Visa works with four major Cambodian banks to launch “Easy Cashâ€, a new domestic ATM network Visa, along with Cambodia Mekong Bank, Canadia Bank, Singapore Banking Corporation (SBC Bank), and Union Commercial Bank (UCB), have announced the setting up of a unified domestic payments infrastructure in Cambodia. The move will connect the ATM networks of [...]
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JOEL BRINKLEY: In Cambodia, government watches as developers evict poor from their land
August 29th, 2008 
Cambodian News Well past the city limits, beyond the sign that says “Bon Voyage; See You Again,” after the paved roads end, down a rutted dirt track, Un Thea sits in the mud outside her shanty house, peeling bamboo shoots – and seething. Two years ago, soldiers and police showed up in the middle of the night [...]
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No Comments »Endangered Monkey Species Thriving in Cambodia
August 29th, 2008 Cambodian News A new census in Cambodia reveals remarkably large populations of two monkey species that are threatened with extinction. The monkey tally, announced today, represents the largest known populations of these species in the world. Scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs and 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in Cambodia’s Seima Biodiversity Conservation [...]
Cambodia says temple talks off due to crisis
August 28th, 2008 Cambodian News Phnom Penh (dpa) – Informal talks between Bangkok and Phnom Penh over disputed border areas were halted abruptly and scheduled formal talks postponed indefinitely amid political tension in Thailand, a Cambodian official said Thursday. Defence Ministry Secretary of State Neang Phat said the Thai delegation arrived Wednesday in Siem Reap, 300 kilometres north of Phnom [...]