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Issue of Thai engineer jailed in Phnom Penh may be raised at Thai-Cambodian

Thai News Agency MCOT Issue of Thai engineer jailed in Phnom Penh may be raised at Thai-Cambodian ... Thai News Agency MCOT PATTAYA, Nov 27 (TNA) - The issue of the Thai engineer detained in Cambodia and the temporary closure...

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Cambodia Warming to Idea of Foreign Ownership

Just three decades after the downfall of the Khmer Rouge, a deadly regime that left behind little notion of private property, a law that would allow foreigners to buy some kinds of real estate here appears to be nearing approval.

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Khmer Rouge chief torturer seeks acquittal

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer shocked a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal on Friday by asking to be freed at the end of a nine-month trial of the first member of the ultra-communist regime to...

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Cambodia promotes special Olympic sports event

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation with the support from Australian Embassy held the special Olympic sport...

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Cambodia to develop solar power to meet domestic need

PHNOM PENH, Nov 25, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Ten companies from eight countries have sought permission to invest in solar energy projects in Cambodia after the August removal of a 15 percent duty on imports of the materials...

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Death toll of A/H1N1 flu in Cambodia increases to 5

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of A/H1N1 flu in Cambodia has increased to five and the virus infected rate topped 28 cases for one week, official of the Health Ministry said on Thursday. "The fifth person who...

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Torturer's 'life was at stake'

Phnom Penh - The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer had to "kill or be killed" and operate like an "obedient machine", his lawyer said on Thursday in defending the first member of Cambodia's murderous regime to face...

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Long prison term sought for Khmer Rouge jail chief

In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, right, the former chief of the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison, now known as Tuol Sleng genocide museum, talks with his lawyer...

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A Buddhist Kingdom's Descent Into Hell

In light of this story in the Washington Post today about the trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief, I thought I would post a story I wrote for publication while I was in Cambodia. It was never published, as the travel...

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Court urged to accept Khmer Rouge jailer's remorse

AFP Court urged to accept Khmer Rouge jailer's remorse AFP PHNOM PENH — The lawyer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge jail chief urged judges Thursday to recognise his client's remorse, as the landmark first UN-backed trial over the...

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