China’s “Hardcore Reporter” Online Casino Investigation
*The following is translated from a blog by a writer known as “Hardcore Reporter” For the past six months, I have been active in the south of the country. I…
Sustaining the Heartbeat of the Mekong Basin
Moving from hydro to solar could protect the Tonle Sap Lake, the world’s largest freshwater fishery, write Brian Eyler and Courtney Weatherby The Mekong River is often depicted as originating in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau…
When China Invaded Vietnam Over Cambodia
At 5 AM on February 17, 1979, a massive artillery bombardment rippled across Vietnam’s mountainous northern border with China. Waves of soldiers from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) swarmed…
Rising Mekong Floods Bamboo Bridge
Kampong Cham: On the afternoon of January 21, 2019, HE Kuch Chamroeun, the governor of the Kampong Cham province, visited the famous bamboo bridge at Koh Pen. Heavy rainfall further…
THE CRIME FICTION OF PHNOM PENH
Drifters, Conspirators, and Noir in Cambodia’s Capital City By Paul French for Crime Reads, originally published October 2018 This installment of “Crime and the City” is about Phnom Penh and…
Aussie Company Loses Big Betting on Khmer Casinos
The closest legal gaming tables to Bangkok are a four-hour drive east, down a highway that leads to the Thai-Cambodian border. Just over the border is the frontier town of…
Reported Deaths of Foreign Nationals 2018
According to an unofficial report, at least 188 foreigners from 36 countries died in Cambodia during 2018. Chinese nationals had the most fatal incidents, with at least 27 deaths reported…
Casino Numbers Rise Over 50% in 2018
About 150 casinos are now in operation, up from 98 in 2017. In the coastal province of Sihanoukville alone there are 88. The law bans Cambodians from entering casinos. For…
Reported Deaths of Foreigners 2019
January: 1. TYMUR DMYTRIYENKO, 35, Ukranian. Killed after motorcycle crash, PP. https://cne.wtf/2019/01/02/ukranian-wine-bar-worker-killed-after-crash/ 2. LE XING HE, 36, Chinese. Heart attack on construction site, SHK. https://cne.wtf/2019/01/02/chinese-worker-dies-in-shk/ 3. Arto Rantonen, 42, drugs…
Elephant Latest Victim of Thai Border “Foreigner” Rosewood Gangs
BY KAENG E-KHIEW Waterfall in northeastern Buntrik-Yod Mon Wildlife Sanctuary a mature male elephant lay dead, with traces of a highly volatile bullet left in its mouth and its bud…
US Family’s 40 Year Search
A Cambodian now living in Washington State, USA, has contacted CNE in a last ditch attempt to find the whereabouts of her father, whom the family haven’t seen since 1977…
“Sold by my Brother”- Brides to China
PHNOM PENH: Everyone did well from Nary’s marriage to a Chinese man, except the young Cambodian bride herself, who returned home from the six-year ordeal destitute, humiliated and with little…
Kings, Wars and Independence
*With independence from France celebrated on the 9th of November, and Armistice day on the 11th, here is an artcle on how World War II and the end of the…
Koh Kong Airport Put on Ice
Phnom Penh: Construction of Koh Kong International Airport has been temporarily suspended due to heavy rainfall over the wet season. State Secretary for Civil Aviation Secretary Sin Chann Sivutha said…
An Illustrated History of Cambodia- Interview With Philip Coggan
Australian author and historian Philip Coggan has a new book out. “An Illustrated Cambodian History” covers the story of Cambodia from the stone age right up to the first months…
Cambodia Rice Exports Drop 8.4% Jan-Sep
PHNOM PENH, Oct 15 (Reuters) – Cambodia exported 389,264 tonnes of rice in the first nine months of the year, a fall of 8.4 percent compared with the same period…
