AlQa'dah 16, 1432, Oct 14, 2011, SPA -- Cambodia has banned its citizens from going to work in Malaysia as maids, its prime minister said on Friday, following a series of horrific reports of beatings and rapes, according to Reuters.
The order (...)
AlQa'dah 9, 1432, Oct 7, 2011, SPA -- Cambodia's worst floods in a decade have left at least 183 people dead since August and damaged nearly 100,000 hectares of rice fields, the government said Friday, according to dpa.
Figures provided by the (...)
AlQa'dah 5, 1432, Oct 3, 2011, SPA -- Cambodia reported on Monday that some 54 Cambodian children had been killed by dengue fever in the first nine months of this year, compared to 37 kids dying of the disease in the whole year of 2010.
From (...)
Nearly 300 Cambodian workers fell sick this week at a garment factory producing goods for Swedish fashion brand Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M), police said on Thursday.
A total 284 workers collapsed on Tuesday and Thursday at M&V International (...)
A 6-year-old girl from Kampong Cham province of Cambodia was confirmed died from the case of human infection with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus on Saturday, Sok Touch, director of Anti-Communicable Disease Department of Ministry of Health, (...)
Cambodia reported 4,626 cases of dengue fever which had claimed 23 Cambodian children lives so far this year, Xinhua quoted the Director of Dengue Control at the Ministry of Health Ngan Chantha as saying.
"Most of them were under 5 of age," he said (...)
Cambodia's prime minister says Thai soldiers must be withdrawn from disputed border territory at the same time as his country's troops to comply with the orders of the International Court of Justice, AP reported.
Prime Minister Hun Sen told (...)
Young Cambodians have little understanding of
their country's democratic institutions and struggle to get involved
in issues that affect them, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said
Thursday, according to dpa.
A new survey commissioned by (...)
A UN-backed war crimes tribunal started its trial Monday against the four surviving leaders of Cambodia's
Khmer Rouge movement.
All four defendants, the youngest of whom is 79, were present in
court.
"Those who are accused of being the political (...)
At least 11 people were injured when armed police broke up a protest in Cambodia on Thursday by about 300 villagers resisting a court order to transfer farmland to a Taiwanese businessman, villagers and witnesses said, according to Reuters.
The (...)
Cambodian and Thai military commanders on Wednesday agreed to a ceasefire again, Lt Gen Chhum Socheat, the spokesman for Cambodian Ministry of Defense, said Wednesday.
According to Xinhua, the latest ceasefire promise was made on Wednesday morning (...)
Awwal 17, 1432 H / April 21, 2011, SPA -- Land rights activists demanded an investigation
after police on Thursday beat and arrested 11 villagers, including
women and two children, who were protesting their imminent evictions
in a land deal in (...)
Awwal 02, 1432 / April 06, 2011, SPA -- Cambodia's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization announced Wednesday that an 11- year old girl from the eastern province of Kompong Cham has died of avian influenza H5N1.
A joint statement (...)
Awwal 21, 1432 H/Feb 24, 2011, SPA -- The United Nations' human rights envoy to
Cambodia highlighted freedom of expression issues and concerns about
land rights as he wrapped up his visit to Cambodia Thursday, according to dpa.
"Peaceful (...)
Awwal 04, 1432, Feb 07, 2011, SPA -- Cambodia called for U.N. peacekeepers to help end the fighting along its tense border with Thailand, where artillery fire echoed for a fourth day Monday.
A one-hour clash Monday morning stopped after both sides (...)
Awwal 04, 1432 H/Feb 07, 2011, SPA -- Thailand accused Cambodia of refusing to negotiate to resolve a border dispute that led to the fourth straight day of fierce clashes Monday, as Phnom Penh said that only U.N. peacekeepers can stop the fighting (...)
Awwal 01, 1432, Feb 04, 2011, SPA -- Shooting broke out Friday between Cambodian and Thai soldiers on a disputed stretch of their shared border and lasted for more than two hours before a cease-fire was reached, according to AP.
Thai media reported (...)
Awwal 01, 1432, Feb 04, 2011, SPA -- Cambodian and Thai troops battled for two hours Friday along a disputed stretch of their shared border, trading artillery fire that killed at least two people near an 11th century temple that is a U.N. World (...)
A Thai parliamentarian and six other Thai
nationals were questioned by a Cambodian court Thursday after being
arrested along the border for alleged trespassing, according to dpa.
Panich Vikitsreth of the ruling Democrat Party was arrested (...)
An elephant that was captured in southern
Cambodia after terrorizing a village has been sent to a zoo for
"re-education" and may be mated with a female, local media reported
Friday, according to dpa.
The bull elephant, known as Sambo, was (...)
A South Korean company contracted to build a new airport serving visitors to Cambodia says its $1 billion project will also encompass a new city and industrial estate, , according to AP.
NSRIA Co. Ltd. in a statement received Thursday said its (...)
Hijjah 17, 1431, SPA – Thousands of people stampeded during a festival in the Cambodian capital, leaving at least 349 dead and hundreds injured.
A panic-stricken crowd — celebrating the end of the rainy season on an island in a river — tried to (...)
Human Rights Watch condemned US support for
Cambodian military units participating in peacekeeping exercises next
week in Cambodia, accusing those units of committing human rights
abuses, according to dpa.
The human rights group said in a (...)
Comrade Duch, the defendant in the first case
tried by the UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal, sacked his
foreign defence lawyer Friday, weeks before the court is to hand down
its verdict, according to dpa.
The tribunal said it would (...)
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen this week told
a gathering of business leaders and government officials in Phnom
Penh that there was no corruption in a deal by mining giant BHP
Billiton Ltd, which pulled out of the country last year, according (...)