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The International Bar Association (IBA) , the leading global organization of legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies, announced Friday that it has canceled a training program for Cambodian lawyers representing defendants in the genocide trial...

Canadian prosecutor Robert Petit , one of the two active prosecutors for the Cambodian genocide tribunal that will try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge , told a meeting of international prosecutors at The Hague Friday...

Andrew Wood : "Cambodia's role in the Textile and Garment (T&G) industry has only recently developed into the nation's largest export industry. With Cambodia's first garment factories opened in 1994, the industry...

The joint UN-Cambodian court that will try former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that decimated Cambodia's population in the "killing fields" of the late 1970s must move quickly or risk the deaths of more...

Andrew Wood : "With the Khmer Rouge tribunal beginning in less than a year, Phnom Penh is buzzing in anticipation of the proceedings. Preparation for the tribunal has been nearly a decade...

Following the death of former Khmer Rouge military leader Ta Mok Thursday, local observers say that with few top Khmer Rouge officials left to be prosecuted before the new Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal...

Cambodian genocide suspect Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok , died Thursday after having slipped into a coma in Phnom Penh earlier this week. He was 80. The former zone secretary and central committee...

Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok has slipped into a coma in a Phnom Penh hospital. His lawyer has told reporters he could die this week and is unlikely to survive until the Khmer Rouge...

Khieu Samphan , the former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, left his home overnight and headed toward a neighboring province, just hours after prosecutors began compiling evidence against former Khmer...

Prosecutors working for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal began formal investigation Monday of criminal acts allegedly committed by surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime, which ruled Cambodia from 1975-1978...