Water Festival

The annual three-day Water Festival competes with the Khmer New Year for being the most important holiday for Cambodians. The boat races on the Tonle Sap and the carnival atmosphere ashore attract millons of people from all over the country. A smaller Water Festival is held around Angkor Wat, but for the real thing you’ll have [...]  Detail

Preah Vihear card in play following UNESCO listing

Since Monday’s decision by UNESCO to list Preah Vihear temple as a Cambodian World Heritage Site, the Kingdom’s nationalist rapture has subsided just enough to allow for more pragmatic thoughts of the pay-off. Senior Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Cheam Yeap said July 10 that he expected the listing of the 11th-century Hindu temple, which had long [...]  Detail

Cambodia turns Killing Fields into agricultural success

Phnom Penh - Images of a country desolated by the Khmer Rouge, an entire population put to work in the rice fields and yet dying by the hundreds of thousands of starvation, still haunts Cambodia. But since the ultra-Maoist’s disastrous drive from 1975 to 1979 to turn the country into an agrarian utopia bereft of markets, [...]  Detail