Security forces fatally shot a teenage girl today during a clash with villagers armed with axes and crossbows in eastern Cambodia, in the latest of several violent evictions aimed at clearing land for development.
Chut Wutty: Anti-logging campaigner
Friday 27 April 2012
Chut Wutty, who was shot dead on 25 April, was a prominent Cambodian anti-logging activist who helped expose a secretive state sell-off of national parks. Wutty, director of the Phnom Penh-based environmental watchdogNatural Resource Protection Group, died after a military policeman opened fire near a hydroelectric dam being built by the Chinese in Koh Kong.
Cambodia's stock market begins trading for first time
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Trading on Cambodia's stock exchange started today after a state-run company completed its initial public offering.
After five years in exile, Thaksin plots return to Thailand
Sunday 15 April 2012
Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has told thousands of his supporters that he believes reconciliation is taking place in Thailand and that he could even return to the country in a matter of months.
Sport that survived the Khmer Rouge
Sunday 15 April 2012
Cambodia's contestants in the Davis Cup are inspired by a player who lived through the Killing Fields
Cambodia: Police seek father who chained up son
Friday 30 March 2012
A teenager who skipped school to play online games was chained by the neck to a power pole by his irate father.
Simon Calder: Dogged pursuit of a bargain bed in Barking
Friday 16 March 2012
The man who pays his way
Cambodia anger atplan to copy Angkor Wat
Thursday 08 March 2012
It is often said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Not so, perhaps, when it comes to ancient Hindu temples.
Angkor's away! India plans larger than life copy of Cambodia's iconic temple
Thursday 08 March 2012
Cambodians protest as construction begins on copy that will be world's tallest Hindu temple
Dogs at the Perimeter, By Madeleine Thien
Monday 05 March 2012
Can anyone ever fully recover from the trauma of war, especially if it rips apart your childhood? Although Canadian novelist Madeleine Thien is far too subtle a writer use this obvious framework, Dogs at the Perimeter explores the aftermath of war with a quiet power.
You have to get up early to do the Cambodia temple run
Sunday 12 February 2012
Visitor numbers to the ancient Khmer ruins of Angkor are rocketing, so a successful visit is all about timing. Sarah Barrell sets her alarm clock
Khmer Rouge jail chief gets life for his 'factory of death'
Saturday 04 February 2012
Comrade Duch, the head of a notorious Khmer Rouge prison, was ordered to spend the rest of his life in jail after a tribunal ruled yesterday that he had overseen a "factory of death".
Cambodia's lost temple, reclaimed from the jungle after 800 years
Sunday 08 January 2012
Experts use 3D imaging to undo ravages of time and thieves at the haunting Banteay Chhmar site
The £15 gift voucher that can lend a hand
Saturday 10 December 2011
Simon Read looks at an alternative Christmas gift that could help a small business abroad
We weren't all bad in the Khmer Rouge: Pol Pot's deputy makes his case
Tuesday 06 December 2011
'Brother No 2' takes the stand at UN tribunal – and blames Vietnam for massacre of millions








