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The Khmer Rouge’s former head of state has promised to tell the truth about his country’s descent into destruction under the top leader Pol Pot.  His trial, along with three more leaders for genocide and other serious crimes, will begin hearing testimony later this year.  Robert Carmichael reports from Phnom Penh. Former head of state Khieu Samphan told the preliminary hearing at the U.N.-backed tribunal, and by extension the nation, since today’s hearings were televised, that he would tell the truth about what had happened during the Khmer Rouge’s rule. The war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh estimates as many as 2.2-million people died when the Khmer Rouge governed Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.

Three decades since the Khmer Rouge decimated Cambodia, killing up to a quarter of the population in pursuit of a communist utopia, the devastation to families is still being felt.

Police on Wednesday dispersed some 50 protesters from in front of the prime minister’s Kandal province residence who had gathered to demonstrate over concerns they could lose their homes to a Phnom Penh development project. One woman was injured after several dozen police and military police pushed the group out of the street, witnesses said. The residents had gathered to represent more than 380 families who are worried they will not have new homes built under a 2003 development deal on 14 hectares of land

On Monday the United Nations-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh will open its hearing into the four surviving leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge movement. Cambodians have waited three decades for this day: when the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge movement appear in court charged with an array of crimes – genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, murder.  The list is long

Charya, 21 years old, in a light blue dress and with her face carefully made up, presses the palms of her hands together in the graceful, prayer-like sampeah gesture to greet the customer entering the beer garden where she works, then leads him to a table. Charya has been a client-greeter for just one month. [...]

By Thach Chitaro Traffic accidents can be considered as the bigger catastrophe in the country which poisoning welfare society. There has been a long time that almost all of Cambodian people were very careless of wearing helmet to ensure their life safe from any horrible incidents. The helmet protection used to be a critical topic [...]

The World Bank has held its first Social Accountability School in Cambodia. The school is one of the activities of the Program to Enhance Capacity on Social Accountability (PECSA). PECSA is part of the Demand for Good Governance Project (DFGG) now under preparation, which will be supported by the World Bank. The World Bank Newsletter [...]

The results of a study comparing the business environments of Cambodia’s ten most economically active provinces and municipalities were announced on October 26, 2006 in a seminar for 200 representatives from government, private enterprise, donor agencies and the media. This survey, the 2006 Provincial Business Environment Scorecard (PBES), is a joint initiative of the International [...]

he World Bank is preparing a new Poverty Assessment for the Consultative Group Meeting to be held in March 2006. World Bank newsletter interviews Tim Conway, Poverty Specialist at the World Bank’s Cambodia Office, about poverty rates, poverty lines and related indicators. Q: How is the poverty line calculated? A: To calculate a “poverty line” [...]