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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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National Jeweler - Mon Dec 7, 4:35 pm ET
San Dimas, Calif.--Chi Huynh, founder and chief executive officer of Galatea: Jewelry by Artist, is donating the first white South Sea and red coral Galatea Mercy Pearl from his company's new pearl-farming venture in Vietnam for an auction to benefit Friends Without A Border, a charitable organization that supports the Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia.
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Christian News Wire - Mon Dec 7, 9:11 am ET
LUSAKA, Zambia, Dec. 7 / Christian Newswire / -- Since November 19, World Vision and thousands of people around the world have been traveling the globe in search of the Christmas spirit as part of the Christian humanitarian agency's "Spirit of Christmas" tour . The month-long tour features interviews and stories with children and families in the United States, Ecuador, Cambodia, Zambia and ...
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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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The Stockton Record - Sun Dec 6, 10:01 pm ET
STOCKTON - They had hung a purple drape across two walls of their front room for the ceremony. A monk sat on a cushion at the front of the room, and beside him an elderly man sang a Khmer song of mourning.
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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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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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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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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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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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CBS News - Thu Dec 3, 1:30 pm ET
Pregnant Women who Suffer Morning Sickness Often Use Chewing Tobacco for Nausea; Many Become Hooked
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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 ...