Allegations of corruption aside, experts say the Khmer Rouge tribunal will help set a standard for Cambodia’s common justice system, while setting an example for international courts in the future. (10 July 2009)

Prime Minister Hun Sen left for France on Thursday, to participate in a five-day official visit at the invitation of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. (10 July 2009)

A survivor of one of Duch’s Khmer Rouge prisons told the UN-backed tribunal Thursday she had often considered suicide during her incarceration, but in the end found no means by which to end her life. (10 July 2009)

The world economic crisis is having a direct impact on four of Cambodia’s key economic drivers, which will need to become more competitive, according to a report released by UNDP this month. (10 July 2009)

An opposition editor accused of publishing inciting articles apologized to the prime minister on Thursday, vowing to discontinue publication of his newspaper in a bid to avoid court and possible imprisonment. (10 July 2009)

In an apartment in central Phnom Penh, a group of 20 Cambodian women, many of whom have lost their jobs in Cambodia’s flagging garment sector, gathered recently to discuss finding work abroad. (09 July 2009)

A second opposition newspaper editor was issued a subpoena Wednesday, to answer questions on a number of criminal charges, just one week after the jailing of his colleague. (09 July 2009)

A former Khmer Rouge fighter who was later arrested and forced to work among the regime’s victims testified in the UN-backed court Wednesday, saying she was held briefly in a second prison administered by Duch. (09 July 2009)

The Supreme Council of Magistracy is scheduled to make a July 15 decision on a case alleging corruption and extortion by court prosecutor Kong Seth, officials said Wednesday. (09 July 2009)

Cambodia celebrated the World Heritage status of Preah Vihear temple Tuesday, as bells rang in temples across the country as Cambodia fought to have the temple listed against the objections of Thailand. (09 July 2009)

The Khmer Rouge tribunal will increase the number of witnesses in proceedings against Duch to 13, plus 22 from civil parties, the UN-backed court announced Wednesday. (09 July 2009)

The former head of the Khmer Rouge’s Tuol Sleng prison objected to testimony of an alleged survivor Tuesday, telling the UN-backed tribunal the man’s claims he was held and then released were not possible in the deadly facility. (08 July 2009)

Cambodian has confirmed its eighth case of H1N1, sometimes called swine flu, with a young Australian woman testing positive for the illness, health authorities said Wednesday. (08 July 2009)

Former king Norodom Sihanouk, who said last month he beat a third round of cancer, will be allowed to visit Cambodia for two months, before returning to China, according to his Web site. (08 July 2009)

The US announced Monday it will provide technical assistance to Cambodia in an effort to promote public finance reform and transparency. (07 July 2009)

Bangkok has sought to confuse public opinion over Preah Vihear temple and a contested border, conflating the two issues in the media as a yearlong military standoff drags on, a government official said Monday. (07 July 2009)

Ten years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Hei Han Khiang, who had survived the regime, found himself in Beijing, studying. He was shocked to find an embassy of the regime. He was shocked further to be invited inside. (07 July 2009)

Khmer Rouge tribunal judges rejected two appeals by Khieu Samphan Friday, extending his provisional detention ahead of an atrocity crimes trial and rejecting a request for his release. (06 July 2009)

More than 50 Cambodian Muslims since the early 1990s have been awarded scholarships by a Saudi Arabian bank, to help them study higher education. (06 July 2009)

Coleman: there is no way that you could be involved in something like this without feeling tremendous sorrow and guilt. But looking back on it was clear that there was not anything else. There was no other way that this could have ended. (03 July 2009)

Opposition lawmakers on Thursday made a request to Phnom Penh court to visit a jailed opposition journalist who arrested following a verdict last week he had printed false information about a senior official. (03 July 2009)

Military sources said Thursday Thai troops have reinforced their positions along the contested border near Preah Vihear temple, adding tensions to a military standoff that has resulted in several skirmishes over the past year. (03 July 2009)

