reflect the 1975 to 1979 regime's cold ultra-Maoist bent which drove one of the worst massacres of the last century... Cambodia gets US$80m funding for Thailand rail link - Straits Times, November 1, 2007 Amid post-war boom, unemployment stalks Cambodia's brightest - AFP, October 24, 2007 With more than two years to go before he graduates, university student Kiang Saran is already so crippled by unemployment fears that his grades are slipping... Cambodia makes arrest in Angkor Wat image scandal - The Nation, September 25, 2007 A provincial governor said Tuesday police had detained an unspecified number of people over the manufacture of playing cards featuring pictures of sacred temples including Angkor Wat. Sou Phirin, governor of the northern province of Siem Reap, which is home to the temples, said the case was ongoing but that arrests had been made. "We're investigating. We have detained people, but I can't comment further on an ongoing case," Phirin said by telephone. Siem Reap lies about 300 kilometres north of the capital. Images of Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm and Bayon temples have recently been printed on the backs of playing cards, prompting indignation amongst officials, who say the cards are illegal because any image of Angkor on a commercial product must be approved by the Ministry of Culture... Cambodian 'jungle girl' disappears back into wilderness - EARTHtimes.org, September 24, 2007 Cambodia's mysterious jungle girl has disappeared back into the forests where she was found less than a year ago, police said Tuesday. The wild woman believed by the parents of Rochom P'ngieng to be their long-lost daughter melted back... Debris from exploded aircraft falls near Preah Vihear Temple, Cambodia - People's Daily Online, September 21, 2007 ... "It may have accidentally shot out from a (military) exercise in Thailand," Nuth Teng said, adding that investigators after the incident tried to collect and reassemble the craft but were unable to say exactly what it was, reported English-language newspaper the Cambodia Daily. Thai officials denied at the time that such an incident had occurred, it added... Bird, monkey species in Cambodia added to critically endangered list - People's Daily Online, September 19, 2007 Two types of birds and one species of monkey native to Cambodia have had their survival prospects worsen significantly in the past year... Groundbreaking web site to chronicle Cambodia war crimes tribunal - PRNewswire, September 19, 2007 ...The Cambodia Tribunal Monitor, now available at http://www.CambodiaTribunal.org, will serve as a leading source of news and information on the upcoming trials of senior officials of the Khmer Rouge regime for atrocity crimes... Cambodia bans door-to-door evangelism - WorldNetDaily, July 30, 2007 A new directive has been issued by the government in Cambodia that essentially eliminates Christian evangelism, according to a new report from Voice of the Martyrs... Cambodian Apsara Authority orders S. Korean golf course halted - People's Daily, July 25, 2007 The Apsara Authority in Siem Reap province of Cambodia has ordered a South Korean company to stop constructing a golf course, alleging that it was being built illegally inside the Angkor Archaeological Park, local media reported Thursday... Rare soft-shell turtle found in Cambodia - Fish Update, May, 2007 CI Wildlife Biologist David Emmett was a member of the survey team that discovered the rare Cantor’s giant soft-shell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii) in Cambodia’s Mekong River... Good or bad harvest? -
May 9, 2007 Animal deaths close Cambodia zoo - AFP, May 1, 2007 Scores of rare animals have disappeared or died at a zoo in Cambodia's tourist hub Siem Reap, forcing authorities to close the facility and highlighting the growing problem of private animal farms... Will US abandon Iraq the same way it did Cambodia in 1975? - Pacific Daily News, April, 2007 Kissinger later confirmed in his own book, "White House Years" that "Cambodia was not a moral issue" for the United States in obtaining "our exit from... Cambodia reflected in Iran - International Herald Tribune, April 10, 2007 ...In arguing the union was never a valid marriage, Ibarra said in court papers that his client and Ouch were among a group ordered at gunpoint to face each other for the marriage... Cambodian dance culture tries to rebuild - Arts Journal, March 26, 2007 The murderous Pol Pot actively tried to erase Cambodian culture. "One cultural sphere that suffered particularly badly was Cambodia's 1,000-year-old dance