Cambodian News

Cambodia’s second-largest earner of foreign income, tourism, is starting to feel the effects of a prolonged economic downturn and the unstable political situation in Thailand, tourism experts said Thursday.
The number of foreign visitors was down slightly for the first quarter of 2009, dropping 2.23 percent compared to the same period in 2008, but, officials said, [...]

VietNamNet Bridge – The Cambodian Minister of Tourism, Thong Khon, said that the Vietnamese and Cambodian governments agreed on the exemption of visas for Vietnamese citizens to Cambodia and vice versa.
The Cambodian Minister of Tourism revealed the above information after a meeting on tourism development between Vietnam’s southern province of Kien Giang with provinces along [...]

Hanoi, Vietnam, March 01, 2009 –(PR.com)– Luxury Travel has launched a Crème de la Crème Best of Vietnam and Cambodia 14 days from Hanoi to Saigon and ends in Siem Riep.
Vietnam and Cambodia increasingly are being recognized as a destination for high-end global tourists. With the steady growth of business, Luxury Travel continues to [...]

Home to rare wildlife species, including the endangered Siamese crocodile, the Cardamom mountains are also the habitat of about 25,000 people. Most of the people live in complete poverty and depend on the sale of illegal timber for their survival. Consequently, one can hardly see big trees in the region these days.
“If we talk about [...]

BANGKOK, Feb. 9 (UPI) – A long-popular park along a disputed stretch of the Thailand-Cambodia border known for its cliffs and vistas reopened Tuesday after being closed for months.
Tourists hadn’t been able to take in the scenery of Pha Mor E-Daeng cliff and the rest of Khao Phra Viharn national park in Si Sa Ket [...]

Friday, January 30, 2009 :The Thailand – Vietnam – Cambodia Golf Trail is fast becoming the worlds most talked about golf tour. Announced just 6 weeks ago by Indochina’s largest specialist golf travel operator, Golfasian, the golf trail makes it now possible for golf enthusiasts from around the world to play the premier courses in [...]

Summary: This Annual Publication: Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Asia – Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam profiles three countries which once made up the French colonial entity known as Indochina. It is reasonable to say that Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are all still in comparatively early stages of their telecommunications development with expanding national infrastructure and [...]

Mangroves typically form buffer zones between sea and land and can be specifically found in tropical regions. The Cambodian Research Centre for Development predicts they will be the first to suffer the effects of climate change in Cambodia. They will be the largest area to go under water, in particular in Koh Kong, in the [...]

Cambodia expects an increase of tourist arrivals from the Middle East following a delegation led by Prime Minister Hun Sen to Kuwait and the signing of an agreement between the two countries to open up flights and offer free visas for citizens of each.
“The population of Kuwait is 2.5 million, and about a million people [...]

The number of visitors to Cambodia in 2008 surpassed 2007, but officials said Monday less people than hoped had found their way to the kingdom.
The global financial crisis and political unrest in Thailand had both contributed to the lower-than-expected figures, officials said.
In 2008, more than 2.1 million foreign visitors came to Cambodia, a 6 percent [...]