Thai prime minister urges calm after Cambodian soldier killed in border clash
View RFA Khmer reporting on this topic here. Updated May 28, 2025, 11:40 a.m. ET BANGKOK – The Thai prime minister said Wednesday she spoke...
Category : Cambodia
Cambodia police seek Thai extradition of critic of the govt’s trade negotiators
See reporting on this topic in Khmer here. A Cambodian woman who criticized Phnom Penh’s inconclusive efforts to negotiate with Washington over trade tariffs is...
Cambodian journalist who exposed illegal logging slapped with incitement charge
An environmental journalist who had reported on logging in a wildlife sanctuary has been charged with incitement and defamation, in the latest sign of deteriorating...
Viral video of senior police officer in drunken car wreck stokes anger in Cambodia
Video of a senior police officer whose car careened into other vehicles on a busy Phnom Penh street killing one person has stoked public outrage...
Activist records destruction of Cambodian ‘protected’ forest, tree by tree
The destruction of the forest is recorded with forensic precision. Environmental activist Ma Chetra photographs the stump of each felled tree. In each shot, there’s...
4 year sentence and lifetime ban from politics: Cambodia throws book at Rong Chhun
A Cambodian court convicted prominent opposition figure Rong Chhun on an incitement charge Monday and sentenced him to four years in prison and permanently barred...
‘The Stories We Share’ – they were forced, as strangers, to marry
When the Khmer Rouge rose to power 50 years ago, it inflicted myriad abuses on Cambodians. One of the less-known ways the hardline communist group...
Cambodia’s controversial canal project gets boost on Xi visit
A pet project of Cambodia’s ruling Hun clan to build a canal linking the capital with the Gulf of Thailand got a boost as Chinese...
Luck got him through the Pol Pot years – and across the border to safety
Part of a multimedia series on four RFA staff members who look back on life under the Khmer Rouge fifty years later Poly Sam was...
Xi Jinping talks of former fights and future shocks on Southeast Asian tour
BANGKOK – Chinese President Xi Jinping ramped up rhetoric of unity in the face of protectionism and shocks to the global order as he continued...