tradition... New world mysteries test Cambodia's lost tribe - The Age, February 23, 2007 Faded grandeur in Cambodia's mountains - Mail and Guardian, March 7, 2007 In the ruined ballroom of the Bokor Palace Hotel it is easy to imagine, amid the shattered floor tiles and mouldy walls, the clink of champagne flutes and lively chatter of a night out in this tiny colonial hill station... Talking to Norbert Klein: Open Forum of Cambodia - Partha's blog, September 29, 2005 First US ship visit to Cambodia in 30 years - AFP, February 8, 2007 The American navy's USS Gary docked in this Cambodian port on Friday, becoming the first US military craft to visit the former communist country in more than 30 years... Cambodia to open islands to tourists - DPA, February 12, 2007 ... The English-language Cambodia Weekly quoted Tourism Ministry secretary of state Thon Khon as saying the 61 mostly untouched islands had been identified by the government as ideal development and investment opportunities. ... "We need to link the Angkor temples to the beaches ... Although we have many tourism sites, our two biggest potential draws are the Angkor Wat temples and the beaches," the newspaper quoted Khon as saying... Today's Phnom Penh: A city of contrasts - IHT, February 13, 2007 Man banished to the land his family once fled - Seattle Times, February 4, 2007 ...Many Cambodians are wary of the returnees. Some are amazed anyone could fail in a place like America: One saying in Cambodia goes, "They couldn't make it in heaven, so they were sent back to hell."... China helps Angkor heal wounds of time - People's Daily, January 25, 2007 We know Angkor as the ruins of a city with grand temples of exemplary architecture in Cambodia. But for conservationist Jiang Huaiying, it is a big jigsaw puzzle... Cambodia's rat restaurants brace for seasonal boom - Calcutta News, January 11, 2007 For most restaurants, rats are bad news. But in the Cambodian province of Battambang, the arrival of this seasonal rodent delicacy signals big business... Cambodia hotel: It's the One - CNN, January 5, 2007 Home to the Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor, Amansara, and the up-and-coming Hôtel de la Paix, Siem Reap is no stranger to luxury. But the new One Hotel Angkor is putting a modern spin on the concept with something the town has never seen before -- a one-room hotel... Cambodia says anti-corruption law delayed by foreigners - Radio Australia, January 3, 2007 ... But Om Yienting, Head of the Head of Cambodia's Anti-Corruption Unit, says the government has been attempting to implement the law for a number of years... Rodin's lithe muses go home to Cambodia - International Herald Tribune, December 29, 2006 A series of drawings of Cambodian dancers Rodin completed after he became entranced by their 1906 performance in Paris goes on display in Phnom Penh... New road to Phnom Penh - The Nation, December 6, 2006 The Land Transport Department has announced it will build a direct road from Bangkok to Phnom Penh via Aranyaprathet, as part of a plan to expand highway networks between Asean countries... Expat pay absorbs aid to Cambodia - The Australian, November 27, 2006 ...A country director for a prominent international charity typically receives a $250,000 package that includes a spacious villa, four-wheel-drive and schooling perks. ...He said AusAID's reluctance to directly fund non-Australian aid organisations in Cambodia had created major inefficiencies in the disbursement of funds... Cambodia moves to protect endangered bird - EurekAlert!, November 6, 2006 In an effort to protect a large grassland bird from possible extinction, the government of Cambodia has recently moved to set aside more than one hundred square miles of habitat for the Bengal florican, a bird now classified as endangered, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)... Cambodia braces for oil boom, China may profit from it - Rigzone, October 27, 2006 Sitting on billions of dollars worth of black gold, Cambodia is on the way to lifting itself from abject poverty, but getting the money into the bank seems fraught with difficulty... Phnom Penh: 'Anarchy' threatens airport - Phnom Penh Post, October 20, 2006 Free speech gains voice in Cambodia's villages - International Herald Tribune, January 24, 2006 Cambodia unveils 18 million dollar terminal at Siem Reap Airport - AFP, August 28, 2006 Cambodia on Monday unveiled a new 18 million dollar international terminal at Siem Reap airport, which the government hopes will lure tourists beyond the country's famed Angkor Wat temples... Snake harvest threatens Cambodian lake - AP, August 19, 2006 Pol Pot: Once a killer, now a revered spirit - International Herald Tribune, August 11, 2006 Unemployment rate reaches 20 pct in Cambodia: Economists - People's Daily Online, August 14, 2006
