Svay Rieng

A lawyer for four unionists who were handed suspended 18-month prison sentences for blocking a road last year filed an appeal with the Svay Rieng Provincial Court on Wednesday. ...

Twenty-two Chinese nationals were arrested at a rented villa in Svay Rieng City on Saturday on suspicion of extorting money from people overseas using Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, technology, police said Sunday. ...

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

An NGO director claimed Sunday that authorities in Svay Rieng province blocked a group he was leading from visiting homes they had rebuilt near the Vietnamese border in Romeas Hek district. ...

Villagers along the border of Vietnam and Cambodia have maintained close relations for generations and, for them, the ‘border line’ is just like a fence between two nearby houses. ...

Authorities in the southern province of Long An and the neighbouring Cambodian province of Svay Rieng maintained security and order in the border area after a group of Cambodians approached border marker No 203. ...

Vietnamese and Cambodian border authorities prevented about 1,800 Cambodian from illegally crossing the border into the southern Vietnamese province of Long An on Sunday, a senior border guard official has said. ...

About 200 villagers involved in land disputes in three provinces protested Monday outside Cambodia’s parliament building in Phnom Penh, demanding that lawmakers resolve their cases and threatening not to vote for those who turn down their requests. ...

A Vietnam-Cambodia joint working group on Thursday made a field inspection in the area between border marker 202 and 203 at Binh Bac village, Binh Hoa Tay commune, Moc Hoa district in Vietnam’s Long An province where a violent incident caused by some Cambodian extremists ...

As el niño continues to buffet Cambodia, the next two weeks could be crucial in determining whether the Kingdom will suffer from a smaller-than-usual rice harvest and potential food shortages, experts said yesterday. According to Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries general director So Khan ...

Authorities in Svay Rieng province have slammed the minister in charge of negotiating border issues with Vietnam, saying he has not kept the military and governor’s office in the loop regarding the ongoing dispute with Cambodia’s neighbour. ...

The Vietnamese government has agreed to halt construction of roads, a police station and ponds near Cambodian border areas, following three days of border talks in Phnom Penh. Many people are concerned that the map currently in use for border talks was made by Vietnam ...

Border tensions between Vietnam and Cambodia are set to be investigated by a bilateral body, it was reported Saturday. The body was established in the wake of a skirmish involving a member of parliament, who was visiting the site of a border marker that is in ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been following developments on the Cambodia-Vietnam border and “welcomes the agreement of both countries to establish a Joint Working Group to examine and clarify recent incidents,” his spokeswoman, Eri Kaneko, told VOA Khmer. ...

Long An Province on Thursday asked Cambodian authorities to tighten their control over a border area where Cambodian extremists attacked Vietnamese villagers late last month. ...

Cambodia sent a diplomatic protest letter to Vietnam on Wednesday over what it considers an encroachment of its border territory, as the Cambodian border committee planned to reveal the map it is using to demarcate the borderline in response to a demand by the opposition ...

Vietnamese officials Wednesday condemned protests held by Cambodians near the two countries’ borders that led to clashes between Vietnamese authorities and civilians, leaving more than a dozen people injured. The protests are the latest development underscoring growing tensions at the shared border. ...

Cambodia and Vietnam say they will hold border talks next week, following clashes between Cambodian activists and Vietnamese border security forces. The head of Cambodia’s border committee, Var Kim Hong, told VOA that Phnom Penh would raise a number of sensitive issues with Hanoi, including road-building, ...

Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Provincial Administration has accused a group of opposition party led by a lawmaker of creating insecurity along border with Vietnam after the group scuffled with Vietnamese villagers over a disputed border area on Sunday. ...

Police in Svay Rieng province on Sunday stopped three Phnom Penh-bound tour buses from Vietnam suspected of smuggling shoes and clothing into Cambodia, officials said Monday. ...

Police in Svay Rieng province said Wednesday that they had yet to identify any suspects in the armed robbery of a mobile-payment kiosk and currency exchange business in Romeas Hek district that left one man dead. ...

Cambodian and Vietnamese police are investigating the suspected murder and kidnapping of an 8-year-old Vietnamese schoolgirl who was found dead in Svay Rieng province last week after going missing on her way to school in Ho Chi Minh City in January, a Cambodian official said ...

Teachers at Koki Som secondary school in Svay Rieng’s Svay Tiep district yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Unit to investigate the school’s principal, who, they claim, embezzled thousands of dollars from the school budget. ...

Union leader Pav Sina on Monday filed a complaint with the Interior Ministry after an administrator at a Chinese-owned window factory in Svay Rieng province allegedly told three other members of his union that some factory owners were pooling money in order to have Mr. ...