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An American national of South Korean origin was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Cambodia for having sex with a 14-year-old girl, a judge said Tuesday.

Senior officials in Cambodia are involved in a highly organized "ransacking" of the country's forests while donors stand idly by, an environmental watchdog accused in a report released Friday.

John Lovejoy, a 27-year old American from Little Rocky Run is planning a 15,000-mile road trip this summer that will begin in Germany and end in Cambodia. What's more, Lovejoy and seven others will attempt to complete their journey in three almost entirely plastic cars known as Trabants. The goal of what is now called the Trabant Trek is to raise US$300,000 for street children in Cambodia.

Researchers are examining a long-unknown killing field in Cambodia with the graves of thousands of victims of the Khmer Rouge from the 1970s. But local villagers found it first. By the time the researchers arrived in early May, some 200 graves had been dug up and the bones scattered through the woods by hundreds of people hunting for jewelry.

Cambodia on Monday celebrated the 54th birthday of King Norodom Sihamoni with a three- day public holiday and various posters erected on main boulevards to highlight the monarch's image.

The Khmer Rouge nightmare that terrorised Cambodia during the 1970s ended nearly 30 years ago. In Rwanda and Sierra Leone, the wheels of justice turned quickly, with tribunals investigating events that kicked off within a few years of the mass killing. 

Cambodia's royal cows signaled a drought and poor harvests in an ancient ceremony yesterday to mark the beginning of the kingdom's planting season. 

Cambodians celebrated Royal Ploughing Day Saturday, with thousands watching with baited breath to see what foods two royal oxen would choose in a colourful ceremony designed to predict the future of the new farming season.

WWF has captured the first ever photos of a wild leopard with cub in Cambodia. Leopards are exothermally rare in Cambodia, which has suffered one of the highest deforestation rates in southeast Asia due to illegal logging., clearing for agriculture, fires, and unsustainable hunting. 

Scores of rare animals have disappeared or died at a zoo in Cambodia's tourist hub Siem Reap, forcing authorities to close the facility and highlighting the growing problem of private animal farms.