Cambodia News: Preah Vihear

More than 1000 cases of dengue fever have been reported so far this year, a number similar to that reported over the same period last year, said Leang Rithea, ...

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts is making preparations to have tangible and intangible heritage, such as silver sculptures, to be included in Unesco's World ...

For nearly 20 years, the Prey Lang forest that spans four Cambodian provinces has been shrinking. What started as a relative trickle in 2000 was on a serious ...

The Ministry of Fine Arts and Culture is hoping to have Cambodian musical theatre Lakhon Yike, traditional silver handicrafts and other art forms placed on ...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn will lead a delegation to the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) to “strengthen ...

As the dry season takes hold, the government is preparing to tackle a water shortage in six provinces, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Water ...

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With the country's first-ever harvest of organic cassava having recently come to an end, farmers say they are happy with the price the crop is fetching, with some ...

The Ministry of Environment and 300 villagers from natural protection communities across four provinces gathered at Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary this weekend ...

A Preah Vihear provincial joint force has cracked down on seven illegal mining sites in Romdeng village in Rovieng district's Romtom commune and shut down ...

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Residents in Preah Vihear province are asking the government to allow local communities to take part in the management of the Prey Lang protected forest.

Prey Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary environmental rangers collaborated in patrols with forestry activists in a crackdown on illegal logging, apprehending two ...

Minister of Environment Say Sam Al said on Monday that his ministry is working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to identify whether ...

The Education Ministry on Friday issued a directive reminding students that Valentine's Day on Thursday is not a public holiday, nor a day for romantic pursuits ...

The Preah Vihear provincial authority and other relevant parties issued a statement on Wednesday that contained five points aimed to end a land dispute ...

Oranges grown in Pursat and Battambang might soon become the next Cambodian agricultural product to gain Geographical Indication status.

Following a fit of jealous rage, a soldier in Preah Vihear province's Choam Ksan district shot his wife dead with an AK-47 assault rifle on Sunday, before shooting ...

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Preah Vihear provincial authorities have requested villagers to stop clearing disputed land and wait for authorities to find a solution according to the “tiger skin ...

A Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) member in Thmea commune, in Preah Vihear province's Chey Sen district, on Sunday claimed that authorities are ...

Some 200 villagers from Preah Vihear province gathered at Prime Minister Hun Sen's residence in Phnom Penh on Thursday to deliver a petition seeking a ...

Army chief Apirat Kongsompong arrived on Tuesday and met with Cambodian army commander Hun Manet and Defense Minister Tea Banh.

Deputy Prime Minister and National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) president Ke Kim Yan on Tuesday said while Cambodia is not a drug-producing ...

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A senior official at the Royal Academy of Cambodia told The Post on Tuesday that the Kingdom can receive three main benefits from strengthening its economic ...

Some 100 villagers from Preah Vihear province on Monday protested at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, seeking a ...

Kim Yan was speaking at a workshop at the Stung Treng Provincial Hall which covered the monitoring of drugs in the northeast and the implementation of a “No ...

A nine-year-old boy from Preah Vihear lost his fingers and vision following a mortar fuse explosion, while in a separate incident, a Ratanakkiri man sustained ...

Teachers in Preah Vihear province and the Cambodian Independent Teachers' Association (Cita) have denounced a letter issued on Tuesday by the provincial ...

Hun Sen made the remarks as he presided over the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the headquarters of the Royal Cambodian ...

Sitting slap bang on the Cambodian-Lao frontier, the upper Mekong waterfall is a spectacle to behold, as its turquoise-blue stream cascades over a gauntlet of ...

Twelve gold mines have been inspected by the Preah Vihear provincial authorities, with two found to be operating illegally and told to shut down, provincial ...

A soldier on Wednesday was killed by a buried UXO which he accidentally detonated while clearing land on his cashew farm in Preah Vihear province's Choam ...

The Environment Ministry on Sunday handed a $20000 check to an American activist in Preah Vihear province for his conservation efforts.

