Tensions driving temple row Apr 3, 2009
Both Thailand and Cambodia retain troops at the hill-top temple. A week after the controversial listing of the ancient Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage Site, the dispute that has flared up between Thailand and Cambodia is still causing tension ... The 11th-Century Hindu temple lies along the border between the two countries, but in 1962 the International Court of Justice judged that it belonged to Cambodia. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Cambodia begins long-awaited trial of Khmer Rouge leader Apr 1, 2009
Cambodians watched as the UN-backed tribunal began on Monday at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh ... Former Khmer Rouge prison chief, Kaing Guek Eav, or 'Duch,' was seen during the first day of the UN-back tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia ... Duch is among those charged with committing crimes against humanity for his involvement with the genocide in Cambodia three decades ago. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Khmer Rouge trial begins Apr 1, 2009
Prosecutors on Tuesday began making their case against the Khmer Rouge's prison chief for crimes against humanity, saying he had a key role in the regime that killed two million Cambodians ... "S21 formed an integral and indeed vital role in a widespread attack on the population of Cambodia," said co-prosecutor Chea Leang ... Duch, who faces life in jail, said he acted under orders from superiors in the Khmer Rouge, which rose to power as a spinoff from the conflict in Vietnam and emptied... (iAfrica.com)
For the history books now, but…. Mar 30, 2009
The list of countries North Korea, Israel, Cambodia, South Africa, China, Iran, Uganda, Iraq, Viet Nam, Syria, Pakistan, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia who have willfully violated the United Nations Convention Against Torture has grown by one. The United States of America. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
A coming of age for Cambodian artists Mar 19, 2009
A coming of age for Cambodia artists - International Herald Tribune. A coming of age for Cambodia artists ... In this crucial year for Cambodia, a show in Hong Kong entitled Forever Until Now: Contemporary Art from Cambodia, and running until April 25 is a rare and thoughtful cultural survey exploring the countrys journey from tragedy to hope, seen through the evolution of its art. (International Herald Tribune)
When justice is delayed Mar 14, 2009
A case in point is Cambodia, where Khmer Rouge leaders are finally being tried 30 years after they were overthrown ... Cambodia is the classic example of what happens when the international community puts off the hard work of justice in the name of realpolitik ... That allowed the Khmer Rouge even to retain Cambodias seat at United Nations. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
A drama of closure for victims and perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge Mar 14, 2009
In Cambodia's Takeo Province, night fell on a field across from the village pagoda ... The Cambodian actors, dressed in street clothes, began speaking in Khmer ... Written by a Dutch director, Annemarie Prins, "Breaking the Silence" is based on oral testimony from Khmer Rouge members and victims who had taken part in interviews at the Documentation Center of Cambodia. (International Herald Tribune)
Wanted: 20L bottles of 'poll' ink Mar 11, 2009
MVPL also exports the voters' ink to a few countries such as Canada, Cambodia, the Maldives, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa and Turkey. Text. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Trial on trial Mar 11, 2009
Corruption allegations are unfortunately nothing new at the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, or ECCC. Since 2006 there have been repeated calls by watchdog groups for an investigation into media reports that Cambodian staff and judges at the ECCC had to pay up to 30 percent of their salary to get and keep their job. In 2008, several Cambodian whistle-blowers filed complaints with UN staff members alleging corruption at the tribunal ... The UN carried out a review of these... (International Herald Tribune)
Philip Bowring: Asean's growing pains Mar 2, 2009
Myanmar, together with Cambodia, also undermined Asean's purported efforts to find common standards. The two refused to meet with civil society representatives from their countries. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
In Geithner We Trust Eludes Treasury as Financial Markets Fail to Recover Feb 26, 2009
He visited refugee camps in Cambodia, taking black-and- white photographs of people displaced by s campaign of genocide. Geithner graduated from the International School Bangkok, where he studied with children of expatriates from around the world. (Bloomberg)
U.S. State Department rights report give Asia mixed reviews Feb 26, 2009
Countries such as Myanmar, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia were sharply criticized, while Indonesia and Thailand received generally high marks ... CAMBODIA: The State Department said the government's record "remained poor" during 2008, and it criticized extrajudicial killings by security forces, arbitrary arrests, prolonged pretrial detentions, a weak judiciary and denials of the right to a fair trial ... Seizures of private land for government and commercial projects has caused extensive... (International Herald Tribune)
Whom do sanctions hurt? Feb 21, 2009
Yet the country receives less than $3 of official development assistance per capita - as compared to $38 for Cambodia and $49 for Laos. A range of Western donors are already working successfully in Myanmar. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Rohingya migrants; Wake up America Feb 21, 2009
