A Cambodian court jailed an Australian woman for 18 months for falsifying documents and acting as an intermediary in a commercial surrogacy operation.
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Over 50,000 Cambodians are participating in a Korean language examination in Phnom Penh for the chance to work in South Korea as unskilled labourers.
Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was defiant as he addressed the closing session of Cambodia's genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh, denying accusations that his former government was involved in genocide.
Just an hour’s drive from Phnom Penh, the centre is run by the Cambodian government with assistance from the environmental group Wildlife Alliance. For a premium price, tourists can get up-close access to animals like Lucky the elephant.
Cambodian lake activists still fighting against forced evictions
Members of Phnom Penh's Boeung Kak Lake community have been fighting against forced evictions since 2007 and its leaders have been periodically placed in detention. However a decade later, the protest has finally found some success.
Hun Sen is one of the world's longest-serving leaders, but he faces his greatest challenge yet from Cambodian youth.
Cambodia's microcredit boom: a blessing but also a curse
In Cambodia, the business of issuing small loans to impoverished borrowers is booming. With one in five adults currently relying on so-called microcredit, the country could be taking on too much debt.
Cambodia's long-running genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh dismissed an appeal Wednesday of two top Khmer Rouge leaders who had hoped to overturn their life sentences for crimes against humanity.
Cambodia Will Be Asia's Next Online Shopping Battleground
For most residents of Cambodia, the postal system has a bad reputation. It can take weeks for an item to arrive from abroad, and without a computerized system, recipients often have to look up their package by country of origin in handwritten notebooks. Sometimes their arrival is accompanied by surprise customs fees, and sometimes it doesn’t arrive at all.
Human Rights Watch condemned the exile of Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday, joining other rights organizations that have criticized Prime Minister Hun Sen’s demand to bar him from entering the country.
The Most Powerful American In Cambodia: The Unlikely Rise Of Bretton Sciaroni
Bretton Sciaroni came to Cambodia in 1993, the year of its first democratic election after more than two decades of tumultuous rule by the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime, the Khmer Rouge, and then a Vietnamese occupation force. It was a second chance for a country that had only gained independence from France in 1953, and a second chance for Sciaroni.
Cambodia's dismal high school exam results reflect a wider problem, with poor standards of education holding the country back from diversifying its economy into more skilled industries
Flipping condos in Phnom Penh
While this construction boom has been enthusiastically endorsed by the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, the absence of long-term planning could irreversibly change the face of some of the city’s most distinctive neighborhoods in exchange for short-term economic gains.
The 20 year-old has already made history as the first Cambodian to qualify for the Olympics through competition, a source of great pride for her family.
The Anti-Corruption Unit has attempted to arrest Kem Sokha several times since May 26 and compel him to attend his corruption trial. He stands accused of infidelity and soliciting prostitution with an alleged mistress.
Khmer Rouge leaders aware of torture at S-21
Duch said the policy of Khmer Rouge party leaders from 1971 onwards was to “smash” any enemies, a euphemism meaning execution. Executions of entire families was common, he said. "After 1975 when the parents were taken away and killed, the children would be taken away and killed" also, he told the court.
Notorious S-21 prison marks 40 years
Of the 14,000 people who passed through the prison’s gates, Bou Meng was one of just 23 survivors – including five children – who remained at the time of the prison’s liberation by Vietnamese troops on January 7, 1979.
Superstitious beliefs often only recourse for Cambodia's sick
Sros, 46, may call himself a “fortune teller” but his work is broader than simply predicting marriages or job prospects. He dispenses herbal medicines, sells talismans, proffers life advice and tells his clients when they have angered their ancestors.
Cambodian unions get law, but not right to strike
The law, eight years in the making, will particularly impact the country’s 5-billion-dollar garment industry, which employs some 700,000 people. More than 60 per cent of these workers belonged to a union in 2013, according to a survey by Cambodian law firm BNG Legal.
Kol Preap, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, said the sentencing was a "clear message" to Facebook users, who numbered over 5 million, or 34 per cent of the population in 2015, according to USAID.