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The expansion of press freedom in the Kingdom, which has let the news industry grow rapidly, and led to democratic improvement and social development.

The Ministry of Fine Arts and Culture is hoping to have Cambodian musical theatre Lakhon Yike, traditional silver handicrafts and other art forms placed on ...

The first Cambodian woman candidate will seek a seat on the City Council—potentially against one of Long Beach's most famed sons, no less.

Cambodia's Ministry of Interior on Thursday issued detailed instructions for the political rehabilitation of lawmakers from the banned opposition Cambodia ...

A group of forestry activists accompanied by monks held a Buddhist ceremony in hopes of protecting Prey Lang forest in Cambodia's central plains. The forest ...

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NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The Ombudsman has stepped in to mediate a dispute between the Fine Arts Department and more than 1600 locals in Phimai district ...

The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center has revealed the complete lineup for the 48th annual New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), ...

Venezuelan security forces have executed several people and arbitrarily detained hundreds of others in a campaign to punish people who protested against ...

Long Beach Police Complaint Commission Chair Suely Saro announced on Wednesday, Feb. 20, that she will run to represent the City Council's Sixth District in ...

The fourth annual Mother and Daughter Conference, centered on empowering mothers and daughters throughout Long Beach, will be hosted by the Khmer ...

US Federal Aviation Administration says Vietnam meets international safety standards and its air carriers can establish direct flights.

Sriracha, which offers the live Robatayaki grill and Cambodia's Khmer cuisine, opened its second outlet in Bengaluru's Indiranagar. Its maiden outlet is at UB ...

All eyes are on nuclear talks but Kim Jong-un will be closely studying the hosts of the US-N Korea summit.

In a Facebook posting, the US embassy in Phnom Penh calls CNRP leader Kem Sokha an innocent man held on unjust charges.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not saying whether or not he nominated Donald Trump for this year's Nobel Prize.

CUCUTA, Colombia (Reuters) – A US military transport plane carrying humanitarian aid meant for Venezuelans landed on Saturday in the Colombian border ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Sales by China's retail businesses during the Lunar New Year holiday rose 8.5 percent from a year earlier, pushing up consumer stocks ...

A record 126 Cambodian refugees were deported from the U.S. in 2018. Now they must adjust to living in a country many of them hadn't seen in decades.

Malaysian detainee Aron Naldy Muhammad Ting Abdullah, 22, who is among 47 detainees, alleges that they were promised $1500 monthly to work in ...

Beijing and Washington bicker over history in Cambodia, blaming each other for the rise of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

The number of visitors to the coast during the Chinese New Year holiday dropped considerably this year as more people chose destinations in the Northern ...

Family members and friends of a news fixer Rath Rott Mony rallied in front of the Russian embassy for the fourth time to demand its intervention for his freedom.

Trade with Japan increased significantly in 2018, with exports soaring 27.3 percent and imports growing by 17.8 percent, according to the latest figures from the ...

The department of Media and Communication (DMC) at the Royal University of Phnom Penh has launched a mobile app and website – Mapping Memories ...

The Appeal Court yesterday upheld the municipal court's decision to keep Russia Today news fixer Rath Rott Mony in detention pending trial.

Business publishers should refrain from joining other media reports to echo news that could potentially harm business confidence or create panic among fund ...

Image Gallery of Catholic,Religious & Christian Photos.Sophany Bay shares her experience under the Khmer Rouge, and why she decided to testify in the ...

Appeal Court holds closed-door bail hearing for Russia Today news fixer Rott Mony.

The Cambodian Livestock Raiser Association (CLRA) has issued a statement denying reports that CP Cambodia's pork and poultry products are unsafe for ...

The Cambodian government on Friday strongly urged Singaporean outlet Channel News Asia (CNA) to issue a correction to an article it published on Thursday, ...

Little, Brown non-fiction imprint Robinson has bought a “moving and insightful” account of a daughter's search for her missing father in the 'Killing Fields' of ...

Prek Achi Commune families send kids to South Korea, where about 54000 Cambodians have found jobs that pay well.

LOWELL -- The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association hosts Khmer language classes for children ages 7 through 14.

Indonesia's new halal certification law will be implemented by the end of 2019. What are the implications of the upcoming halal law on the country's political ...

Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) said that the European Commission's decision to impose tariffs on Cambodian rice was made too fast leaving the country's ...

Today is the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Cambodian Army and a parade of tanks, heavy weapons and thousands of soldiers is expected ...

Construction of a model market in the border with Vietnam to be finished by April.

The demonstration is being organized by a CNRP offshoot, the Cambodia National Rescue Movement, which was founded by the CNRP's former president Sam ...

More than 1,000 garment workers have lost their jobs following days of protest calling for wages to be paid for December. The workers were laid off by W&D ...

The government has issued a directive banning the issuance of diplomatic passports to foreigners who are naturalised Cambodian citizens and advisors or ...

Tens of thousands of Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia in late December 1978 and overthrew the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge regime on 7 January ...

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The noose around the Cambodian rice sector is tightening as the European Commission (EC) is almost certainly implementing the safeguard measures on rice ...

Two journalists with an espionage case looming over their heads are calling for the court to either speed up its investigation or drop the charges against them.

