Phnom Penh Post - Malaysia calls for expansion of ASEAN
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Malaysia hopes Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma will
join the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad said Oct. 8.
Mahathir said Malaysia believes that only when all Southeast Asian nations "are
joined together by a common sense of purpose that ASEAN has come to symbolize can
there be mutual trust, peace and stability in the entire Southeast Asian region."
Japan bank buys major stake in ANZ Royal BankJapan's largest bank acquired more than half of ANZ’s shares in Cambodia on Thursday, according to a statement from Kith Meng’s Royal Group. Japan's JTrust Bank, announced that they had acquired a 55% of stake in ANZ Royal Bank. According to a Royal Group
Proof giants walked among us humans?For years a debate has waged about whether certain bas relief carvings at the 12th-century To Prohm Temple, one of the most popular attractions at the Angkor Wat Temple Complex in Siem Reap province, depicted dinosaurs or some rather less exotic and more contemporary animal,
Long way to go before Cambodia gets a ‘smart city’Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Battambang will struggle to attain smart city status without adopting far reaching master plans, according to officials tasked with implementing the program. The brainchild of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), the smart city program seeks to link up
Endangered animals found dead in PailinAn endangered gaur was one of “many” wild animals found dead in “dozens” of illegal traps in Pailin province’s Phnom Khieu Wildlife Sanctuary, said Chit Thy, a military officer working with rangers to protect the conservation area, on Wednesday. Thy, an officer in the 507