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...good that governors from other provinces are [saying], 'Must have a REDD project' rather than 'Let's log it all and convert it into oil palm.'" In partnership with the Australian investment bank Macquarie Group, FFI has six other REDD schemes: three in Indonesia and others in Cambodia, Ecuador and Liberia. Last month, governors Irwandi and Schwarzenegger joined 30 other subnational leaders - including a dozen other U.S. governors and the leaders of forest-rich Brazilian states Amazonas and Mato Grosso - at a climate summit in Los Angeles, where they called upon governments to include REDD within the global framework...
When the Khmer Rouge emptied the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh of human inhabitants in 1975, one of Pol Pot's soldiers murdered 4-year-old Theary Seng's father. Later, Theary Seng, her mother and siblings ended up in a prison in southeast Cambodia. One day, Theary Seng awoke to an empty cell - the prison population had been massacred overnight. In a rare act of mercy, the Khmer Rouge soldiers allowed the handful of children to survive. Theary Seng eventually escaped to a Thai refugee camp and then to the U.S. Her story is by no means unique in Cambodia...
...director Tony Ellwood says the triennial specializes in breaking new ground, with APT6 presenting work "from countries that have never before been represented." These include Cambodia, Turkey, Burma and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.). Representatives of the latter have been "in conversation" with APT6 lead curator Suhanya Raffel via an intermediary - the Beijing-based British filmmaker Nicholas Bonner. His connections with the Pyongyang-based Mansudae Art Studio helped secure 70 works: paintings, prints and mosaics influenced by the socialist-realist styles of Russia and China. Raffel says their inclusion recognizes "different, parallel art histories that have developed...
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Thailand and Cambodia recalled ambassadors from each other's countries in an escalating diplomatic row over Cambodia's decision to name Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as its new economic adviser. Cambodia refused a request to extradite Thaksin, who was ousted in a bloodless coup in 2006 and faces two years in prison for a corruption conviction if he returns home...