International relations

In an effort to bolster China’s cultural influence and expand bilateral ties, the Chinese government last week donated $203,000 to support the Kingdom’s increasingly popular Chinese-language classes. The funding was transferred last Thursday to the Chinese Association in Cambodia, which said it plans to expand class ...

Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries has increased by 15 percent in the first quarter of 2014 even though the internal conflict between the ruling and opposition parties over July election results remains unsolved. The figures of the Commerce Ministry showed Tuesday that the Southeast Asian ...

Building partnerships to realize the potential of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle was the theme of a forum in Buon Ma Thuot City, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on April 21. The event, co-hosted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Asian Development ...

The U.N.’s human rights office in Cambodia expressed concern Monday that 22 detained protesters may not be allowed to attend their trials on Friday, while the government insisted that the prisoners will be transported to the court. Two minors were arrested for intentional violence for their ...

A group of 14 ethnic minority Uighurs, including six children, fleeing China were arrested on Saturday in the Thai border province of Sa Keo after Cambodian smugglers deserted them on Friday, Thai media reported yesterday. The five men, three women and six children who were apprehended ...

CAMBODIA National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha pledged his party’s foreign policy allegiance to the United States over China in no uncertain terms to top officials in Washington, last week, according to a summary of his meetings posted online. A document released by the US-based ...

Cambodia and the United States will hold a joint military exercise dubbed “Angkor Sentinel 2014” next week, aiming to build capacity for Cambodian armed forces and bolster bilateral military ties. The annual exercise will last for ten days (April 21-30) at the Training Centre for Multinational ...

The Chinese government on Thursday donated 203,000 U.S.dollars to the Chinese Association in Cambodia to support schools offering Chinese language courses in Cambodia. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo handed over the money to Duong Chhiv, the president of the Chinese Association in Cambodia. ...

The Prime Minister of Cambodia and the Speaker of the Laotian Parliament are set to come to Belarus on official visits, Spokesman for the Belarusian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Mironchik told reporters on 17 April, BelTA has learnt. ...

The Sichuan-Cambodia Business Matching Session 2014 was held here Thursday with an aim to further promote economic and trade relations between Cambodia and China. The half-day forum brought together business executives from 51 enterprises in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province and some 120 Cambodian business people. ...

Angkor Gold Corp. (TSX: V.ANK, Stock Forum) has entered into a strategic alliance with Hong Kong-based Tohui Beishan Property Group Holding Ltd. (TG) that could provide up to $10.5 million for exploration in Cambodia, Angkor said Monday. The strategic alliance between Angkor and TG includes TG’s ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy was scheduled to depart for the Netherlands last night to attend a Liberal International conference in Rotterdam with other leaders of liberal parties from around the world. CNRP Vice-President Kem Sokha is also out of the country touring Cambodian communities in the ...

More than two dozen NGOs have written to the head of the Asian Development Bank demanding the immediate release of a draft plan the ADB has drawn up to help Cambodian families evicted to make way for a bank-funded railway rehabilitation project. They also want ...

Cambodia earned $2.5 billion from the tourism sector last year, a senior government official said Monday. Last year’s income from tourism accounted for around 16 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product and provided jobs directly to about 400,000 people, Sok An said. The Cambodian government ...

Business International Monitor said Thursday that Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar were expected to outperform their regional peers in terms of real economic growth in the longer term. In a statement, the London-based firm said the three countries would offer ” substantial opportunities for investors over the coming decade, ...

Laos plans to establish consulate general in Siem Reap province to boost bilateral cooperation with Cambodia through tourism and trade, a senior official from Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. “Tourism from Laos is increasing annually, so Lao PDR will establish a general consulate based ...

Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday that Cambodia may soon agree to take in asylum seekers who are now detained on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru after being diverted while trying to reach Australia. Mr. Morrison told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that next ...

Families evicted for a rail project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) threatened to demonstrate if the bank does not show them its plan to improve their living conditions within one week. About 1,000 families who built homes over the country’s long-neglected train tracks were ...

Anil Wadhwa, India’s deputy foreign minister, met with Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday and promised to honor his request for millions of dollars in loans, a spokesman said. He [Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong] said that Mr. Namhong then requested money to complete ...

The International Monetary Fund is projecting further modest acceleration in Cambodia’s rate of economic  expansion over the next five years. In the latest World Economic Outlook released Tuesday, the IMF projects that Cambodia’s gross domestic product will grow from an estimated 7.0 percent last year to ...

The KeyBridge International (Hong Kong) Investment Company has acquired 65 percent shares of a Cambodian telecommunications company EMAXX in an amount of 15 million U.S. dollars, officials of the two companies announced Wednesday. “EMAXX has converted from a family business into a joint venture,” Ai Min, ...

Cambodian and Indian senior diplomats on Wednesday discussed ways to strengthen and expand bilateral relations and cooperation for mutual benefits of the two countries and peoples. The talk was made between Cambodian deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and Indian Ministry of External Affairs ...

Thailand has begun training workers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar ahead of the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) next year, the National News Bureau of Thailand reported Wednesday. ...

The Ministry of Commerce is undergoing an internal shake-up to better position itself for the opening up of trade across the region. Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol told the Post yesterday that ahead of Asean Economic Community (AEC) integration in 2015, new divisions were being established and others realigned ...