The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's war crimes tribunal concluded its final week on Friday with war crimes suspect Comrade Duch asking judges to acquit him and release him when they hand down judgement early next year. I would like the chamber to release me, D...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of deaths at an infamous torture center asked Cambodia's genocide tribunal to release him Friday, citing the decade he already has served in jail and his cooperation with the panel.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's war crimes tribunal saw a remarkable turn of events Thursday when the defendant's two lawyers presented contradictory closing arguments in the trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison camp commander Comrade Duch. Duch, whose rea...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - 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 justice.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Phnom Penh - The defence in Cambodia's war crimes tribunal showed signs of falling apart Thursday as the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison camp commander Comrade Duch entered its scheduled final day. Duch's international defence lawyer Francois Roux...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer and jailer expressed "excruciating remorse" on Wednesday for more than 14,000 people killed under his watch at a notorious prison during Cambodia's ultra-Maoist revolution of the 1970s.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence Wednesday for a man who they described as snuffing out innocent lives and spreading terror across Cambodia.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Phnom Penh - The prosecution at Cambodia's war crimes tribunal called Wednesday for judges to hand down a 40-year jail term to Comrade Duch, the former commander of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison known as S-21. Co-prosecutor William Smith sa...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Phnom Penh - The prosecution at Cambodia's war crimes tribunal called Tuesday for judges to hand down a lengthy jail term to Comrade Duch, the former commander of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison. Co-prosecutor Chea Leang said the evidence sho...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The Khmer Rouge's chief torturer ran a camp "dedicated to death" with broad autonomy, a lawyer said on Monday in closing arguments at the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal in Cambodia.
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav pursued his role with zeal and had no empathy for his victims despite his expressions of remorse over...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Phnom Penh - Cambodia rejected Monday a Thai media claim that the daughter of Prime Minister Hun Sen is to take a stake in a Thai firm at the centre of a spying row. A cabinet statement said the government's management of Cambodia Air Traffic Service...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Phnom Penh - Cambodia's war crimes tribunal heard closing arguments Monday from civil party lawyers in the trial of Comrade Duch, the former commander of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious prison. Lawyers for four groups of civil parties repeatedly que...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Phnom Penh - Closing arguments began Monday in the trial of the former Khmer Rouge prison camp commander Duch, who is charged with crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention. Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, ran the i...
Malaysia Property News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
KUALA LUMPUR: Ahmad Zaki Resources Bhd has secured a project from the Public Works Department worth RM309.4mil to build a complex along Jalan Sultan Salahuddin, Kuala Lumpur. In a statement to Bursa Malaysia yesterday, Ahmad Zaki said the works were to be completed from Dec 1, 2009 to May 28, 2012. It added that the project was expected to contribute positively to the group’s earnings and the...
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careca | 01/08/2009
July 18: car until Phnom Penh (Cambodian capital); uneventful trip through the Cambodian countryside. The campaign, cad throughout except Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh is ugly, smelly and dangerous. Cambodia is a third world country and its capital has nothing to envy those of Somalia, or in Beirut. Result we cloitres at the hotel until the next morning. July 19: car until Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)...
cambodiaguide | 09/05/2008
Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, sits on the banks of the Tonle Sap river, at the confluence of two other rivers, the Bassac and the mighty Mekong, and it holds an undeniable charm despite its recent tumultuous and violent past. In the early 1900’s, the height of French colonialism, Phnom Penh was known as ‘The Paris of the East’, and colonial style villas set along tree-lined boulevards still...
cambodiaguide | 08/01/2008
I suppose if you were to pick two places to visit in Cambodia in hope of grasping a bit of what its about they would be the two we visited: the capital Phnom Penh and arguably the most amazing ruins on the planet, the temples of Angkor Wat. Lose yourself in the magnificence of a lost civilization. Angkor is the heart and soul of Cambodia , a place of extravagant beauty and the perfect fusion of creative...
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