Tracey Shelton

Kerry Hamill was a great letter-writer, so his family knew something was wrong when his carefully penned correspondence stopped in 1978. The young New Zealander accidentally sailed into Cambodian waters and was then captured, tortured and killed by…

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.WatchDuration: 1 minute 5 seconds1m 5s Hundreds of thousands of homes are submerged and at least 132 people have been killed as some of the worst flooding…

Cambodia's Khmer Rouge chief ideologist and 'Brother Number Two' Nuon Chea died on Sunday at the age of 93, a court spokesman has confirmed. Between 1.7 and 2.2 million people died during the 1975 to 1979 rule of the Khmer Rouge A UN-backed court…

Malaysia has announced plans for a new bill that could abolish the death penalty within weeks and bring in a moratorium on executions effective immediately, a move that could save a Sydney grandmother currently facing execution for drug charges. The…

When Seng Malai's second son began showing symptoms of a hereditary disorder, she thought she was cursed. Haemophilia had already claimed the lives of her first son at just 3 months old and her younger brother at 12. Sokmao's joints would swell to…

CNN — Journalist Tracey Shelton wrote about her recent week in Syria: “I’ve been shot at, bombed at, witnessed some horrific/tragic/insane/inspiring things, escaped through a minefield into Turkish military custody, arrested, detained, sat through a…

Sovan Philong tells of the inspirations and techniques that have led him to become one of Cambodia's most successful photographers.

SYDNEY The thing I enjoyed most was seeing their adorable faces peeking out from behind the curtains, full of glee.... THERE was hardly a dry eye in the room at the Sydney Opera House last week after children from the Sunshine Children’s Village in…

System straining despite premier's urging: ministry. A FUNDING shortage has kept more than 2,000 Cambodian soldiers in uniform beyond the retirement age of 60, a Defence Ministry spokesman said Sunday. The delayed retirements are the latest symptom…

An RCAF battalion stationed along the front lines near Preah Vihear temple has taken to growing food to supplement what soldiers say are meagre rations. Preah Vihear Province OVER the past year, soldiers in one Royal Cambodian Armed Forces battalion…

Preah Vihear WITH dancing and drumming, pigeons and postage stamps, soldiers and civilians gathered at Preah Vihear temple and in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the temple's inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage…

Preah Vihear temple Ahead of today's Kingdom-wide celebration marking the one-year anniversary of Preah Vihear temple's inscription as a World Heritage site, soldiers and civilians on Monday pitched in to clean up the 11th-century Hindu complex that…

The Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team have been battling the illegal wildlife trade for eight years - and with huge success. Experts say they are a model for other conservation initiatives. Photo by: TRACEY SHELTON A member of the WRRT holds up the carcass…

A volunteer initiative between a wildlife NGO and a maker of mainly human prosthetics offers Phnom Tamao's baby elephant Chhouk a new foot - and a new chance at life. Photo by: TRACEY SHELTON Nick Marx of Wildlife Alliance (far left, holding elephant…

Doctors and sufferers of the blood disorder haemophilia used World Haemophilia Day to call for greater recognition of the condition, which often goes undiagnosed in Cambodia Photo by: TRACEY SHELTON Children with haemophilia during the commemoration…

Photo by: Tracey Shelton Students from the Royal University of Fine Arts on participate Wednesday in a dramatic re-creation of the brutalities suffered under the Khmer Rouge regime in commemoration of the national Day of Anger. About 1,000 people…

TRACEY SHELTON, Anlong Veng — As the sun rises between the trees, Akira, president of the Cambodian Self Help Demining (CSHD) team, begins his morning by setting a stick of TNT next to a land mine. The mine lies within a 4-hectare minefield his team…

To mark World Thalassaemia Day, a blood drive is to be launched to aid patients dependent on transfusions Yun Kimti, 4, waits for treatment for Thalassaemia at the National Paediatric Hospital in Phnom Penh last week. AT the National Paediatric…

Two young animals rescued from wildlife trader earlier this week are now being cared for at Phnom Tamao wildlife centre Photo by: TRACEY SHELTON A member of the WRRT walks the two rescued bear cubs to their new enclosure at Phnom Tamao Thursday. TWO…