Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, ...

Cambodia’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying atrocities were carried out ...

It ended on January 7, 1979, when Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge cadre, led Vietnamese forces into the capital to expel the murderous regime. Former prime minister Hun Sen stepped down in ...

For government critics in Southeast Asia, fleeing abroad does not necessarily mean safety. Thailand is growing particularly ...

Hun Sen joined Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge at age 18 as it fought to seize power, losing his left eye in the final battle for Phnom Penh in 1975. When a series of purges within the genocidal communist ...

Former Man City owner Thaksin was visited by Hun Sen - who lost an eye fighting the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s - in Bangkok in February 2024, declaring themselves close friends. A police spokesman ...

Hun Sen, sitting alongside his son, Hun Manet, to mark the 46th anniversary of the ousting of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime that ruled in Cambodia in the late 1970s — and which left some 1.7 million ...

Many of the men who rose with Hun Sen through the Khmer Rouge revolution and civil war of the 1970s and 80s have also stepped down, in some cases handing their jobs to their own children.

Cambodian President of the Senate Hun Sen greets as he arrives at Victory Day to mark the 46th ouster anniversary of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 ...

Since he came to power following the fall of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime four decades ago, Hun Sen's rule has become increasingly authoritarian. He has consolidated power through control of ...

Some Khmer Rouge leaders have been convicted, while others died during proceedings at the ECCC, which formally concluded in late 2022. In May, Senate president Hun Sen suggested that the law be ...

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 ...