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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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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 - 1 hour 7 minutes ago
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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New York Times - Wed Dec 2, 8:03 am ET
The trial in Phnom Penh of Kaing Guek Eav, one of the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, has finished its first phase, 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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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.
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Los Angeles Times - Sat Nov 28, 3:11 am ET
After months of admitting guilt and expressing remorse, Kang Kek Ieu, better known as Duch, challenges the legitimacy of the U.N.-Cambodian war crimes tribunal. A former Khmer Rouge prison chief who presided over the torture of about 15,000 prisoners who were later executed astonished observers of Cambodia's first genocide trial Friday by asking judges to release him because he had already ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Mon Nov 30, 2:26 am ET
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The first trial to showcase the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge three decades ago concluded with the regime's chief torturer still seemingly unable to grasp the magnitude of his actions. Yet despite that surprising end, the trial may have helped Cambodia begin to move beyond the horrors of its past.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 29, 12:31 am ET
A last-minute bid for release by Khmer Rouge jail chief Duch has underscored deep rifts between foreign and Cambodian staff that threaten the UN-backed court, officials and diplomats said.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Dec 1, 10:46 pm ET
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's war crimes tribunal on Wednesday announced the much-delayed appointment of its new international co-prosecutor following the resignation of Canada's Robert Petit earlier this year. In a press statement, the tribunal said Briti...
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 1, 7:11 am ET
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Group of Cambodia Ltd. , owner of the country’s biggest mobile-phone company, hired Standard Bank Group Ltd. and Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. to arrange a $421 million loan.
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The Scranton Times-Tribune - Tue Dec 1, 4:26 am ET
BANGKOK - Conservationists searching for one of the world's most endangered crocodile species say they have found dozens of the reptiles lounging in plain sight - at a wildlife rescue center in Cambodia. DNA taken from 69 crocodiles housed in the moats o
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KJCT 8 Grand Junction - Thu Nov 26, 11:35 pm ET
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Closing arguments were expected to conclude Friday in the genocide trial of a Khmer Rouge prison chief, with the two sides sparing over how much the former Cambodian school teacher should be held accountable for the regime's brutality.