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Scott Tind Simmons was at his office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, when he started to feel sick. By the time he got to bed, his flu-like symptoms gave way to achy joints and feverish dreams. That's when he got suspicious that he had dengue fever, the mosquito-borne virus that, in its deadly form, causes blood to seep from the bloodstream into tissue and eventually from the body's orifices. Several days later, doctors diagnosed the expat aid worker with a milder, non-lethal variation of the disease. Since there are no drugs or vaccines for dengue, Tind...
...find yourself in Phnom Penh and overwhelmed by a craving for tapas - the collective name for those platefuls of Spanish tidbits that accompany drinking or form a prelude to a meal - then you're in luck. You'll find the only tapas bar (and Spanish restaurant) in Cambodia, perched on the second floor of a restored colonial villa at Sisowath Quay...
...hearing that ended Wednesday in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh was a watershed for Cambodia. With almost three decades having elapsed since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, some believed a tribunal would never take place, and that justice would not be served for the estimated 1.7 million people who died during the regime?s radical political and social experiment between...
...CAMBODIA...
...Iengs' arrests are the third and fourth of five former Khmer Rouge leaders targeted by the co-prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) - the official name of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal established in Phnom Penh. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the regime's chief jailer and torturer, was the first suspect to be detained in July. Second-in-command Nuon Chea was arrested in September. Khieu Samphan, the regime's onetime head of state, is the last surviving senior leader at large and many believe that his is the fifth name...