In my French language class in Geneva, there are students from Ukraine, Russia, Holland, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Brazil, Albania, Cambodia, Lithuania, and a couple of other countries. I am the only American. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Kenya: Framework for the Special Tribunal [opinion] Feb 21, 2009
The Kenyan system has the appearance of independence, competence, and effectiveness (at least when compared to Cambodia) ... In Cambodia if the government were to subvert the purposes of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the UN would withdraw. (allAfrica.com)
We shall all be at this trial Feb 17, 2009
After 10 years of detention, Kaing Guek Eav, alias Comrade Duch, is to appear on Wednesday before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was arrested in 1999, after 20 years of living incognito, for crimes committed on his orders as commander of the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh from 1975 to 1979, when the Khmer Rouge controlled Cambodia and were responsible for the deaths of more than a million people ... I had been doing... (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Freelance journalist back from 3rd Iraq trip Feb 16, 2009
Later this month, Wade plans to travel to Cambodia to cover Khmer Rouge war-crime trials. Contact Neale at 242-3638 or. (Florida Today)
Creating a better civil society Feb 13, 2009
If they can't get what they want in Indonesia, they will go to Cambodia or Vietnam or anywhere on this planet where labor is dirt cheap. Is that what civil society is all about. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
Jolie concern at Rohingya plight Feb 7, 2009
Over the years millions have fled here from war, poverty and repression in neighbouring countries; from Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1970s and 80s, and more recently from Laos and Burma. Some have been allowed to work, albeit illegally, some confined to camps, and some expelled. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Best Laid Plans Mar 31, 2008
The LAT fronts, and everybody else reefers, the death of Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose amazing story of survival in the brutal Khmer Rouge regime served ... Dith helped Sydney Schanberg, the NYT journalist who covered the rise of the Khmer Rouge, make sense of Cambodia ... When Schanberg was forced to get out of Cambodia, he had to leave Dith behind. (Slate)
Infotainment Mar 30, 2008
Ricky the dadcambodia: Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin holds babies during a visit to a shelter for victims of sexual exploitation in Siem Reap, a northwestern province of Cambodia. ap. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Cambodia takes steps to curb soaring rice and food prices Mar 28, 2008
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Cambodia's government appealed for calm Thursday as it rushed out a series of economic measures to address soaring food prices ... Finance Minister Keat Chhon appealed for the Cambodian people to remain calm ... The garment industry is the major export earnings sector in Cambodia, where some 35 percent of the country's 14 million people live on less than 50 cents a day. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
West Anchorage Assembly race offers clear choices Mar 28, 2008
He's also a union laborer who says he had to leave a business behind in Cambodia in 1997 because he was too outspoken about human rights ... He said he's also trained health care workers in Haiti and supervised election planning in Cambodia for the United Nations. (Anchorage Daily News)
War Stories and Cameras Mar 26, 2008
John Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia" yarn ignited the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ... "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared -- seared -- in me." ... Hillary Clinton is having her "Cambodian" moment -- her claim that she... (Townhall.com)
Post a comment Mar 24, 2008
Mass bombing of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos ... Posted by: Moeun Chhean Nariddh, Phnom Penh Cambodia 21 March 2008. (International Herald Tribune)
A torturous road to nation-building Mar 21, 2008
CAMBODIA'S NIGHTMARE ... Not a lot of readers would turn first to Cambodia ... With a national election coming in July, Cambodia needs some attention well in advance. (International Herald Tribune)
Pastor to the President? Mar 18, 2008
We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against (Fidel) Castro and (Muammar) Ghadhafi ... We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against (Fidel) Castro and (Muammar) Ghadhafi. (Townhall.com)
The Bush Tragedy Mar 18, 2008
Wead had been involved in a group called Mercy Corps International, doing missionary relief work in Ethiopia and Cambodia, and gave inspirational speeches at Amway meetings. He was also a prolific memo writer. (Slate)
Six Signs the US Is Not Headed for War in Iran Mar 15, 2008
China 1956 Budapest Chruchow 1968 Prag Breznew 1975 Cambodia Pol Pot 1991 saddam 2001 taliban 2003 saddam 2009 amadinadshad ... China 1956 Budapest Chruchow 1968 Prag Breznew 1975 Cambodia Pol Pot 1991 saddam 2001 taliban 2003 saddam 2009 amadinadshad. (Washington Post)
WSJ: Obama and the Minister... Mar 15, 2008
Mr. Wright thundered on: "America is still the No. 1 killer in the world. . . . We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns, and the training of professional killers . . . We bombed Cambodia, Iraq and Nicaragua, killing women and children while trying to get public opinion turned against Castro and Ghadhafi . . . We put [Nelson] Mandela in prison and supported apartheid the whole 27 years he was there. We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it... (The Drudge Report)
