Prime Minister Hun Sen has said Cambodia must go ahead with its law governing non-governmental agencies, lest the country become a haven for terrorism and human trafficking. (27 November 2009)

A documentary film that uses rare interviews with Khmer Rouge leaders and foot soldiers to demonstrate the regime’s chain of command is screening in Amsterdam this week. (27 November 2009)

Defense Minister Tea Banh is in Bangkok for two days of talks with his Thai counterpart to help maintain peace along the northern border, officials said Thursday. (27 November 2009)

Two US Republican congressmen, Chris Smith and Ed Royce, have admonished Cambodia’s recent lifting of opposition leader Sam Rainsy’s parliamentary immunity. (26 November 2009)

The French defense attorney for Kaing Kek Iev told Khmer Rouge tribunal judges Thursday he was in disagreement with his Cambodian colleague .... (26 November 2009)

If the government continues to ignore labor violations and fails to address working conditions, it risks its special trade access to lucrative US markets, a leading labor leader said in Washington last week. (26 November 2009)

A fifth person in Cambodia has died from the H1N1 virus, sometimes called swine flu, health authorities said Thursday. (26 November 2009)

Most of the families who received donations on the visit of former US president Jimmy Carter last week to be relocated outside Phnom Penh say they now have to return to the capital to find work. (25 November 2009)

Phnom Penh Municipal Court opened a trial of a group of men arrested in January and accused of bombing a Phnom Penh monument, plotting to overthrow the government and placing explosives near government buildings. ( 25 November 2009)

With the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Kek Iev drawing to a close this week, former prisoners, relatives of the dead and others have begun to contemplate the meaning of justice that has eluded them for three decades. (25 November 2009)

Political interference at the Khmer Rouge tribunal is undermining its credibility, a monitoring group for the UN-backed court says in a November report. (25 November 2009)

A widely anticipated anti-corruption law will be passed next month, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Tuesday. (24 November 2009)

The addition of historic sites to Unesco’s World Heritage list has great benefits for the country as a whole and the sites in particular, preserving them while improving Cambodia’s notoriety. (24 November 2009)

A group of Cambodian Americans came together recently to raise money for students in Cambodia. (24 November 2009)

“To dance the dance is like fishing in the rice field with other people, because that’s what we do. We fish and we talk with friends and sing. So when I came to the fishing dance, it’s kind of like, ‘Oh, we know this.’” (24 November 2009)

A Buddhist dance troop visited the Asian Arts and Culture Center in Maryland earlier this month to perform “Agangamsor and His Magic Power,” a uniquely Khmer adaptation to the Indian Ramayana. (24 November 2009)

While animals may kill each other for food, humans are the only creatures to do so out of cruelty, Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover told an assembly of Cambodians earlier this month. (23 November 2009)

Senior ruling party leaders have officially denied accusations by the opposition that Cambodian farmers have lost land to Vietnamese encroachment. (23 November 2009)

Civil parties in the trial of Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch insisted on reparation for victims, as final arguments in the case got underway Monday. (23 November 2009)

When film star and martial artist Jackie Chan visited Cambodia earlier this month, he brought a simple message: arts and culture are pathways to peace. (23 November 2009)

Kampong Thom provincial court on Friday charged seven villagers of damaging properties belonging to a developing company and a security team. (20 November 2009)

Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) and a London-based rights group Redress urged the Khmer Rouge Tribunal on Friday to show concrete principle of reparations and funds available for the regime’s survivors. (20 November 2009)

Local rights groups on Thursday asked Kampong Thom provincial authorities to stop making further arrests in a chronic land dispute which turned violence. (19 November 2009)

Cambodia has lost over 1,000 square kilometers to Vietnam within the past 30 years, opposition leader Sam Rainsy said in a statement issued Thursday. (19 November 2009) 

More than 200 houses caught fire Thursday in a poor Cham Muslim community on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, officials said. (19 November 2009)

A Cambodian American who has put forward his candidacy for upcoming US House of Representatives elections is mobilizing support from Cambodian community in the States. (19 November 2009)

Cambodians in Norway have selected the winner of the Miss Landmine for Cambodia after it was not allowed inside the country. (19 November 2009 )

Cambodia has one of the largest rates of blind people in the world. There are about 144,000 blind people in the country representing 1.25 percent of the population according to the Association of the Blind. (19 November 2009)

A US congressman warns that removing immunity of the Cambodia’s main opposition leader is a threat to democracy the country has barely achieved. (18 November 2009)

Three villagers have been arrested in Kampong Thom province on Wednesday in a chronic land dispute and some others are being pursued by provincial authority, officials and villagers said. (18 November 2009)

Five Asian countries began on Wednesday in Phnom Penh a three-day meeting to discuss regional fight against counterfeit drugs. (18 November 2009)

Authorities in the coastal Kampot province seized on Wednesday leaflets expressing opposition to a plan to backfill a seaside plot for development, activists said. (18 November 2009)

