Phnom Penh, Cambodia News

Nam Mon, 48, was testifying at the trial of prison chief Duch, who is accused of overseeing the torture and execution of around 15 000 people who passed through Tuol Sleng prison during the regime's terrifying 1975-1979 rule.

Chan Boramey, 20, says she has high hopes for her communications studies in Romania.

UEM Group Bhd has been offered huge projects in Vietnam and is also mulling whether to accept a contract to build a bridge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

PHNOM PENH A former fighter for the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s told a Cambodian court on Wednesday how he was suspected of turning against the Pol Pot regime, arrested and beaten unconscious, waking up beneath bodies in a burial pit.

A Cambodian Buddhist monk beats a drum during a celebration marking the one-year anniversary of a U.N. decision to list the Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site, in Phnom Penh.

The gift of God's grace comes through the events and the celebrations which the Church proposes to the people of God: in this spirit the Catholic Church in Cambodia concluded the Year of St Paul and opened the Year of the Priesthood.

Both Thailand and Cambodia ordered their soldiers Thursday to be on alert in case fighting erupts at their disputed border, despite conciliatory remarks by the Thai prime minister.

Television is ubiquitous in Cambodia. Grainy screens flicker inside even the smallest street-side restaurants.

Neigborhood: Phnom Penh chicken dish covered in a white creamy sauce, and the mango crepes with ice cream.

Cambodian authorities on Friday dismissed claims by Thai Natural Resource and Environment minister Suwit Khunkitti that Cambodia failed to submit its plan for safeguarding and developing the Preah Vihear temple.

A FORMER child survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime's main torture centre sobbed on Thursday as he told Cambodia's war crimes court of his harrowing separation from his mother at the jail.

A distraught survivor of the Khmer Rouge's main prison begged his former jailer Wednesday to reveal the truth about his wife's death so he could finally know where to pray for her soul.

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge's main prison said Wednesday that his ability to paint larger-than-life images of the regime's late leader, Pol Pot, and portraits of other communist icons helped save his life.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Tuesday that he will visit France on July 13 to strengthen the bilateral cooperation.

For the first time, on Thursday 18 June, all the novices, postulants and seminarians of Cambodia gathered together for a day of pray and reflection organised by the Catholic Seminary of Phnom Penh.

An explosion at an ammunition warehouse near Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's home injured at least two people Sunday night, according to police officers who asked not to be identified.

Thailand s deputy prime minister yesterday said he would steer clear of a dispute over an ancient temple on the Cambodian border when he meets the neighboring country s leader this weekend.

A Cambodian editor whose newspaper published stories alleging corruption in the office of a senior government official was found guilty Friday of circulating disinformation in a one-hour trial and sentenced to a year in jail.

CAMBODIA reported three more cases of swine flu among visiting American students on Thursday, a day after the health ministry confirmed the country's first instance of the virus.

Reality off the rails in Phnom Penh By Sam Campbell PHNOM PENH - Science fiction author Philip K Dick once explained reality as "that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away". As sensible as this may sound, it is a definition unlikely to take hold in Cambodia, where recent events have shown the government's tendency to obstinately ...