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Cambodia is alarmed at the illegal import of pigs from the neighboring country of Vietnam. Srun Pov, president of Association of Pigs Raising in Cambodia, said Wednesday that about 1,000 pigs are illegally imported from Vietnam into Cambodia every day, and some of them are ill.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, July 27 (UPI) — A 67-year-old maths teacher, Christian convert and Khmer Rouge cadre was given a 35-year jail sentence for crimes against humanity committed during Cambodia’s darkest days. Cambodia - Khmer Rouge - PHNOM PENH - Asia - Crime against humanity
Cambodia war crimes trial opens to issue verdict
When the UN-backed court announced on Tuesday that Kaing Guek Eav, better known as “Comrade Duch”, 75, had been sentenced to 35 years’ imprisonment, it was a historic day for Cambodia. It was a day wh …..
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Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court on Monday gives its verdict on the Khmer Rouge prison chief, in a step towards justice for the “Killing Fields” atrocities more than three decades ago.
Police clash with garment factory workers as they attempt to break up a strike in Cambodia, says a trade union.
New York, Jul 26 2010 11:10AM Three decades after nearly 2 million people perished under Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia, a United Nations-backed tribunal issued its first verdict today, finding the former head of a notorious detention camp guilty of crimes against humanity.
Thailand’s Natural Resources and Environment Minister Suwit Khunkitti made several attempts on Thursday (July 29) to block Cambodia’s Preah Vihear temple management plan from the World Heritage Committee’s consideration while the delegation from Phnom Penh stood firm.
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AFP - China this week staged a large naval and air exercise on its southeast coast, as South Korea and the United States conducted their own naval drill opposed by Beijing, state media said Friday.
AP - Thousands of garment workers unhappy over their wages rampaged through central Dhaka on Friday, clashing with police who used tear gas and batons to clear the streets.
Reuters - Authorities in China’s southern city of Guangzhou will punish people who try and organize any more protests in support of the Cantonese dialect, a state-run newspaper said on Friday.
AFP - The death toll from flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan rose to nearly 200 on Friday as officials reported thousands more displaced.
AP - Honda’s quarterly profit ballooned to 272.4 billion yen ($3.2 billion) and the carmaker raised its full year earnings forecast as sales grew in North America, Japan and the rest of Asia.
AFP - Google said Friday its services appeared to be back up and running normally in China, after the US web giant reported that access to its search engine and other products were being blocked.
AFP - Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was Friday admitted to hospital for surgery to treat severe stomach pain — one month after he was dramatically removed from office by his own party.
AFP - Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers blocked highways, attacked factories and looted shops in Dhaka on Friday, police said, after rejecting the terms of a government wage hike.
AFP - Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan’s volatile south, NATO said Friday.
AP - Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.
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AP - Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly 9-year-war.
AP - Soldiers killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico’s most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organized crime in 2006.
AP - The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 313 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.
AP - A U.S. couple was deported in shackles Thursday from Nicaragua to Panama, where they face charges of killing two Americans and questioning in the disappearances of 5 other people.
AP - In the crowded Taipei theater, Eddy Fang laughs politely at the Chinese ensemble’s comic references to jealous husbands and overweight wives but can’t help thinking it’s all a bit lowbrow in relatively sophisticated Taiwan.
Time.com - U.S. efforts to cajole Mahmoud Abbas into talks with the Israelis have yet to yield results. But the Obama Administration could soon find itself on the spot if such talks went ahead
AFP - The real jewel in Britain’s actual crown will not be returning to India, Prime Minister David Cameron said as he ruled out any repatriation of the famed Kohinoor diamond.
AP - Gaza militants fired a rocket into the Israeli city of Ashkelon early Friday, the military said, a rare strike in a period of relative quiet.
AP - The U.S. closed its consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez on Thursday pending a security review, an unexpected decision that comes months after drug gangs killed three people tied to the consulate.
AFP - King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Thursday granted pardons or reduced sentences to nearly 1,000 people to mark his 11 years on the throne, the justice ministry said.