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Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight — at a wildlife rescue center in Cambodia.
Thailand said Friday it would not be provoked into violence in its diplomatic tussle with Cambodia over fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, even as the ousted leader taunted the Bangkok government by meeting with political supporters in the neighboring country.
Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose political battle against his successors has left his country bitterly divided, received a warm welcome Tuesday in neighboring Cambodia, which shares his disdain for the current government in Bangkok.
A woman dubbed the "jungle woman" after emerging naked and unable to speak from the wilds of northeastern Cambodia two years ago is sick and apparently suffering from mental illness, a doctor said Friday.
An overloaded river ferry capsized on its way to a Buddhist ceremony in Cambodia, killing 17 passengers in a tributary of the Mekong River, an official said Sunday.
Testimony concluded Thursday in the first U.N.-backed trial of a high-ranking member of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge regime.
A prosecutor at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal has formally recommended that five more suspects be investigated for crimes against humanity and other offenses, setting the legal body on a collision course with the country's powerful prime minister.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen renewed his criticism of the country's U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal Monday, warning that arresting more suspects could spark civil war.
A Cambodian court sentenced an American man on Wednesday to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl.
Villagers in this poor community in central Cambodia live hand to mouth, but many dug into their pockets to help pay for a funeral here Friday for a three-day-old calf with a dark, reptilian hide that many believed was holy.
A verdict in the trial of the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer — its first senior leader to face justice — is expected early next year, the tribunal's spokesman said Thursday.
The brother of a New Zealander tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge three decades ago told the man who ordered the execution on Monday that he wished him a similarly gruesome fate.
Money transfer service MoneyGram International Inc. said Monday it will start its service in Cambodia, thanks to a new alliance with Advanced Bank of Asia, a growing bank in Cambodia.
The former chief of the Khmer Rouge's main torture center, being tried by a U.N.-backed tribunal on genocide charges, asked the Cambodian people Wednesday to give him "the harshest punishment."
The Cambodian government said Monday it will not allow a "Miss Landmine" beauty pageant to take place later this week, calling it an insult to the disabled.
A former security guard at the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison told a tribunal Wednesday he watched as a Western prisoner was burned alive.
A senior security guard at the most notorious Khmer Rouge prison told a genocide tribunal Thursday that prisoners were told they were being freed as they were led to Cambodia's killing fields.
A woman tortured by the Khmer Rouge testified Wednesday that she has spent most of her life trying to forget the horrors she endured in the 1970s and never spoke of the past, even to her husband and children.
A man who was a child prisoner at a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center 30 years ago testified Thursday at the trial of the facility's commander that he hid under a pile of clothes to escape a final purge of inmates before Vietnamese troops ended the regime's reign of terror.
Cambodian authorities on Thursday evicted 20 families afflicted with HIV from their homes in the capital, forcing them to move to a tiny settlement on its outskirts in an action critics called discriminatory.
Pollution in the Mekong River is putting the rare Irrawaddy dolphin in danger of disappearing from Cambodia and Laos, according to a study by an environmental group released Thursday.
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot personally ordered the killing and burning of four Western prisoners who were captured while sailing in Cambodian waters, a former prison chief on trial for crimes against humanity testified Wednesday.
Khmer Rouge guards killed babies by battering them against trees under an official policy to ensure the children of the brutal Cambodian regime's victims could never take revenge for their parents' deaths, the group's chief jailer testified Monday.
The former chief jailer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge blamed the group's late leader Pol Pot for its murderous policies as he faced a tribunal Tuesday charged with crimes against humanity.
About 2,000 Cambodians marked the annual "Day of Anger" Wednesday to remember Khmer Rouge victims, re-enacting torture and distributing new textbooks about an era still largely ignored by schools and quickly fading from memory.
Malaria Consortium - News and EventsDespite increased investment in malaria control demonstrating dramatic success, with the latest artemisinin-based drug combinations proving highly efficient as both treatment and defence against resistance by the malaria parasite, there are new indications that resistance to arte …
Malaria Drugs: Artemisinin-Resistant Strain Appears - TIMEOn the Thai-Cambodian border, a rogue strain of malaria has started to resist artemisinin, the only remaining effective drug in the world's arsenal against malaria's most deadly strain.
