Cambodia News

Thousands of members of Cambodian People's Party on Sunday gathered to celebrate the58th anniversary of the founding of the party in the central headquarters in Phnom Penh.

Cambodian authorities on Friday dismissed claims by Thai Natural Resource and Environment minister Suwit Khunkitti that Cambodia failed to submit its plan for safeguarding and developing the Preah Vihear temple.

A distraught survivor of the Khmer Rouge's main prison begged his former jailer Wednesday to reveal the truth about his wife's death so he could finally know where to pray for her soul.

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge's main prison said Wednesday that his ability to paint larger-than-life images of the regime's late leader, Pol Pot, and portraits of other communist icons helped save his life.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Tuesday that he will visit France on July 13 to strengthen the bilateral cooperation.

The Kingdom of Cambodia and the Kingdom of Bahrain will sign a joint communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations to expand the cooperation between a country in South East Asia and a country in the Middle East, a Cambodian official said on Monday.

Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes trial has heard its first testimony from one of the few people who survived the Khmer Rouge regime's notorious main prison.

An explosion at an ammunition warehouse near Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's home injured at least two people Sunday night, according to police officers who asked not to be identified.

LIGHTNING strikes killed five people in Cambodia in a single day, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.

There was more than a 50 percent drop in the total number of malaria cases reported by public facilities in Cambodia between 2003 and 2008, according to the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control's annual report, which was released on Tuesday, the Phnom Penh Post reports.

A Cambodian editor whose newspaper published stories alleging corruption in the office of a senior government official was found guilty Friday of circulating disinformation in a one-hour trial and sentenced to a year in jail.

THAILAND'S deputy prime minister said Friday he would steer clear of a dispute over an ancient temple on the Cambodian border when he meets the neighbouring country's leader this weekend.

FOR several weeks a neat former schoolteacher has sat in a Phnom Penh dock, detailing before the tribunal how meticulously he used to carry out the orders of his bosses.

Three American students visiting Cambodia have been diagnosed with swine flu, raising the country's tally of infections to four, health officials said Thursday.

Phnom Penh - Cambodia on Wednesday confirmed its first case of swine flu, according to a joint statement released by the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation .

For the first time, on Thursday 18 June, all the novices, postulants and seminarians of Cambodia gathered together for a day of pray and reflection organised by the Catholic Seminary of Phnom Penh.

To make way for a Ministry of Tourism garden, 20 families with HIV-positive members have been evicted from their homes and moved outside of the city, reports the Phnom Penh Post .

Two Southampton men died in a Cambodian hotel room after snorting a lethal form of heroin known as "China White" thinking it was cocaine, an inquest heard today.

Cambodia's ruling party should cease its threats, harassment, and spurious legal action against opposition members of parliament and lawyers defending free expression, Human Rights Watch said today.

Two recent court cases epitomise the disastrous state of the Cambodian judiciary, riddled with flaws, political interference and corruption.