The film chronicles the golden age of Cambodian rock, before the country fell to the Khmer Rouge, which killed many musicians.
Some 1,000 people have lost their land to the development of the plantations since 2010.
Produced by journalist Tom Fawthrop, the film, “The Great Gamble on the Mekong: Are we Killing the Mekong Dam by Dam?” looks closely at the impact of the controversial dam.
Hearings Thursday included testimony from a witness at the Kraing Tachann security center, where an estimated 15,000 died.
The holiday is particularly contentious, because it also marks the beginning of a decade-long occupation by Vietnamese forces.
“Hope for the Future,” a new film by the Documentation Center of Cambodia, tells the story of Sek Say, a young girl who lost both parents to the Khmer Rouge.
A US federal court has indicted Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz, a Cambodian-American US naval officer, on seven more counts of bribery.
Vannarith Chheang told “Hello VOA” recently that poor countries like Cambodia need to work harder to reform laws, institutions, leadership and human resources to prepare for integration.
Funcinpec meanwhile, continued to decline, failing to win any seats in the 2013 elections—a far fall for a party that once led the country.
On Monday Prime Minister Hun Sen lashed out at the opposition, saying their lack of support for the day meant they sympathize with the Khmer Rouge.
A tribunal spokesman said the Supreme Court will determine whether Thet Sambath will testify or not, based on the law.
Cambodia is running almost out of time to reform the election body, while controversy over voter registration remains, an expert says.
In November, Prime Minister Hun Sen attended a summit there, where China pledged more aid to help develop the economy—about $500 million per year.
A group of Montagnard asylum seekers has reached the capital and individuals are being questioned by Cambodian authorities there, officials said Monday.
The 140 cases have been confirmed HIV positive by the Pasteur Institute in Phnom Penh.
Countless demonstrations in recent years have been filled with women.
The group has been in hiding for at least seven weeks, putting them in an “extremely precarious” position, the UN agencies said.
The villagers tested positive for HIV-1, the most common and pathogenic strain of the deadly virus.
Chhang Youk, director of the Sleuk Rith Institute, said he named his research institute after the material in an effort to promote better understanding of Cambodia’s identity, culture and history.
US Ambassador William Todd created the Ambassador’s Youth Council in Cambodia in 2012, one of 80 such groups of youth around the world.
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