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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.

Diwakar Chettri t does not matter who advised Prime Minister K P Oli about attending the dubious Asia-Pacific Summit in Kathmandu last week organised by the ...

Miss Australia, Miss USA and Miss Colombia have been slammed for publicly mocking non-English speaking contestants at the pageant prelim swimsuit ...

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Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday charged a news fixer with incitement to discriminate over his involvement in the production of a sex trafficking ...

The caravan's democracy — Congress strikes #MeToo deal.

For nearly three months, Roeuth An sat behind the walls of his immigration detention cell, dreaming of the day he might return to his family in Washington state.

Following Cambodias admission in 1999, Timor Leste is the final missing piece towards an ASEAN that encompasses all of Southeast Asia.

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Good morning. Theresa May survives a leadership challenge, a Huawei executive gets out on bail and ...

A National Police official is urging the wife of a Cambodian news fixer for Russia Today.

Prime Minister Hun Sen directs the Labour Ministry, worker representatives, employers and relevant institutions to work together toward setting a minimum wage ...

Tottenham Hotspur coach Mauricio Pochettino said his side completed “mission impossible” in the Champions League.

A guy who's never played an inning in the majors managed to crack the news cycle Tuesday throwing a baseball 110 mph.

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

An Information Ministry official has warned that the development of new technologies can also have a negative effect on a nation.

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.

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Rath Rott Mony, the president of the Cambodian Construction Workers Trade Union Federation (CCTUF), in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in an undated photo.

The Industrial Bank of Korea plans to open new branches in Cambodia from 2020 onwards amid a broader push by the state-owned lender to expand in ...

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 ...

Despite the flurry of reforms, announcements, prosecutions and policy changes since the election, most legal changes – such as abolition of the death penalty ...

British liberals may hope the House of Commons' likely failure to pass the government's Brexit proposals will secure a second referendum to reverse the vote to ...

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 ...

Kampong Speu province's palm sugar will be recognised as a geographical indication (GI) in the European Union early next year, an official from the Ministry of ...

Unless US-China trade talks wrap up successfully by March 1, new tariffs will be imposed.

A news fixer detained in Thailand at the request of Cambodian authorities will soon be deported over his role in the production of a sex trafficking documentary ...

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

NagaCorp, which operates the NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh, issues this year's best high-yield bond.

The July dam collapse incident in southern Laos left 42 killed and 23 missing.

Chinese police closes 1100 social media accounts, along with 31 websites, this year.

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 ...

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

Cambodia will increase energy imports from neighbouring Laos following the signing of a deal between the countries.

Cambodia now has 12.5 million internet users, compared to 10.8 million last year, an increase that follows mobile operators' *service* expansion in rural areas, ...

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 ...

The education ministry has begun work on improving the quality of education in Cambodia's top five universities after the World Bank agreed to provide US$90 ...

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

The independent outlet will continue delivering *content* online from outside the country.

Sri Lankan President assures that the political crisis would be solved in seven days.

Cambodia now has 12.5 million internet users, compared to 10.8 million last year, an increase that follows mobile operators' *service* expansion in rural areas, ...

Cambodia's finest mixed martial artist is set to return to the cage tonight at the ONE: Destiny of Champions.

The decision made it possible to gather data on about 87 million Facebook users.

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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 ...

China expresses confidence it can reach a trade deal with the United States, despite *fresh* warnings from Trump.

Nearly 40 students at Sampov Loun High School faint over the past two days.

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 ...

The United States expects China to take immediate action to cut tariffs on US car imports.

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 ...

Beyonce, Angelina Jolie, David Beckham and Kate Hudson have flocked to the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia, which is seeing a spate of new luxury ...

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

This demographic shift means that some villages are primarily populated by children, the elderly, and men who are unemployable because they use drugs or ...

Organisers of the annual Angkor Wat International Half Marathon have lauded the events continued popularity as thousands of runners, both amateur and ...

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

UMass Lowell and community partners will launch a digital archive chronicling the experiences of Southeast Asian-Americans in Lowell on Tuesday, Dec. 4.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Phnom Penh's traditional Water Festival (Nov.21 to 23) was officially opened by King Nordom Sihamoni, and Prime Minister Hun Sen. Neigh on 300 boats, ...

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.

UN-backed tribunal that convicted the last two surviving leaders of genocide faces closure without government's help. Associated Press. Sun 18 Nov 2018 21.12 ...

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, ...

Phnom Penh Governor Khuong Sreng has restricted the travel of large vehicles and taxis operating on main roads during the upcoming Water Festival in a bid to ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — China's leader Xi Jinping and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traded barbs in speeches to a summit of world ...

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 ...

5 p.m. Khashoggi family plans his funeralSaudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five suspects charged in the murder of journalist ...

Hard Brexiters openly threaten to topple PM … fears for 600 people in California wildfires … and hear Michelle Obama read from her new memoir.

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.

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'

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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 ...

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

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in the 1970s, when their reign of terror was ...

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 ...

Oxfam yesterday held the official launch for its blockchain-based project BlocRice, which aims to increase farmers bargaining power in negotiations with buyers ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The tribunal that found two former Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide has sentenced them to life in prison.

The court ruling in Cambodia comes almost 40 years after Pol Pot's brutal regime fell.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The U.N.-backed tribunal judging the criminal responsibility of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 ...

California town's wildfire evacuation plan raises questions. MAGALIA, Calif. (AP) — Ten years ago, as two wildfires advanced on Paradise, residents jumped into ...

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

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Good morning. Britain's government slips into turmoil, the U.S. sanctions Saudi Arabia and Khmer Rouge ...

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

Jayavarman 7th, arguably the most ambitious of Khmer kings, was a great builder: he ordered the construction of many large temples and other public ...

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

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 ...

The securities at the UN granted the Hun Sen supporters permission to rally at the hotel when Hun Sen arrived in New York this week. VOA's Khmer Sok ...

The securities at the UN granted the Hun Sen supporters permission to rally at the hotel when Hun Sen arrived in New York this week.

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 ...

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

STOCKTON — Generations of Cambodian-Americans came together for a joyous occasion Sunday evening to recognize the academic achievements of Khmer ...