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...property originally belonged to a Hokkien merchant, Tan Bunpa, a prominent member of the Chinese community who was granted Cambodian citizenship in 1930. Tan's family was forced to give up the house when the Khmer Rouge seized power in the 1970s, but in 2007 the property was returned to family hands when it was purchased by one of Tan's descendants, who then leased it to de Suremain. This sort of happy ending is all too rare in Phnom Penh...
...When the film was first released, Germany had so much trouble with its frolicking, tap-dancing SS Storm Troopers and gay Führer singing "Heil myself" that it wasn't shown in German cinemas until the mid-1970s. The musical opened on Broadway in 2001, and has played around the world, even sparking raucous laughter from Jews in Tel Aviv. But until now, no one had the nerve to host it in Berlin. Germans who wanted to see it had to go to London, New York City or Vienna. (See 10 things to do in New York...
...just how high expectations became on a quick tour of the Neustadt residential district on the western edge of Halle. Neustadt is a depressing example of Soviet-style urban planning, with row upon row of gray concrete blocks, built in the 1970s to house some of the 40,000 people who worked at the chemical factories that once dominated the local economy. Firms with names such as Buna and Leuna belched pollutants into Halle's air while churning out products whose quality lagged far behind western examples...
...have yet to reach the depths of what he has done.' WILLIAM BRATTON, Los Angeles police chief, on John Floyd Thomas Jr., 72, whose DNA was matched to two 1970s murders; he is believed to have killed as many as 30 people...
...Rosenberg's murder has recalled the days in which tens of thousands of political dissidents were abducted and killed by the government. Colom's own uncle, a former mayor of Guatemala City, was "disappeared" in 1979. "Rosenberg's death mirrors the tactics the military government used during the 1970s and 1980s when they wanted someone silenced," says Isaacs...