Before joining the military and building an Alawite caste around himself, Hafez al-Assad was a fervent supporter of the ...

Under draft legislation announced last week, anyone denying “the truth of the bitter past” could be imprisoned for up to five ...

Pol Pot and his henchmen inflicted unprecedented carnage, genocide, forced labor camps, and sickness, claiming about 2 million lives, or about a third of this country’s population, after seizing ...

Under the law, Khmer Rouge deniers can be charged and jailed for terms of one-five years and subjected to fines of US$2,500 ...

Through photographing her own family and others’, the Cambodian-American photographer attempts to unpack the complex layers ...

Twenty-seven years ago, as Pol Pot’s ashes were dumped in a remote paddock, Cambodia was the basket case of Southeast Asia, struggling with genocide and three decades of civil war that was still being ...

The ultra-Maoist movement – led by “Brother No 1” Pol Pot – wiped out about 2 million people through starvation, torture, forced labour, and mass executions during its 1975-79 rule.

Cambodian authorities arrested 1,311 drug suspects involved in 539 cases in January. Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodian authorities ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's influential former leader Hun Sen on Tuesday (Jan 7) called for a new law to label anyone who attempts to topple his son's government as "terrorists", as the country marked ...

Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out ...