Cambodia News: Khmer

Cambodia launches mobile app on Khmer Rouge history
India.com
Bangkok, July 26 (IANS) A mobile application on the comprehensive history of the Khmer Rouge has been launched in Cambodia to ensure that Cambodian citizens, 70 per cent of whom are less than 30 years old, do not forget one of the darkest chapters in ...

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Khmer Rouge tribunal gets funds, case deadline extension
The Phnom Penh Post
Funds continue to flow for the Khmer Rouge tribunal, and the case against alleged former Khmer Rouge naval chief Meas Muth is moving forward even as the ultimate fate of the case still hangs in the balance, according to announcements made yesterday.

First Khmer Rouge History Mobile App Released on Android - The ...
The Cambodia Daily
The first mobile app offering a comprehensive and interactive history of the Khmer Rouge, created in the hopes of ending a “collective denial” about some of the ...
Khmer Rouge History app to assist students, National, Phnom Penh ...The Phnom Penh Post

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Rose agrees deal with Cavaliers
Khmer Times
Derrick Rose was the youngest player to win the NBA Most Valuable Player award. AFP. LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Free agent point guard Derrick Rose is set to sign a one-year, $2.1 million deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers, US media reported on Monday.

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Chinese football playing field shifts
Khmer Times
The Chinese Super League has seen an influx of star names for huge transfer fees including the Brazilian Hulk. Reuters. BEIJING (Reuters) –China Sports Media paid a record $1.18 billion in 2015 for a five-year contract to broadcast China's top-flight ...

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Two accused of ice trafficking
Khmer Times
Two women were charged on Monday with sending nearly a kilo of methamphetamine to Australia. Interior Ministry police officer Meas Sarith said Chan Anita, 32, and Be Kimeng, 35, were arrested after Australian police seized the drugs from a ...

Emerging Talent
Khmer Times
Chamroen Nivorleak, 17, studies classical dance at the Secondary School of Fine Arts Beung Sroyab in Phnom Penh. Passionate about traditional Khmer performing arts, Ms Nivorleak started studying dance when she was 9. “I want to protect and conserve ...

Airport railway revealed as residents worry
Khmer Times
The government has revealed ambitious plans for a railway to be completed by April 2018 that will carry goods and passengers from the city to Phnom Penh International Airport. Meanwhile, protesters already being affected by the construction of the ...

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Heritage tours to be packaged
Khmer Times
The archaeological site of Sambor Prei Kuk, “the temple in the richness of the forest” in the Khmer language, has been identified as Ishanapura, the capital of the Chenla Empire that flourished in the late 6th and early 7th centuries CE. Tourism ...

Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Mission Accomplished?
The Diplomat
Survivors from the nightmare of the Khmer Rouge rule from 1975-79 at long last were able to witness their first glimpse of justice in 2010 with the conviction of Kaing Guek Euv aka Duch, the director of the S21 secret prison. Duch, who reported ...