Pol Pot: Prime minister, Democratic Kampuchea, Cambodia, De facto, Agrarian socialism, Cambodian?Vietnamese War, Prek Sbauv, Chinese people, Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Pseudonym.
A group of 22 Uighurs who fled after ethnic rioting in western China are seeking asylum in Cambodia after using an underground network of missionaries in China that has helped North Korean refugees in the past.
BEIJING -- A group of 22 Uighurs who fled after ethnic rioting in western China are seeking asylum in Cambodia after using an underground network of missionaries in China that has helped North Korean refugees in the past.
A group of 22 Uighurs who fled after ethnic rioting in western China are seeking asylum in Cambodia after using an underground network of missionaries in China that has helped North Korean
Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday.
Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday.
Twenty-two members of a Chinese ethnic group who participated in violent demonstrations against China last summer have surfaced in Cambodia, sparking concerns that Cambodia will ignore their requests for asylum and return them to China.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia will soon start construction on a building to house its first stock exchange which it hopes will help draw foreign investment to the impoverished...
The trial in Phnom Penh of Kaing Guek Eav, one of the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, has finished its first phase, but it doesn't seem as though many in the United States know or care.
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's war crimes tribunal on Wednesday announced the much-delayed appointment of its new international co-prosecutor following the resignation of Canada's Robert Petit earlier this year. In a press statement, the tribunal said Briti...
(Geneva) - United Nations member states should express concerns about the dramatic deterioration of freedom of expression, assembly, and association in Cambodia at today's review of the nation's human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
Many in the international community are calling the first Khmer Rouge Tribunal trial of Kaing Kek Iev, or Duch, a relative success as the trial closed. However, there are indications that Cambodian officials may not participate in future cases making it difficult to conduct a fair trial for the four Khmer Rouge members awaiting trial
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's war crimes tribunal concluded its final week on Friday with war crimes suspect Comrade Duch asking judges to acquit him and release him when they hand down judgement early next year. I would like the chamber to release me, D...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of deaths at an infamous torture center asked Cambodia's genocide tribunal to release him Friday, citing the decade he already has served in jail and his cooperation with the panel.
A proposed change in the law that would allow non-Cambodian individuals and corporations to buy some real estate appears to be nearing government approval.
Wellbeing Newsline: World > Edited by Andy Porter: When high food prices hit Cambodia in 2008, the country’s poorest people were hit hard and an estimated 100,000 families fell back into poverty. According to the World Bank, this, together with the current financial crisis, has underlined the need for stronger social protection mechanisms for the country. To complement Cambodia’s food security and...
July 18: car until Phnom Penh (Cambodian capital); uneventful trip through the Cambodian countryside. The campaign, cad throughout except Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh is ugly, smelly and dangerous. Cambodia is a third world country and its capital has nothing to envy those of Somalia, or in Beirut. Result we cloitres at the hotel until the next morning. July 19: car until Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)...
Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, sits on the banks of the Tonle Sap river, at the confluence of two other rivers, the Bassac and the mighty Mekong, and it holds an undeniable charm despite its recent tumultuous and violent past. In the early 1900’s, the height of French colonialism, Phnom Penh was known as ‘The Paris of the East’, and colonial style villas set along tree-lined boulevards still...