At least four people were crushed and suffocated to death on Thursday in Cambodia after a large crowd gathered at a local tycoon’s home to receive Lunar New Year red envelopes filled with money, police said.

Cambodia crowd crush kills four after tycoon offers Lunar New Year cash-stacked envelopes - Crowds surge happened as after one of Cambodia’s richest men offered charity giveaway outside home in Phnom

A years-long survey of a Cambodian national park has revealed endangered species never before recorded in the country, highlighting the need for

A crowd surge during Sok Kong's Lunar New Year charity giveaway in Phnom Penh led to four deaths and several injuries.

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Four people were killed and five others injured as a crowd scrambled for food and cash handouts from one of Cambodia’s richest men as a Chinese Lunar New Year gift.

Much of the park is unexplored, earning the park its nickname as the “Amazon of Asia,” according to Fauna & Flora, a biodiversity research and conservation organization. The park itself is protected land, but it’s unclear what animals are living within its boundaries, and what challenges they may be facing.

Thursday (Jan 23) morning’s tragic deaths which occurred outside the palatial home of Oknha Sok Kong as people trampled each other to get hold of “red envelopes” has sparked criticism regarding the organisation of the charity event and its impact on Cambodia's international reputation.

Sok Songha, until recently head of the Anti-Drug Crime Office of the Takeo Provincial Police in Cambodia, has been detained in provincial prison for allegedly accepting bribes and abusing his position.

The first biodiversity survey ever conducted in one of northwestern Cambodia’s last forest frontiers has found potentially new-to-science species and recorded direct threats to what conservationists call a “small but precious” ecosystem.

Thai national Ekkalak Paenoi faces charges including premeditated murder in the Tuesday shooting death of Lim Kimya, 74, in the Thai capital.

PHNOM PENH : At least four people were crushed and suffocated to death today in Cambodia after a large crowd gathered at a local tycoon’s home to receive Lunar New Year red envelopes filled with money, police said.