As the Khmer Rouge tribunal continues with cases against five jailed leaders of the regime, it is acting as a giant school of experience for Cambodians, a human rights researcher said Thursday. (03 July 2009)

Norng Chanphal, who was nine years old when he sent to the infamous Tuol Sleng prison, wept before judges at a UN-backed tribunal Thursday as he recounted the torture his mother underwent as an inmate. (03 July 2009)

The US began training Justice Ministry officials this week in the use of new information systems aimed at improving efficiency, transparency and accountability for Cambodia’s legal system. (02 July 2009)

The resignation of UN prosecutor Robert Petit from the Khmer Rouge tribunal will reverberate through the court’s proceedings, leaving an absence of leadership and the likelihood of more delays, local and international observers say. (02 July 2009)

Continuing a week of survivor testimony at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, Bou Meng, who lived through Duch’s infamous Tuol Sleng killing machine, described to the court Wednesday suffering and torture as an inmate. (02 July 2009)

When the trial began, from her home in a small, remote town in the US state of Michigan, a 67-year-old Cynthia Coleman tuned in to an Internet video stream of the proceedings, as Duch described his role as prison administrator. (02 July 2009)

After Hei Han Khiang survived a forced labor camp for children under the Khmer Rouge, he wanted little more than to live a life of peace. But innate talent and dogged pursuit enabled him to become an accomplished photographer. (01 July 2009)

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva reiterated his opposition to the listing of Preah Vihear temple as a Unesco World Heritage site Tuesday, despite a rejection of the UN agency that the temple be jointly managed. (01 July 2009)

Ho Vann, a Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker who had his parliamentary immunity pulled earlier this month, is in the US to meet other opposition party officials. (June 30, 2009)

Many of Michael Jackson’s Cambodian fans, including pop stars, comedians, and Hip Hop singers, were shocked by the news of the rock icon’s death. (30 June 2009)

Chum Mey confronted his jailer Tuesday, exchanging sharp words in a tribunal courtroom over the regime’s use of the “CIA” excuse to arrest people and describing severe, prolonged torture during his incarceration. (30 June 2009)

The ruling party is politically attacking the opposition through court cases, an opposition lawmaker embroiled in a defamation case by the prime minister said Monday. (30 June 2009)

One of the few remaining survivors of the Khmer Rouge’s Tuol Sleng prison testified in tribunal court Monday, tears streaming down his face as he recalled his ordeal at the prison run by Comrade Duch. (30 June 2009)

The number of confirmed cases of H1N1 virus has climbed to six, with the announcement of a Cambodian and Philippine national infected with the flu. (30 June 2009)

A truck full of rockets exploded at a military facility near the home of Prime Minister Hun Sen Sunday, injuring at least two of the premier’s bodyguards, officials said. (30 June 2009)

Twenty-six years ago, the UN designated June 26 as International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, but human rights groups in Cambodia say the country still has work to do to prevent abuse in its penal system. (29 June 2009)

Education officials this week are learning how to teach more history about the Khmer Rouge regime, as a course from the Documentation Center of Cambodia gets underway. (29 June 2009)

Demands from the donor community for “ownership” of development assistance go beyond the government, in order to ensure the proper use of aid money, a leading health organizer said. (29 June 2009)

The abuse of inmates and suspects is difficult to investigate and report because police and other penal officers cover it up, a rights monitor said Thursday.