Large celebrations set to take place in Cambodian capital to mark 40th anniversary of 'Victory Over Genocide Day'.

Long-serving Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday inaugurated a monument marking the 1998 end of the threat from the communist Khmer Rouge ...

Cambodia has its very own Khmer New Year in April. But the lights and music on the streets every December 31 proves that Cambodians are also very fond of ...

Royal Ballet of Cambodia will again mesmerise locals and foreigners with its new production “Neang Watthana Devi” on January 18 and 19 at the Chaktomuk ...

Twenty years since collapse of ultra-communist movement, policy hailed by Cambodia PM for ending war back in spotlight.

As we cherish our loved ones this holiday season, 36 Khmer Americans will be oceans apart from their families in a place most have never been before.

Cambodia's government will host the start of a three-day celebration marking the 20-year anniversary of the end of civil war. The event, beginning Dec.

PM wants journalists to refrain from reporting fake news or inciting news that may cause insecurity, armed conflict and chaos in the country.

Prime Minister Hun Sen delivers an address during an opening ceremony for the Khmer New Year at the Angkor complex in Siem Reap province, April 13, 2018.

Following a recent pledge by opposition leader Rainsy to return next year to Cambodia, police in Kandal province have questioned local Cambodia National ...

Many were granted refugee status after fleeing U.S. bombing during the Vietnam War and the massacres of the Khmer Rouge, and know little about the country ...

Agence Kampuchea Presse yesterday posted what is believed to be a short series of previously unpublished photos of life after the Khmer Rouge. The only text ...

An international tribunal dismissed a Dutch lawyer who had defended one of Khmer Rouge leaders. The lawyer's bar membership lapsed in 2016.

A detained Cambodian union leader who was deported from Thailand and formally charged for his involvement in the production of a documentary about sex ...

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

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.

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 ...

'Funan' director Denis Do discusses his animated pic, which won the Annecy International Animated Film Festival's prize for Best Feature.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Dogged by political interference, the trials of the those responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians could be drawing to a close after officials stated ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia: In the ancient temple complex of Angkor, it is not often a new attraction emerges. But from the country's most revered site, a new ...

For the first time, Khmer Rouge leaders - Noun Chea and Khieu Samphan - were found guilty of genocide by a UN-backed tribunal.

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 ...

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

For the first time, two leaders of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia have been convicted of genocide. His deputy Nuon Chea, 92, and head of state ...

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 ...

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If the current trial is the last staged by the U.N.-assisted international tribunal, it will have convicted three people at a cost of more than $300 million.

Tribunal to decide Friday whether Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are guilty of genocide against Cham Muslims, Vietnamese.

he Khmer Rouge genocide erased Khmer culture in Cambodia in the 1970s. As a result, some Khmer youth in America are now disconnected from their heritage ...

The verdict this Friday focuses on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide committed at worksites, cooperatives, security centers and execution sites, ...

Cambodia yesterday set a fourth Guinness World Record by having the longest dragon boat which was certified at a ceremony in Prey Veng province.

A new era in American spaceflight was unveiled that will carry out the first test flights and operational missions aboard commercial spacecraft to be launched ...

The Interior Ministry has allowed former Khmer Rouge photographer Nhem En to establish a political party named the Worker's Prosperity Party.

French-Cambodian filmmaker Neary Adeline Hay on uncovering her dad's past.

But Vickery was always more interested in the lives of remote communities and ethnic minority tribes, and his photographs reflect this. The people he ...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni has moved almost 60 court officials, judges, and prosecutors to new posts across the country in a move welcomed by ...

Builders and sculptors of South East Asia's awe-inspiring monuments.

The Information Ministry yesterday called on journalists to combat fake news disseminated online during a workshop on “Combatting Fake News for Cambodian ...

Duch, 76, was given a life sentence for crimes against humanity after first trial at UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

Cambodian workers taking part in protests against Prime Minister Hun Sen in other countries should be identified and beaten by gangsters or made to suffer ...

The tripartite commission (union, government, employers) tasked with determining the minimum wage for workers in the textile, garment and footwear industries ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen wrapped up his trip to the UN General Assembly by highlighting recent government achievements and results of bilateral talks with ...

Eight persons arrested in Cambodia last week and accused of smuggling arms are not members of the Khmer National Liberation Front despite government ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday said that Cambodia will allow the United States to continue searching for the remains of American soldiers killed in the ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen's attendance at the United Nations General Assembly will be met with both support and opposition in New York over the upcoming days.

In 1978, three young men on a gap year strayed into Cambodian waters and were discovered by members of the Khmer Rouge. Holly Baxter retraced the steps ...

Supporters of Prime Minister Hun Sen in the United States have posted video footage on Facebook saying they will welcome Mr Hun Sen's arrival for the 73rd ...

An estimated 300 to 500 protestors are expected to travel to New York from other states in the US to join the protest, according to an organizer.

The two new provinces will be formed from a land cut from Kandal province and from two districts in Mondulkiri and Ratanakkiri provinces.

The Cambodian government has ordered internet *service* providers (ISPs) to block the websites of 15 news websites of independent outlets including Voice of ...