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Cambodia's prime minister sounds a sour note on trucks' musical horns

Mar. 19, 2024 21:12 PM EDT

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has ordered a ban on musical horns, after videos posted on social media showed people dancing on roads and roadsides as passing trucks blasted rhythmic little tunes. Hun Manet, who last year took over the wheel of...

AP PHOTOS: Collecting sap to make palm sugar is an arduous, and less appealing, job for Cambodians

Mar. 16, 2024 00:11 AM EDT

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chin Choeun spends nearly 12 hours a day collecting sap from palm trees that he and his wife turn into palm sugar. The 54-year-old boasts of being one of Cambodia's most skilful palm tree climbers, having learned the skill from his father. But after 36...

US diplomat criticizes China for using coercion and intimidation as it presses maritime claims

Mar. 07, 2024 04:14 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — The top American diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific criticized China on Thursday for using intimidation tactics against other countries in the region to press its sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea. Speaking to reporters after returning to the United...

Cambodia defends family relocations around the famous Angkor Wat temple complex

Mar. 04, 2024 05:44 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia is rejecting allegations it violated international law by evicting people living around its famous Angkor Wat temple complex, saying in a report to UNESCO released Monday that it was only relocating squatters and not residents of more than 100 traditional villages. ...

Cambodia's pioneering post-Khmer Rouge era Phnom Penh Post newspaper will stop print publication

Mar. 01, 2024 17:46 PM EST

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, said Friday that it will stop publishing in print this month, the latest blow to the country's dwindling independent media. ...

Cambodia's ruling party wins Senate election, paving the way for Hun Sen to act as its president

Feb. 26, 2024 20:04 PM EST

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The long-ruling Cambodian People’s Party has won an expected landslide victory in the election for the country’s Senate, the National Election Committee has confirmed. The committee on Monday began releasing results by constituency, after earlier...

Tep Vong, the leader of Cambodia's Buddhist community, dies at 93

Feb. 26, 2024 11:01 AM EST

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Tep Vong, the senior monk who headed Cambodia’s Buddhist community and was vital for its rejuvenation in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide in the late 70s, has died. He was 93. Cambodia's Ministry of Cult and Religion said Tep Vong died Monday...

Cambodia's new prime minister wins lawmakers' approval for his youngest brother to become his deputy

Feb. 21, 2024 07:18 AM EST

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Six months after becoming Cambodia's new prime minister, the eldest son of the country's long-serving autocratic leader on Wednesday won approval from lawmakers to have his youngest brother take the post of deputy premier. The development is the latest...

Cambodia to install hundreds of wildlife cameras in an effort to restore its tiger population

Feb. 16, 2024 08:01 AM EST

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia will begin installing hundreds of monitoring cameras and import four tigers from India as part of a plan to restore its tiger population, officials said Friday. Tigers were declared “functionally extinct” in Cambodia in 2016 by the World...

Cambodia reports a new bird flu case, the brother of a 9-year-old who died of the virus

Feb. 12, 2024 08:08 AM EST

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The brother of a boy who died last week from bird flu has tested positive for the virus, Cambodia’s Health Ministry said Monday. The 9-year-old's death in the northeastern province of Kratie was the first from bird flu in Cambodia this year, after four...