International relations

Beijing is spreading its influence by stumping up the cash to build desperately needed infrastructure throughout Asia, but with little consideration for communities or the level of corruption. “Without infrastructure, you can’t revive,” said Cambodia’s Commerce Minister, Sun Chanthol. “We have been blamed for always ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed the officials in charge of border affairs to continue working on border delimitation and demarcation, according to the State News Agency-AKP. ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong has demanded an end to opposition politicking on the Vietnam border issue, following the second and “final” verification of maps used by the government to demarcate the eastern boundary against French charts.Namhong, also a deputy prime minister, yesterday presided over ...

Vietnam is considering the construction of an expressway to link Ho Chi Minh City to neighboring Tay Ninh Province with investment of 693 million U.S. dollars, local online newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) News reported Thursday. ...

Police in the Cambodian province of Tbong Khmum have arrested two men for allegedly damaging a pillar that marks the border between the country and Vietnam, Vietnam Plus reported on Wednesday. ...

Hours after French officials handed over a set of maps to Cambodia on Thursday, the government border committee announced that the documents matched its own, calling an end to an ongoing political dispute over the demarcation of the Southeast Asian nation’s border with neighboring Vietnam. ...

Chairman of the Ad-hoc Commission to Receive, Hand over, and Verify Cambodia’s Maps Hor Namhong who is also deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs received here this morning the copies of maps from French official. ...

Cambodian authorities say they have received no request for aid in the Thai investigation of a bombing in Bangkok in August, following the detention of a second suspect near the Cambodian border on Tuesday. ...

Construction began Monday on the Tan An Bridge on a key transport route connecting the southern province of An Giang’s Tan Chau Town and Cambodia’s Phnom Penh via the Vinh Xuong International Border Gate.  ...

French President Francois Hollande on Monday reaffirmed clear stance in border issues between Cambodia and Vietnam. ...

Every evening, Seu Rin takes his family’s wooden fishing boat down the Teuk Chhu River to the waters of the Cambodian coast. ...

Opposition lawmaker Um Sam An on Tuesday denied claims by the government that he was inciting instability in a Facebook post last week in which he boasted about finding a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam at the U.S. Library of Congress. ...

The opposition yesterday threatened to censure Interior Minister Sar Kheng, accusing the government of not being honest about the number of Vietnamese in the country. ...

Two days after four men were repatriated to Cambodia following their escape from a cargo ship docked in the Philippines, an official at the maritime school where the group studied questioned the veracity of the reports of mistreatment. ...

In another push to facilitate bilateral trade, Cambodian and Thai delegates met for two days last week to discuss developments on a handful of new border crossings, a rail line connecting the two countries at Poi Pet, and special economic zones designed for those living ...

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Monday denied a refugee deal with Cambodia had collapsed after Cambodian officials said it did not intend to accept any more refugees from a South Pacific  detention center under an  agreement. ...

Prince Sisowath Thomico, the personal secretary of late King Norodom Sihanouk, has weighed in on Cambodia’s map controversy and the alleged encroachment of Vietnamese infrastructure along the Cambodian border. ...

Former colonial ruler France has agreed to lend a set of maps to Cambodia following a request from Prime Minister Hun Sen and amid a dispute over the demarcation of the Southeast Asian nation’s border with neighboring Vietnam, officials said Tuesday. ...

Police believe the two prime bombing suspects in the Erawan and Sathon pier explosions are hiding in Cambodia and have asked Phnom Penh authorities to hunt them down, a Crime Suppression Division (CSD) source said Monday. ...

Australia’s foreign minister on Monday insisted that a controversial refugee deal with Cambodia was alive and well, dismissing Australian news reports that efforts to resettle more refugees here from Nauru had collapsed. ...

While China to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sept. 3, Cambodia dispatched 7 armed personnel to joint the China’s military parade, according to the Chinese News Agency- Xinhua’s report. ...

As Cambodian and Thai authorities agreed to ease up on the use of violence against illegal border crossers into both countries, Thailand stopped short of pledging to refrain from shooting trespassers into the neighbouring kingdom. ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong said Sunday that the opposition CNRP has only been enjoying so much success in its recent campaign against Vietnamese incursions into Cambodia because no other problems exist in the country. ...

Cambodian police arrested 22 Chinese, who were suspected of transnational telephone fraud, in southeast Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Province on Saturday, August 29. ...