Economists in Cambodia expressed their concern over declining rate of employment in Cambodia, and that fear coincided with the claim that approximately 300,000... Sahara issue Cambodia withdraws recognition of Sahrawi Republic - Morocco Times, August 14, 2006
Taib Fassi Fihri is on a visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia and gave a message from HM King Mohammed VI to Cambodian Prime Minister... Thai investors flock to riot-free Cambodia - Phnom Penh Post, July 27, 2006 The number of new Thai investors coming to do business in Cambodia has increased in 2006 compared with previous years, according to an official at the Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh... New Vietnam-Cambodia border gate opens - Nhan Dan, July 27, 2006 A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between southwestern Tay Ninh province and Svay Rieng province of Cambodia on July 27 on the opening of the Cay Me-Tho Look border gate... Miss Cambodia 2006 pageant going ahead, but without swimsuits - Kyodo, July 27, 2006 Cambodia will have a Miss Cambodia for the first time in 11 years in 2006, but she won't be wearing a swimsuit... Has the World Bank Learned Lessons from Forestry Fiasco in Cambodia? - Global Witness, July 13, 2006 Cambodia and Laos: New growth frontiers - Channel NewsAsia, July 11, 2006 More Singapore businesses are seeing potential investment opportunities in Laos and Cambodia, as the governments of the two countries foster a climate that is being termed as a "rare sustained period of sociopolitical peace..." Spiders on the menu in Cambodia - ITV.com, July 4, 2006 All across Cambodia people are tucking into the seasonal snack of fried local tarantulas. The town of Skuon, located 50 miles northeast of the capital Phnom Penh, is particularly famous for the spiders... Part of Cambodia's ancient Baphuon Temple opens to public - Boston Herald, July 11, 2006 Under a sweltering sun, masons struggle to slip a 440-pound stone into place atop an ancient temple that for decades has looked more like a giant jigsaw puzzle than one of the Angkor... Cambodia and the World Cup: A melting pot of human triumphs and frailties - Deccan Herald, July 8, 2006 In a country that has not yet fully recovered from the socio-economic ravages of the Communist genocide in the 1970s, Cambodia exhibited its passion for the World Cup as exuberantly and excessively as any of the 32 nations participating in the month-long football fest that concludes in Berlin on Sunday... Cambodia beggars belief - The New Zealand Herald, July 7, 2006 The beggars were waiting outside the golden gates of Cambodia's opulent royal palace. One minute we were discussing the serene beauty of the palace's golden Buddha, studded with 9584 diamonds; the next we were swamped with rags, ravaged bodies, dirty outstretched hands and desperate faces... Are the Angkor Wat temples doomed? - Independent Online, June 30, 2006 The damage done to the temples of the Angkor Wat complex did not end with the arrival of peace, instead the political settlement in Cambodia merely opened the gate to an army of rampaging tourists... Cambodia
temple 'faces collapse' - BBC News, June 7, 2006
..."People are climbing it not really knowing where they are. There's no interpretation of the site, no guided tours to explain the enormous importance of Phnom Bakheng. All of this is lost on the modern visitor who scrambles up at 4 o'clock to see that sunset, take that picture and scramble down," he said... The Chinese/Khmer divide in factories - Phnom Penh Post, June 15, 2006 Most of Cambodia's garment factories have a firmly established hierarchy: a management team is the top tier of supervision under which are the quality controllers, supervisors, and finally, the workers... Football chiefs give Cambodia yellow card - Phnom Penh Post, June 15, 2006 The fanatical frenzy of World Cup competition has brought in its wake consternation for both Cambodia's football faithful and the Phnom Penh police force... Cows, cars and homes wagered in Cambodian World Cup frenzy - Times Online, June 15, 2006 The Prime Minister of Cambodia was today forced to appeal to his citizens not to bet their money or possessions on the World Cup amid reports of families losing their homes and livelihoods to bookmakers.. Frenzied development in Cambodia pushes its people out of the capital