The train service will temporarily be free of charge for passengers until August.
New legislation in the works aiming to promote kingdom as key gaming center in South East Asia
Alarm raised that smuggling could destroy Cambodian export market.
Despite initial conners about an untested new leader, the world's largest economy will end 2017 on a high note. VOA Khmer's Guech Heang Lim narrates.
A Cambodian official said that if the market was a commercial success, other similar markets would be opened in other areas along the border.
Some 30 hydropower dams are being constructed in Laos and about seven in Cambodia, funded predominantly by Chinese state companies.
China is by far the biggest foreign investor in Cambodia — accounting for some 30 percent of recorded investment in 2016, according to official figures.
The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution recently to call for the E.U. to consider “temporarily suspending” its EBA scheme with Cambodia if Phnom Penh continues to ignore the bloc’s call for a course reversal in the government’s elimination of the CNRP.
Beijing pushed its influence over six-country waterway.
Meeting in Cambodia on range of projects, overseen by Beijing-initiated Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, offers alternative on issue that may emerge as flashpoint akin to South China Sea.
The bamboo train is a small wooden-framed deck that sits on top of two independent axles, reclaimed from damaged tanks left over from the civil war.
The government’s meteorology department said the cold snap is expected to ease this week following a period of rainfall.
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