Cambodian News

The total fixed investment of 13 countries involved in Cambodia fell at least $3.2 billion in mid-2009, about three quarters of its total value, according to official figures.
Investment fell from $4.42 billion in mid-2008 to $1.22 billion for the same period this year, the Council for the Development of Cambodia reported. Officials say the economic [...]

The Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch told a UN-backed court Thursday he had not spared friends in the murderous prison known as S-21, as they were considered “enemies” of the revolution.
“I loved them, respected them, but I couldn’t go to see them,” Duch told the court, following the testimony of a civil party complainant in [...]

Cambodia has been slow in adopting the IT revolution, which has transformed much of East Asia. But a radical scheme is underway to give technical and skilled jobs to the country’s most disadvantaged and break the poverty cycle. Digital Divide Data (DDD) is a nongovernmental organization operating in Phnom Phenh.
It provides career choices beyond traditional [...]

PHNOM PENH, July 26 (Xinhua) — Cambodia’s confirmed A/H1N1 flucases have increased to 17 and the latest case is a 22-year-old Irish woman who traveled from Vietnam, health officials said here on Sunday.
“So far, nobody has died in the country,” said Ly Sovan, deputydirector of the communicable disease control department. The latest [...]

Allegations of corruption aside, experts say the Khmer Rouge tribunal will help set a standard for Cambodia’s common justice system, while setting an example for international courts in the future.
Cambodia’s judicial system is widely seen as politically biased and corrupt, but as the UN-backed tribunal continues to try former leaders of the regime, it can [...]

Bangkok has sought to confuse public opinion over Preah Vihear temple and a contested border, conflating the two issues in the media as a yearlong military standoff drags on, a government official said Monday.
An international court declared in 1962 that Preah Vihear temple, an 11th-Century structure that sits on a towering escarpment over the plains [...]

Ten years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Hei Han Khiang, who had survived the regime, found himself in Beijing, studying. He was shocked to find an embassy of the regime, formally known as Democratic Kampuchea, still operating. He was shocked further to be invited inside.
Hei Han Khiang had been sent by the State [...]

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A former fighter for the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s told a Cambodian court Wednesday how he was suspected of turning against the Pol Pot regime, arrested and beaten unconscious, waking up beneath bodies in a burial pit.
Phork Khan, 57, was testifying at the trial of Duch, head of the Khmer [...]

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Cambodians on Tuesday noisily celebrated the first anniversary of the UN’s world heritage listing of an ancient temple which has stoked nationalist tensions with neighbouring Thailand.
Posters of the 11th century Preah Vihear temple were plastered in pagodas, schools and prominent locations around the capital Phnom Penh while celebrators screamed, “Long Live [...]

BANGKOK, July 4 (Xinhua) — Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said that he will meet with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon after Ban concluded his visit to Myanmar late Saturday.
The two sides will talk about ties between ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), the United Nations, Myanmar and Thai-Cambodia border dispute, Abhisit was [...]