Cambodian Times news Cambodian Times news Rss feed

  • Cambodian sugar lacking spice riches

    ensures a higher market value for specialty produce. According to a report from Cambodia's Commerce Ministry, "A GI product must have a specific quality linked to the characteristics of its geographic production zone and must have a well-established reputation among consumers in connection with this origin." GI registration also requires farmers to use natural manure in ...

  • Death of a killer in Cambodia

    By Sebastian Strangio PHNOM PENH - Ieng Sary, a veteran member of Cambodia's communist Khmer Rouge movement and one of the few of its leaders to be put on trial for crimes committed during the regime's 1975-79 rule, died on Thursday morning at the age of 87. He was being tried at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a United Nations-backed tribunal, along ...

  • Bike firms saddle up onlow Cambodian wages

    By Michelle Tolson PHNOM PENH - Cambodia's export business is in the process of changing due to shifts in manufacturing in Asia. A business publication in the country has reported unexpected growth in the "machinery and transport equipment" sector and speculated it was as "probably bicycles". But when Cambodia jumped into the top 10 exporters of bicycles to the ...

  • Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia

    Monarchic manipulation in Cambodia By Geoff Gunn The survival of the monarchy in Cambodia is little short of remarkable in the light of that country's modern history. French manipulation of the monarchy and attempts to buttress religion and culture alongside the rise of nationalist youth and Buddhist radicalism was an important precursor to postwar events. No less momentous for ...

  • More to US-Cambodia relations than rights

    By Vannarith Chheang A meeting between US President Barack Obama and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on November 19 took on added significance given the backdrop of the 21st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, which was held in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh in the same week. Focusing on human rights, fundamental political freedoms, and electoral democracy in ...


Weather
°C
Winds:

° °

° °

° °
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

Movie Review

The Wolfman

The Wolfman

There is something primal in the enduring appeal of the Universal stable of Gothic-inspired monsters--Dracula, Frankenteins monster, the Invisible Man, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man--which were introduced to movie audiences in the 1930s and helped to cement horror, which up until then had been ... ...

On Facebook

  • Lao Cambodian familiespay for summit luxuries

    By Beaumont Smith and Julie Masis VIENTIANE and PHNOM PENH - As Asian and European leaders gather for high-level meetings this month in Cambodia and Laos, the luxury living quarters and extensive security arrangements made for their arrivals have come at considerable human and environmental expense. Government authorities went on a building spree ahead of this week's 9th Asia-Europe ...

  • US warns Laos over Xayaburi dam

    By Carey L Biron WASHINGTON - The US government is directly cautioning the Laotian government following Monday's announcement that the latter will move forward with contentious construction plans for a massive hydroelectric dam on the Mekong River. "The extent and severity of impacts from the Xayaburi dam on an ecosystem that provides food security and livelihoods for millions ...

  • Cambodia gets last chance to show spine

    By Gregory Poling and Alexandra Sander Cambodia will fulfill its last major obligation as this year's Association of Southeast Asian Nations chair from November 18-20 when it hosts the annual ASEAN Summit and seventh East Asia Summit (EAS). The EAS in particular will provide Cambodia with the opportunity to restore some of its credibility after the public embarrassment of the ASEAN ...

  • A royal check removed in Cambodia

    already strong authoritarian power in the country. Hun Sen has ruled for 27 consecutive years, Asia's longest-serving national leader, and could benefit politically by regaling the late Sihanouk with respect during the upcoming funeral and afterwards while muting details of Sihanouk's treacherous past. "China enjoyed a degree of appreciation from many Cambodians through ...

  • New war footing on Thai-Cambodian border

    By John Cole and Steve Sciacchitano Since early January, Royal Thai Army (RTA) planners have prepared new plans to defend Thailand against potential attacks from Cambodia, a move that threatens to rekindle tensions along the two countries' contested border. The plan, drawn up by the RTA's 2nd Army Region and formally approved in April, represents a significant departure from ...

More Cambodian Times news