Christopher Peschoux, the head of the UN’s office of human rights in Cambodia, reiterated on Friday denials that he had attempted to help a Khmer Rouge leader out of the country. (26 June 2009)

The editor-in-chief of the opposition-aligned Khmer Machas Srok newspaper received a one-year jail sentence and $2,250 fine Friday, following stories accusing a powerful minister of corruption. (26 June 2009)

Cambodia is losing $50 million a year to drug abuse, the prime minister said Wednesday, warning of future damage to Cambodian society. (26 June 2009)

The US must show clear purposes behind its assistance to Cambodia and ensure that the aid is to champion a voice of all citizens, according to an Oxfam America report released on Wednesday in Washington. (26 June 2009)

Cambodians still struggle with land disputes and displacement, while the three branches of government remain entangled, the UN’s special human rights envoy to Cambodia told reporters Thursday. (25 June 2009)

Four students from Texas have been confirmed carrying the H1N1 virus and are under “close supervision,” health authorities said Thursday. (25 June 2009)

The Khmer Rouge prison chief known as Duch told tribunal judges on Thursday that every member of the regime’s communist party should apologize and take responsible for the atrocities committed under their rule. (25 June 2009)

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday the only words he would want to exchange with a visiting Thai official would be news that Thailand is withdrawing troops from positions along the border. (25 June 2009)

At least eight women who were pregnant during their incarceration at a prison run by Kaing Kek Iev were “not well treated,” the former Khmer Rouge administrator better known as Duch told tribunal judges Wednesday. (24 June 2009)

The Asian Human Rights Commission on Wednesday pushed the government to set up an independent body to prevent the torture of prison inmates and suspects in police custody across the country. (24 June 2009)

Hundreds of soldiers on the Thai and Cambodian sides of the northern border are amassed near Preah Vihear temple, but in 1962, another kind of battle altogether was underway. (24 June 2009)

Tong Yang Securities is the only company that has so far opened for business in anticipation of a stock exchange that officials hope to have up and running by the end of the year. (23 June 2009)

Jailed Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch, who is charged with orchestrating the deaths of 12,380 people, told the UN-backed tribunal Tuesday that his faith in God, discovered after the fall of the regime, had helped him overcome his dark past. (23 June 2009)

The National Assembly’s vote to take parliamentary immunity from two opposition lawmakers will lead to a deterioration of lawmakers’ expression, a leading democracy expert said Monday. (23 June 2009)

One parliamentarian left the country and a second went into hiding Tuesday, following a National Assembly decision to suspend their parliamentary immunity for pending lawsuits. (23 June 2009)

Robert Petit, the Canadian prosecutor for the Khmer Rouge tribunal, will resign his post, saying in a statement Tuesday he was leaving Sept. 1. (23 June 2009)

Phnom Penh Municipal Court began its probe into charges against a high-ranking member of the Ministry of Justice, alleged to have forged the prime minister’s signature in an attempt to secure the release from jail of a Russian tycoon. (22 June 2009)

Ancient Khmer art and culture have characteristics distinct from India, though some ideas appear to have been borrowed from the tradition, a Canadian archeologist told guests in Washington last week. (22 June 2009)

Kaing Kek Iev, the jailed Khmer Rouge prison chief better known as Duch, told tribunal judges Monday he at least once disobeyed orders from superiors to poison an inmate. (22 June 2009)

A quarterly report by the government says more than 600 new construction projects worth nearly $1 billion were approved by the government in the first quarter of the year, a near doubling from the same period in 2008. (22 June 2009)

The US has removed Cambodia from a list prohibiting financing for US companies, paving the way for more trade, experts say. (19 June 2009)

Pollen, dust, and other airborne culprits may be responsible for your “allergic rhinitis,” a doctor said Thursday. (19 June 2009)

Prime Minister Hun Sen used the first visit of a new UN human rights envoy to raise allegations from Khmer Rouge torture chief Duch that a UN rights officer offered to help him leave the country. (19 June 2009)

Council Minister Sok An told the National Assembly Friday that a system of outdoor lighting at the Angkor Wat temples will not hurt the ancient structures and could be a boon to tourism. (19 June 2009)

The Council of Ministers on Friday green-lighted a draft law to adjust the national penal code, paving the way for passage by the National Assembly and potentially paving the way for anti-corruption legislation. (19 June 2009)

