Why we should like or hate December?
1st Dec – World AIDS Day. 2nd Dec – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. 3rd Dec – International Day of Disabled Persons. 9th Dec – Anti Corruption Day. 10th Dec – International Human Right Day. 12th Dec – Anti Human Trafficking Day. 25th Dec Christmas Day.
Cambodia Cablegate
This page is dedicated to documenting and chronicling cables and news that discuss Cambodia as part of Wikileaks’s 800 documents from the United States embassy in Phnom Penh. About 90% of diplomatic telegrams cover a period from 2004 to March 2010 (the others back to 1966). cambopedia is monitoring the ongoing releases that mention ‘Cambodia’...
Cambodia cables leaked by Wikileaks reported in local media
Both The Cambodia Daily and The Phnom Penh Post published their news stories about the whistle-blower site Wikileaks’s release of over a thousand classified information that the United States had with Cambodia dating back to the early 1990s. The Post’s Jmes O’toole reported: WikiLeaks has pledged to release the documents in its possession gradually over...
Cambodia’s tragedy of not importance
Cambodia’s tragedy of not importance on a small bridge that connects Phnom Penh’s new Diamond Island (Koh Pich) to the mainland city.
Cambodia isn’t Thailand’s province
A well-researched piece, Cambodia is not a province of Thailand, by Pali scholar Eisel Mazard (??), attracts a lot Cambodian attentions. Until recently, there is a joint effort to have the English text translated into Khmer. This article traces the myth of Suva??abh?mi from its origins through several stages of transformation, down to its recent...
Bernard Krisher says US should forgive Lon Nol debt
In The Cambodia Daily’s opinion page today its very own publisher writes: “It’s Time for US to forgive Lon Nol Debt”. The former correspondent for Newsweek says “Cambodian government should just relax now and ignore any requests to have the debt repaid and hopefully the American public and the international public will accept such a...
Cambodia’s most prominent bloggers: 2010
As cambopedia blog is all about travel and life in Cambodia, it’s quite relevant to take a closer look at 3 Cambodian women bloggers who are using online tools to communicate with their fellow citizens and the rest of the world. Their views and expressions do not represent Khmer mindset as a whole, but their...
Hillary Clinton challenges PM Hun Sen
Prime Minister Hun Sen told last week United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that he would not allow prosecutions at the Khmer Rouge tribunal beyond its second case. However, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed hope today for accountability for atrocities committed by the brutal Khmer Rouge regime during an emotional visit to Cambodia’s...
Hillary Clinton in Cambodia: by an insider blogger
Blogger Still4Hill has been doing an amazing job covering what’s Hillary Clinton been up to during her visit in Cambodia. Here’s the part one of the coverage (with close-up pictures) as the US secretary of state was in Siem Reap, the gateway of ancient Angkor Wat temple. According to the blog, here’s what expected by...
U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton in Cambodia for what?
Cambodia has recently hosted at least two high profile figures, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and now U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton. It’d be interesting to see what the secretary of state will take back from Cambodia. The UN top leader was lately told to close its rights office and remove its outspoken staff. That’s...
2010′s best investigative news: The Khmer riche–making a killing in Cambodia