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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 3:47 am ET
Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said Thursday.
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Time Magazine - Mon Nov 30, 11:39 pm ET
The trial of Duch, the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer who oversaw the deaths of 15,000 Cambodians, has ended, but the most difficult challenges for Khmer Rouge tribunal may still be ahead
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AP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 1:59 am ET
A group of 22 Uighurs who fled after ethnic rioting in western China are seeking asylum in Cambodia after using an underground network of missionaries in China that has helped North Korean refugees in the past.
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Fox News - Wed Dec 2, 11:01 am ET
The European Union will provide $3 million in additional funding for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide trial, an EU official said Wednesday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 3:14 pm ET
When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Wed Dec 2, 1:39 am ET
The Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal said Wednesday that it has appointed a new international prosecutor whose most recent job was defending former Liberian President Charles Taylor at his war crimes trial. Andrew T. Cayley of Britain, who has also served as a... Khmer Rouge - War crime - Cambodia - Genocide - Warfare and Conflict
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 2:53 am ET
Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court has rejected a request by lawyers for a former Khmer Rouge leader to examine two judges at the tribunal for bias, said documents released Tuesday.
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Washington Post - Thu Dec 3, 12:00 am ET
Twenty-two members of a Chinese ethnic group who participated in violent demonstrations against China last summer have surfaced in Cambodia, sparking concerns that Cambodia will ignore their requests for asylum and return them to China.
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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 3, 9:31 pm ET
Kampong Trach, Cambodia - On a small plot of earth 10 kilometres outside a dusty provincial town in southern Cambodia, farmer Nuon Yan tends his crop. Like most farmers in Cambodia, Nuon Yan grows rice. But today he is tending his other crop: Kampot ...
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Everett Herald - Thu Dec 3, 6:48 pm ET
HANOI, Vietnam — When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco. Many become hooked, and the World Health Organization warned today it is a tradition putting the health of both mothers and babies at risk.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Thu Dec 3, 2:27 am ET
A "historic" event -- in the words of some experts and observers -- finished its first momentous phase in Cambodia a few days ago, but it doesn't seem as though many in the United States know or care.
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Foreign Policy Blogs - Tue Dec 1, 7:48 pm ET
Things have been difficult for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), pretty much from the start. The one thing the UN-backed court charged with holding the leadership of the Khmer Rouge responsible for their crimes had going for it was that its first defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, better known by his nom de [...]
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The Brown and White - Thu Dec 3, 1:52 pm ET
A group of Lehigh students and professors traveled to Cambodia, from Oct. 30 to Nov.8, as part of an effort to forge a partnership between Lehigh and nonprofit organization Caring for Cambodia.
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New York Times - Sun Nov 29, 8:38 pm ET
The first trial to showcase the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge three decades ago may have helped Cambodia begin to move beyond the horrors of its past.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 2, 9:39 am ET
Cambodia will soon start construction on a building to house its first stock exchange which it hopes will help draw foreign investment to the impoverished country, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday.