Xinhua Net

The 27th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-27) kicked off in Cambodia's Siem Reap province Tuesday, focusing talks on politics, security, economy, trade issues and cultural cooperation.

A war-left 105mm artillery shell exploded on Monday, killing one man and injuring nine others in eastern Cambodia's Tboung Khmum province, local authorities said.

Cambodia's economy is projected to continue its strong growth in 2019, driven by construction, garment export and tourism, the Singapore-based ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) said in a statement on Friday.

Cambodia's two state-owned ports - Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) and Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) - have seen remarkable growth in profits in 2018, a Transport Ministry's annual report showed on Thursday.

Cambodia exported 626,225 tons of milled rice in 2018, a decrease of 1.5 percent over a year earlier, according to an official report released on Thursday.

Cambodia dispatched the eighth batch of 184 peacekeepers to Lebanon on Wednesday to replace the seventh group, whose one-year United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has come to an end.

About 40 percent of the construction work on a China-funded new national stadium here has so far been completed, Thong Khon, president of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, said on Wednesday.

Lightning strikes claimed 110 lives in Cambodia in 2018, up 37 percent from 80 deaths recorded a year earlier, a disaster control spokesman said on Tuesday.

About 1.12 million Chinese tourists visited Cambodia's famed Angkor Archeological Park in 2018, an increase of 23 percent from 2017, said a report on Friday.

Cambodia's economy enjoyed robust growth last year, driven by garment exports, construction and tourism, said a National Bank of Cambodia's statement on Thursday.

Eight Chinese nationals got injured in a collision involving a dump truck, a pickup truck, and motorbikes in Cambodia's southwestern Preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday, a local traffic police chief said.

Cambodian authorities arrested 16,232 illicit drug suspects in 8,018 cases in 2018, said an Interior Ministry's anti-drug department report on Tuesday.

Cambodia has maintained political stability and strong economic growth after a July general election that handed a landslide victory to Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen's ruling party.

Cambodia exported products worth 11.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2018, up 4 percent over 2017, according to a Commerce Ministry's annual report released on Monday.

At least four people were killed and 11 others were injured when their truck went upside down on Sunday in Southwestern Cambodia's Koh Kong province, a local police chief said.

Cambodian economy has been projected to grow by 7.3 percent this year, spurred by the robust performance of garment exports, tourism and construction, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia Neav Chanthana said Friday.

Members of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) attend the CPP's congress in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Dec. 18, 2018.

The 77th Mekong River joint patrol led by China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand started Tuesday from Guanlei Port, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

A new fish-based wafer snack - Nutrix, produced to treat severe acute malnutrition in children, was launched in Cambodia on Monday, according to a joint statement.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met here on Sunday with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong on bilateral ties with both sides vowing to enhance cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative.