Cambodian News

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) – The United States plans to donate more than 600,000 U.S. dollars in “non-lethal” military aid to Cambodia in 2009, national media on Tuesday quoted U.S. Embassy spokesman as saying.
The United States expects to give 635,000 U.S. dollars in aid toward countering transnational criminal activities, including anti-drug trafficking and demining [...]

The economic downturn has begun hurting the US businesses of many Cambodian-Americans.
“The clients won’t come, if there are a lot of layoffs in their work,” U Makara, who runs a sushi restaurant in the state of Michigan, said recently. “Sushi food is kind of an expensive food.”
People who had come in to eat two or [...]

The global economic downturn has led to a drop in orders for Cambodia’s garment industry by nearly a third, a worrying statistic, industry leaders said Monday.

The economic downturn, which has hit the US—Cambodia’s top purchases of garments—as well as the EU and Asia, resulted in the fall of orders by 30 percent, along with lower [...]

Cambodian supporters of John McCain were left upset Wednesday, as his opponent, Barack Obama, won the next US presidency. Obama supporters, meanwhile, celebrated.
“I appreciate Barack Obama’s win in the election, because he was determined to eliminate the American and global economic crisis, and strengthen peace in the world,” said Sary Phirum, a 25-year-old university student.
She [...]

Officials from Cambodia’s key ministries welcomed the election of Barack Obama as US president Wednesday, saying they were optimistic his administration would continue the good relations that have grown between the countries in recent years.
“In the past, we have had a good relationship with the US government, regarding counterterrorism, also with the FBI, CIA and [...]

Last week, Thel Sar, a probation officer and community activist, spent some time inspecting electronic voting machines in his hometown of Lowell, Mass. The machines will be used when America votes on Nov. 4, choosing, among other representatives, their president.
“I was responsible for the inspection of numerous voting-machines to ensure that the machines will work [...]

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — American rock band The Click Five plans to play a concert at Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat temple next month as part of a campaign to fight human trafficking, organiser MTV music channel said Monday.
The December 7 concert by the group, who are popular in Southeast Asia, is part of a series [...]

A number of Cambodian-American supporters of presidential hopeful Barack Obama voiced concern over his safety after they learned this week of an alleged plot to assassinate him.
Authorities on Tuesday arrested two men in Tennessee, Paul Schelesselman, 18, and Daniel Cowart, 20, on suspicion they had planned to shoot Obama and several black students. The two [...]

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) — High U.S. tariffs are hurting Cambodia’s garment sector, with the industry complaining that high import costs and a slowing U.S. economy could sink the Kingdom’s key industry, state media reported Tuesday.
In 2007, Cambodia paid 419 million U.S. dollars in tariffs on 2.46 billion U.S. dollars worth of exported goods, [...]

The United States government and the government of Cambodia have agreed to extend their Memorandum of Understanding “Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Archaeological Material from Cambodia from the Bronze Age through the Khmer Era.”
This extension, consistent with a recommendation made by the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, represents a continuation of cooperation that began [...]