# 2024 in Cambodia

Events in the year 2024 in Cambodia.

## Incumbents

* King – Norodom Sihamoni
* Prime Minister – Hun Manet

## Events
### February

* 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.

### March

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

### April

* 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.

### May

* 26 May – 2024 Cambodian provincial elections

### June

* 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.

### July

* 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.

### August

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

### September

* 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.

### December

* 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.

## Holidays

Source:
* 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

## Deaths

* February 26 — Tep Vong, leader of the Cambodian Buddhist community.