Only between 64 and 74 Irrawady dolphins remain in the river between Cambodia and Laos, the World Wide Fund for Nature announced Wednesday. (18 June 2009)

A senior official at the Ministry of Justice was arrested Wednesday for allegedly falsifying documents in an attempt to secure the release of a Russian tycoon accused of child sex crimes. (18 June 2009)

The Cambodian Bar Association has called in for questioning a lawyer for an opposition parliamentarian who is fighting a defamation suit from Prime Minister Hun Sen. (18 June 2009)

The prime minister lashed out at remarks made by his Thai counterpart Thursday, who claimed he would seek joint World Heritage registry for the contentious Preah Vihear temple. (18 June 2009)

Khmer Rouge tribunal prosecutors say enough evidence exists for the court to consider a legal principle known as “joint criminal enterprise,” which allows for defendants to be investigated for collaborative crimes. (17 June 2009)

The prime minister on Wednesday warned supporters of an opposition lawmaker not to rally against a National Assembly vote to pull her immunity. (17 June 2009)

Overseas members of the Khmer Kampuchea Krom community gathered in Paris on Saturday to mark the day of a loss of their territory to Vietnam and to call for more freedoms there. (17 June 2009)

Not a single lending institution in six months has taken the National Bank up on an offer of emergency loan assistance, officials said Friday. (17 June 2009)

Cambodian needs at least four more years of preparation before revenues from offshore oil begin to flow, senior officials say. (17 June 2009)

The Ministry of Justice has suspended the chief prosecutor in Kampong Speu province, officials said Tuesday. (17 June 2009)

The US State Department has put Cambodia back on a watch list of countries not doing enough to curb human trafficking, claiming in an annual report. (17 June 2009)

So Farina is a graduate student in Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University. She worked at the Documentation Center of Cambodia from 2003 through 2008 as a researcher of Cham communities under Khmer Rouge. (16 June 2009)

A Cambodian professor in southern California University brought a group of his students to Cambodia recently, to help them understand the Khmer Rouge tribunal and interview survivors and cadre of the regime. (16 June 2009)

While many prisoners of Tuol Sleng were simply tortured and executed under the Khmer Rouge, the administrator of the prison told tribunal judges Tuesday he had conducted experiments on some of them. (16 June 2009)

A new Cambodian play, “Agangamasor,” will be performed for the first time in late June in the United States after many years of effort in bringing it to life by a Cambodian cultural team. (16 June 2009)

A member said Monday the committee will investigate the claims of Prime Minister Hun Sen that a lawsuit brought against him by Sam Rainsy Party member Mu Sochua was itself defaming. (15 June 2009)

Monday’s testimony by the prison chief, Duch, 66, came as the tribunal ruled not to release him on bail. (15 June 2009)

Experts at a recent genocide conference say allegations of corruption at the tribunal should not be a central question in the court’s ability to dispense justice. (15 June 2009)

Only unification among nationalists can change the country for the better, opposition leaders in Washington said Thursday. (12 June 2009)

Phnom Penh Municipal Court is prepared to ask the National Assembly to suspend the immunity of an opposition parliamentarian embroiled in a defamation suit by the prime minister, a lawyer said Friday. (12 June 2009)

At least 100,000 factory workers have felt the pinch of the global economic crisis, with 60,000 losing their jobs, the Garment Manufacturers Association said Friday. (12 June 2009)

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is on his first official visit to Cambodia. Both sides have hundreds of troops amassed along the contested border near Preah Vihear temple. (12 June 2009)

Worldwide members of the Khmer ethnic group from southern Vietnam will meet in Paris on Saturday to mark the loss of territory from Cambodia to Vietnam in the colonial period and push for greater freedoms under Vietnamese authorities. (11 June 2009)

The world is losing one language every two weeks, linguistics experts warned on Tuesday, estimating that half of the 7,000 different languages spoken today will be lost by 2100. (11 June 2009)