Kelly Reichardt’s ‘The Mastermind’ taps Worcester Art heist

Among the most successful of American independent filmmakers, writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s unexpected and often comical heist film “The Mastermind” opens Friday. With this, her ninth picture, Reichardt takes her life-long fascination with...

The British Wanderer Who Never Left: Rediscovering Cambodia through Andy Brouwer’s Eyes (Part 2)

Andy Brouwer during his early visits to Cambodia. Photo provided. PHNOM PENH — Out of curiosity and the urge to venture far from home, Andy Brouwer made his first five-day trip to Cambodia in 1994, a decision that changed his future for many...

Cambodia Urges UN Action on Thai Border Acoustic Harassment, Warns Inaction Enables Impunity

Photo shows large speaker system being installed to harass border people. Photo from Information Minister Neth Pheaktra PHNOM PENH – The Cambodian Human Rights Committee has escalated its appeal to the United Nations, urging immediate intervention...

World : Top News Headlines In Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam: Oct 19, 2025

CAMBODIA 1.PHNOM PENH, MANILA MAINTAIN HEALTHY TIES -- AGENCE KAMPUCHEA PRESSE Cambodia and the Philippines will maintain strong diplomatic and regional cooperation that dates from 1957. They aim to broaden cooperation in agriculture, trade,...

Cambodia to Repatriate 60 More Koreans Amid Scam Crackdown, Seeks Reputation Restoration

The Cambodian government announced plans to repatriate an additional 60 South Korean nationals involved in online fraud, bringing the total number of repatriated individuals to 240. Alongside this action, Cambodia has requested South Korea's...

Cambodia confirms new H5N1 bird flu case in 3-year-old girl

Cambodia has confirmed a new human case of H5N1 bird flu, according to health officials, bringing the country’s total this year to 16. The latest case was confirmed Thursday in a 3-year-old girl from Chek village in Kampong Speu province, the...

64 SKoreans from Cambodia back in custody

SEOUL — Sixty-four South Koreans who had been detained in Cambodia for alleged involvement in cyberscam operations returned home Saturday and were under arrest, a police official told AFP. South Korea had sent a team to Cambodia on Wednesday to...

Cambodia, S. Korea Agreed on Three Points to Strengthen Cooperation in Combating Online Scamming

AKP Phnom Penh, October 17, 2025— H.E. Abhisantibindit Sar Sokha, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, this afternoon held a meeting with H.E. Ms. Kim Jina, Second Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, and her...

Envoy vacancies leave Korea diplomatic rudderless in stormy seas

Published: 21 Oct. 2025, 07:00 Koreans who had been detained in Cambodia during a government crackdown on criminal compounds enter via Terminal 2 of Incheon International Airport on the morning of Oct. 18. [NEWS1] More than four months into the...

S Koreans return from Cambodia to face scam case

Sixty-four South Koreans detained in Cambodia over alleged online scam operations returned home yesterday, with most expected to face investigation, South Korean authorities said. Their return followed the alleged murder of a South Korean college...

Sanctioned Cambodian tycoon bought luxury Dubai and London properties through scam network

Sanctioned Cambodian tycoon bought luxury Dubai and London properties through scam network When the US and UK governments jointly imposed sweeping sanctions on one of Asia’s largest criminal networks this week, investigators uncovered an empire...

South Korea to Provide Cambodia with List of Online Scam Masterminds

Korean Second Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Jina, held a talk with Interior Minister, Sar Sokha, on Oct. 17. Photo from interior Ministry/Facebook PHNOM PENH--South Korea has pledged to provide Cambodia’s Interior Ministry with a list of...

Cambodia Launches Campaigns to Tackle High Secondary Dropout Rates

AKP Phnom Penh, October 17, 2025 -- The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS), in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has initiated two ambitious nationwide public campaigns to combat persistent lower secondary...

Cambodia, S. Korea to fight online scam crisis

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodian and South Korean officials agreed Thursday to cooperate in combating online scams, after the death of a South Korean student who was reportedly forced to work in a scam center in Cambodia triggered public outrage...

Record $15B Bitcoin cyber scam seizure: Bay Area investigator visited suspect company in Cambodia

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The Department of Justice has seized a record $15 billion in Bitcoin from a cyber fraud operation based in Cambodia that targeted Americans. An investigator from San Jose is very familiar with this case. She visited one of...

Reclaiming Thought: Why Cambodia Must Revive Philosophy Now

Students are concentrating on their studies in a classroom in Oddar Meanchey province. Photo by Sao Phal Niseiy Once home to one of Southeast Asia’s most sophisticated civilizations, Cambodia now stands at a crossroads of rediscovery, not of...

Prince Bank in Cambodia faces mass withdrawals after parent firm hit by US and UK sanctions

Prince Bank, one of Cambodia’s largest commercial banks, is facing a severe bank run following sweeping sanctions imposed by the United States and the United Kingdom on its parent company, Prince Group. According to The Chosun Daily citing foreign...

Cambodia Reaffirms Legally Valid Border Line with Thailand Amidst Dispute

AKP Phnom Penh, October 17, 2025 -- The Spokesperson for the Royal Government of Cambodia this morning reaffirmed the Kingdom's legally established border line with Thailand, responding to claims made by Thai military officials. The statement was...

Members of voice phishing organization based in Cambodia sentenced to prison in 1st trial

Published: 18 Oct. 2025, 17:54 The Immigration Office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Oct. 17 [NEWS1] Members of a “corporate-style” voice phishing organization based in Cambodia, who were tried for extorting hundreds of millions of won from multiple...

Cambodia accuses Thailand of blasting ‘ghost sounds’ in psychological warfare at border

Cambodia’s senate president Hun Sen has accused Thailand of broadcasting high-pitched “ghost sounds” along the disputed border after the country’s human rights commission urged the UN to investigate what it described as psychological warfare. Hun...