Cambodia

Cambodia welcomes its oil wealth, but will it do more harm than good?

Ian MacKinnon in Sihanoukville Monday March 5, 2007 The base in sleepy Sihanoukville is US oil giant Chevron's springboard for operations 100 miles off shore. It struck "significant" oil and gas deposits, and is confirming the discovery's …

Khmer Rouge genocide trial close to collapse as judges dispute rules

Twenty-eight years after Pol Pot's brutal regime was toppled, the prospect of a long-awaited genocide trial of its senior leaders offers a faint glimmer of hope for Om Som. With her family she was evacuated from Phnom Penh when it was clea…