Cambodia News: Khmer

Our birth traumas mark us forever. We lug along behind us duffel bags full of somebody elses memories. So wrote Helen Motro, the child of Holocaust survivors.

A Cambodian IT student has turned his back on the world of computers and set his sights on something far more unusual and creative – designing traditional ...

Another ex-CNRP lawmaker, Kong Bora, announced via Facebook that he will request to be allowed to re-engage in politics, upon which former CNRP leader ...

On a tropical sweaty late morning, hundreds of black and white cattle are being kept cool by wind blowing from giant fans. Holstein-Friesian cows are a rare sight ...

US embassy spokesman Arend C Zwartjes confirmed on Thursday that 46 Cambodians will be deported from the US to Cambodia later this month, even as ...

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Cambodian Union Leader Rath Rott Mony, indicted for helping Russia Today produce a documentary about sex trafficking, shown here in an undated photo.

Two prominent authors are encouraging the public to get off Facebook and start reading books.

She's just released her third album, Vertigo, recorded in Siem Reap. It's an indie-folk music-style work inspired by Sibylle Baier, Feist, Vashti Bunyan and others ...

Cambodians have distinct talents in music. We have this unique voice quality that is both soothing and intriguing.

In a bid to contribute to Nepal's tourism through series of spectacular photos of the world's highest peak, the team of “First Women Journalists Qomolangma ...

There's drama behind the scenes at the ongoing 2018 Miss Universe Pageant in Thailand this year. A viral video making the rounds on social media seemingly ...

MADRID (Reuters) – Real Madrid suffered their heaviest ever home defeat in Europe on Wednesday when the already-qualified Spaniards were thumped 3-0 at ...

Man City agree a deal that will see United States international goalkeeper Zack Steffen join them from Columbus Crew next July.

May vows to fight for her job after Conservatives challenged to her leadership.

A new group of more than 40 deportees, many of them the children of refugees, will be the largest yet to be ejected by the Trump administration.

The president of the Khmer National Liberation Front (KNLF), Sam Serey, said he expected the “procedure” to receive a royal pardon to begin soon. He had ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur made it into the last 16 of the Champions League by coming from behind to grab a 1-1 draw at Barcelona on ...

Photo courtesy of Voice of Kampuchea-Krom Radio. From 7 to 9 December 2018, UNPO Member the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) hosted its ...

Ouk Bonheang, 25, a young author, said the rise was due to a growing appreciation among young Cambodians for literacy.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday denied an accusation by The Cambodia Daily that the government closed its operations and bank account due to its ...

The Kun Bokator National Championship 2018 wrapped up earlier this week at the Sports Hall of the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

SAN FRANCISCO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese court has ordered a sales ban of some older Apple Inc iPhone models in China for violating two patents of ...

LONDON (Reuters) – France's 10-year borrowing costs climbed to their highest level compared with Germany in a year and a half yesterday, as French ...

Siem Reap Deputy Provincial Governor Tea Seiha has been promoted as new provincial governor replacing Khim Bunsong. According to Royal Decree issued ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen kept the bar low in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of International Human Rights Day, asserting that under his ...

Yea Ran, living in her home right in front of former Khmer Rouge navy commander.

Officials deny a RFA report saying that timber is being illegally smuggled to Vietnam.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo prosecutors officially charged ousted Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn yesterday for under-reporting his income and extended ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen congratulated 70th anniversary of Human Rights Day saying the country fully promoted rights and freedom of expression.

After having formed a “government in exile” in 2016, the Khmer National Liberation Front of Sam Serey said it will register as a legitimate political party on ...

A Cambodian news fixer who aided the production of a sex-trafficking documentary discredited by the government has been arrested in Bangkok by Thai ...

A year ago, the European Union offered Cambodia the option of using a unique Harmonised Systems Code (HS Code) for its Jasmine fragrant rice and white ...

Chan Rothana, Cambodia's premier mixed martial artist, returned to the ONE cage on Friday evening at ONE: Destiny of Champions In Kuala Lumpur with a ...

