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The Education, Youth and Sport Ministry has approved a request from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) to set up a research office and library ...

All the #Cambodia #news you need to know for August 26, 2019. Cambodia English news, Cambodia business news, Cambodia news today, Cambodia latest ...

A former governor's mansion and home base for countless news correspondents, artists, writers, diplomats and humanitarians, the FCC Siem Reap is now a ...

After years of wondering about a second-grade teacher who changed her life, Nancy Wang Yuen finally got the chance Friday afternoon to talk to the woman ...

Marking 100 days since his death, Australia's Cambodian community have paid tribute to former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, who played a crucial role in ...

Angelina Jolie stars in a new Mon Guerlai ad directed by Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. The film was shot in Angelina's home in Asia: a ...

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Set up in 2014, the company is a veritable hothouse for emerging Cambodian talent, with their work celebrated around the world.

The United Nations and Cambodia's courts established the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia (ECCC) in 2003, more than four decades after ...

Asking for comments from a government spokesperson is a crucial but challenging task for journalists in Cambodia. The spokesperson may not pick up the ...

Cambodia has chosen 'In the Life of Music,' a drama that follows the fortunes of a family across three generations, as its entry for the best international feature ...

Foreign Affairs Minister praises the strong cooperation with Vietnam.

Germany has chosen Nora Fingscheidt's “System Crasher” as its entry for the Oscars newly re-branded International Feature Film Award.

Rice growers in Cambodia start a business, and invest in their community.

Genocide Watch lists Ten Stages of the genocidal process. Now, Kashmir exhibits all those stages, especially when considering India's current horrendous ...

Ten years ago, the Cambodian coast was referred to as “Thailand without the crowds”, its laid-back beaches providing a welcome budget break for backpackers ...

Stafford Township — Stockton University adjunct faculty member Steven Marcus will present a lecture called “The Bystander: Then and Now” at Stockton ...

After winning the Audience Choice Narrative Feature award at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) in November, In the Life of Music has ...

On August 7, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that Cambodians would have 22 public holidays next year, reduced from 28 in 2019. The decree ...

All the #Cambodia #news you need to know for August 20, 2019. Cambodia English news, Cambodia business news, Cambodia news today, Cambodia latest ...

War movie about girls soccer”, The Wolves puts pack mentality on stage.

My first reaction to the recent death of Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea was to recall the phrase about “the banality of evil.” I can remember listening to Nuon ...

Millions of Cambodians rely on microloans to survive, even though the practice drives many of them further into poverty. Some of the money given out to poor ...

Battambang (Cambodia) (AFP) - As he tears off a leg of a charcoal-grilled rat at a roadside stall in western Cambodia, Yit Sarin hails the simple joy of rodent and ...

Nuon Chea presided over some of the worst atrocities of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in the late 1970s and ultimately was convicted of crimes against ...

The average microloan debt per borrower in Cambodia is around US$3370 – the highest average amount in the world.

The U.N.-assisted tribunal trying leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge on charges of genocide and other crimes affirmed Tuesday it will cease legal proceedings ...

Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's second-in-command in Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, died on August 4 aged 93. Following Pol Pot's death in 1998, he was the most senior ...

Pailin – Former Khmer Rouge cadres and relatives paid their final respects to “Brother No. 2” Nuon Chea yesterday, ahead of a cremation ceremony in ...

Music, as it has long been said, is truly a universal language. For Asian American artist Satica, music has provided a chance to heal her soul, and soon, share ...

Crowds gathered for the funeral of "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea on Friday, paying their final respects to a man considered the chief ideologue of ...

Death of Khmer Rouge leader does little for justice. Two life sentences are the only punishments handed out to those who headed Cambodia's murderous ...

Though 10-year-old Vira Rama didn't understand what his family's secrets were, he knew that they had to be kept hidden. At first glance, they seemed innocuous ...

The death in Cambodia last week of Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea has left unfinished a full accounting of the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against ...

It was apparently the ancient Greek dramatist Menander (ca. 342-291 BCE) who stated that, “Whom the gods love dies young. The death of the former Khmer ...

Japan and France urged the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal on Tuesday to expedite the trial of the sole surviving senior leader of the 1970s Khmer Rouge r.

Nuon Chea, a Cambodian politician and a chief ideologue as part of the notorious Khmer Rouge, died Sunday at age 93 after a brief stay in a Phnom Penh hotel ...

Nuon Chea, the chief ideologist and 'Brother Number Two' of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, died on Sunday at the age of 93.

Former deputy Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea, known as “Brother No. 2,” died last week at age 93 in Phnom Penh. His death has revived important questions ...

Nuon Chea, who served as Pol Pot's chief lieutenant during Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, has died at 93, according to a U.N. ...

The chief ideologist and "Brother Number Two" of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge has died at the age of 93, a court spokesman says. Nuon Chea was found guilty of ...

Nuon Chea was known as Brother No. 2, the right-hand man of Pol Pot; researchers believe he was behind the Khmer Rouge's extremist policies.

Cambodia's UN-assisted genocide tribunal says Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of ...

