The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phnom Penh - The prosecution at Cambodia's war crimes tribunal called Tuesday for judges to hand down a lengthy jail term to Comrade Duch, the former commander of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison. Co-prosecutor Chea Leang said the evidence sho...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer ran a camp "dedicated to death" with broad autonomy, a lawyer said on Monday in closing arguments at the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal in Cambodia.
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav pursued his role with zeal and had no empathy for his victims despite his expressions of remorse over...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phnom Penh - Cambodia rejected Monday a Thai media claim that the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen is to take a stake in a Thai firm at the centre of a spying row. A cabinet statement said the government's management of Cambodia Air Traffic Service...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's war crimes tribunal heard closing arguments Monday from civil party lawyers in the trial of Comrade Duch, the former commander of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison. Lawyers for four groups of civil parties repeatedly que...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Phnom Penh - Closing arguments began Monday in the trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison camp commander Duch, who is charged with crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention. Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, ran the i...
Malaysia Property News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
KUALA LUMPUR: Ahmad Zaki Resources Bhd has secured a project from the Public Works Department worth RM309.4mil to build a complex along Jalan Sultan Salahuddin, Kuala Lumpur. In a statement to Bursa Malaysia yesterday, Ahmad Zaki said the works were to be completed from Dec 1, 2009 to May 28, 2012. It added that the project was expected to contribute positively to the group’s earnings and the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has decreed that only he and two other senior politicians may use sirens to clear the streets for their motorcades, local media reported Thursday. In a sub-decree promulgated Monday, the prime minister s...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - After six months of testimony in the first U.N.-backed trial of a high-ranking member of the former Khmer Rouge, many Cambodians who suffered from the tyrannical regime have one question: Why is it taking so long?
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Phnom Penh - A Swedish businessman visiting Cambodia has been murdered and his body dumped outside Phnom Penh, reportedly after he met a woman with whom he had corresponded online, national media reported Monday. The Swedish embassy in Phnom Penh con...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Phnom Penh - The leader of Cambodia's main opposition party lost his legal immunity for the second time this year following a vote Monday in parliament that was boycotted by the opposition. Sam Rainsy, who leads the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), is accused...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Thousands of demonstrators from Thailand's royalist "Yellow Shirt" movement protested in Bangkok Sunday against a visit to Cambodia by their arch-foe, fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. The group said it had called the rally to express outrage at the neighbouring country's appointment of Thaksin as an economic adviser and Phnom Penh's refusal to extradite him during his four-day...
The Local (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
A Swedish businessman has been found dead in Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Embassy officials confirm that local police suspect murder.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Phnom Penh - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra left Cambodia on Saturday, four days after his arrival brewed up a diplomatic storm between Phnom Penh and Bangkok, plunging rela...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Phnom Penh - Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra flew out of tourist town of Siem Reap on Saturday, the Cambodian government confirmed, bringing to an end a controversial visit. He left at 10 o'clock, said government spokesman Pha...
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careca | 01/08/2009
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)...
cambodiaguide | 09/05/2008
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...
cambodiaguide | 08/01/2008
I suppose if you were to pick two places to visit in Cambodia in hope of grasping a bit of what its about they would be the two we visited: the capital Phnom Penh and arguably the most amazing ruins on the planet, the temples of Angkor Wat. Lose yourself in the magnificence of a lost civilization. Angkor is the heart and soul of Cambodia , a place of extravagant beauty and the perfect fusion of creative...
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