Cambodian News

The Borei Keila social land concession: the Government’s commitment to housing Phnom Penh’s urban poor – new apartments for families in exchange for land given to commercial developers. Borei Keila was the first of four social land concessions in Phnom Penh and was meant to be the model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation [...]

Hong Kong, China — Cambodia’s national police commissioner, Gen. Hok Lundy, was killed in a helicopter crash on Nov. 9, Cambodia’s National Day. Hok was a member of both the Central Committee and Standing Committee of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and a close ally and senior advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose son [...]

Thai businesses have put their Cambodian operations on full alert after troops of both countries exchanged gunfire and rocket fire along the border near the disputed Preah Vihear temple, leaving at least one soldier dead.

Foreign Minister Sompong Amornvivat yesterday urged Thai nationals in Cambodia to leave at once, and said the military had an evacuation [...]

A CAMBODIAN couple have circumvented the country’s corrupt and expensive court system in a divorce case by literally dividing their house in half.
The Koh Santepheap newspaper last week featured a front-page photograph of a precariously perched half of the stilted former home of Meuon Rima and his ex-wife Nhang, both 40, which Mr Rima sawed [...]

In one photograph a young boy, his arms spread as if in supplication, gazes listlessly at the ceiling as a woman – his mother, we presume – cradles him tenderly in her arms. In another, a grey-haired man attached to an oxygen cylinder sits cross-legged on a hospital bed staring vacantly into the middle distance. [...]

The United States government and the government of Cambodia have agreed to extend their Memorandum of Understanding “Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Archaeological Material from Cambodia from the Bronze Age through the Khmer Era.”
This extension, consistent with a recommendation made by the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, represents a continuation of cooperation that began [...]

The years are like shadows she could never really grasp:
Growing up in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Her brother forever separated from her family. Her sister dying. Forced labor in rice fields. Then, at age 14, escaping to Oregon with her mother.
As a teenager in Milwaukie, Mardine Mao was happy to forget. She yearned to [...]

TAKEO, CAMBODIA — There is nowhere to begin and nowhere to end when you want to start describing a country like Cambodia.
I suppose I could begin by saying that it’s a country shaped like a heart at whose center is Angkor Wat and the great Tonle Sap. A better description would be that if you [...]

About 20 residents from the living-learning community in Garner Hall, known as LEADS, stood outside of Wal-Mart in Savoy despite the pouring rain, canning to raise money to build schools in Cambodia.
“It was downpouring all morning and the weather was terrible,” said Nicholas Heath, freshman in Business.
However, the weather did not suppress the passion of [...]

Since we’re told charity begins at home, it’s better, I’ve always thought, to give £1m to a hapless British person than 10p to an organisation that provides sandwiches for prisoners in Turkey. Now, however, I have decided that, actually, charity begins in Cambodia.
Some people get all dewy-eyed about Africa. That’s jolly noble, but I don’t [...]