Cambodia will return 83 shipping containers loaded with plastic waste to the United States and Canada, the country’s Environment Ministry has announced. The move comes as Southeast Asia tires of accepting the west’s refuse. The shipping containers were discovered on Tuesday in Sihanoukville, once a sleepy fishing village and now an overdeveloped, rubbish-strewn port city on the country’s south... 

Cambodian children A searching has been underway in Cambodia over the cause of a mystery disease that has left more than 60 children killed over the past three months, the World Health Organization says. WHO spokeswoman Aphaluck Bhatiasevi said Thursday the “undiagnosed syndrome” has killed 61 of the 62 children admitted to hospitals since April, but there’s no indication that is it... 

Cambodia’s main opposition party leader was convicted in absentia Thursday and sentenced to 10 years in prison for a politically sensitive comment about a border dispute, in what critics said was another example of the government’s intimidation of its opponents. Sam Rainsy, who is living in exile in Paris, was convicted of spreading false information about a border dispute with Vietnam.... 

A survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s deadliest torture centre wept today as he told a court about life at the facility where 16,000 others were abused before being  executed. Vann Nath, 63, escaped death because he was an artist and took the job of painting and sculpting portraits of the Khmer Rouge’s late leader, Pol Pot. But his special status did not spare him misery. ‘The conditions...