(Reuters) – Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire in a two-hour border clash on Friday that killed two Cambodian soldiers and a Thai villager, the latest in an ancient feud over land surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple.
The fatalities were the first in the militarised border area since a Thai soldier was shot dead a year ago and could rekindle diplomatic tensions between the Southeast Asian Read more…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian and Thai troops battled for two hours Friday along a disputed stretch of their shared border, trading artillery fire that killed at least two people near an 11th century temple that is a UN World Heritage Site.
The fighting was some of the fiercest in years between the two southeast Asian countries. Tensions between the neighbors have been exacerbated in recent days by pressure from powerful Thai nationalist groups, which have been staging protests in Bangkok urging the government to reclaim the land.
While a cease-fire was quickly reached and full-blown war unlikely, the territorial dispute remains volatile, with nationalist passions inflamed on both sides — Read more…
In Cambodia, defense lawyers for three former Khmer Rouge leaders – set to stand trial later this year – called on the international war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh to release them.
Monday marked the first time that the three former Khmer Rouge leaders have appeared together at the international war crimes tribunal.
Their lawyers asked the court to release them ahead of their trial, Read more…
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Rescuers trawled a muddy river Tuesday for more bodies and Cambodia prepared for a day of mourning following a stampede by thousands of festival-goers that left at least 378 dead and hundreds injured.
A panic-stricken crowd — celebrating the end of the rainy season on an island in a river — tried to flee over a narrow bridge in the capital of Phnom Penh late Monday. Many people were crushed underfoot or fell over its sides into the water. Disoriented victims struggled to find an escape hatch through the human mass, pushing Read more…
PRODUCTION of the first cars and vans to be assembled in Cambodia for domestic sale is set to begin at the US$62 million Hyundai plant in Koh Kong province this September.
The chief technical officer for plant owner Camko Motor Co, Gee Kyu Yong, said yesterday that the factory was 90 percent complete – with vehicle-assembly equipment due to be installed on August 20.
“In September, it will be possible to produce the first car here,” he said. Read more…
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer Monday for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people, in the first verdict involving a senior member of the “killing fields” regime that devastated a generation of Cambodians. Read more…
In the four years that the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia, it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century
The brutal regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of up to two million people.
Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside. Read more…
