Cambodia border. Decades-old disputes over land and ancient temples reignite. Fighting intensified in December after a July ceasefire collapsed. Both sides deployed military might. Diplomatic efforts are underway to restore peace.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Cambodia’s electoral process is marred by systematic problems that prevent national elections scheduled for July 28, 2013, from being free and fair, Human Rights Watch said today. Eight parties are taking part in the elections, including the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen, and the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), led ...

Cambodia is pushing ahead with plans to link the nation’s capital, Phnom Penh, to its coast with a canal running 180 kilometers, or 110 miles. According to Cambodian leaders, 51% or more of the canal’s cost will be covered by Cambodian companies and ...

THAILAND AND Cambodia have mostly kept heavy weapons out of their long-simmering border disputes. So the sudden violence on the morning of July 24th came as a shock. Cambodian artillery shelled a Thai military base; Thai F-16 fighter jets launched sorties ...

In the last five years, the rapid growth of Cambodia’s microfinance sector has been accompanied by a sharp increase in over-indebtedness among rural Cambodians. According to the government’s Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey for 2019 and 2020, the average ...

Tensions between Thailand and Cambodia have spilled into the aviation sector, with airport authorities in both countries trading accusations even as flight connections remain open and operational. At the center of the dispute are allegations from Cambodian officials that passengers transiting through Bangkok face repeated delays and baggage problems,

The massive and well-guarded Russian embassy in Phnom Penh stands on one of the Cambodian capital’s main roads in a plush part of town, next to the country’s premier shopping mall and not far from the Royal Palace and the ruling Cambodian Peoples ...

The entrance hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Museums like the Met have rigorous systems to safeguard the institution from art fraud. But were the acquisitions of Cambodian artifacts tainted by competing interests? “A key strategy ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Unable to pay his way out of jail, Kong Chamroeun was remanded in a Cambodian prison pending trial for stealing $80 of company property, a crime his family said he did not commit. "We had nothing, just empty hands," said his ...

For many Cambodians 2023 was a grinding affair. Dominated by the jailing of dissidents, a one-sided election and a father to son transfer of power, it was a year that entrenched the ruling families while opposition politicians wilted behind bars or in exile.