As Cambodia launches $36.6bn building drive, China, Japan fight for spoils | Infrastructure

As Cambodia launches $36.6bn building drive, China, Japan fight for spoils | Infrastructure

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…

Twenty Cambodian soldiers killed in ammunition base explosion: PM | Military News

Twenty Cambodian soldiers killed in ammunition base explosion: PM | Military News

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…

US returns ancient artefacts looted from Cambodia, Indonesia | Arts and Culture News

US returns ancient artefacts looted from Cambodia, Indonesia | Arts and Culture News

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…

‘No dancing in the streets’: Why has Cambodia banned musical vehicle horns? | Politics News

‘No dancing in the streets’: Why has Cambodia banned musical vehicle horns? | Politics News

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…