The pro-government Khmer Times ran a story December 7 about Chinese telecom giant Huawei with a KT byline that, while not marked as advertising, was ...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, otherwise known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, is confronted to a strategic, legal and political ...

The Prime Minister assured Vietnam that he would not allow a foreign military base to be established in the Kingdom during his meeting with Vietnamese Prime ...

A Cambodian entrepreneur has launched a stylish high-end watch, hoping to promote the Khmer creative talent and increase demand for the Kingdom's ...

Cambodia's Supreme Court began on Wednesday to hear an appeal against the 2017 conviction in a defamation case brought against CNRP leader Sam ...

With Tiny Toones, Tuy 'Kay Kay' Sobil and his team provide education, albeit not in the most traditional sense, that is meant to help keep underprivileged and ...

On November 30, 2016, the kingdom celebrated Unesco's recognition of the Chapei Dang Veng as part of the country's intangible cultural heritage.

Chea Vannath is encouraging women to participate in tackling political and social issues. Ms Vannath, who was also director of the Centre for Social ...

Siem Reap art lovers will find that all their Christmases have come at once in the next few days, thanks to cultural treats such as the Angkor Photo Festival, ...

It was in 2012 when the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) was founded by former Foreign Secretary Lord William Hague of Richmond and United ...

Cambodia is home to some of the most beautiful and storied temples, mountains, waterfalls, not to mention the tangible emblems of the kingdom's history itself.

With the significant increase of local authors and storytellers, as well as the expanding culture of reading among Cambodian youths, there are enough reasons ...

Last week, Starbucks led the launching of a children's story book as part of its “Give Good 2018” campaign to spread joy to Cambodian kids. “Kadli and the ...

Siem Reap Provincial Court yesterday charged a woman who allegedly offered sex services in her massage shop in Siem Reap city. Major Nuon Sopheak ...

Written by Kim Pichpinun, “Sad Wedding Music” gives readers another aspect of the suffering of one person who had encountered two different miserable times ...

'Tis the season to be jolly, indeed! Khmer Times' Anith Adilah Othman joins the Christmas Tree lighting of Phnom Penh's Raffles Hotel Le Royal, and finds out ...

Huawei has been a driving force in Cambodia's Information and Communication Technology development for almost 20 years.” says David Li, CEO of Huawei ...

The United States embassy in Phnom Penh is urging the government to ensure that Radio Free Asia and Voice of America resume their work in the country ...

A Khmer National Liberation Front member freed from prison last month has fled to Thailand, claiming that he received death threats from anonymous ...

About 300 farmers launch a campaign to celebrate Human Rights Day in Svay Rieng.

LIMA (Xinhua) – More than 500 competitors from 61 countries and regions will participate in a historic edition of the Dakar Rally in Peru next month, according to ...

Vietnam News/ANN: THREE ethnic Khmer handicraft villages in Vietnam's Tra Vinh provinces have expanded over the past four years due to high demand and ...

To feed growing demand for Cambodian traditional works, Artisans Angkor, the biggest employer in Siem Reap province, is planning an increase in production ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged a Chinese national over the hacking of a policeman and an elderly woman while high on drugs in Chamkar ...

The Cambodian government said Tuesday that Radio Free Asia is welcome to reopen its office in the capital Phnom Penh, asserting that no pressure had been ...

UNPO releases the second issue of a series of newsletters dedicated to the ongoing struggle of the Khmer-Krom people. This newsletter contextualises the ...

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia is expected to diversify into finance and banking in the near term, offering microlending services to small ...

On 12 October 2018, UNPO submitted a report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) concerning the continuous grave human rights ...

The leader of the Khmer Rise Party (KRP) on Friday submitted a report to Prime Minister Hun Sen accusing the Preah Sihanouk provincial governor of colluding ...

I had seen trauma before, but never an entire traumatized nation. All the adults I met were survivors or former killers.

Leather carving and shadow puppetry have been part of Cambodian culture for thousands of years. Performances used to transpire across the Kingdom ...