Scholars work to end modern slavery Mar 15, 2008
To many people, slavery in America holds a dark place in history that ended more than a century ago; however, recent prostitution rings involving trafficked women from Thailand, Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia in cities across the U.S. prove slavery remains and may be gaining ground in post-Katrina New Orleans ... "Women of all ages from the Far East, in countries like Vietnam and Cambodia (are involved)," said Colleen Sheehan, a sociology sophomore involved with the project. (The Maroon, LA)
Top of the Gallop poll Mar 7, 2008
He's travelled to Cambodia, Malaysia and Mozambique for work with the university, he writes for newspapers, he is a sought-after public speaker and last month was appointed to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission. "I'm very busy but it's a different sort of busy, I suppose. I have time to read, to write and to think. I like to think. I'm really keen on theology. "I don't regret anything. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
14 comments Mar 6, 2008
I enjoy reading Christopher Hitchens, but he has major heartburn with Henry Kissinger and Nixon for violating the "sovreignty" of Cambodia during the Vietnam war when we chased the VC and NVA across the border ... I'm with W on this: if the other country is not actively taking steps to keep these rebels out of their territority (such as Cambodia back then and Pakistan now, for instance), then they are effectively waging war against us, and we have the right to attack. (Human Events Online)
Temple heritage bid unites Thailand and Cambodia over border Mar 5, 2008
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to lay aside a century-long dispute over a temple complex on their border ... The Preah Vihear Hindu temple was built in the 11th and 12th centuries on the top of mountains that form the Thai-Cambodian border ... Thailand's Prime Minister has returned from a visit to Cambodia promising to back attempts to register the temple area, but not the surrounding land, as a UNESCO World Heritage site. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Khmer Rouge backpacker killer dies while serving life Feb 17, 2008
PHNOM PENH: The former Cambodian Khmer Rouge commander Sam Bith, who was serving a life sentence for the kidnapping and murder of three Western backpackers, including the Australian David Wilson, has died ... Thirteen Cambodians died in the attack, and the Westerners were held for two months by Khmer Rouge rebels before ransom negotiations collapsed and they were killed by their captors ... The murders triggered an international outcry and opened a long and emotional legal wrangle that has... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
A Funny Thing About Revolutions.... Feb 14, 2008
But things miscarried badly in France, Russia, China, Cuba and Cambodia as risings from the left saw the vanguard first kill off the enemies and then each other ... But things miscarried badly in France, Russia, China, Cuba and Cambodia as risings from the left saw the vanguard first kill off the enemies and then each other. (Townhall.com)
Democrats Abroad vote in Cambodia primary Feb 12, 2008
(02-12) 04:00 PST Phnom Penh, Cambodia -- Cambodia's capital played host to a U.S. primary for the first time last week , drawing U.S. citizens from around the country ... In Cambodia, about 1,800 Americans are registered as residents, according to the U.S. Embassy ... In Cambodia, organizers said 78 percent voted for Obama, 21 percent supported Clinton and 1 percent remained uncommitted. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Asia's small-business chiefssee healthy outlook Feb 12, 2008
"As my country becomes less competitive amid rising costs such as labor costs, US buyers are looking at other destinations in the region, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Pakistan and Laos," he said. His company, which has let staff numbers fall through natural attrition, now employs a total of only 200 people at its two factories in the north of Thailand, compared with 600 in five factories two years ago. (Asia Times Online)
Far-flung investments get their place in the sun Feb 9, 2008
From his base in London, he travels frequently to Cambodia, Uzbekistan, Kenya and other far-flung corners of the world looking for stocks to add to his portfolio. He is also one of the calmest individuals in a notoriously nervous business. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Money woes threaten Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal Feb 8, 2008
The tribunal trying Cambodia's former leaders says it needs to triple its $56 ... Reporter Erika Kinetz talks about the disconnect between Cambodian citizens and the Khmer Rouge tribunal ... Phnom Penh, Cambodia - The top surviving Khmer Rouge leader appeared in court this week for the first time, three decades after the virulent communist regime allegedly oversaw the deaths of some 1. (Christian Science Monitor)
Americans Overseas Kick Off Super Tuesday Feb 6, 2008
Polling booths were being set up in locations ranging from a doughnut shop in Cambodia, to a pub in Ireland, to a French cafe. CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen in Tokyo says, for Americans living abroad, it's never been easier to follow the election. (WTKR.com, VA)
Overseas Voters Start Casting Ballots Feb 5, 2008
Polling booths were being set up in a doughnut shop in Cambodia, a pub in Ireland, and a Starbucks in Thailand. Some 6 million expatriates are eligible to vote, but only a fraction have done so in the past. (CBS News)
