Dramatic video shows 18 tourists being rescued off a rickety ferry as it sank off the coast of Cambodia. The boat began sinking at 4 p.m. on Thursday near Daem Thkov, a remote fishing village on the southwestern shore of the idyllic island of Koh Rong, the Khmer Times reported….
A giant fish in Asia’s Mekong River that scientists believed to be extinct has been spotted three times after almost 20 years, according to a new study. The “ghost’ fish,” a large salmon carp, is renowned as the symbol of the Mekong region, Chhut Chheana, a researcher at the Inland…
Cambodia has started a massive project — a canal that links the Mekong River to the sea. Its deputy prime minister says the Funan Techo Canal is ‘a game-changer’. But Cambodia’s neighbours worried. Not only about the impact the canal could have on the Mekong Delta, but about China’s influence…
Phnom Penh says $1.7bn project economic as Vietnam worries it could be used by Chinese warships. Cambodia has launched a controversial canal project to link the Mekong River to the sea. Work on the $1.7bn project kicked off on Monday. Phnom Penh hopes the canal will boost the country’s economy….
NewsFeed Over a dozen stolen artefacts were returned to Cambodia from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Buddhist and other religious antiquities date back as far as the 7th century and were originally stolen by British art dealer and accused smuggler Douglas Latchford, who died in 2020. Published On…
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Cambodia is pushing for an infrastructural renaissance, but it will need some help from its friends abroad to chip away at an estimated price tag of $36.6bn. That was the final sum calculated by the Cambodian government and published earlier this year in a 174-project master…
The blast, which also wounded several soldiers, occurred at an army base in Kampong Speu province, Hun Manet says. Twenty soldiers have been killed in an ammunition explosion at a base in the west of Cambodia, according to Prime Minister Hun Manet. The blast, which also wounded several soldiers, occurred…
New York district attorney accuses two prominent art dealers of the illegal trafficking of antiquities worth $3m. Prosecutors in New York City have announced that they returned to Cambodia and Indonesia 30 antiquities that were looted, sold or illegally transferred by networks of American antiquities dealers and traffickers. The antiquities…
EXPLAINER Authorities across Cambodia have been ordered to remove musical horns from vehicles and put a stop to roadside dancing. Having ruled with an iron fist for 45 years, Cambodia’s governing party leaders have a lengthy list of practices that have been banned and political opponents jailed or forced to…
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