Cambodia closes border with Thailand
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The recent mooring of Chinese warships at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base marked the unofficial inauguration of China’s first overseas naval post in the Indo-Pacific region and only its second overall. These latest deployments, which demand a robust ...
The renewed fighting along the Thailand-Cambodia border puts a spotlight on two militaries with a large gap in capabilities and numbers and a history of armed clashes along their 500-mile (800-kilometer) border.
Based on the movement of weapons and their range, Thailand's military assessed that Cambodian forces could use Soviet-designed BM-21 and Chinese-made PHL-03 rockets to fire towards a provincial airport and a state-run district hospital, said defence ministry spokesman Rear Admiral Surasant Kongsiri.
Anti-drug police have arrested six Chinese nationals and a Cambodian and seized almost 40 kilogrammes of drugs and chemical precursors at five different locations across Phnom Penh, in a series of raids which targeted a high-level drug distribution network.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's Defense Ministry insisted Wednesday that the months-long presence of two Chinese warships in a strategically important naval base that is being newly expanded with funding from Beijing does not constitute a ...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Chinese naval vessels have become the first ships to dock at a new pier at a Cambodian naval base that the U.S. and some analysts say is destined to serve as a strategic outpost for Beijing’s navy. The docking of the two ships ...
Cambodia's pilot visa-free policy will lure more Chinese tourists to the Southeast Asian country and boost local tourism, Cambodian Minister of Tourism Huot Hak said here on Saturday. The government on Tuesday approved the pilot program of visa exemption for Chinese nationals traveling from China.
Chinese tourists represented 14.6 percent of the overall 1.26 million international arrivals in Cambodia, with China ranking as the third-largest source of foreign visitors, following Thailand and Vietnam. According to a report released by the Cambodian ...