Cambodian News

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has appealed to Cambodian workers in Thailand to return home, saying that labor markets in Cambodia are eager for workers and that wages have gone up significantly, national media reported Thursday.
“Wages in Cambodia are currently higher than in Thailand,” Hun Sen [...]

Internet scams are nothing new, but developing countries with new internet users are offering scammers a whole new pool of fresh victims. And Cambodia with about 44-thousand people connected to the web is a prime target.
COCHRANE: When 21-year-old Cambodian actress Amy checked her email earlier this month, there was an unexpected message waiting for her.
AMY: [...]

Phnom Penh (dpa) – Cambodia’s efforts to attract high-end tourists by developing a world class golfing scene in the space of just a few years appears to have paid off, with a major regional golf tour company preparing to showcase the courses in Europe.

Golfasian, which is based in Thailand, said it would promote Cambodia alongside [...]

Phnom Penh – Cambodia is content to wait for as long as it takes Thailand to settle its political upheavals and resume talks over disputed border territory, its government said Thursday.
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said by telephone that it was the least Cambodia could do to give Thailand breathing room to get its internal affairs [...]

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — Under the support from Australia, Cambodia on Tuesday organized a series of workshops to train more than 550 people, including judges, prosecutors, senior police officers and soldiers, for anti-terrorism law.
The Cambodian government considered terrorism act as a cruel crime in the history of humanity, and it makes turmoil in [...]

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Cambodia’s inflation hit a record high of 22 percent in July, a government minister said Tuesday.
Planning Minister Chhay Than said high global prices of oil and food were to blame for the soaring rate.
“For July, the inflation rate was 22 percent. We can say that this is a record high,” Chhay [...]

Phnom Penh’s video vendors are facing a new crackdown by authorities, who warn the sale of pirated copies CDs or DVDs will lead to jail or fines.
“We will not allow the illegal CDs and DVDs to be sold in Cambodian markets,” said Kong Kang Dara, director of the cinema secretariat of the Ministry of Culture [...]

Responding to concerns that a lake development project could damage the environment of Phnom Penh, a senior municipal official said Thursday a 10-year study had taken place before the plan was approved.
The company developing the lake, Shukaku, Inc., began filling Boeung Kak lake last week, angering residents who say a government buy-out effort is too [...]

The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, in Washington, hosted Cambodian classical musician Chum Ngek last week, to represent both Cambodian tradition and the state of Maryland.
At the center, he played three solos on his “roneat aik,” a kind of treble xylophone, and led the classical ensemble.
Chum Ngek is a recipient of the Bess Lomax Hawes [...]

Once upon a time, the Mekong River from Laos to Vietnam was teaming with thousands of freshwater dolphins, before more than thirty years of warfare and over-fishing nearly killed them off. But a recent study by the World Wildlife Fund found just 71 left, living in a short stretch of river from northern Cambodia to [...]