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Eight people are killed after a fire breaks out in an under-repair nightclub in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2023-07-1

A court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia sentences opposition figure Sam Rainsy to life in prison for "attempting to concede territory to a foreign entity". The sentence was delivered "in absentia" because Rainsy has been living in exile in France since 2015.
2022-10-19

Cambodia ends a three-week blanket lockdown in Phnom Penh despite an increase in the number of COVID-19 infections, though tighter restrictions remain in place in some districts.
2021-05-6

Cambodia reports its first death from COVID-19. The patient is a 50-year-old man from Phnom Penh.
2021-03-11

Kem Ley, a popular Cambodian political commentator and frequent critic of Prime Minister Hun Sen, is shot dead at a gas station in Phnom Penh.
2016-07-10

Thousands of opposition supporters protest in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh following disputed July elections which saw incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen re-elected.
2013-10-23

Police in Cambodia announce that Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, was arrested on August 30 in Phnom Penh, enforcing a suspected Interpol warrant by his homeland Sweden. Warg has been sentenced in April 2012 by a court in Stockholm for copyright violations to 12 months in jail and his quarter share (about € 900,000) in a solidary fine of 30 million SKr.
2012-09-2

The 20th ASEAN Summit meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, calls for sanctions to be lifted against Myanmar or Burma following recent by-elections. [http:--www.todayonline.com-World-EDC120404-0000073-ASEAN-calls-for-lifting-of-Myanmar-sanctions (Today Online)]date=August 2019
2012-04-4

The latest ASEAN summit begins in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
2012-04-3

At least 339 people are killed at a stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2010-11-22