With ‘poshtels’ popping up all over the world, Suzanne Harrington ventures across the water to investigate London’s Safestay hostel.

Refugees rejected by Australia will soon fly from the Pacific atoll of Nauru to be resettled in Cambodia.

In early September, I returned to Ireland to visit my 84-year-old father, who had been admitted to Cork University Hospital, with a stroke due to an infection.

Two young Irish men have died in separate accidents abroad.

An Irish holidaymaker has died after being knocked down in Cambodia.

They were leaders of Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed this entire Southeast Asian nation into a ruthless slave state — a place where cities were emptied of their inhabitants, religion and schools were banned, and anyone deemed a threat was executed.

Luxury car maker Rolls-Royce will soon be marketing its goods in one of the world's poorest countries.

A skydiving gecko and a fish that mates head-to- head are among hundreds of new species found by scientists in the Greater Mekong region.

The Elimination

The ceiling of a shoe factory in Cambodia collapsed while several dozen workers were inside the building early today, killing at least two people and possibly trapping more under the debris.

A young woman gives voice to the horrors of human trafficking with a breakthrough radio show

One of the leaders of the former Khmer Rouge regime will be set free after a court in Cambodia ruled today that she was medically unfit to stand trial for genocide, a decision survivors called shocking and unjust.

A Swedish founder of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is to be expelled from Cambodia as soon as the country’s interior minister gives his approval.

A co-founder of popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Cambodia at the request of Sweden, where he faces a one-year prison term for violating copyright laws, authorities said today.

Christopher Hudson had never been to Cambodia when he wrote The Killing Fields, his searing bestselling war story. Almost 30 years later, on his first visit, he discovers a country and a people that are moving on with optimism

BATS were flitting through the trees as I watched a group of aging Europeans with serious cases of waist-slippage drink Angkor beer and dine on slim frogs at a pavement restaurant by the riverside in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

THE Khmer Rouge were not “bad people”, the regime’s highest-ranking surviving member said as Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes tribunal began hearing evidence in a long-awaited atrocities trial.

Three top Khmer Rouge leaders accused of orchestrating Cambodia’s “killing fields” went on trial today before a UN-backed tribunal more than three decades after some of the 20th century’s worst atrocities.

PJ O’Rourke, writer, 64;

EVEN if you arrived in Cambodia knowing absolutely nothing of its recent history, it would only take a few hours before you noticed something disturbing.

A 29-YEAR-OLD Corkman was critically injured in the early hours of Sunday morning in a bus crash in southeastern Cambodia.

The former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge has told a court trying him for genocide that he is keen to tell all he knows about the 1970s communist regime.

Four now old and infirm members of the Khmer Rouge's ruling elite were facing a war crimes tribunal today, decades after their plans for a Communist Party utopia in Cambodia killed around 1.7 million people by execution, medical neglect, overwork and starvation.

With claims of witness interference and bribery surrounding the trial of the Khmer Rouge leaders, justice for victims may be further away than was hoped, writes Simon Roughneen in Tik Panhao, Cambodia

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.

A former Khmer Rouge chief jailer was sentenced to 19 years behind bars today after a United Nations-backed tribunal found him guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A UNITED Nations backed war crimes tribunal is expected to issue a decision today in the trial of the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer and torturer – the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that created Cambodia’s killing fields.

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.

An overloaded river ferry capsized on its way to a Buddhist ceremony in Cambodia, killing 17 passengers in a tributary of the Mekong River, an official said.

The chief of the Khmer Rouge’s main torture centre, being tried by a UN-backed tribunal on genocide charges, today asked the Cambodian people to give him “the harshest punishment”.

A SENIOR Khmer Rouge prison guard has told a war crimes tribunal he was forced to send thousands of detainees to an execution site, where they were brutally killed and their bodies thrown into mass graves.

A former teacher accused of carrying out the murderous policies of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge finally faced trial today, as prosecutors opened their first case against the hard-core communists who turned the country into a killing field three decades ago.

A notorious torture centre boss went before Cambodia’s genocide tribunal today for its first trial over the deaths of around 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime more than three decades ago.

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.

A GAUNT former schoolteacher who once ran a notorious torture centre for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge made his first public courtroom appearance yesterday, evoking curiosity and anger as he stood before judges of a UN-assisted genocide tribunal.