2024 in Cambodia

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Events in the year 2024 in Cambodia.

• King – Norodom Sihamoni
• Prime Minister – Hun Manet

• 25 February – 2024 Cambodian Senate election^[1]
• 26 February – Tep Vong, the Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia, dies at the age of 92 after being in office since 1981.^[2]
• 3 April – Hun Sen is unanimously voted in as president of the Cambodian Senate^[3]
• 27 April – Twenty soldiers are killed after ammunition explodes at a military base in Kampong Speu province.^[4]
• 26 May – 2024 Cambodian provincial elections^[5]
• 14 June – The Cambodian National Police and the National Authority to Combat Drugs seize and destroy seven tons of illicit drugs, mostly methamphetamine, worth US$70 million as part of a crackdown operation.^[6]
• 1 July – A court in Phnom Penh sentences ten members of the environmentalist group Mother Nature to between six and eight years' imprisonment on charges of plotting against the government and Lèse-majesté, following a trial described by human rights groups as an attempt to “muzzle criticism of governmental policies”.^[7]
• 12 July – A Harbin Z-9 military helicopter crashes in the Cardamom Mountains in Pursat Province. Its wreckage and the bodies of its two crew are found on 29 July.^[8][9]
• 23 July – Five people are killed in the Angkor Wat complex after being struck by a falling tree during a storm which also destroys several statues.^[10][11]
• 25 July – Candlelight Party president Teav Vannol is fined 6 billion riel (~US$1.5 million) for "defamation" of the current government to foreign media following his party being withheld from the 2023 Cambodian general election.^[12]
• 5 August – Construction of the Funan Techo Canal linking the Mekong River in Phnom Penh with the Gulf of Thailand via Kep Province begins.^[13]

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• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 7 January – Genocide Victory Day
• 8 March - International Women's Day
• 13–16 April – Cambodian New Year
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 14 May – King Sihamoni's Birthday
• 22 May – Visakh Bochea
• 26 May – Royal Ploughing Ceremony
• 18 June – Queen Mother's Birthday
• 24 September – Constitution Day
• 1-3 October – Pchum Ben
• 15 October – Commemoration Day of the King's Father
• 29 October – King Norodom Sihamoni's Coronation Day
• 9 November – Independence Day
• 14–16 November – Royal Water Festival
• 29 December – Day of Peace in Cambodia

• February 26 — Tep Vong, leader of the Cambodian Buddhist community.^[16]

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