Cambodia News: khmer rouge

“If you can breathe, you can do yoga.” We got struck by these words when we entered the compound of Azahar Foundation in Phnom Penh. These words were ...

On Friday, 11th January, approximately 200 people gathered at the National Institute of Education Phnom Penh to watch the performance organised by the ...

La Cocina, a nonprofit culinary incubator, is fighting back as the tech bubble grows, displacing long-time residents and their food.

Two Merrimack Valley advocates are joining forces to file a bill they say could help those facing mental health and post-traumatic stress disorders — especially ...

For years, an urban farm in Long Beach's Zaferia neighborhood supplied organic produce to a grocery store-starved community and served as a garden for area ...

The recent inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil's president is just the latest setback for human rights around the world. America can once again play a pivotal ...

Indie distributor GKids has added “Funan” to its slate of animated Oscar contenders for 2020. Dennis Do's acclaimed survival drama about the cruelties of ...

America is deporting Cambodian refugees convicted of crimes. Did the U.S. have a responsibility to help them when they first arrived as refugees?

"I feel you are wasting your breath with some people when it comes to asylum seekers."

Amber Va has grown accustomed to the stares when walking the halls at Long Beach Poly High School. The 17-year-old senior, who identifies as a transgender ...

As they go through pregame warmup exercises in the opening moments of Sarah DeLappe's “The Wolves'' at Lyric Stage Company of Boston, the uniformed ...

Most tourists visit Cambodia to see Angkor Wat, then scram. But here's a persuasive reason to stay: posh new beach resorts that rival Bali's.

On January 7, 2019, Cambodia celebrated the 40th anniversary of its “Victory Day” over the Khmer Rouge regime, which was overthrown in 1979 by the ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that if Western countries impose threatened economic sanctions on his country, it would cause the death of the ...

Just hours after Crazy Rich Asians won the Best Comedy award at the Critics' Choice Awards last night, Michelle Yeoh has scored another win with a Star Trek ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says if Western countries impose threatened economic sanctions on his country, it would cause the death of the country's ...

A Love Island star and one of the country's best-known female academics have joined forces — thanks to the Evening Standard. Camilla Thurlow, who finished ...

Cambodia's centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly completely lost during the rule of the genocidal Khmer Rouge. But a handful of people managed ...

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 ...

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Mission Hill is now a sister school with an education program in Svay Chek, Cambodia.

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

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 ...

Passion, for certain, is what drives one to do things. For acclaimed author Mao Samnang, her fervour to tell a story through the magic of words inspires her to ...

The Kingdom's music lovers are in for a rare treat this month with live performances of Garuda's Song, a musical composition telling the story of Cambodia's rich ...

Most Canadians are rightly perplexed by high-level concern over the relationship between the Huawei affair, the legitimate apprehension of a key Chinese ...

As history has shown again and again and again – from Russia and Iran to the Philippines and Japan – a downturn is just a matter of time.

Beneath the surface of a remote hill in Tuol Pongro commune, in Banteay Meanchey's Malai district, lie two “mysterious” ancient temples that survived the Khmer ...

Cambodia's 20 years of peace. Marking of the formal ending of civil war was previously overshadowed by other anniversaries in a bloody timeline.

A series of battles have convulsed Sydney's Cambodian community with allegations of violent monks, a fornicating vice abbot, rigged elections and spying at a ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has marked the 40th anniversary of the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime by praising his government's “Win-Win” policy and ...

He was a founding member of the Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ), an advocacy group for journalists and promoter of quality reporting.

PRIME Minister Hun Sen used his Victory Day address at Olympic Stadium on Monday to hail January 7 – the day in 1979 when the Khmer Rouge was ...

Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime gathered in Phnom Penh at an event organized by the Cambodian People's party to mark 40 ...

Cambodia has celebrated four decades since the nightmare of the Khmer Rouge and their 'killing fields' ended.

TENS of thousands of Cambodians packed a stadium in Phnom Penh today to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the expulsion of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime ...