Cambodian 'jungle woman' in hospital after refusing to eat, father saysCambodia's "jungle woman", whose case gripped the country after she apparently spent 18 years living in a forest, has been hospitalised after refusing food, her father and a doctor said on Friday.
by Marc Phillip Yablonka A Merriam Press Original Publication: Military Monograph MM27
Harvested to make Ecstasy, Cambodia's trees are felled one by one.International drug trade drives illicit safrole-oil factories deep in the Cardamom mountains.
3 men returned to U.S. on sex tourism chargesThree men expelled from Cambodia are facing charges in the U.S. as part of a crackdown on Americans who travel overseas to have sex with children, authorities said Monday.
After the crimes of the Holocaust became globally identified, the humankind vowed it would never take place again. But history since 1945 has shown that the global village has stood in vain, again and again, as genocide unfolds.
Farmers teach each other how to go organicPURBALINGGA, Indonesia (UCAN) -- Ayurzana Oyunchimeg, a farmer from Mongolia, knows more about how to sustain an organic farming system after a Church-run program in Central Java.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Cambodia: A land up for sale?Corrupt officials have rob their own people, where are their morals?
Cambodia cancels landmine beauty pageantA beauty pageant in which landmine victims were to compete to win a prosthetic limb has been cancelled after the Cambodian government said it was in bad taste, organisers said.
Crippled Baby Elephant Chhouk: Now Walking and Running on Prosthetic FootSeveral years ago, orphaned baby Chhouk was found wandering alone in the forest without a foot. The endangered Asian baby elephant apparently lost his left front foot due to injuries sustained from a poacher's snare.
'Aids colony' disturbing PHNOM PENH - AIDS campaigners and rights groups protested on Tuesday at Cambodia's shunting of sufferers of the virus into an insanitary 'Aids colony' outside the capital.
Angkor's temples and climate change doomThe ancient civilisation based at Angkor in Cambodia collapsed in the late 16th century because of problems with a very modern ring to them, research by an international team indicates.
Alleged Khmer Rouge torturer cries in courtA man accused of running an infamous Khmer Rouge torture center broke down in tears at his trial Monday as he spoke of the imprisonment and execution of former comrades.
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Cambodia Deja Vu: the Invasion of PakistanWill a special forces officer think that guerrillas—with refuge in an inaccessible and unconquered region, amid a tri-national ethnic population of some 40 million fellow Pathans—can be beaten by guided bombs or special forces raids? Or that an unenthusiastic Pakistani army w …
A century and nearly a score years ago today, a most patriotic and fervent hero of a land to the southeast was executed by his coup plotting secret enemies during the peak of his people's struggle for national independence.
For many in the village of Mondul 3 in Siem Reap Cambodia poverty is a way of life, for Sov Soparath this poverty ended in tragedy.
7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream MediaIn the olden days when shoes were a luxury and smallpox was a right of passage, men like William Randolph Hearst used their complete control over communication airwaves to tell the general populace whatever lie happened to be convenient (see marijuana is evil) or interesting (see …
Princess Eugenie mugged in Cambodia as thieves pelt her bodyguards with rocksPrincess Eugenie was mugged in Cambodia whilst on her gap year holiday, it emerged last night. The Queen's granddaughter, who is sixth in line to the throne, was saved by two bodyguards when two robbers grabbed her friend's purse.
Tuol Sleng S21 - A Story Of TortureInteresting step back into torture that occurred not long ago in Cambodia by Taiwan based Australian - Craig Ferguson
Indonesia's time to shine in SE AsiaTo have written a decade ago, or even five years ago when president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won office, that Indonesia was en route to becoming a beacon of democratic stability in Southeast Asia would have invited derisive laughter, and rightly so.
The Day: In Memory of Dith PranToday is the one-year anniversary of the death of Dith Pran, the survivor of Cambodia's Killing Fields and battler of genocide who was also a photographer for The Times, based in New Jersey. He took dozens of pictures for The Times of Maplewood, Millburn and South Orange.
Planting the seeds of FRIENDSHIP in Thailand and CambodiaThe emphasis on wars and territorial conflicts in national histories has pitched neighbouring countries against one another and fuelled ultra-nationalism. Thailand and Cambodia are no exception.
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