The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal said on Friday that it has appointed a new international judge at the Supreme Court Chamber.

While the pursuit of justice for the genocide that occurred under Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge continues to be a challenging process legally, a more ...

As justice is pursued for Khmer Rouge war crimes, US legal pros traverse the globe to assist, finding parallels between the Holocaust and the systematic ...

One family's treasured photographs that were hidden from the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

Khmer Rouge leaders consigned to dustbin of history. Genocide conference expected to paint Cambodia's tragic past in a new light.

Beginning in 1975, the Khmer Rouge unleashed a reign of terror across Cambodia, killing between 1.7 and 2 million Cambodians, and exiling more. The horrific ...

The Khmer Rouge began their genocidal rule in Cambodia in 1975.

Almost 13 years and $300 million after it was established, the U.N.-backed tribunal prosecuting Khmer Rouge atrocities has less than a year remaining in its ...

The mainstream perception that animated films are intended for children still make films like Persepolis, Grave of the Fireflies, and the newly released Funan ...

PHNOM PENH/HANOI: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of supporting genocide because of ...

Vietnam's actions to remove the Khmer Rouge regime from power in Cambodia in the late 1970s are still a source of division among Asean states.

For Cambodian women living under the Khmer Rouge regime, the reproductive violence depicted in The Handmaid's Tale's dystopia is far from a fiction.

PM Lee is accused of reigniting pain of the Cambodian people in his Facebook post. Singapore's Head of Government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (Photo: ...

The pre-trial chamber of the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal has set June 19 to 21 for the appeal hearing of case 004/2 against former senior cadre Ao An.

On 31 May 2019, on his Facebook page, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described about his letter to Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to ...

The ruling party uses the memory of the Khmer Rouge for political gain – by constantly reminding Cambodians to pay homage to the politicians who helped end ...

Actors re-enacted gruesome scenes of violence at Choeung Ek Genocidal Center as part of an annual ceremony to mark the Khmer Rouge regime horrors.

Actors pretend to slit throats on 20 May, an official holiday known as the "Day of Anger".

Communist Gunnar Bergstrom visited Cambodia in 1978 at the tail end of the Khmer Rouge's rule, after being inspired by their vision of utopia.

Amid the devastation of war, Pol Pot's genocidal regime came to power and led to the death of over a million Cambodians. Its roots didn't lie in its "utopianism," ...

The film, produced by Michael Siv, himself a survivor, follows the group as they give testimony in Case 002 against Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, the last two ...

A research paper published on Wednesday by the Cambodia Women's Crisis Center (CWCC) in conjunction with Canada's McGill University claims that forced ...

Volleyball's international governing body, FIVB, is facing calls to sever ties with the president of the Cambodia national federation after The Independent learned ...

Gen. Le Duc Anh, a Communist Party hard-liner and former Vietnamese president who led the invasion of Cambodia, which led to the fall of the Khmer Rouge ...

On the heels of Cambodian New Year, ArtsEmerson is honored to welcome See You Yesterday, a moving performance by Global Arts Corps which explores the ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared Wednesday Cambodian Genocide Remembrance Day in memory of the 1.7 million or more people ...

Ex-Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia embraces Christianity. Like some other elderly cadres, 76-year-old grandmother seeks solace in God's forgiveness but ...

In Geneva, film-maker Rithy Panh talks about his latest film, Graves without a name which explores the lasting effects of the Cambodian genocide.

In 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took over, they quickly emptied the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. This was to be year Zero; a rebirth of Cambodia as an ...

This is one of dozens of photographs of Cambodian citizens, taken by journalist and UW alum Elizabeth Becker on her tour of the country in 1978.Elizabeth ...

The unassuming spot where movement's genocidal leader, Pol Pot, was cremated, his mountain retreat and that of 'The Butcher' Ta Mok, with their sweeping ...

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

Cambodia serves as living proof that an embrace of free-market principles, entrepreneurship without crippling regulations, and personal responsibility can vastly ...

The invasion brought an end to the Khmer Rouge's monstrous genocide, but not to the war itself. The Khmer Rouge waged a bloody guerilla resistance war ...

A ministry of Culture and Fine Arts official said bones excavated from Khmer Rouge killing fields will be listed as conservation items for the next generation to ...

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

The Khmer Rouge officially fell on Jan. 7, 1979, but the legacy of the regime and its genocide is still pervasive. Here's what to know.

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

Hot-on-the-heels of a landmark trial judgment in Case 2/2, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (also known as the Khmer Rouge ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

In a landmark verdict, two leading figures of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime have been found guilty of genocide. Ninety-two-year-old Nuon Chea, once ...

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 ...

Irrespective of what the United Nations says, on November 16, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), better known as the Khmer ...

A day of judgement is fast approaching for two now-elderly central figures in the Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s. But part of the judgement due on Friday, ...

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

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

It was June 1978 when Hilary received her final letter from her brother John. “He used to write to me on his travels,” she tells me, 40 years later. “They were ...

The Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia after the civil war in 1975 with Pol Pot emerging as the communist regime's ruthless tyrant which set about wiping ...