SIEM REAP, Cambodia: Tourists heading to Angkor Wat can now take a stroll among over 600 stalls in Siem Reap’s four night markets, offering even cheaper leisure and shopping pleasures. These fairs, which are called “night markets” by tourists, have…
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Storms hit Siem Reap province
Our correspondent in Siem Reap writes: on 15 of may in Siem Reap province there were affected by little storm had destroyed more than 20 house injured more than 20 people and killed one woman. and after storm on the…
Cambodia to let foreigners own property
PHNOM PENH, March 25 — Cambodia’s Parliament is to debate a law next month that would allow foreigners to own property directly, one of the aims being to attract more investors to the Southeast Asian country. Until now, foreigners wanting…
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Pig sales increase ahead of Chinese New Year in Cambodia
Pigs sales in Cambodia are almost doubled ahead of Chinese New Year which falls on Sunday, compared to the normal days of the year. Srun Pov, president of Association of Pigs Raising in Cambodia, said Friday that on normal daily…
US Policy Remains Unforgiving of 1970s Debt
The US expects Cambodia to repay $300 million in loans from the Lon Nol era, despite hopes in Phnom Penh the debt will be canceled, a US State Department official said Tuesday. “We think Cambodia should begin to make payment…
Cambodia Seeks End to Child Labor
Poor families in poor health, the loss of land and the legacy of war are all contributing to a child labor problem in Cambodia, the country’s national International Labor Organization coordinator said Monday. “The latest studies we have show that…
Siem Reap court questions evictee in land row
SIEM Reap Prosecutor Ty Soveinthal on Monday began his questioning of Huoy Mai, a 46-year-old villager from Oddar Meanchey province who has been accused of illegally cutting down trees on land at the centre of an ongoing dispute with the…
Chi Kraeng villagers to defy govt ban
MORE than 100 villagers from Chi Kraeng commune in Siem Reap province will attempt to plant dry-season rice on a disputed 475-hectare plot of land today, village leaders said. Tork Ponloek, a village representative, said that he and some of…
Siem Reap town submerged as main river burst its banks following typhoon.
From The Phnom Penh Post today. Siem Reap Photo by: AFP A Cambodian boy stands on Thursday amid the wreckage of his house, damaged the day before by Typhoon Ketsana in Kampong Thom province. SIEM Reap found itself underwater…