Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Sunday the ASEAN-India summit in Phnom Penh would help to take relations with the 10-member bloc to a new level.

In his departure statement before leaving for Cambo

Cambodia's war crimes court ordered the release on Thursday of Ieng Thirith, dubbed the 'First Lady' of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, saying she was unfit to stand trial.

"As there is no prospect

Days of heated diplomacy at Southeast Asian talks ended in failure on Friday as deep splits over China prevented the ASEAN grouping from issuing its customary joint statement for the first time.

A Russian paedophile controversially pardoned in Cambodia's largest-known child sex scandal will be deported after he was arrested at the home of a teenage girl, police said on Tuesday.

Alexander Tro

Hundreds of Cambodians flocked to the UN-backed war crimes court on Friday to hear the final verdict in a landmark case against the former head of a notorious torture prison.

Kaing Guek Eav -- better

A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people was given life in prison on appeal Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first case at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court

The three most senior surviving commanders of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime masterminded one of the 'worst horrors' of the 20th century, killing or enslaving millions of Cambodians, a U.N.-backed war c

The long-awaited trial of top Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide and other atrocities finally gets under way in Cambodia on Monday, but one of the four accused will be notably absent.

At least 130 garment workers were hospitalised on Monday in Cambodia's Kampong Speu province as they fainted after inhaling insecticide, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.

The incident occurred at a garmen

A German judge tasked with probing new Khmer Rouge cases at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal on Monday announced his resignation, blaming government interference.

Co-investigating judge Siegf