Phnom Penh: The former king Norodom Sihanouk sent a letter to all Cambodian people shortly after Chinese professional doctors gave him a health check by modern PET SCAN on Monday morning. The letter said that the Father King recovers from…
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Lighting Scheme Has ‘No Affect’ on Temples: Council
Council Minister Sok An told the National Assembly Friday that a system of outdoor lighting at the Angkor Wat temples will not hurt the ancient structures and could be a boon to tourism. “The heat from the lamps is 50,000-times…
Cambodia’s floating villages
Tonle Sap largest freshwater lake in Asia By Michael McCarthy, Vancouver Courier One of the great wonders of the world is the vast temple complex of Angkor Wat, spread through the jungles of northern Cambodia.…
CAMBODIA: World Bank pumps US$15 million into Higher Education
The World Bank is to inject US$15 million to support tertiary education in private and public universities and institutes in Cambodia, the Ministry of Education has said, writes Khuon Leakhena for The Phnom Penh Post. The money will be spent…
Long Beach woman helped create library in Cambodia
Children of all ages in rural Takeo Province, Cambodia now have a library and books to call their own. (Photo courtesy of Caitlin Ishigooka) LONG BEACH – One sign came when she couldn’t enter the existing library because the floor…
Pain of Khmer Rouge Era Lost on Cambodian Youth
Seth Mydans/The International Herald Tribune Yeoun Chany, 38, who lives near a former killing field, said her children “only know there are skulls and bones here; they don’t know what they are.” By SETH MYDANS TRAPAENG SVA, CAMBODIA —…
Cambodia: Rice politics
Rice is more than a staple of the Cambodian diet. It also implicates land rights, trade and international relations. A post on The Mirror reveals the frustration of Cambodians, including Cheam Yeap, a Cambodian People’s Party official, over land leases…
Global downturn threatens Cambodian garment success
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Mon Moeun, one of thousands of Cambodians pulled out of poverty by a job in the garment trade since foreign investors arrived in the 1990s, may be back rearing pigs soon after a collapse in demand…
Teachers say PM’s claims dubious
At an education summit Wednesday, Hun Sen said he did not have the budget to raise the salaries of teachers; teacher associations say the money could be found if the PM wanted to Photo by: SOVANN PHILONG Students in a…
Cambodia Showing Signs of ‘Oil Curse’
Geoffrey Cain | 19 Mar 2009 World Politics Review Up to $1.7 billion a year in oil money is Cambodia Showing Signs of ‘Oil Curse’ set to flow into impoverished Cambodia, where 35 percent of the population lives under $1…