Meeting Discusses BTB-SR Roadway Across Tonle Sap
Siem Reap: Ministries related to road construction project linking Battambang and Siem Reap provinces with a proposed length of over 70 kilometers, met via video Zoom Meeting on the morning…
Tonle Sap Residents Can Swap Plastic For Rice
Siem Reap: A project to exchange plastic for rice and other food items to people living near the Tonle Sap Lake was successful and the people cooperated well. Speaking at…
Body In Cuffs Found Floating In Tonle Sap
Phnom Penh: At 7 am on September 4, 2020, in the Tonle Sap River, Sangkat Svay Pak, Khan Russey Keo, Phnom Penh, a man was found floating in the water with…
Boat Owners Clash on Tonle Sap
Phnom Penh: A tourist boat was damaged by a couple of boat owners from the Mekong Star, who docked near the boat and pulled out an ax and threw gasoline…
Murder Suspected After Body Found In Tonle Sap
Phnom Penh: The body of an unidentified woman was found floating on the banks of the Tonle Sap River. This incident occurred at 3 am on 26 April 2020 on the…
Unidentified ‘Foreign’ Man Pulled From Tonle Sap
Phnom Penh: A man’s body was found on November 22, 2019 7 am in the Tonle Sap River, near Kandal Market 1, Khan Daun Penh Phnom Penh. Authorities said the unidentified male…
Tonnes of Fish Die in Tonle Sap
Kampong Thom Province: Over 20 tons of different species of fish have died all over the Tonle Sap Lake. Fishery officials in Kampong Thom have blamed the ongoing drought and…
More Than Two-Thirds of Ethnic Vietnamese Evicted From Cambodia’s Tonle Sap ‘Floating Village’
More than two-thirds of around 2,300 ethnic Vietnamese families living in a “floating village” on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake have been evicted from their homes, a local official said Friday…
Cleaning Up the Tonle Sap
Siem Reap: Volunteers have been out on the Tonle Sap collecting trash. The ecotourism area of Tonle Sap Lake needs to be made more beautiful to attract tourists, especially foreign…
Boat Races and Fireworks Light Up Cambodia Water Festival 2024
The Cambodian Water Festival, known locally as Bon Om Touk, is going to be an epic three-day extravaganza of boats, lights and a whole lot of splashing fun. Celebrated this…
This Week In Cambodian History: April 9-15
On April 9, 1970, the Prasaut (in Svay Rieng Province) massacre occurred. Hundreds of civilian Vietnamese including women and children were regrouped in an open space, near an army post…
Earth Day expedition to search unexplored deepest pools of Mekong River
Entering an unexplored world of darkness, a team of renowned underwater explorers will be descending this week, April 22-27, into depths as much as 250 feet (75 meters) below the…
The First British Tourists- Kennedy & Thomson, 1866
H.G. Kennedy and John Thomson, 1866 In January 1866 Henry George Kennedy of the British embassy in Bangkok and pioneering photographer John Thomson set off on an overland expedition to…
Inside the plan to save some of the biggest freshwater fish
Captive-raised specimens of some of the world’s largest and most critically endangered freshwater fish—including a five-foot-long Mekong giant catfish—were released this month into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest lake in…
Top Officials Detained Over Kampong Chhnang Land Grabs
Kampong Chhnang Province: A reliable source reported that Brigadier General Sum Socheat, Provincial Police Commissioner of Kampong Chhnang Province and Lieutenant Colonel Keo Narun, Director of the Intervention Office of…
An A-Z Of Khmer Issarak Leaders
The following is a list of some of the leading figures of the Khmer Issarak movement on the left and right from the 1940’s-1955. Many sources in French, English and…