Let's Read” is a regional project initiated and ran by the Asia foundation, an international organisation that works in over 10 countries including Cambodia.

The government and the Minister of Education, Hang Chuon Naron, released a letter on Thursday morning which called on all educational institutions, including ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen voiced regret on Thursday that he hadn't had leaders of protests against his ruling Cambodian People's Party in 2013 and ...

Unesco yesterday added Cambodia's Lkhon Khol on its list of “intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding” during an annual meeting of the ...

BANGKOK — Cambodian and foreign investigating judges issued conflicting rulings on Wednesday on whether a United Nations-backed tribunal, which this ...

Mass confusion over a Chinese-Khmer billboard advertisement on National Road 4 in Preah Sihanouk province has prompted Provincial Governor Yun Min to ...

Sihanoukville municipal authorities pulled down shop banners at 200 locations for having spelling errors, no thanks to Google Translate. Lim Pheaktrey, a Preah ...

The rise in number of foreign tourists in the kingdom also means an increase in the number of job opportunities for Khmers. However, has this demand for skilled ...

Cambodian outbound tourism saw a 30 percent rise during this year's three-day Water Festival, while long haul destination tour packages to Europe, Australia, ...

Cambodia is ready to celebrate the three-day Sea Festival in Koh Kong province next month while Cambodian and Thai authorities will allow their people to use ...

Bora Chiemruom was just 1 year old in 1975 when she and her family were forced into a Khmer Rouge camp in Cambodia, and her father killed.

The Sovanna Phum Arts Association continues to stage weekly performances at the Sovanna Phum Theatre at Street 99 in Phnom Penh. With the guidance of ...

Last week the Khmer Rouge tribunal handed down a historic verdict against two elderly leaders of the regime that claimed at least 1.7 million lives, legally ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng said Cambodia had agreed to only investigate crimes by the most senior Khmer Rouge leaders, which meant the work of the Khmer ...

PHNOM PENH – Last week, around four decades after a Vietnamese invasion ended the tyranny of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, a United Nations-backed ...

Cambodia has reiterated it intends to end the work of the UN-backed tribunal that last week convicted the last two surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge of gen...

Friday's verdict in the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan has been hailed as “historic” for “Cambodia and all humanity”, while ...

The two most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia were found guilty of genocide in court Friday.

Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn has dismissed a report stating that the government would allow a Chinese naval base to be erected in Koh Kong province.

A request from the Khmer Vietnamese Association for the Interior Ministry to delay the relcoation of Vietnames familes living on the Tonle Sap river in Kampong ...

After spending nine years and more than $300 million to prosecute leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million of their ...

Two senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge were convicted Friday for genocide that led to more than 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia after the Vietnam War.

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday said provincial authorities have faced challenges while relocating thousands of Khmer Cham and ethnic Vietnamese ...

Two surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia were found guilty of genocide by an international tribunal, nearly four decades after the ...

The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against ...

The 31st Tokyo International Film Festival has just concluded – but the films screened on the week-long event continue to get rave reviews. Cambodia's very ...

A UN-backed court has found two leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guilty of genocide, almost four decades after the ultra-Maoist regime which oversaw the ...

In Cambodia, where holidays and festivals abound, the three-day Bon Om Touk or the Water Festival that begins next week easily takes the spotlight.

The tribunal that found two former Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide has sentenced them to life in prison.

A UN-backed court ruled that the Khmer Rouge committed genocide, a landmark verdict that is hoped will bring closure to millions of Cambodians.

Court finds 1975-79 regime targeted Cham and Vietnamese people to create 'an atheistic and homogenous society without class divisions'

A Thailand-based cement company awarded last week over 200 Khmer high school students and 10 university students with academic scholarships at the ...

The only two surviving leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime have been found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, in a ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Two former Khmer Rouge leaders have been found guilty of genocide for killings during group's brutal rule of Cambodia.

PHNOM PENH -- The Khmer Rouge tribunal will on Friday announce whether two surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime are guilty of genocide -- a verdict.