Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet is scheduled to make a three-day trip to Cambodia beginning Thursday to promote increasing trade between the two countries, officials said Tuesday. “The progress of investment, trade and tourism is greatly increasing,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said. “This state visit also promotes the other sectors. When we speak of [...]
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Climate a Factor in Demise of Angkor: Study
April 19th, 2010 
admin A decades-long drought interspersed with intense monsoons in the 14th and 15th centuries may have contributed to the fall of the Angkorean civilization, a new US research study suggests. Brendan Buckley, a researcher at Columbia University, and his colleagues studied tree rings in the region, putting together a high-resolution record of periods of drought and [...]
Sam Rainsy Summoned by Svay Rieng Court
December 20th, 2009 admin Svay Rieng provincial court has issued a summons to opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who is facing charges for allegedly leading a group of villagers to pull up demarcation posts near the Vietnam border in October. Sam Rainsy has been asked to appear on Dec. 28, according to a summons issued Wednesday and obtained by VOA [...]
2008 Asia – Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
January 30th, 2009 Cambodian News Summary: This Annual Publication: Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband in Asia – Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam profiles three countries which once made up the French colonial entity known as Indochina. It is reasonable to say that Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam are all still in comparatively early stages of their telecommunications development with expanding national infrastructure and [...]