Sources: Channel News Asia
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 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
United States President Barack Obama hosts a two-day summit in Rancho Mirage, California with leaders of the ASEAN member states, including democratically-elected Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines and Joko Widodo of Indonesia as well as autocratic rulers such as Hun Sen of Cambodia and Najib Razak of Malaysia. 2016-02-15
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
Former Khmer Rouge senior official and Foreign Minister of Kampuchea Ieng Sary dies during a genocide trial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 2013-03-14
The remains of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia who died on 15 October 2012 are cremated in Phnom Penh. 2013-02-4
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
At least 339 people are killed at a stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 2010-11-22