Cambodian News

The number of Vietnamese tourists visiting Cambodia jumped nearly 75 percent in the first ten months of 2008, coming in at No. 2 for the first time in 15 years, officials said Tuesday.
The 176,600 Vietnamese visitors, up from 102,577 in the same period last year, was second only to the number of Korean visitors, 234,880, [...]

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AFP) — Had there been a roof, Placebo would have raised it as they headlined the first rock concert in history at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple.
Some 1,200 fans of all ages, mostly Cambodian, watched the London-based alternative rockers top a bill Sunday backed by musicians from Cambodia and across the world in [...]

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) – Experts from the European Community (EC) will meet in February with the Cambodian civil aviation officials over the EC ban of the Siem Reap Airways’ flights to its market, an official said here on Thursday.
EC banned all flights of the Siem Reap Airways to its countries, [...]

For something so ancient, the rock face looked as content as a man who’s just eaten a big slice of peach pie.”Who made you?” I whispered. “Were you lonely when nobody came to visit for 400 years?”
No answer. Just a smile.
That is the fascination of Angkor, the mysterious temple complex of Cambodia. As at the [...]

Cambodia’s Siem Reap Airways International and all carriers from Angola have been added to the European Commission’s ‘blacklist’ of banned airlines.
But the update, released today, gives no specific information on whether the Commission has acted against any carriers from the European Union.
Phnom Penh-based Siem Reap Airways does not operate directly to Europe, but the European Commission states [...]

We’re sitting at the dining room table and no one is saying a word. We all have food balanced on our spoons, mouths open, but the stories from our host are so gripping and monumental that the two haven’t quite met. Then all of a sudden: “Who wants to hear a landmine joke?”
Without missing a [...]

Exotissimo Travel, the premier destination management company (DMC) in Southeast Asia, has announced the appointment of Olivier Marchesin as the General Manager of Exotissimo Cambodia, effective from 1 October 2008.
Commenting on this new appointment, Olivier Colomes, Group Managing Director of Exotissimo Travel said, “We are pleased to welcome Olivier into the Exotissimo family. We believe that [...]

SIEM REAP, Cambodia — David Shoemaker, a nurse from Winnipeg, stumbled upon Siem Reap during a volunteer trip to Southeast Asia in January 2000 and decided to return to continue his efforts.
He’s still there.
Siem Reap, site of the architectural wonder of the world, Angkor Wat, shows Cambodia’s tentative steps toward economic growth. When I first [...]

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 – Siem Reap Airways International is scheduled to launch direct flights between Siem Reap in Cambodia and the Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh late next month, the airline said in a press release Tuesday.
Siem Reap is the tourist hub of Cambodia and gateway to the Angkor Wat temple complex, 300 kilometres [...]