Topic - Cambodia

Related Stories

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Cambodian tycoons, Ly Yong Phat, left, attends the welcome the return of cultural treasures of artifact statues ceremony in Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Aug. 22. 2024. (AKP via AP)

Cambodia decries U.S. sanctions against one of its top tycoons implicated in forced labor

By Sopheng Cheang and Grant Peck - Associated Press

This satellite photo taken by Planet Labs PBC shows two Chinese corvettes docked at the Ream Naval Base, Cambodia, on the Gulf of Thailand, May 8, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP File)

Cambodia says China gifting two warships as it finishes work expanding strategically important port

By Sopheng Cheang and David Rising - Associated Press

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), artifact statues are displayed during a ceremony for the return of artifacts at Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AKP via AP)

Cambodia’s prime minister welcomes artifacts returned by New York’s Met and other collections

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

A dog sniffs Covid19 scents during a demonstration while Ukrainian deminers tour the Peace Museum Mine Action in Siem Reap province, northwestern Cambodia, Jan. 20, 2023. Japan’s foreign minister, on a visit to Cambodia, has announced a joint project with her hosts to share knowledge and technology on land mine removal with countries around the world, including Ukraine. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Japan and Cambodia partner to share demining knowledge with Ukraine, other countries

Associated Press

Cambodian museum staff members prepare an artifact statue as it returned from U.S to Cambodia, before an official ceremony at the Cambodian National Museum in Phnom Penh Cambodia, Thursday, July 4, 2024. Cambodia on Thursday officially organized a welcome ceremony for the arrival of more than a dozen rare Angkor era sculptures from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art that were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia welcomes 14 sculptures looted over decades of turmoil

Associated Press

An environmental activist, center, is escorted by polices personnel near Phnom Penh Municipality Court, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Ten members of a nonviolent environmental activist group in Cambodia were convicted on Tuesday on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, receiving prison sentences of six years each. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Ten Cambodian environmental activists receive prison sentences of 6-8 years each

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

This satellite photo taken by Planet Labs PBC shows two Chinese corvettes docked at the Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Cambodia's Defense Ministry insisted Wednesday that the monthslong presence of two Chinese warships at a strategically important naval base that has been newly expanded with funding from Beijing does not constitute a permanent deployment of the Chinese military in the country. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Chinese warships have been docked in Cambodia for 5 months, but government says it’s not permanent

By Sopheng Cheang and David Rising - Associated Press

FILE - Supporters of NagaWorld's union leader Chhim Sithar hold a protest in front of Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on May 25, 2023. Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Friday May 3, 2024 upheld the two-year prison sentence of a labor union leader who led a long-running strike against the country’s biggest casino. Chhim Sithar, president of the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld, had originally been convicted in May 2023 of incitement to commit a felony. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia’s Supreme Court upholds the 2-year prison sentence of a casino strike leader

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

A vendor prepares his umbrella as hot days continue in Manila, Philippines on Monday, April 29, 2024. Millions of students in all public schools across the Philippines were ordered to stay home Monday after authorities cancelled in-person classes for two days as an emergency step due to the scorching heat and a public transport strike. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine students are told to stay home as Southeast Asia copes with a sweltering heat wave

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

In this image from a video, smoke rises above a distant base, seen from Chbar Mon district in Kompong Speu province, Cambodia Saturday, April 27, 2024. An ammunition explosion at a base in southwestern Cambodia on Saturday afternoon killed multiple soldiers and wounded several others, Prime Minister Hun Manet said. (Chim Sothea via AP)

A funeral is held for 20 Cambodian soldiers killed in an arms depot explosion at an army base

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

FILE - A Cambodian de-mining expert works at a clearance site of land mines near the Cambodia-Thailand border, in Pailin province, once a Khmer Rouge stronghold in northwestern Cambodia, on Nov. 27, 2011. Two separate explosions from unexploded ordnance left over from Cambodia’s decades of warfare have killed five people and injured two, the head of the country’s demining agency said Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia’s legacy of war remains deadly as 5 are killed by unexploded ordnance over the weekend

Associated Press

A camera trap hangs on a tree at Khnorng Phsar, a national park of Cardamom Mountain in western Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. As part of a plan to restore Cambodia's population of tigers, the country's Environment Ministry this weekend will start installing a network of camera traps in the country's Cardamom Mountains and soon import four tigers from India to jumpstart the repopulating process. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia to install hundreds of wildlife cameras in an effort to restore its tiger population

Associated Press

This March 2007 photo shows a bronze sculpture titled "Standing Shiva" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The sculpture is one of 16 pieces of artwork that the museum said it will return to Cambodia and Thailand that federal prosecutors say were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. (Metropolitan Museum of Art via AP)

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

Associated Press

Tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 31, 2017. The human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Tuesday Nov. 14, 2023 has strongly criticized the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the world famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

UNESCO urges Cambodia not to forcibly evict residents of Angkor Wat temple complex

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A Cambodian policeman directs traffic as a convoy of police vehicles that was reportedly carrying Japanese citizens who were taken into custody on suspicion of running phone scams moves along a street on their way to Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 11, 2023. Twenty-five Japanese nationals suspected of involvement in an online scam operation based in Cambodia were deported to Japan on Wednesday, Nov. 8, said Gen. Khieu Sopheak, a spokesperson for Cambodia's Interior Ministry. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia deports 25 Japanese nationals suspected of operating online scams

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press