The Latest Breaking News from Cambodia

4 environmental, human rights activists awarded 'Alternative Nobel' prizes

The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been awarded to two environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

The Independent UK · Sep 28, 2023

A leader of Cambodia's main opposition party jailed for 18 months for bouncing checks

A prominent leader of Cambodia’s political opposition has been convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison for issuing worthless checks four years ago

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2023

China welcomes Cambodian and Zambian leaders as it forges deeper ties with Global South

The leaders of China and Zambia have announced an upgrading of their ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, as the world’s second-largest economy forges deeper ties with the Global South

The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2023

Cambodia: son of long time ruler Hun Sen becomes PM in historic transfer of power

Major powers will be watching to see if Hun Manet adopts his father’s authoritarian approach to governing

The Guardian - AU · Aug 22, 2023

Cambodia parliament elects Hun Sen’s son, Hun Manet, as new PM

Hun Manet is now the prime minister but Hun Sen will remain very much at the centre of power, analysts say.

Al Jazeera · Aug 22, 2023

Cambodian Parliament approves longtime leader's son as prime minister as part of generational change

The son of longtime autocratic Cambodian leader Hun Sen has been approved as the country’s new prime minister, part of a generational change in top positions in the Southeast Asian nation

The Independent UK · Aug 22, 2023

New faces in Cambodia's parliament as king welcomes incoming lawmakers

Cambodia’s king has congratulated the country’s new lawmakers and urged them to promote economic growth and equality

The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2023

‘Like becoming a refugee again’: They paid for their crimes. The US deported them anyway

Hundreds of Cambodians who fled genocide and civil war are being sent back to a country they barely know

The Guardian - US · Aug 17, 2023

Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance found buried in ground at Cambodian school

Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed a high school where thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance from the country’s nearly three decades of civil war have been unearthed

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2023

China's foreign minister visits Cambodia days after incumbent premier hands off the job to his son

China’s foreign minister visited Cambodia to reaffirm his country’s commitment to the southeast Asian country after its incumbent prime minister handed off the job to his son following a one-sided election last month

The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2023