Assessing the Relevance of Southeast Asia’s Monarchies Southeast Asia has four monarchies, each with its own unique traits. Brunei is an absolute monarchy, while Thailand, Malaysia, and Cambodia have the constitutional form. The… Read More
Tiffany & Company is quietly building a diamond-polishing factory in Cambodia, a country popularly associated more with killing fields and land mines than baubles. Some of Japan’s biggest manufacturers are also rushing to… Read More
Tonle Sap – New study reveals catastrophic loss of Cambodia‘s tropical flooded grasslands. Around half of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years according to new research from the… Read More
China and the United States are competing for influence throughout Southeast Asia and Cambodia appears to be the latest battleground. By: Carlyle A. Thayer In January, China stepped up its defense cooperation with Cambodia… Read More
NASA’s Aqua satellite detected dozens of fires burning in northern Cambodia on February 11, 2013. The fires are outlined in red. Grass or cropland is tan in color and thick forests are a… Read More
Obama pledges to enhance ties with Cambodia during his new term. The US President Barack Obama looks forward to continuing and strengthening the relationship between the US and Cambodia over his next four-year… Read More
Chinese Companies to Invest Billions in Cambodian Projects. Two Chinese companies have reached a deal to build a 400-kilometer rail line, a steel plant and a seaport in Cambodia, worth a joint $11.2… Read More
The Security Threat Report 2013 ranked Norway, Sweden and Japan as the safest countries to use the internet, all with infection and attack rates under three percent. Southeast Asia is the world’s most dangerous… Read More
After a decade of violence, the capabilities of Malay-Muslim insurgents in Thailand’s Deep South are outpacing the countermeasures of successive governments in Bangkok that have been mired in complacency and protracted national-level political… Read More
An Australian TV documentary about the Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila evictions. They’re 13 women – mothers, grandmothers – who live around what used to be Boeung Kak Lake – not far… Read More
