Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has categorically rejected the notion that Vietnam invaded the neighboring Southeast Asian kingdom in the 1970s, saying Vietnamese soldiers had sacrificed their lives for “the survival of the Cambodian people and the country.”

An action-packed weekend of top-flight rugby is on offer when the curtain goes up on the Cambod-ian Rugby Federation’s blue-riband event, the International ANZ Royal Angkor 10s, at the Northbridge community field on November 4 and 5.

Torrential rain and treacherous conditions underfoot proved no deterrents as Laos scrambled home to an 11-7 victory over Cambodia at the Chao Anouvong Stadium in Vientiane on Saturday for a two-leg aggregate of 32-26 points to lift the 2011 Mekong Cup Asian Five Nations, the symbol of rugby supremacy between the two ASEAN neighbours.

It is part of the Singapore-Kunming railroad project, so it will be a key railroad for Cambodia to transport commodities to regional and global markets, especially in the framework of Asean-China Free Trade Area.

Aviation authorities are considering auctioning a Boeing 727 which has been left at the airport in Hanoi for the past four years by a Cambodian airline, VnExpress reported Saturday.

The cover image says it all. On the front package of Dengue Fever's new disk, "Cannibal Courtship," there's a strange contraption that seems to both mock and mimic the famous double-necked guitar Jimmy Page played in the 1970s.

The U16 national team leave today for a ten-day training camp at Thanh Long Center in Ho Chi Minh City. Japanese coach Daisuke Yoshioka and his three assistants, Phea Sopheaktra, Meas Channa and Soung Phirum, will accompany the talented youngsters as they prepare for the upcoming 2011 AFF U16 Championships in Vientiane from July 7-17.

The PSE Garudas were true to last week’s promise to improve, by holding the Vina Projects Saigon Geckos scoreless in the second half of a very tough match of rugby at the PSE Garudas’ homegrounds in Phnom Penh on Saturday

The Saigon Rugby Football Club will play their first game in the Cambodian Federation of Rugby in Phnom Penh on Feb. 19 after joining the league recently.

Officials have confirmed a United Nations-administered refugee centre in Phnom Penh will close its doors today in line with a government order, bringing to an end a 2005 agreement governing the processing of Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam.

Day-trippers from Vietnam have withdrawn millions of dollars from Cambodian cash machines to benefit from a sizeable gap between the official and black market rates of the US dollar and Vietnam's currency the dong, local media reported Friday.

The government has extended the deadline for the United Nations to resettle Vietnamese Montagnard refugees living at a centre in Phnom Penh, though they will face deportation to Vietnam if they are not resettled within the new timeframe.

A local rights group has linked the upcoming closure of a United Nations-administered refugee centre in Phnom Penh to the visit of a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation to Cambodia last month.

High-octane action from daybreak to dusk is on the cards during the first weekend of November, when a milestone 10th Cambodian Rugby Premiership season blasts off with the 10th International ANZ Royal Angkor 10s tournament at Phnom Penh’s Old Stadium.

Cambodian officials said yesterday that Vietnam would supply another 30 megawatts of power to the Kingdom in response to an appeal from Prime Minister Hun Sen.