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Cambodia will use a new air route for flights to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam that will reduce fuel costs and provide a more direct route to these countries reducing air time for these flights, according to the State Secretariat for Civil Aviation. ...

Seven men who spent about a year in a Thai prison after being convicted of illegal logging were released and repatriated to Cambodia on Saturday. ...

Thai prisons released 55 Cambodian illegal loggers over the weekend, after the group had spent about two years in prison for their offences. ...

Four Cambodian migrant workers who were arrested earlier this month for allegedly trying to re-enter Cambodia with fake documents were exonerated by a Thai court and released yesterday, Banteay Meanchey Deputy Governor Um Reatrey has said. ...

Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand are now reportedly able to access the same healthcare benefits as Thai nationals following the implementation of new regulations, although rights organisations warned yesterday that problems will persist for Cambodians across the border, the majority of whom remain undocumented. Under new ...

Sousdey Finance, a subsidiary of Thitikorn Limited in Thailand, will start a financial hire-leasing service for motorbikes in Phnom Penh, with an initial start-up fund of $100,000. ...

Following a number of separate arrests made in Thailand, a bus shepherded 20 Cambodian monks back home through the international checkpoint at Poipet on Saturday afternoon, local officials said yesterday. ...

Planning for the Stung Bot checkpoint on the Thai border is almost finalised, with the construction of new infrastructure to support trade facilitation to be completed by the end of 2018, officials said yesterday. Vasim Sorya, the director general of administration at the Ministry of Public ...

The Cambodian government will provide legal representation to three citizens who were shot at and arrested by Thai soldiers last week while allegedly smuggling drugs across the border. ...

More than a dozen opposition party officials have accused Thailand of encouraging extrajudicial killings of Cambodians along the border. In a strongly worded letter sent to Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party MPs asked for an independent investigation into an ...

More than a dozen opposition party officials have accused Thailand of encouraging extrajudicial killings of Cambodians along the border. In a strongly worded letter sent to Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party MPs asked for an independent investigation into an ...

The Interior Ministry is rushing to print passports for thousands of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand before a March 31 deadline set by the neighbouring junta. So far, the Interior Ministry has received a list of just 60,000 workers in need of passports, according to the ...

Three Cambodian men who were arrested in Thailand more than a year ago after venturing across the border to illegally log rosewood were on Monday released from prison and sent back home, border officials said. You Sothearith, chief of the immigration police at the checkpoint, ...

Thai officials sent 64 migrant workers and seven monks back to Cambodia yesterday, saying the Cambodia nationals had entered the country without proper authorisation. ...

The Thai government yesterday broke its silence on charred remains found 10 days ago alleged to have been two Cambodians burned alive by Thai soldiers, saying no conclusion had been reached. Cambodia’s western neighbour has been slow to release investigative findings about what could prove to ...

Seven Cambodian loggers have been released from a Thai prison a year after they were caught crossing the border in search of rosewood. ...

Thai soldiers admitted to burning alive two men last week who may have been undocumented Cambodians, Battambang military officials said yesterday. Cambodian officers said their Thai counterparts informed them that on the night of January 7, four Cambodians illegally crossed the border with intentions of evading ...

Thailand reportedly has sent 200 troops to the Cambodian border near a disputed temple, amid growing tensions over construction on the Khmer side of the border, reports the Bangkok Post. Un Chinda, deputy governor of Preah Vihear province, said road work close to the border, in ...

Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh and his visiting Thai counterpart Prawit Wongsuwan on Wednesday pledged to enhance security and maintain peace along the border of the two countries. ...

Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan will lead a military delegation to pay a two-day official visit to Cambodia on Dec. 24 and 25 to further boost bilateral ties and cooperation, said a press statement issued by the Cambodian defense ministry on ...

The shooting of a Cambodian woman by Thai soldiers was left off the agenda during recent talks between Cambodia and Thailand’s prime ministers, which instead focused on issuing migrants passports and the ownership of ancient treasures. Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Thai counterpart General Prayuth ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen flew to Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, on Friday to attend the 5th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit, to be held on Saturday, a senior official said. ...

Trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Thailand amounted to 4.18 billion U.S. dollars in the first ten months of 2014, a 12 percent rise over the same period last year, the figures of the Thai Embassy here showed Friday. ...

Cambodia is managing here today the recovery of missing ancient heritage objects that might be in a cache of relics confiscated from a Thai general arrested for various offenses. About a thousand objects of different types were taken a month ago from the high officer in ...