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Cambodia passes bill toughening penalties for denial of Khmer Rouge genocide

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people

The Independent UK

Cambodia Nears Khmer Rouge Survivor's Dream Of Eradicating Malaria

Cambodian scientist Yeang Chheang has spent six decades fighting malaria -- even in the Khmer Rouge labour camp where his wife and baby died -- and stands tantalisingly close to fulfilling his life's work.

International Business Times

Cambodia Celebrates Return Of Precious Artifacts From Abroad

Cambodia repatriates 70 looted artifacts, including Hindu and Buddhist masterpieces, from abroad, marking a significant milestone in cultural heritage pres...

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Cambodia welcomes the Metropolitan Museum's repatriation of statues looted over decades of turmoil

Cambodia’s culture minister says the return to Cambodia this week of 14 sculptures that had been looted from the country during a period of war and unrest is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors

The Independent UK

Young Cambodians Fight To Preserve Ancient Martial Art

In a small Cambodian town near the banks of the Mekong River, law student Oeun Bunthav tenses his slender torso and steels himself for an elbow strike to his head.

International Business Times

ICC’s bold move on Gaza warrants brings fresh scrutiny of Prosecutor Karim Khan

By demanding an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has defied critics who accused him of turning a blind eye to Western-backed crimes against humanity – and made himself a possible target of the Biden administration.

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Cannes hosts red carpet rally, Coppola’s comeback and a meeting with Pol Pot

Hollywood legend Francis Ford Coppola brought his decades-in-the-making “Megalopolis” to the Cannes Film Festival and Cambodia’s Rithy Panh delivered another sobering chronicle of the Khmer Rouge genocide on a day that saw dozens of women join France’s #MeToo icon Judith Godrèche on the red carpet to denounce sexual violence and…

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Cambodia's Famed Kampot Pepper Withers In Scorching Heatwave

Farmer Chhim Laem shakes his head as he walks between long rows of dead bushes, their brown leaves scorched by heat and drought that have devastated Cambodia's famed Kampot pepper crop.

International Business Times

Pol Pot's Atrocities Still Matter, 45 Years After Khmer Rouge's Fall

Like many horrors throughout history, they were rooted in radical ideas aimed at implementing some utopian vision.

Reason

John Pilger obituary

Campaigning journalist, film-maker, author and fervent critic of US and British foreign policy

The Guardian - UK

John Pilger, Australia-born journalist and filmmaker known for covering Cambodia, dies at 84

An Australia-born journalist and documentary filmmaker known for his coverage of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia has died

The Independent UK

Cambodia welcomes the Metropolitan Museum of Art's plan to return looted antiquities

Cambodia has welcomed the announcement that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen pieces of ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand

The Independent UK

Cambodia's leader holds talks in neighboring Vietnam on first visit since becoming prime minister

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has met with his Vietnamese counterpart on an official visit to boost relations between the neighboring Southeast Asian countries

The Independent UK

Henry Kissinger's bombing campaign likely killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians − and set path for the ravages of the Khmer Rouge

Henry Kissinger, who died on Nov. 29, 2023 at the age of 100, stood as a colossus of U.S. foreign policy. His influence on American politics lasted long beyond his eight-year stint guiding the Nixon and Ford administrations as national security adviser and secretary of state, with successive presidents, presidential…

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Olympics 1972: Tragic hostage-taking casts deep shadow over Munich Olympics

In 1972, at the height of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany hosted the 20th Olympic Games in Munich. While the West German government wanted to use the "Games of Peace and Joy" to forget the memory of the Olympic Games organised by Adolf Hitler in Berlin in…

The Guardian - US

‘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 Independent UK

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

Cambodian land activists arrested for allegedly inciting farmers to hate the rich

Cambodia's Interior Ministry says three land rights activists who were arrested on charges of plotting against the government planned to provoke a peasant revolution by teaching farmers about class divisions between rich and poor

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Bangkok Post

Travel notes

Cambodia, like many Southeast Asian countries, enjoyed a golden era of popular music during the 1950s and 1960s, when Phnom Penh, known as the "Pearl of the Orient" became an important cultural centre, a breading ground for the meeting of Western rock and pop and Cambodian music. Author Dee Peyok…

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Factbox-A look at past state leaders who faced international justice

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, considered a hero by compatriots for leading the 1998-99 insurgency against Serbian rule that led to independence, will go on trial on Monday for suspected war crimes during the conflict.

ABC News

Cambodian refugee who escaped the Khmer Rouge regime with her family now runs prospering mango farm

Muy Keav Ma escaped Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge as a child with her family. Australia offered her refuge, and decades on, despite seemingly insurmountable setbacks, she is now a successful mango farmer.

The Guardian - AU

‘After chaos, there can be calm’: Khmer Rouge survivor’s painting is a reminder of peace

In our series on artworks in Australian homes, Clare Arthurs shows us the painting she bought from renowned Cambodian artist Vann Nath that has become a beacon for her

Asharq Al-Awsat

Cambodia Celebrates Return of ‘Priceless’ Stolen Artifacts

Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia were welcomed home Friday at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures. Many, if not all, of the items displayed at the…

Tribune News Service

5 Oscar winners of Asian descent you might not have known

This year's Oscar nominations have brought recognition to numerous film artists of Asian descent. If any of them win (it's Michelle Yeoh's time, surely?), they'll join a small, distinguished coterie. The Academy Awards' history of winners of Asian descent goes back many decades, and while you may recognize recent names…

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A collection of rare centuries-old jewelry returns to Cambodia

Cambodia's government said the pieces of jewelry that arrived back in their homeland included items "... precious metal pieces from the Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian period."

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