Phnom Penh
Thai floods kill 224, inundate World Heritage Site
Oct 04, 2011 09:42 EDT
BANGKOK (Reuters) - At least 224 people have died in flooding in Thailand since mid-July and water has inundated the 400-year-old Chai Wattanaram temple in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, a World Heritage Site, officials said Tuesday.
Scores die in worst Mekong flooding since 2000
Sep 30, 2011 07:33 EDT
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - At least 150 people in Cambodia and southern Vietnam have died in the worst flooding along the Mekong River in 11 years after heavy rain swamped homes, washed away bridges and forced thousands of people to evacuate.
Thai ex-PM meets Cambodian leader
Sep 17, 2011 03:23 EDT
Former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra met Cambodia's premier in Phnom Penh Saturday for the first time since his sister took power in Thailand, but an official said politics was not on the agenda.
Thai PM in first Cambodia visit to mend ties
Sep 15, 2011 08:29 EDT
New Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra held her first official talks with her Cambodian counterpart on Thursday as the neighbours seek to patch up relations after deadly border clashes.
Thai PM's first visit will mend ties: Cambodia
Sep 15, 2011 02:30 EDT
New Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra makes her first official visit to Cambodia on Thursday aimed at shoring up relations between the neighbours after deadly border clashes.
Cambodian baby suckles directly from cow for milk
Sep 12, 2011 14:13 EDT
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (Reuters) - An 18-month-old Cambodian boy who has suckled milk directly from a cow daily for more than a month is in fine health, the child's grandfather said on Sunday.
Baby suckles directly from cow for milk
Sep 12, 2011 11:46 EDT
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (Reuters) - An 18-month-old Cambodian boy who has suckled milk directly from a cow daily for more than a month is in fine health, the child's grandfather said.
Cambodian baby suckles directly from cow for milk
Sep 12, 2011 10:42 EDT
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (Reuters) - An 18-month-old Cambodian boy who has suckled milk directly from a cow daily for more than a month is in fine health, the child's grandfather said on Sunday.
Thai court convicts three of spying
Sep 06, 2011 16:35 EDT
A Thai court on Tuesday jailed three men, a Cambodian, a Vietnamese and a local, for two years each for espionage, officials said.
Clothing brands 'to probe Cambodia faintings'
Sep 06, 2011 09:37 EDT
More than two dozen global clothing brands on Tuesday pledged to investigate a spate of mass faintings among Cambodian garment workers, the UN's labour agency said.
"Land grabs" mar Cambodia's boom, rattle investors
Aug 31, 2011 20:20 EDT
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Kong Song's farmland was his family's livelihood for three decades until the bulldozers moved in and tore down his home in rural Cambodia to make way for a multimillion dollar foreign-led business.
Cambodia's activist monk fights on despite threats
Aug 30, 2011 02:38 EDT
His saffron robe a rare beacon among protesters, Cambodia's most outspoken monk has been banned from temples and risked arrest for challenging rights abuses -- but he vows not to be silenced.
Hundreds sick in mass fainting at Cambodian factory
Aug 25, 2011 06:25 EDT
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Nearly 300 Cambodian workers fell sick this week at a garment factory producing goods for Swedish fashion brand Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M), police said on Thursday.
ADB backs under-fire campaigners in Cambodia
Aug 19, 2011 12:00 EDT
The Asian Development Bank on Friday defended two land rights organisations in Cambodia that have been rapped by the government for criticising an ADB-funded railway redevelopment project.
Cambodian 'Avatars' rally to save forest
Aug 18, 2011 03:43 EDT
More than one hundred villagers dressed as the forest people from the hit film "Avatar" protested in the Cambodian capital Thursday against the destruction of the country's Prey Lang forest.
World Bank halts new Cambodia loans over evictions
Aug 09, 2011 01:57 EDT
The World Bank will not provide any new loans to Cambodia until it resolves a dispute about a mass eviction from a lakeside area in the capital, according to a statement seen by AFP on Tuesday.
Cambodia's former king heads to China for check-up
Aug 03, 2011 02:12 EDT
Cambodia's ailing former king Norodom Sihanouk left his country for Beijing to undergo medical tests, officials said.
Cambodia's 'orphan tourism' sparks concern
Jul 27, 2011 02:50 EDT
Pictures of hundreds of former volunteers line the walls of a muddy courtyard in Cambodia's tourist hub of Siem Reap, their faces once familiar to the orphans playing there but now long gone.
Cambodia, US call for regional talks in border row
Jul 22, 2011 11:19 EDT
Cambodia on Friday called for outside help to resolve its border dispute with Thailand, as the US lent its support to a regional solution following a UN order to remove troops from the frontier.
Cambodian PM proposes troop pullout deal with Thailand
Jul 22, 2011 05:19 EDT
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's prime minister proposed Friday a deal with Thailand to simultaneously withdraw troops from a newly defined demilitarized zone, in compliance with a United Nations court ruling aimed at defusing tensions in a disputed border area.
