Cambodia News: Preah Vihear

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The Cambodia Water Resources and Meteorology Ministry has warned that 11 provinces risk flooding from heavy rainfall until next week.

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia is set to roll out the Four-Strategic Plan for Tourism Development aimed at reviving tourism at the Angkor ...

The government is set to roll out the Four-Strategic Plan for Tourism Development aimed at reviving tourism in the Kingdom`s northern provinces, ...

There are already around 40 courses to play in and around the Kingdom of Fife where the game was born, and now there's yet another reason to tote your clubs ...

While temples in the Kingdom are welcoming Buddhist laities for food offerings during this year's annual 15-day Pchum Ben festival, the monk at the Three ...

The 32nd Phnom Penh SEA Games 2023 will be hosted between May 5 – May 15, 2023.

Two more provinces are hit by floods and one more person dies.

Coastal and central provinces and areas along the lower Mekong basin face flooding again this week, the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology forecast ...

Phnom Penh – Floods have killed 11 people in parts of seven provinces in Cambodia, a spokesman said on Friday. Keo Vy, a spokesman for the National ...

Flooding since early this month have caused the deaths of 11 people and injured two others in four of five affected provinces.

Khek Thuon is likely the first person visitors to the 30m tall Phnom Tbeng, or Thma, waterfall in Preah Vihear province's Tbeng Meanchey natural heritage site.

More than 700 pigs at a farm in Preah Vihear province's Tbeng Meanchey district either drowned or broke loose overnight on Monday when flash floods caused ...

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith will pay an official visit to Cambodia from September 12-13 to resolve the ongoing border issue and strengthen relations.

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday issued a directive instructing officials to strengthen flood measures after a child was swept away by floods in Preah Vihear ...

Cambodia and Laos have begun to withdraw troops from disputed territory in Preah Vihear province after senior military officials from both sides conducted ...

Cambodia and Laos have begun to withdraw their troops from disputed territory near the border in Preah Vihear province after senior military officials from both ...

The Preah Vihear Provincial Court on Thursday charged a man and placed him in pre-trial detention for the aggravated rape of his underage stepdaughter.

Over the weekend, reports surfaced that Cambodia and Laos had reached agreement for both sides to withdraw troops from an undemarcated border area that ...

The Environment Ministry has planted 40,000 tree saplings in the protected areas of Preah Jayavarman-Norodom National Park in Siem Reap province and ...

Cambodia and Laos have agreed to withdraw troops from disputed territory near the border in Preah Vihear province in a bid to ease tension between the two ...

Fifteen thousand trees were planted today at the Ok Boeng Natural Protected Community inside Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary of Preah Vihear province in a bid to ...

Cambodia and Laos have agreed to withdraw troops from the border region in the northern Preah Vihear province after Prime Minister Hun Sen spoke by phone ...

Tensions along the border between Cambodia and Laos are likely being exaggerated by Cambodia's government as part of a bid to distract the public from the ...

Six Kuoy ethnic community members have been ordered to appear at the Preah Vihear provincial court on Thursday on charges of “illegal confinement” in ...

Experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre on Monday removed 54 unexploded B-40 rockets in Preah Vihear province's Choam Ksan district.

Villagers from Preah Vihear province's Rovieng district have accused Try Pheap Engineering & Construction Co Ltd of clearing the remaining 10ha of ...

Amru Rice has entered a contract farming scheme with 22 agricultural communities in Preah Vihear province, who will be supplying organic paddy rice.

Some 40 people representing 180 families from Kantuot commune in Preah Vihear province's Choam Ksan district on Wednesday gathered at the Ministry of ...

Preah Vihear provincial authorities are looking to shut down more than 20 medical clinics found to have operated without a licence and sold expired medicines ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered newly-appointed Preah Vihear provincial Governor Prak Sovann to safeguard natural resources in Prey Lang Wildlife ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has said he considers Preah Sihanouk province's governor-in-waiting Kuoch Chamroeun to be an “able man” who had vowed to find ...

The Preah Vihear provincial administration is recruiting more volunteers to add to its 3000-strong village security guards in a bid to strengthen security in local ...

One of 10 men who illegally logged timber and then crossed the border from Thailand into Preah Vihear province last week lost a leg after he stepped on a ...

Authorities in Preah Vihear province have begun assigning plots of land to 180 families in Sra Em commune, ending a dispute between them and the Preah ...

The National Authority for Preah Vihear on Tuesday issued a statement condemning a website article that suggested images of female Apsara spirits on ...

by Mao Pengfei, Nguon Sovan. PHNOM PENH, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China has been playing a greater role in safeguarding and developing Cambodia's cultural ...

The Preah Vihear provincial governor has said that 14 villagers who were arrested with their representative for clearing land in a dispute with a private company ...

Strong winds on Wednesday destroyed 55 houses in Preah Vihear province's Choam Khsan district, but no one was hurt.

Preah Vihear provincial court has detained the president of the Democratic Republic Party and an accomplice for “inciting others to encroach on community land ...

An activist from northern Cambodia's Preah Vihear province on Monday urged authorities to release his son and other villagers who were detained amid an ...

PHNOM PENH, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Some 418,572 Chinese tourists visited Cambodia in the first two months of 2019, up 31.7 percent over the same period last ...

Human rights groups ratchet up pressure on the Cambodian government after Sum Moeun vanished without a trace.

Lightning strikes on Saturday killed two people and injured two others in Kratie and Preah Vihear provinces during severe storms which also damaged more ...

(New York) – Cambodian authorities should immediately reveal the whereabouts of a land activist forcibly disappeared in Preah Vihear province.

Virachai Plasai, a veteran diplomat best known for his role in the contentious Preah Vihear temple case, has died in the United States at age 58.

Cambodia's military is backing a powerful company in its seizure of land in Preah Vihear province, guarding bulldozers sent to destroy villagers' crops and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

THE Prey Lang Community Network yesterday claimed that its patrols have found that illegal logging is still rampant in Kratie, Kampong Thom, Stung Treng and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Locals in Preah Vihear province heard a loud bang then discovered shrapnel over an area of more than six miles.

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.

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

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 ...

More than 100 families in Preah Vihear province have accepted a resolution from provincial authorities after about eight years of protests over a land dispute ...

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 ...

Nearly 100 unexploded ordnances were handed over to the authorities yesterday after farmers working the land found them in Preah Vihear province on Friday.

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, ...

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.

One teenager drowned and at least 30 families were evacuated as the Stung Sen river swelled over one meter higher than emergency levels in Preah Vihear ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The International Coordinating Committee (ICC) for Preah Vihear held its second meeting in Siem Reap City on Monday to discuss ongoing efforts to preserve ...

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.

The Foreign Office has decided that Preah Vihear temple, the subject of a long-running dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, is no longer dangerous.

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

The United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) today ruled that Cambodia has sovereignty over the whole territory of the Preah Vihear temple, and that ...

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 ...

UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova's Special Envoy on the Preah Vihear Temple, Koïchiro Matsuura, will travel to Bangkok and Phnom Penh between 25 ...

In the two years since Preah Vihear temple was designated a World Heritage Site, repeated firefights across the Thailand-Cambodia border have taken a heavy ...

Cambodia says a disputed 11th Century temple - a UN World Heritage site - has been damaged during continued cross-border clashes with Thai troops.

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

Prime Minister Hun Sen wrote in a letter to National Assembly President Heng Samrin that Thailand's military, not the Thai government, was stirring up the ...