to squalid conditions - licadho.org, June 14, 2006 At the early hour of 4 am on June 6, 2006 around 700 police and military police in full riot gear circled Sambok Chap village and erected roadblocks - as far as 1km away - to prevent access to the village. In a show of determined force rarely seen in the capital, the police build up would be the final push by the authorities to forcefully evict the remaining residents of Sambok Chap village on the banks of the Tonle Bassac River... Buddhists celebrate tradition - Observer-Dispatch, June 3, 2006 [Amusing headline...] It took Lina Pim about eight hours to cook shrimps she carried Saturday morning to the Cambodian Buddhist Community Temple on Steuben Street... Hun Sen bans 3G mobile phones to curb porn - The Star Online, May 25, 2006 Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday banned video-capable mobile phones in Cambodia to curb the dissemination of pornography, heeding a request from his wife... Cambodia is not 'hell', says PM - BBC, May 18, 2006 Cambodia's PM Hun Sen tells the UN's top human rights official the country should not be seen "as hell"... Thousands flock to famous temples in Cambodia - Independent Online, May 18, 2006 A sprawling national park dotted with towering stone structures, all intricately carved and for the most part intact, is Cambodia's biggest tourist draw... Armed looters plundering key Cambodian temple - AFP, May 15, 2006 More on the Baphuon - May 9, 2006 Nils sent some further links about the Baphuon: Some photos here and here - Nice clickable map - Archaeologists solve the ultimate puzzle Earlier: Cambodia's Baphuon temple rebuilt - ABC, May 5, 2006 Buddhist mob burns Christian church in Cambodia - Chinapost.com.tw, May 1, 2006 Some 300 Buddhist villagers, apparently angered by a rival faith within their community, have razed a partially built Christian church to the ground near the Cambodian capital, an official said Tuesday...
Across Thai border, seaside town builds its party reputation - Sun-Sentinel, April 23, 2006 Sihanoukville offers loads of amenities at incredible bargains. The "largest and wildest" full-moon party, promised the yellow flier taped to a phone booth on Khaosan Road in Bangkok. Another installment of Thailand's girls-gone-wild bacchanal on the island of Ko Phangan?... Cambodia's National Highway No. 2 opens to traffic - VNA, April 26, 2006 Cambodia rejects US request for troops in Iraq - Reuters, April 21, 2006 Cambodia has turned down a U.S. approach on sending troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Friday... Journalists from India, Thailand, Cambodia, Fiji Islands Take Top Prizes at 2006 DAJA Awards - adb, April 20, 2006 The Bangkok Post's Supara Janchitfah, 43, was awarded Development Woman Journalist of the Year for her story on Muslim fishermen using knowledge and information to protect their seas from commercial trawlers... Dengue
Fever revives 1960s Cambodian psychedelic rock -
Chicago Tribune, April, 13, 2006
Jam band Dengue Fever was already a supernova on the Los Angeles indie music scene when its members decided to shoot a documentary chronicling their experience playing in Cambodia for the first time... Storm
damages Cambodia's Angkor-era temples - INQ7.net,
March 30, 2006
Three Cambodian temples built more than a 1,000 years ago were damaged when dozens of trees collapsed on them during a heavy rain storm this week, an official said Thursday... Cambodia
bows out as host of 2011 SEA Games - Reuters,
March 14 2006
Impoverished Cambodia will skip its turn to host the Southeast Asian Games in 2011 because it would be too costly, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday... Cambodia has 613 generals - translated and summarized by Kampuchea Thmey, March 2, 2006 ...Minister of National Defense Tea Banh said that there are 112,773 soldiers and 613 military generals. He concluded by saying that the Ministry of National Defense uses "ghost soldiers" to get money... Free Flow: Cambodia's quest to just get the basics - International Herald Tribune, February 15, 2006 ...A national program of rebuilding and new construction of road and rail is now under way. The hitch, says Chanthol Sun, minister for public works and transport in Cambodia, is that he has no budget... School in Cambodia - Zaman Online, January 24, 2006 Did you know there is a Turkish school in Cambodia, a country better known for its Khmer Rouge, the killing fields and unending civil wars -- deeply engraved into our minds through pain, tears and bloodshed?... News
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