Cambodia News Headline

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• Cambodia holds nationwide local council elections
  PHNOM PENH: Cambodians voted for new governing councils yesterday in the country's second local elections, which Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party is expected to win easily.
• Text messaging blocked in Cambodia
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cell phone text messaging will be blocked during this weekend’s local elections in Cambodia, where the government is imposing a two-day "tranquility period" to keep voters from being inundated with campaign messages.
• Cambodia remembers victims of deadly grenade attack a decade ago
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Dozens of Buddhist monks chanted prayers Friday to mark the anniversary of a deadly grenade attack at a peaceful anti-government demonstration 10 years ago.
• Care for Cambodia
  After serving a mission for the LDS Church in Long Beach, Calif., speaking Khmer, the official Cambodian language, Jack Stringham had a strong desire to visit Cambodia.
• Film recalls Cambodia's Killing Fields
  Socheata Poeuv once asked her father what was the worst part about living under the Khmer Rouge. He told her it was the silence.
• Cambodia Bans Workers From Thai South
  Cambodia has banned its migrant laborers from working in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand due to safety concerns, an official said Thursday.
• U.S. man in Cambodia won't face sex crime charge
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An American citizen who resettled to Cambodia and then paid for sex with boys cannot be charged under a U.S. sex tourism law, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
• Federal Court adjourns application by Cambodia's ex-police chief
  PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has adjourned an application by Cambodia’s deported ex-police chief Heng Pov to cite three senior Government officers for contempt, to allow them time to reply to an application served to them on Monday.
• Cambodia: After 10 Years, No Justice for Grenade Attack on Opposition
  Ten years after a grisly grenade attack on an opposition party rally in Phnom Penh left at least 16 dead and more than 150 injured, the Cambodian government has made no progress in bringing the perpetrators to justice, Human Rights Watch said today.
• From Cochrane to Cambodia, Kids helping kids
  From Cochrane to Cambodia, local kids are raising money to help orphan children in Phnom-Penh.