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Four people are killed and five more injured in a stampede at Cambodian businessman Sok Kong's home in Phnom Penh as he was giving away food and money amid Lunar New Year celebrations.
2025-01-23

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

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

Cambodia declares a day of mourning for at least 378 people killed in a stampede in the capital Phnom Penh.
2010-11-23

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