Former Japanese striker Keisuke Honda, who was recently appointed the head coach of the Cambodian football team, oversaw a training session at the Olympic National Stadium here on Tuesday.

A Cambodian court on Friday convicted Australian filmmaker James Ricketson of spying and sentenced him to six years in prison. Ricketson, 69, was arrested on June 3, 2017 in Phnom Penh while flying a drone illegally to capture images of a rally by the court-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Xinhua news agency reported.

The US State Department has expanded its visa restrictions on Cambodia after the official results of the country's election on July 29 were confirmed.

Voting began on Sunday morning in the Cambodian general elections, in which the country's incumbent Prime Minister, Hun Sen, is running without the challenge of a main opposition.

Authorities in Cambodia were finalising preparations on Saturday for the national legislative elections, whose legitimacy has been called into question by domestic and international observers after the country's main opposition party was dissolved last year.

All three missing Cambodian UN peacekeepers ambushed in the Central African Republic (CAR) were found dead, a Defence spokesman said here on Wednesday