Cambodian News

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will attend the ASEAN summit to be held in the seaside town Hua Hin in Thailand in late February, said an official here on Sunday.
“And the ASEAN meeting with other partners still plays a very important role,” Hor Namhong, deputy prime minister and minister [...]

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 [...]

Former king Norodom Sihanouk will not return to Cambodia from Beijing until after February, due to a resurgence of his cancer and doctors orders to rest.
“Because of my cancer, my return, which was supposed to be in February 2009, will be after February,” Sihanouk wrote in a statement.
Sihanouk, who is 86, was diagnosed with cancer [...]

YANGON, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — A Japan-Mekong exchange year will be launched in Myanmar’s former capital Yangon early next February to showcase the cooperation and friendship between Japan and Myanmar, one of the Mekong River valley countries, the local Biweekly Eleven News reported Thursday.
The opening ceremony on Feb. 6, 2009 will be attached with joint [...]

Phnom Penh – A Chinese national was arrested and charged with kidnapping and terrorism offences in Cambodia, national media reported Monday.
Police on Sunday arrested Hour Ming, 33, after he allegedly held hostage Seang Youhour, 34, for 13 hours in his house in the capital Phnom Penh and threatened to set off a bomb if officers [...]

HA NOI — More than US$2 million has been earmarked for human resource development in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), following the annual meeting of the Mekong Institute Governing Council in Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, the Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported yesterday.
The money will be used to finance more than 50 capacity – [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) – Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni here on Monday met with visiting Chen Zhili, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislative body.
Sihamoni highly praised the achievements of China’s 30 years of reform and opening-up, as well as the developments of bilateral relations.
The Cambodian royal [...]

The government of China opened a radio service in Phnom Penh on Thursday, with plans to broadcast 18 hours a day in three languages.
China-Cambodia Friendship Radio will broadcast programs in Khmer, Chinese and English, from 6 am to midnight each day on FM96.5. It’s opening marked 50 years of cooperation between the two countries and [...]

BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) – The ruling parties of China and Cambodia on Wednesday agreed to further strengthen their exchanges.
This was reached between a meeting between Jia Qinglin, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Say Chhum, member of the [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Cambodia has been promised aid worth $951.5 million for next year — the most since 1994 — with pledges linked to the country implementing reforms and fighting graft, the finance minister said on Friday.
Speaking at a news conference after a donors’ meeting, Keat Chhon said China was Cambodia’s biggest [...]