CAMBODIA’S prime minister wept at the spot where hundreds died during a wild riverside stampede, as the country began a day of mourning for victims.

An investigation into a stampede that killed hundreds of revellers at a festival in the Cambodian capital has concluded it was set off when a crowded bridge started swaying, local media reported today.

Thousands of Cambodians lit candles and made offerings to appease the souls of those who perished in a riverside stampede that left nearly 400 people dead as investigators tried to determine the cause of the tragedy.

CAMBODIA searched for answers yesterday, a day after a stampede killed at least 375 people on a suspension bridge where survivors said they were wedged into the crowd of living and dead for hours.

Cambodia’s prime minister said today the horrific festival stampede which killed at least 349 people was the country’s biggest tragedy since the 1970s reign of terror by the Khmer Rouge.

A STAMPEDE in the Cambodian capital has left more than 340 people dead and hundreds injured after panic erupted at a water festival that had attracted millions of revellers.

Three hundred and thirty-nine people have been killed, and 329 injured, in a stampede during the celebration of a water festival in Cambodia, the country’s prime minister has said.

Cambodia will not allow the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal to prosecute former low-ranking officers of the genocidal regime because it would endanger national peace, the country’s leader told the UN chief today.

Thailand’s fugitive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Cambodia today following his appointment as economic adviser to the government, fuelling tensions between the neighbouring countries.

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has thanked Cambodia for appointing him as an economic adviser but tweeted that it “won’t be as fun” as doing the job in his native country.

Cambodia’s prime minister issued an ultimatum to Thailand to withdraw troops from a disputed border area today or face a “life-and-death battle zone”.

Cambodian police blocked American actress Mia Farrow from holding a rally at a former Khmer Rouge prison today, pushing her group away from a barricade as they tried to lay flowers to commemorate victims of genocide.

One of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge leaders was brought before a UN-backed genocide tribunal today.

Nuon Chea, the top surviving leader of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, was charged today with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Search teams say there are no survivors from a plane that crashed in southern Cambodia with 22 people aboard.

A passenger plane that disappeared in Cambodia likely crashed during a storm according to prime minister Hun Sen.

Security forces tried to disrupt plots by al Qaida-linked militants to stage attacks but failed to track them, setting off an alarm that influenced a decision to postpone a pair of Asian summits, officials said today.

Judges and prosecutors from Cambodia and foreign countries were today sworn in to begin the UN-backed judicial process to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity.

A former Khmer Rouge field commander, convicted in absentia over the murder of three tourists in 1994, has been apprehended in north-western Cambodia, the government said today.

Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie has been officially granted Cambodian citizenship by the Asian country's King Norodom Sihamoni.

A man who allegedly led an assault on an international school in Cambodia, taking dozens of children hostage and shooting dead a two-year-old Canadian boy, may have been motivated by a grudge against a former employer, police said today.

IN recent years Cambodia has developed a thriving tourist industry which draws thousands of visitors to its temples, particularly the vast Angkor complex.

MASKED gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school in north-western Cambodia yesterday, killing a Canadian toddler.

A British girl and two Irish youngsters are recovering tonight after a terrifying armed school siege in Cambodia in which a fellow kindergarten pupil was killed, officials confirmed.

Masked gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school in north-western Cambodia today, killing a three-year-old Canadian boy and threatening to shoot the others one-by-one before police rescued the remaining hostages, police and government officials said.

The UN chief congratulated Cambodia’s incoming king today, a day after the former ballet dancer was chosen to succeed his ailing father to secure the country’s ancient monarchy for another generation.

CAMBODIA’S King Norodom Sihanouk declared yesterday that his son, Prince Norodom Sihamoni, is ready to accept the crown to resolve a political crisis triggered last week when the 81-year-old monarch announced he would abdicate.

Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk declared today that his son, Prince Norodom Sihamoni, is ready to accept the crown to resolve a political crisis triggered last week when the 81-year-old monarch announced he would abdicate.

Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk has abdicated because of poor health and asked the country to begin a search for a successor, the head of the National Assembly said today.

A BRIEF visit to Thailand has left an indelible mark on Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie.

Cambodia’s prime minister today offered Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie Cambodian citizenship in recognition of her nature conservation work in his poverty-stricken country.

A SMALL home-made bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Cambodia’s royalist FUNCINPEC party yesterday, marring an otherwise peaceful election day in the troubled southeast Asian nation.

Cambodia and the UN will miss “the last chance” to try Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity unless they ratify an agreement to establish a genocide court, the UN legal chief warned.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen today denied claims he helped trigger last week’s anti-Thai riots, saying it was part of a well-planned plot by an extremist group.

Thailand cut virtually all ties with Cambodia today and evacuated hundreds of its terrified citizens from Phnom Penh after unprecedented anti-Thai riots there.

Demonstrators looted and set fire to the Thai Embassy in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh today when police allowed a protest against a soap star to get out of control.

A former Khmer Rouge military commander was arrested today for the 1994 abduction and murder of three Western backpackers in southern Cambodia.

Officials have dismantled a map of Cambodia made out of skulls - a key icon of Khmer Rouge atrocities.

Cambodians have voted in the country's first local elections.

Cambodia’s election committee accused parties contesting local polls for breaking campaign rules today as violence continued to mar the run-up to the vote.

Cambodia's Senate has approved a law on creating a tribunal of judges to try the leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s.