Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are blamed for the deaths of 1.

Lim Kimya was shot twice and died near the Khao San Road tourist precinct on January 7 by former Thai naval marine Ekkalak Pheanoi who then fled into Cambodia where he was apprehended and extradited. Thai police say Ekkalak has confessed to the murder.

The Thai authorities accused an adviser to Hun Sen of hiring the gunman who killed a former Cambodian opposition figure in Bangkok last week.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has forcefully denied that the government was involved in the assassination of Lim Kimya, a former opposition party lawmaker who was fatally shot by a Thai gunman in Bangkok on January 7.

Former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen wants Asean to work as a bloc to achieve its goals while reaffirming the Kingdom’s support for the 46th ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA).

At least four people were crushed and suffocated to death on Thursday in Cambodia after a large crowd gathered at a local tycoon’s home to receive Lunar New Year red envelopes filled with money, police said.

Hun Sen Boulevard will soon be equipped with metal median barriers to separate oncoming traffic. The installation follows a series of fatal accidents in recent weeks. The accidents were attributed to excessive speed and driving under the influence.

PHNOM PENH: At least four people were crushed and suffocated to death on Thursday in Cambodia after a large crowd gathered at a local tycoon’s home to receive Lunar New Year red envelopes filled with money, police said.

Cambodia crowd crush kills four after tycoon offers Lunar New Year cash-stacked envelopes - Crowds surge happened as after one of Cambodia’s richest men offered charity giveaway outside home in Phnom

A crowd surge during Sok Kong's Lunar New Year charity giveaway in Phnom Penh led to four deaths and several injuries.

Four people were killed and five others injured as a crowd scrambled for food and cash handouts from one of Cambodia’s richest men as a Chinese Lunar New Year gift.

Thai national Ekalak Paenoi, center, the prime suspect in the killing of former lawmaker of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Lim Kimya, is escorted by police officers at the police airport in Bangkok on Jan 11, 2025, after returning from Cambodia. (Photo: AFP)