Now the future of Cambodia's most famous elephant is uncertain after a campaign by animal rights activists to force her into early retirement.

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA : The United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has increased the sentence of a former Khmer Rouge jailer to life in prison, the Phnom Penh Post reported on Friday.

Besides his passion for motorcycles, Danish Ambassador to Thailand Mikael Hemniti Winther wants to demonstrate the importance he places on road safety.

The Cambodian Photography Project is designed to empower children at Sunrise Children's Village, an orphanage in Siem Reap, by providing them with digital imaging and photography skills and then allowing them to document their lives through photos they will take themselves.

THE plan, on this Travelling Tilburys adventure, was to cycle with my sister the 1000km from Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

MANILA, Philippines - A third year high school student from Dagupan City, Pangasinan, who topped the 5th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Quiz national competition, will lead the group that will represent the Philippines in the ASEAN Quiz Regional Competition to be held in Phnom Penh,Cambodia in August.

A strengthening economy and increasing demands from both domestic and foreign markets have pushed trade growth in the Kingdom, further driving the shipping industry.

PHOTOGENIC TOUR GUIDE Congratulations to local tour guide Chansarak Noun for cracking the travel site Viator.com's Top Ten Private Guides List for 2011.

Cannes, Venice, Hollywood, step aside and make way. Siem Reap is the latest destination to become a movie Mecca, as the inaugural Angkor Wat Film Festival comes to town.

Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of assumptions about the mosquito-borne disease.

But despite the general high standard of hygiene that many of the places maintain, getting inked in the Penh is still something you should consider carefully.

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge S-21 prison commander Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, center, arrives in the courtroom for a session of U.N.-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as the court gives verdict on appeal filed by Duch against his conviction Friday, Feb.

Funded by US$115,000 from Dong Thap People's Committee the building will have an area of 1,530 sq.m which is expected to be completed in four months, said GAVC president Chau Van Chi.

Chhoeun Chanthan, a former lieutentant-general, also known as Mao, 41, denied the charges against him, which also included issuing weapons and licences to unauthorised persons and using fake documents.

A Cambodian man had been killed in Thai territory on Tuesday when he activated a hand grenade, Thai authorities said yesterday.

Chhay Meth, 9, suffering through an attack of malaria at the family's home in O'treng village on the outskirts of Pailin, Cambodia, in 2009.

At least six women held in capital over demonstration calling for promised housing and compensation after spate of land grabs Residents from Borei Keila shout at riot police in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in protest at the destruction of their houses.

Garment workers eat in front of a clothes factory in Phnom Penh. The minimum wage in Cambodia is equivalent to 42 a month.

OFF to the Salvation Army uncovered their ''abhorrent situation''. Three young women, allegedly lured to Australia from Thailand on the promise of student visas, had been allegedly held against their will to work as sex slaves in a Sydney brothel.

A survivor lies below a photo of Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea at Tuol Slen jail, now a museum.