KIÊN GIANG — In just three years under the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, spearheaded by the Pol Pot, Cambodia was pushed to the brink of extinction with ...

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.

IN THE PAPERS - Monday, January 7: The Malaysian king suddenly and mysteriously abdicates for the first time in history. Cambodia marks 40 years since the ...

PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK — Cambodia's centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge's "Killing Fields" regime, but a ...

For decades, the official line from the United Nations and the bevy of international foreign ministers and diplomats who brokered the 1991 Paris Peace Accords ...

Cambodia's centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge's “Killing Fields” regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep ...

40 years ago, on January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese People's Army in co-ordination with the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation, deposed Pol Pot, ...

The temporary restraining order makes immigration officials give Cambodian nationals fourteen days notice.

The temporary restraining order, granted Thursday, requires federal officials to give two-weeks written notice before re-detaining some Cambodian nationals.

LOS ANGELES (CN) – The Trump administration is prohibited from executing planned immigration raids this month targeting up to 100 Cambodian refugees, ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has slammed the capital's newly inaugurated Win-Win Monument, claiming it represents Prime Minister Hun Sen's “treason”, ...

The Cambodian prime minister inaugurated a monument celebrating his own achievements.

Asked whether she was moving towards a political career, the 43-year-old said she would "go where I'm needed".

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Long-serving Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday inaugurated a monument marking the 1998 end of the threat ...

America has a history of broken promises in the region, so it's likely the Koreas, Japan and Taiwan are watching his abrupt withdrawal from the war-torn nation ...

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

A ceremony was held in southern Kiên Giang Province to mark the 40th anniversary of the Ta Lon landing-by-sea campaign – a milestone in the victory against ...

Our columnist, Jada Yuan, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2018 list. This dispatch brings her to Luang Prabang (no. 52 on the list), and the ...

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.

Government officials on Monday hit back at UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) criticisms expressed ahead of the UN's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) ...

On Christmas Day 40 years ago, 150,000 Vietnamese troops crossed the border into Cambodia and launched a bloody campaign to drive the murderous Khmer ...

Between April 1975 and January 1979, the Khmer Rouge destroyed significant numbers of Christian churches and many Christians were killed. Phnom Penh's ...

China's media recently reported that the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) would conduct a study into Cambodia's participation in the Belt and ...

Shortly after their rise to power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge sought to change the social identity of the Khmer people. Through forced relocation ...

It's only been a few days since an Omni Air flight carrying 36 deportees, rounded up and detained by ICE earlier this year, landed in Cambodia. But already ...

The eldest son of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has joined the ruling party's inner circle, bolstering speculation he is being groomed to succeed to the ...

The latest group of Cambodian immigrants to be deported from the U.S. arrived in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. Steve Inskeep talks to attorney Melanie Kim ...

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.

Victor Koppe is dismissed by a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia after the bar association reports he was unregistered as a lawyer in the Netherlands in 2016.

The ECCC landed its first genocide conviction of high-level officers in the Pol Pot regime, but what is the tribunal's next move?

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

The former chief interrogator and torturer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge has been discharged from hospital after a health scare that lasted weeks, an official told ...

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

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

A MAN walks gingerly over a small field in rural Cambodia, pushing a lawnmower-like contraption that deploys ground-penetrating radar to unearth clues of ...

PREY VENG, CAMBODIA (AFP) - A man walks gingerly over a small field in rural Cambodia, pushing a lawnmower-like contraption that deploys ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Hun Sen, whose Cambodian People's Party took every seat in the national assembly in last month's elections, is the world's longest-serving prime minister ...

After 33 years of ruling Cambodia with an iron fist, Prime Minister Hun Sen – a former soldier in the Khmer Rouge – looks set to strengthen his grip on power in ...

ALLIANCE — When Channy Chhi Laux was 13 years old, the Khmer Rouge came to power and changed her life forever.

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The accounts of victims of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge show how they were able to find justice and healing by breaking their silence and speaking on behalf of those ...