Choam Ksan district authority in Preah Vihear province imposed an import ban on Thursday on goods from Thailand after the country declared a similar ban on ...

A wooden staircase with over one thousands steps, built in August 2017 to transport supplies to soldiers on the site of a contentious military frontier with Thailand ...

Five men were arrested and detained by Preah Vihear provincial police in the province's Sra Em Khang Choeung village, in Sra Em commune, on Tuesday for ...

Five men posing as soldiers were arrested on Tuesday for kidnapping two Thai women in Preah Vihear province's Choam Ksan district. According to a police ...

Forest rangers and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) said on Tuesday that forest in the Phnom Tnort-Phnom Pok and Prey Lang wildlife sanctuaries in ...

Preah Vihear Provincial Court yesterday charged two Laotians with trafficking more than one kilogram of crystal meth from Laos to sell to an undercover police ...

Access to clean water has been a real challenge for Cambodians living in some districts of provinces such as Preah Vihear.

We've seen tremendous advancements in the country in the past decades. The massive buildings and facilities constructed here and there signify our economic ...

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia attracted 1.44 million Chinese visitors during the first nine months of 2018, up 71.2 percent over the same period ...

By Michael Heiman | Country Program Manager, APOPO Mine Action Cambodia. APOPO is now clearing minefields near Preah Vihear temple. APOPO is ...

Residents of a small, remote Cambodian village were woken up to quite an unusual – and somewhat dangerous – surprise last week when pieces of metal were ...

Seventeen aluminium and rubber fragments discovered scattered throughout Srayong commune, in Kulen district, Preah Vihear province on Thursday have ...

Preah Vihear Provincial Court yesterday charged a farmer over the repeated rapes of two young children in Preah Vihear city. Colonel Chhao Vuthy, city police ...

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- The number of Chinese tourists to Cambodia during the first eight months of 2018 had exceeded the full-year 2017's record, ...

Three farmers suffer minor injuries after driving over a landmine in Chom Ksan.

The Cambodian government is preparing a proposal to register the ancient Koh Ker temple in Preah Vihear province as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Minister ...

Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) personnel unearthed 128 mortars that were buried in the grounds of Preah Vihear Temple.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today discussed bilateral, multilateral and key international issues with her Cambodian counterpart Prak Sokhonn, and ...

India today signed an MoU with Cambodia to help the South East Asian nation on restoration and preservation of an ancient Lord Shiva temple, a world heritage ...

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Two organisations aiming to restore indigenous land express concern over land in Preah Vihear province.

The Cambodian Mine Center starts removing ordnances around Preah Vihear Temple.

Ten agricultural communities in three provinces will now produce organic cassava that will be sold at a higher value than the market price, giving hundreds of ...

The Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) and BM Nature Safari Co. Ltd. on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding to create a zoo for the ...

Thousands of people and government officials gathered at the Olympic Stadium on Sunday. They were celebrating Preah Vihear Temple's and Sambor Prei ...

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Last week, the head of Thailand's military paid his first visit to Cambodia since assuming his role last September. The trip once again put the spotlight on the ...

Cambodia will send military and police officers to attend VIP protection training and a joint drill on humanitarian relief and disaster rescue in Thailand for the first ...

Nearly 100 monkeys are under medical supervision at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) after they were saved from a farm located in Preah ...

Cambodian Mine Action Centre officials on Tuesday detonated a pile of about 20 bombs found by a farmer working his land in Preah Vihear province. Chan Dy ...

A group of villagers from a community forest inside Preah Vihear province's Phnom Tnout Wildlife Sanctuary are collecting thumbprints to evict a family that has ...

Geopacific Resources announces it had made a second gold discovery in the Prospect 181 area of the Kou Sa project.

Conservation organisations are urging the Cambodian government to take immediate action to halt the “rapid rate of destruction” of the recently created Phnom ...

Six ethnic Kuoy villagers, citing fear of arrest, refused to appear for questioning in Preah Vihear on Wednesday over the confiscation of four pieces of equipment ...

