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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

FILE -In this Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, photo, tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia. Commercial operations have begum at Cambodia’s newest and biggest airport, designed to serve as an upgraded gateway to the country’s major tourist attraction, the centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex in the northwestern province of Siem Reap. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia opens a new airport to serve Angkor Wat as it seeks to boost tourist arrivals

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) drops a ballot into a box for voting at a polling station at Takhmua in Kandal province, southeast Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, July 23, 2023. Cambodians go to the polls Sunday with incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party all but assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression and intimidation of any real opposition that critics say has made a farce of democracy in the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

U.S. announces punitive measures over concerns Cambodia’s elections were ‘neither free nor fair’

By Sopheng Cheang and David Rising - Associated Press

Supporters of three land rights activists protest in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, on Monday, May 22, 2023, to demand their release from pre-trial detention. Interior Ministry spokesperson Khieu Sopheak on Tuesday said the three members of the Coalition of Cambodian Farmers Community, who were arrested on May 17, were charged with plotting against the state because they tried to sow class divisions and incite farmers to hate the rich. (Licadho via AP)

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

By Sopheng Cheang and Grant Peck - Associated Press

U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia Vitit Muntarbhorn arrives for a press conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Muntarbhorn is on his last more than ten days mission to Cambodia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

UN expert offers plan for improving human rights in Cambodia

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Rights group says another Thai dissident abducted in SE Asia

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA - Associated Press

ADDS NAME OF PASSENGER - FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2020, file photo, John Miller, from Orcas Island, Wash., reacts after he disembarked from the MS Westerdam, back, at the port of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Having finally reached a friendly port willing to accept them and stepped ashore after weeks of uncertainty at sea, hundreds of cruise ship passengers eyed warily over fears of a new virus are now simply trying to find a way home. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Finally let off cruise, passengers desperate for flight home

By MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, foreground, former Khmer Rouge head of state, stands at thea dock in a court room during a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. A U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia on Friday convicted the two most senior surviving leaders of the country's former Khmer Rouge regime of genocide and other crimes against humanity, sentencing them to life in prison. (Nhet Sok Heng/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia via AP)

Experts weigh the record of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Cambodia pardons Australian filmmaker convicted of espionage

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

US jury finds Oregon man guilty of abusing Cambodian orphans

By GILLIAN FLACCUS - Associated Press

In this Feb. 5, 2018, photo, leading textile conservationist Julia Brennan holds a scarf from a victim of the former Khmer Rouge as she inspects artifacts at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. As a leader in her field, Brennan has worked to preserve many glamorous and historic articles of clothing. Her profession, however, has also brought her into contact with humanity’s darkest moments, including the genocide in Rwanda and now Cambodia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian genocide documented in victims’ preserved clothes

By SOPHENG CHEANG and GRANT PECK - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, editorial staff of The Cambodia Daily work in their office, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The papers owners said they were forced to close because of extra-legal threats by the government, a reference to a $6 million tax bill they say authorities contrived with no audit and a single purpose — to shut them down. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia paper is latest victim of intensifying crackdown

By Todd Pitman - Associated Press

Human rights advocate Somaly Mam (right) — pictured here with television journalist Katie Couric — was forced to resign as president of the Somaly Mam Foundation in 2014 after press reports revealed she had fabricated her background and coached girls to lie about their childhoods to grab headlines and raise money. (Associated Press)

Celebrity-backed efforts to fight human trafficking in Southeast Asia tainted by corruption

By Luke Hunt - Special to The Washington Times

In this April 12, 1975 file photo, U.S. Marines provide cover during Operation Eagle Pull as Americans and Cambodians board Marine helicopters in Phnom Penh during the final U.S. pullout of Cambodia. Five days after Operation Eagle Pull, the dramatic evacuation of Americans, the U.S.-backed government fell as communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas stormed into Phnom Penh. Nearly 2 million Cambodians - one in every four - would die from executions, starvation and hideous torture. (AP Photo/File)

Ambassador: US handed Cambodia to ‘butcher’ 40 years ago

By Denis D. Gray - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2015 photo, Sam Somaly cries as she watches a screen during a reality TV show in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Somaly sought help finding siblings lost during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s not through the government or an aid agency, but through the reality TV show, &quot;It's Not a Dream,&quot; which has reunited dozens of Cambodian families. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

TV show reunites Cambodian families scattered by Khmer Rouge

By TODD PITMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo, Somaly Mam arrives to the Somaly Mam Foundation's second annual benefit in New York. The Cambodian woman who has been honored internationally for her work against sexual slavery has resigned from the New York-based foundation she helped found after reports alleged that she had distorted aspects of her personal history. A statement issued Wednesday, May 28, 2014, by the foundation's executive-director, Gina Reiss-Wilchins, said Mam's resignation was accepted after the group was presented with the findings of a two-month investigation. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)

Cambodian sex slavery activist quits US foundation

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press