Cambodian News

Cambodian officials expect border talks with Thailand to resume soon into the new year, following the swearing in of a new cabinet and parliament after months of political unrest.
“We have received information from the Thai side that they will proceed with what we have agreed on in Siem Reap in the coming month,”said Var Kimhong, [...]

Cambodian lawmakers on Tuesday passed draft legislation that would ensure financing for two Chinese hydroelectric companies, for projects costing more than $1.3 billion and expected to provide power to a fifth of the country.
The projects, from China National Machinery and the Michel Corporation, are part of ongoing efforts by the government to harness the energy [...]

Khmer Rouge tribunal judges on Monday denied a new request for the temporary release of Khieu Samphan, whose pre-trial detention hearing has been delayed by a defense request to have thousands of documents translated into French.
Khieu Samphan’s defense team appealed last year to end provisional detention of the former nominal head of the regime, who [...]

HANOI (AFP) — A court in communist Vietnam has jailed five people for up to 17 years for trafficking women to Malaysia and forcing them to work as prostitutes, a court official and media reports said Tuesday.
The gang had sent 18 women from Vietnam’s poor southern Mekong delta region to Malaysia over the past three [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — Newly appointed Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya plans to visit Cambodia to continue discussion on the border issues between the two countries, said the Cambodian foreign minister here on Tuesday.
“Yesterday, the Thai foreign minister called me to extend the best wishes for a happy New Year and said that [...]

The Chairman of the Cambodian National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Commission, Chheang Vun, made the call while meeting with Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Nguyen Chien Thang on Dec. 25.
Chheang Vun said Cambodia boasts large and fertile farmland acreages which are favourable conditions for investment in agriculture.
The move will benefit both nations as it [...]

(New York, December 28, 2008) – Cambodian authorities should exonerate and free Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, who were unfairly sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2005 for the murder of labor leader Chea Vichea, said three international human rights organizations and the world’s largest trade union confederation in a joint statement released [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) – The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) has set a target date of 2012 for the elimination or dramatic reduction in casualties from land mines in the country, national media said on Monday.
“We expect by 2012, there will be almost no one injured from land mines,” Khem Sophoan, CMAC director [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia’s former King Norodom Sihanouk is fighting his third bout with cancer but is optimistic he will recover and return to his homeland from China, according to a message on his Web site.
The 86-year-old Sihanouk, in a statement dated Wednesday, said he was being treated by Chinese doctors in Beijing [...]

The appointment of princes and princesses to positions at the Royal Palace, effectively removing them from politics while preserving the royal image, has generally been welcomed, but views differ on whether a law should be put in place to officially keep them out.
In general, many royal family members have decided to leave positions in political [...]