AP - An exiled Cambodian opposition leader returned home to cheering crowds of supporters Friday after a royal pardon ended his long feud with the nation's prime minister.

Reuters - Cambodia opposition leader Sam Rainsy, returning home after a year of self-imposed exile in France, promised on Friday to work with his bitter rival Prime Minister Hun Sen to build a better country.

AFP - Cambodia's king has pardoned exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy who was sentenced to jail for defamation, in a move officials said was at the request of Prime Minister Hun Sen.

AFP - Cambodia's exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy recanted accusations that Prime Minister Hun Sen was behind a deadly 1997 grenade attack and other violent acts against his party, in an apparent bid to return to the country without being arrested.

Reuters - Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has cut the jail term for opposition member of parliament Cheam Channy to three from seven years after a petition from Prime Minister Hun Sen, officials said on Friday.

AFP - Four civic leaders jailed for defamation in Cambodia have walked free after a surprise move by the courts to grant them bail following weeks of international pressure on the government and a visit by a top US official.

AP - Four prominent critics of the Cambodian government who had been arrested on defamation charges were released on bail Tuesday from a Phnom Penh prison.

AFP - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is widening a crackdown on government critics in a bid to head off a groundswell of opposition ahead of general elections in 2008, observers say.

Reuters - Cambodian police arrested another human rights worker on Wednesday in a wider crackdown on opposition figures that has drawn international condemnation, in particular from Washington, activists and police said.

AFP - Cambodia is mimicking Myanmar's repressive tactics with its arrest of two prominent rights leaders, Human Rights Watch said, joining a chorus of international criticism over a flurry of defamation cases in the kingdom.

AFP - Emirates airline of the United Arab Emirates will begin flights from Dubai to Cambodia, becoming the first airline to open a direct route between the Middle East and the Southeast Asian kingdom, officials said.