Cambodia

Government supporters rally in Cambodia as election ...
Cambodian protesters hold a banner reads during a rally demanding Kem Sokha, vice president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), to apologize for allegedly saying that exhibits at a Khmer Rouge-era genocide museum in Phnom Penh were faked, at Democracy Square in the capital on June 9. (AP Photo)
PHNOM PENH--Thousands of government supporters rallied in Cambodia on June 9 against comments allegedly made by an opposition leader about atrocities during the "Killing...
Not just Bangladesh, garment makers pressured in...
Cambodian rescuers work at the site of a factory collapse in Kai Ruong village, south of Phnom Penh, on May 16. The ceiling of the factory that makes Asics sneakers collapsed on workers early on June 6, killing two people and injuring seven, in the latest accident to spotlight lax safety conditions in the global garment industry. (AP Photo)
PHNOM PENH--As investment in Cambodia's textile industry surges, so is labor unrest, putting pressure on suppliers to the world's big garment brands to raise wages and improve...
Cambodia prime minister seeks law to punish Khmer...
Cambodian riot police block the country's main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party march during a protest rally in Phnom Penh on May 20. The party on May 27 claimed that members of the national electoral committee are biased in favor of powerful Prime Minister Hun Sen. (AP Photo)
PHNOM PENH--The Cambodian prime minister said he wants a law to punish people who deny that atrocities occurred during the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, apparently trying to link...
Cambodian ceremony honors victims of Khmer Rouge
A Cambodian woman stands with burning incense sticks as she visits a memorial holding skulls of the Khmer Rouge victims at Choeung Ek "Killing Field" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on May 20. Cambodian Buddhist monks, nuns, civil servants, students attend the annual "Day of Anger" events to remember the atrocities and killings committed under the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule. (AP Photo)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--University students armed with mock guns and knives re-created the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge on May 20 for the official annual ceremony honoring...
Cambodia, Thailand seek temple ruling
Preah Vihear temple (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands--Cambodia asked the United Nations' highest court on April 15 to clarify a 50-year-old ruling on ownership of a 1,000-year-old temple near its border...
Cambodian court cuts land activist's steep jail...
PHNOM PENH--A Cambodian court on March 14 cut the 20-year prison sentence handed down to a land rights campaigner for inciting villagers to secede, a case that attracted...
Cambodia Khmer Rouge tribunal staff go on strike
 In this Oct. 19, 2011 file photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, court officers of the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal are seen through windows during a hearing of former Khmer Rouge top leaders in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP file photo/ Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Cambodian translators angry that they have gone without pay for three months stopped working at the U.N.-backed genocide trial of former Khmer Rogue...
BIZ BRIEF: BTMU forges business alliance with bank...
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. announced Feb. 28 that it signed an agreement with a private bank in Cambodia the previous day with the purpose of supporting foreign...
Japanese firms keen to develop industrial parks in...
The main gate of the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone in Cambodia (Provided by Sumitomo Corp.)
PHNOM PENH--With lower labor costs and proximity to other Southeast Asian nations, a growing number of Japanese trading firms are developing and operating industrial complexes...
Regional banks following small businesses to...
Japanese officials wait to make their pitch at a machine tools trade fair held in Bangkok in November 2012. (Kohei Kondo)
Taking their cue from small businesses that are their clients, regional banks across Japan are increasingly trying to establish a presence in Southeast Asia after years of...
Cambodia mourns as 'king-father' Sihanouk cremated
Under a huge portrait of himself, Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk, fourth from left, stands during a ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the former monarch's return to his homeland after years of civil war, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Oct. 30, 2011. (AP file photo)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Cambodia's capital on Feb. 4 awaiting the cremation of former King Norodom Sihanouk, the revered...
Sihanouk: Cambodia's last true king
Thousands of mourners gather at the Royal Palace and wait in line to pay their respects to the late former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh, Feb. 2. (AP photo)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--When the flames at the cremation ground are quenched and Cambodia's former monarch Norodom Sihanouk's ashes scattered on Phnom Penh's riverfront, the...
Salaries as elusive as justice at Cambodia's Khmer...
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh which was used as prison by the Kmer Rouge regime (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
PHNOM PENH--Cambodian staff at a Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal have gone two months without pay and are threatening a walkout amid a deepening funding crisis at a court...
Cambodia agrees deal to buy army choppers from China
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, shakes hand with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen during their meeting in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Sept. 2, 2012. (AP Photo)
PHNOM PENH--Cambodia will use part of a $195 million loan from China to buy 12 of its military helicopters and boost its tiny fleet, its defense minister said on Jan. 23, the...
BIZ BRIEF: Denso to set up production company in...
Denso Corp. said Jan. 23 it will establish a company in Cambodia to enhance its production and supply framework in Southeast Asia.
BIZ BRIEF: Idemitsu Kosan opens office in Cambodia...
Idemitsu Kosan Co. said on Dec. 10 that it has struck a deal with the government of Cambodia to produce bioethanol in Indochina.
ANALYSIS: China courts friends in region; for...
In this May 2012 file photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning cruises for a test on the sea. (AP photo)
PHNOM PENH/BEIJING--When U.S. President Barack Obama and more than a dozen leaders arrived in Cambodia for a regional summit meeting this week, only one of them was feted with...
UPDATE: Obama in Thailand on first post-election...
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra after Obama signed the guest book at Government House in Bangkok on Nov. 18 (AP photo)
BANGKOK--President Barack Obama kicked off a three-country Asian tour with a visit to Thailand on Nov. 18, using his first post-election trek overseas to try to show he is...
Personal, strategic motivations for Obama in Asia
U.S. President Barack Obama (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BANGKOK--For President Barack Obama, expanding U.S. influence in Asia is more than just countering China or opening up new markets to American businesses. It's also about...
Cambodia's former King Norodom Sihanouk dies at 89
In this July 17, 2001 file photo, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk acknowledges the crowd while walking to greet North Korea's national assembly leader Kim Yong Nam at Phnom Penh airport, in Cambodia. (AP Photo)
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Norodom Sihanouk, the revered former king who was a towering figure in Cambodian politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died on...