The Global Climate and Health Alliance says South Africa’s low score means there is room for improvement
More droughts and floods, driven by climate change, will expose competing political pressures.
In India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this?
Fashion giants vowed to investigate reports that garment workers who supply stores routinely face sexual harassment, verbal and physical abuse
Exploring Angkor Wat and Cambodia’s other jewels without being swamped by hordes of shutterbugs requires exquisite timing.
A vast, ancient and sophisticated city has been uncovered beneath Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
Cambodia’s war crimes court has been rocked by the second resignation of an international judge amid a row over whether to pursue more regime members.
A former Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of about 15 000 people has been sentenced to life in prison.
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/ 13 December 2011
Malaysian authorities say they have seized hundreds of African elephant tusks worth about $1.3-million that were being shipped from Kenya to Cambodia.
A top Khmer Rouge leader on trial in Cambodia has been confronted with dramatic footage in which he defends the regime’s bloody purges.
A Cambodian market in the town of Skuon, 75km outside the capital of Phnom Penh, is the place to visit if you really want to see how the locals eat.
Cambodia and Vietnam, both emerging from a violent past, are intent on building a prosperous future.
Pressure from the Cambodian prime minister to limit its scope and donor fatigue are hobbling the process of bringing leaders to book for war crimes.
Thai and Cambodian military commanders met for ceasefire talks on Thursday.
Thailand and Cambodia were preparing for ceasefire talks after border clashes over a contested temple left 13 troops dead.
Hundreds of villagers in Cambodia have flocked to a wedding ceremony between a 4,8m and 90kg female python and her slightly smaller snake mate.
Cambodia searched for answers on Tuesday a day after a stampede killed at least 375 people on a suspension bridge.
A stampede on a bridge in Cambodia’s capital killed at least 345 people when thousands panicked, pinning and trampling revellers at a festival.
The pumping out of underground water for human
consumption could threaten the ancient temple site.
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/ 15 October 2010
Boa is 19, the sixth of 11 children. With all of his family, he lives in a small thatched two-room house on the outskirts of Siem Reap.
In an historic first, a UN-backed has sentenced a Khmer Rouge prison chief to 30 years in jail for crimes against humanity over mass executions.
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/ 27 January 2010
Cambodia is cracking down on a raw ingredient for the club-drug ecstasy by wiping out stocks of an oil made from the roots of a rare rainforest tree.
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/ 12 November 2009
Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra accused his country’s rulers of ”false patriotism” on Thursday.
The Khmer Rouge’s main jail chief told a war crimes court on Wednesday he would like the "strictest level of punishment" — even death by stoning.
It killed about a third of the population, but most young Cambodians shrug when asked about the Khmer Rouge.
A beauty pageant in which landmine victims were to compete to win a prosthetic limb has been cancelled after the government said it was in bad taste.
Open letter from more international and domestic pressure groups condemns ”life-threatening” conditions at settlement outside Phnom Penh.
Judges at Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court grilled the former prison chief of the Khmer Rouge regime on Thursday about his notorious jail.
The Khmer Rouge’s prison chief on Monday told Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court that he had ”sacrificed everything” for the revolution.
Thai and Cambodian soldiers exchanged fire on a disputed stretch of their border on Friday, killing one Thai in the latest flare-up of an ancient feud
The head of state under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge appealed to be released from detention on Friday ahead of his trial at the UN-backed war crimes court.
Lawyers for the former chief torturer of Cambodia’s genocidal Khmer Rouge on Wednesday requested his release from prison.