PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Southeast Asian nations must redouble efforts to bridge development gaps which threaten the region's efforts to create an EU-style single market, Cambodia's prime minister said
I looked up from my barbecue to watch the waves crashing on the reef. A mini-bus drew up and slowed down. The driver tooted his horn and the passengers waved and shouted a greeting. It was not for me
SIEM REAP, 3 September 2012: Authorities are worried that tour guides are being treated badly by Korean interpreters who fill in when there are no Korean speaking tour guides available.
SIEM REAP - It is Cambodia’s largest tourism success. Angkor Wat beautiful structures, a testimony of Khmer’s artistic skills and sense of architecture graved for ever into the stone, are a magnet for
SIEM REAP, Cambodia – Everyone goes to Siem Reap for one reason – to see the world-famous Angkor temple complex.
PHNOM PENH: A co-founder of top Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, who is on an international wanted list, has been arrested in the Cambodian capital at Stockholm’s request, police said Sunday.
LETTER FROM CAMBODIA: I WAS sitting quietly on a bench, well off the main path out of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tuol Sleng is a 1960s high school, converted into the
Cambodia's Angkor Wat captured the attention of American photographer John McDermott in 1995, when he shot the ancient site during a total eclipse of the sun.
Malaysia tourism and travel agency officials have signed a memorandum of understanding at the Angkor Golf Resort in Siem Reap to boost golf tourism in Malaysia and Cambodia.
Tourism authorities are concerned that the role of Siem Reap’s Cambodian tour guides catering to Korean tourists is being usurped by interpreters, with the tour guides being relegated to mere
SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The bilateral relationship between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN) and China is very good and the regional bloc wants to see more
IT wasn’t the greatest first impression I’d ever made. Arriving at the small, dusty Cambodian village of O’Key, where dogs scampered around the handful of bamboo houses, I smiled and waved at the
Siem Reap, Cambodia. It was a chilly afternoon in 1993 at a rubber plant forest in Kampong Cham. Soehardjono Sastromihardjo, now Indonesian ambassador to Cambodia, was riding with a United Nations
Nguyen Sinh Hung, Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly and Samdech Heng Samrin, President of the Cambodian National Assembly co-chaired the meeting.
Efforts of the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism are starting to pay off after years promoting the country’s beach destination of Sihanoukville as the next travel frontier in Cambodia.
SURIN, 20 August 2012 – The border trade between Thailand and Cambodia from January to April this year is worth over 26 billion baht, which is an increase of 25.5 percent year-on-year.
A year ago, getting to Sihanoukville required perseverance and a certain degree of bravery. There had been no flights to Cambodia’s premier beach resort for years — at least no scheduled services —
Far from the gleaming skyscrapers of modern Southeast Asian capitals such as Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur, Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh is a dusty and edgy yet somewhat enchanting city of crumbling
Indigenous communities are the archetype of sustainable societies, having historically evolved and thrived in various ecosystems. However, as the modern industrial world continues to flourish,
More than 180,000 hectares on 28 of Cambodia’s 64 islands were reclassified as state private property for 31 companies seeking land concessions between 2008 and 2010, government sub-decrees reveal.
The 3rd Meeting of ACMECS Tourism Working Group was held in Siem Reap on Aug. 14 to continue developing and improving the tourism cooperation among the member-countries – Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar,
PHNOM PENH -- China's Hainan Ruijin Investment Holding Group planned to invest in rice plantation, cow farm and tourism development in Cambodia, the group's chairman Pan Xiaoping said Wednesday.
BANGKOK, 14 August 2012: Tourist statistics in June showed arrivals from Thailand to Cambodia continued to improve, while arrivals from Laos surpassed the usual market leader China for the first time.
Phnom Penh. Students in their twenties sit behind old wooden desks in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, scribbling away as a teacher barks out phrases in a foreign language above the roar of motorcycles
Walking the vine-wreathed paths of Banteay Chhmar, a 12th-century temple near the Thai border that some call the “second Angkor Wat” feels like sneaking into a renowned historical site after the tour