Portions of the Preah Vihear Temple will likely be restored using aid from China, India, Russia, and Belgium, according to the director-general of the National ...

A new museum near Preah Vihear temple will be inaugurated on Tuesday, 10 years after the project began. The Samdech Techo Hun Sen Eco-Global Museum ...

A museum at the Preah Vihear World Heritage Site to be opened on March 20.

In the introduction to 'Temple in the Clouds', John Burgess writes: “A thousand years ago, the people of Cambodia's Angkor civilisation built a huge sandstone ...

Despite it being a bilateral conflict between Cambodia and Thailand, ASEAN provided a regional landscape for the countries to find common ground, ...

Six nests of the critically endangered white-shouldered ibis have been found in the northern plains of Preah Vihear province. According to a statement from the ...

A private logging company has been told to cease operations within a social land concession in Preah Vihear province's Choam Ksan district. According to a ...

Representatives of 40 families locked in a decade-old land dispute with a Chinese sugar company in Preah Vihear province blocked tractors from clearing land ...

Built along the cliffs at about 700 metres above sea level, Preah Vihear Temple seemingly lives amongst the clouds. The marvelous temple is an example of ...

A territorial dispute involving a 1100-year-old Khmer temple on the Thai-Cambodian border turns violent.

Amru Rice, one of Cambodia's largest rice exporters, signed a contract farming purchase agreement with 4000 organic rice farmers in Preah Vihear province, ...

In sleepy Sre Preang town in Preah Vihear province, two abandoned bulldozers sit on either side of the street in front of Brame Commune Hall. Seized in 2014 ...

Preah Vihear, an ancient, cliff-top temple that Cambodia and Thailand have sporadically fought over for more than a century, is proving to be a hit with Ja.

Preah Vihear provincial authorities collected fish and water samples for examination on Monday after nearly a week of mass fish deaths in the Stung Sen river.

While crowds throng Angkor Wat, the Banteay Chhmar ruins in north-west Cambodia are even older – and usually shared only with the birds.

Thailand has reportedly backpedalled on plans to demolish a miniature replica of Preah Vihear temple, with a deputy prime minister giving the nod to the ...

The construction by the Thai military of a miniature replica of the Preah Vihear temple complex has been met with consternation by the government. The 1/10th ...

Executive Summary. Introduction. Choam Ksant district is situated in the North-East Province of Preah Vihear, which borders Thailand and Laos. There are 8 ...

A Defense Ministry spokesman yesterday denied Thai media reports that Cambodian Minister of Defence Tea Banh had discussed the potential reopening of ...

Restoration of the most prominent and photographed gate at Preah Vihear temple has been delayed by the need for further study by the Indian team that has ...

Archaeologists and representatives from several governments met in Siem Reap for a meeting on the future upkeep of the contentious Preah Vihear temple ...

Cambodia is quietly reducing troop numbers on the contentious shared border with Thailand in Preah Vihear province. Citing the current good relations with the ...

According to Burgess, Cambodian ancestors shaped the naturally occurring sandstone of the mountains to build the temple—now a Unesco World Heritage Site.

A ninth century Angkorian temple on the boarder between Thailand and Cambodia is now considered safe to visit after being the subject of conflict between the ...

Preah Vihear temple has been at the center of a border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand for more than a century.

Though diplomats will presumably be the ones deciding which territory falls to whom in the newly demarcated vicinity of Preah Vihear temple, many ...

Preah Vihear, a temple complex on the Cambodia-Thailand border, could soon return to travellers' itineraries following a UN ruling on the disputed land around ...

The International Court of Justice begins hearings on the ownership of land beside an ancient temple on the Thai-Cambodian border.

The magnificent ruins of this ancient Hindu temple, a World Heritage site since 2008, have become a bitter cause of serious border skirmishes between Thai and ...

Cambodia says a disputed 11th Century temple has been damaged on the third day of cross border clashes with Thailand.

Preah Vihear Temple, a Unesco World Heritage Site, is an adventurous and uncrowded alternative to far-better-known Angkor Wat.