Heeding a request from his wife, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday banned the latest generation of mobile phone services in Cambodia to curb the dissemination of pornography.
As preparations to try former Khmer Rouge leaders move forward, legal experts are concerned the dubious records of some Cambodian judges will cast doubt on the credibility of the country's war crimes tribunal.
A land mine killed five Cambodian soldiers and maimed another as they tried to remove it from an area being developed to build a casino, an official said Wednesday.
Cambodia's highest judicial body on Thursday approved 30 Cambodian and U.N. judges to preside over a long-awaited genocide tribunal for surviving Khmer Rouge leaders.
A flock of one of the world's most endangered birds — the white-shouldered ibis — has been discovered in a remote province in northeast Cambodia, a conservationist said Monday.
The Cambodian prime minister on Friday ruled out sending troops to Iraq, rejecting a request by the United States for non-combat forces to assist with humanitarian work.

One of the world's most land mine-ridden nations sent a team of soldiers to Sudan on Saturday to clear mines laid in a 21-year civil war.

Two days after Cheoun Uork's 3-year-old daughter died, health officials told him she had succumbed to bird flu. He had never heard of the virus.
Peace Corps volunteers will arrive in Cambodia for the first time early next year to teach English and work in health education, a U.S. embassy official said Thursday.
Cambodia's prime minister said Wednesday that a U.N. human rights representative was no longer welcome in the Southeast Asian nation after the envoy criticized the government's crackdown on dissent.
Cambodia's prime minister said Wednesday that a U.N. human rights representative is no longer welcome in the Southeast Asian nation after the envoy criticized the government's crackdown on dissent.
The government on Saturday deported a California man who operated a Web site promoting Cambodia as a place for foreigners to commit suicide, a police official said.
Cambodia's population of Irrawaddy dolphins could vanish within a decade unless strict enforcement is undertaken to protect the endangered species, a conservation official warned Wednesday.