Cambodian News

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 [...]

PHNOM PENH — Broadcasts from a third radio station given Cambodia as a gift from Viet Nam’s Information and Communications Ministry have started.
The 2kW FM radio station in Sihanoukville will disseminate information about Cambodia’s state policies and provide scientific and technological knowledge to local listeners.
Cambodia’s Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, local representatives and diplomats from Viet [...]

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent two agents to Phnom Penh to assist in the investigation of the murder of opposition journalist Khim Sambo and his son.
The Phnom Penh Post quotes a US embassy spokesman saying the agents were assigned to Cambodia following a request from the Ministry of Interior, and that their [...]

Cranston City, RI, United States, — The full implementation of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement is the only alternative to lead Cambodia toward freedom and democracy.
Presently, Cambodia is a police state just as were Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria during their occupation by the Red Army of the Soviet Union. The elections in Central Europe [...]

The Ministry of Interior has formed an “investigation committee” to determine how to move forward in the murder case of opposition journalist Khim Sambor, an official said Tuesday.
The ministry has received a letter from the FBI, but the investigation committee will decide how the FBI can help, said Interior Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Khieu Sopheak [...]

CONTINUING CONCERNS ABOUT CHINESE HUMAN RIGHTS — The spectacular Olympic picture China has sought to paint for a world audience continues to be marred by human rights abuses, as media outlets, human rights groups and international diplomats put pressure on the Olympic host to ease controls on the Chinese people.
U.S. President George W. Bush made [...]

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) – Dam Sith, editor in chief for the Khmer Conscience News, which is closed related with the major opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), has secretly fled Cambodia for U.S. for the sake of his safety, national media said Monday.
Sith was once jailed over accusation by Foreign Minister Hor Namhong for [...]

The Ministry of Interior has accepted an offer of help from the FBI in investigating the pre-election murder of an opposition journalist, officials said Monday.
Ministry of Interior spokesman Khieu Sopheak said Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday had accepted the FBI’s help in the case of Khim Sambor, and opposition journalist, and his son, who [...]

Phnom Penh – Cambodia has called on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to help find the killer of an opposition journalist and his son, who were gunned down last month during the the national election campaign, a government spokesman said Saturday. Police General Khieu Sopheak, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said that Cambodian [...]

PHNOM PENH – With surging double-digit economic growth and a territorial dispute with Thailand whipping up Khmer nationalism, Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodia’s People’s Party (CPP) rode both to a landslide election victory on Sunday, securing another five years in power for one of Asia’s longest serving political [...]