The European Union looks set to ease some sanctions on Burma in April if Sunday’s byelections go smoothly, but the EU trade commissioner said the bloc would not rush to lift key trade curbs.

Hundreds of Cambodians flocked to the UN-backed war crimes court on Friday to hear the final verdict in a landmark case against the former head of a notorious torture prison.

Kaing Guek Eav -- better

A Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of some 15,000 people was given life in prison on appeal Friday, bringing down the curtain on a landmark first case at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court

Cambodia said on Friday it had asked the world court to clarify a 1962 ruling about an ancient temple on its disputed border with Thailand as clashes between the neighbours entered an eighth day.

Prosecutors at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court were set on Tuesday to appeal for a life term for former Khmer Rouge cadre Duch, who ran a feared jail where thousands died.

Duch, 68, was sentenc

Thai and Cambodian soldiers have clashed near a disputed temple on the two countries' shared border, officials from both nations told AFP, amid increasing tensions between them.

The number of people killed in a bridge stampede during the Cambodian capital's annual water festival now stands at 351, the social affairs minister said on Sunday.

A government spokesman said on Tuesday that 378 people had died and 755 were injured in a stampede on a crowded bridge.

Fourteen people, including a one-year-old girl, were killed after their vehicle hit an old anti-tank mine in northwestern Cambodia, the police said Wednesday.

President Pratibha Patil underlined the potential for enhancing close cooperation between India and Cambodia in the field of Human Resource development, defence, agriculture and infrastructure, as she