2024 in Cambodia

Events in the year 2024 in Cambodia.

Incumbents

15 February – Taiwanese live streamer Goodnight Chicken is arrested in the country for "incitement to cause chaos to social security".
25 February – 2024 Cambodian Senate election
26 February – Tep Vong, the Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia, dies at the age of 92 after being in office since 1981.

18 March – Prime Minister Hun Manet orders a ban on musical horns on vehicles, citing threats to public order and road safety.

3 April – Hun Sen is unanimously voted in as president of the Cambodian Senate
27 April – Twenty soldiers are killed after ammunition explodes at a military base in Kampong Speu province.

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.

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”.
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.
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.
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.

5 August – Construction of the Funan Techo Canal linking the Mekong River in Phnom Penh with the Gulf of Thailand via Kep Province begins.

12 September – The United States imposes sanctions on billionaire senator Ly Yong Phat for involvement in human rights abuses relating to online scam operations.
20 September – Prime Minister Hun Manet announces the country's withdrawal from an agreement establishing the Cambodia–Laos–Vietnam Development Triangle Area following protests against land concessions.
23 September – Twenty-four women from the Philippines and Vietnam are arrested in Kandal Province for participating in a surrogacy scheme. Thirteen of them are convicted on human trafficking charges on 3 December.
30 September – Journalist Mech Dara is arrested on suspicion of inciting violence over social media posts made regarding a rock quarry. He is released on bail on 24 October after appearing to have made a public apology.

26 December – The Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicts Nation Power Party president Sun Chanthy of inciting social disorder and sentences him to two years imprisonment and a permanent ban on voting and running for elected office.