Thai diplomats on Tuesday visited a Thai national detained in Prey Sar prison on charges of spying, officials said. (17 November 2009)

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy is seeking international support a day after his parliamentary immunity was revoked in a dispute over border with Vietnam. (17 November 2009)

Cambodia has maintained neutrality in Thailand’s internal politics for not extraditing fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra..., a government official said. (17 November 2009)

Cambodia has allowed consular visits to a Thai national accused of spying, officials said Monday. (16 November 2009)

An investigating judge at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal denied ordering investigations biased against detained former Khmer Rouge leaders. (16 November 2009)

Cambodian community in Norway will organize a beauty contest for landmine victims on Saturday after failing to organize it in Cambodia. (14 November 2009)  

A prominent US human rights group on Friday urged the US to take tough action on Cambodia for its harsh moves against government critics. (13 November 2009) 

Cambodia will not bring up a dispute with its neighboring Thailand in the first meeting of Asean leaders with the US President Barack Obama to be held this Sunday in Singapore, a foreign ministry's official said Friday. (13 November 2009)

The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal on Friday extended detention of two regime’s former senior leaders Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, to another year. (13 November 2009)

Cambodian and UN officials met on Wednesday for general talks on the Khmer Rouge tribunal, including the budget, as the UN-backed court prepares for a complicated trial and still faces shortfalls in funding. (12 November 2009)

The presence of Thaksin Shinawatra in Phnom Penh is pushing a political battle between Cambodia and Thailand to one of its worst points in years, analysts said this week. (12 November 2009)

The full Assembly, heavily dominated by the CPP, will vote to revoke Sam Rainsy’s immunity on Monday, Cheam Yiep said. (12 November 2009)

Cambodia has officially rejected a Thai extradition request for its ousted premier, Thaksin Shinawatra, who arrived in Phnom Penh Tuesday as a new economic adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen. (11 November 2009)

Thai diplomats on Wednesday morning presented Cambodian officials with a request to detain and extradite Thaksin Shinawatra. (11 November 2009)

Mr. Thaksin arrived in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, Tuesday on a private plane. Later this week he is to address economists in his role as an economic advisor to the Cambodian government. (11 November 2009)

Thai media has served to conflate diplomatic issues with Cambodia, with more nationalism than professionalism, a leading Cambodian journalist said Monday. (11 November 2009)

Local authorities in Svay Rieng province filed a lawsuit against Sam Rainsy on Tuesday, alleging incitement and the destruction of border markers with Vietnam last month. (11 November 2009)

Cambodia’s laboring justice system may be able to learn from the recent trial of Kaing Kek Iev under the Khmer Rouge tribunal, an added benefit to the UN-backed court, experts say. (11 November 2009)

Cambodia is a country where not having a job can mean not eating, or perhaps just having one meal a day. (10 November 2009)

VOA Khmer recently spoke with specialists in the field of natural resource management in developing countries and learned that Cambodia is not alone in struggling to use natural resources to benefit its citizens. (09 November 2009)

Organizations like Cambodian Living Arts work to restore and improve Cambodia’s artistic heritage. (09 November 2009)

Thousands of people gathered in Phnom Penh Monday to begin three days of independence celebrations, 56 years after Cambodia left 90 years of French colonial rule. (09 November 2009)

Phnom Penh court on Friday sentenced a freelance journalist to two years in prison for disinformation, following alleged threats made to a TV commentator. (06 November 2009)

Thailand’s deputy prime minister on Friday warned the country could close its borders to Cambodia, after each withdrew their ambassadors in a worsening row over ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra. (06 November 2009)

Cambodia’s claim to independence 56 years ago, led by former king Norodom Sihanouk, prevented the country from weakening and losing territory, opposition lead Sam Rainsy said Thursday, four days ahead of Independence Day. (06 November 2009)

The Court of Appeals on Friday postponed a hearing to decide whether a former military police officer, recently released from jail, should stand trial for an alleged acid attack. (06 November 2009)

Khmer Rouge tribunal judges outlined some of the progress they’ve made in investigating the second case against jailed leaders of the regime, urging victims to continue to file as witnesses and complainants. (05 November 2009)

The Thai government recalled its ambassador from Phnom Penh on Thursday, following a decision by the Cambodian government to appoint ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an adviser to the Prime Minister Hun Sen. (05 November 2009)

Prime Minister Hun Sen left for Tokyo on Thursday, for discussions with one of the nation’s top donors about development within the region. (05 November 2009)

Cambodia’s recently drafted 2010 budget could put pressure on the economy by running high deficits that exceed external financing, the World Bank said Wednesday. (04 November 2009)

The nation’s power development plan, which calls for expanding large-scale hydroelectric dams and coal-fired plants, is outdated, expensive and risky, an umbrella group of non-governmental organizations says in a new report. ( 04 November 2009 )

Ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra has been appointed as an economic adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen, a move that is likely to rankle Bangkok, officials said Wednesday.  (04 November 2009)

The Court of Appeals is expected to hold a hearing Friday on the freeing of seven suspects, including a high-ranking military police official, accused in an acid attack. (04 October 2009)

At least eight private companies are prepared to enter Cambodia’s nascent stock exchange, some as soon as it opens and others a few years down the road. (03 November 2009)

The head representative of the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Victims Unit said Monday the role of the court was not only to find justice, but to heal and unify the country. (03 November 2009)

Former US president Jimmy Carter is expected to visit Cambodia later this month, to tour the worksite of 21 houses by Habitat for Humanity, in Kandal province. (03 November 2009)

The opposition Sam Rainsy Party will face yet another lawsuit, for the destruction of boundary demarcations on the Vietnam border. (03 November 2009)

Phnom Penh wrapped up its annual Water Festival Tuesday, with at least 18 of nearly 400 racing boats sunk and one Kampong Cham province boatman missing after his craft capsized Monday. (03 November 2009)

Nearly 500 Thai protesters gathered in front of the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok Monday to protest the presence of Cambodian troops near Preah Vihear temple. (02 November 2009)

Cambodia is considering application to the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, despite heavy criticism of its handling of natural resources so far, an official says. (02 November 2009)

Mam Sonando, the 69-year-old owner of an independent radio station in Phnom Penh, took up his monk’s robes on Monday to lead a 30-day peace march from Phnom Penh to areas near the disputed border. (02 November 2009)

Opposition lawmaker Ho Vann, who was recently cleared in a defamation case in Cambodia, prepared to return to Phnom Penh Thursday after spending four months meeting supporters and officials in the US.(30 October, 2009)

Khmer Rouge tribunal administrators have completed a budget request for the next two years that anticipates the possibility of further indictments, an official said. (30 Octber, 2009)

Sitting on a wooden bed above knee-high water, Bo Socheata gazed at the stagnant floodwater invading her home. (30 October 2009)

As prince, head of state and king, Norodom Sihanouk accomplished many things, but as the former monarch prepares for his 87th birthday, he should be remembered as bringing peace to Cambodia. (30 October 2009)

Skye Fitzgerald, whose recent documentary, “Finding Face,” chronicles the life of acid attack victim Tat Marina, hopes support built from the film will go toward punishing the perpetrators and finding justice for his subject. (30 October 2009)

Cambodia’s mysterious “jungle girl” is ill in Ratanakkiri provincial hospital, after contracting a fever from a return to the remote forests, officials said Friday. (30 October, 2009)

Police in Kampong Thom province have blocked villagers from participating in a Buddhist ceremony at a remote pagoda on disputed land for the past two days, officials said Thursday. (29 October 2009)

A 51-year-old woman succumbed to the H1N1 virus, officials said Thursday, bringing the death toll to four, with the total amount of confirmed cases in the country at 239. (29 October 2009)

The Thai government said this week it will send an official document to Prime Minister Hun Sen regarding ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra. (29 October 2009)

The prime minister has ordered telecom companies to reopen cross-network communication, in a bid to ensure fair competition in the communications industry. (28 October, 2009)

The sex trade continues to thrive in Cambodia, despite an anti-trafficking law and crackdowns on brothels, an advocate for a leading foundation says. (28 October, 2009)

Nearly two dozen finance experts from five Asian countries met last week in a regional workshop aimed at improving the regulation of securities markets. (28 October 2009)

The Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s decision to fine opposition lawmaker Mu Suchua in a defamation suit brought by Prime Minister Hun Sen. (28 October 2009)

The Export Import Bank of the United States is now open to provide financing for purchases of US exports by private-sector buyers in Cambodia. (28 October 2009)

Civil Parties Challenge Trial Chamber (28 October, 2009)

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and other parliamentarians requested the intervention of King Norodom Sihamoni to improve the lives of the people and resolve longstanding border disputes with Thailand and Vietnam. (28 October, 2009)

In Cambodia, natural resource transactions and revenues remain hidden from the public, a product of nepotism and patronage systems that have been practiced for generations, experts told VOA Khmer in recent interviews. (27 October 2009)

Victims who wish to file as civil parties in an upcoming trial for four leaders of the Khmer Rouge have until December, a tribunal official said Monday. (27 October 2009)

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday ordered Phnom Penh authorities to prepare for the annual Water Festival, which draws millions of visitors to Phnom Penh every year. (27 October 2009)

Back then, at least three major private equity firms opened for business, hoping to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in capital for investment in agriculture, real estate, hydropower and others. (27 October 2009)

Cambodia is preparing to retired 3,000 soldiers this year, in a bid to continue the reform of its security forces, a senior official said Thursday. (26 October 2009)

Reporters Without Borders said in an annual report last week that Cambodia had moved up in press freedom, but concerns over threats to journalists remain. (26 October 2009)