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...nice if they let us stay.”‘ANOTHER HARVARD SQUARE?’Not everyone objects to the idea of Harvard in their neighborhood. Sengh Chea served in Vietnam as a medic for the U. S. Army from 1969 until 1975. Originally from Cambodia, he fled the country for the United States in 1981, after he and his wife were tortured in a prison by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime. Six months after their arrival in the United States, Chea divorced his wife and never saw their two children again. One of them...
...Hanoi doesn't see Chanh in quite the same light. The government accuses him of masterminding a failed 1999 plot to blow up Vietnamese monuments and of ordering the 2001 bombing of its embassy in Phnom Penh, as well as other attempted attacks both in Cambodia and Thailand. In a 2001 interview with TIME, Chanh boasted of his involvement in the 1999 plot; he added that his operatives in Vietnam were planning more bombings to destabilize the government and that he "control[led] the codes" for the explosives. The Vietnamese government has declined to say whether it is seeking Chanh...
...convicted of molesting two underage Vietnamese girls, both 11 at the time; to the minimum sentence of three years in prison; in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Gadd, who has maintained his innocence, was convicted in 1999 of possessing child pornography in Britain and in 2002 was expelled from Cambodia after he came under suspicion of pedophilia. He will be eligible for parole as soon as November...
...Asia's two most famous temple sites?Cambodia's Angkor Wat and Burma's Bagan?each have their partisans. Some say that Angkor's location amid dense foliage lends its ruins a heightened sense of mystery and romance. Others argue that the dry plain of Bagan provides a superior experience because there is no jungle to obstruct the view of its thousands of temples and pagodas. Given that operators at both places offer views from hot-air balloons, the debate can also be conducted in the air. The Angkor balloon is tethered 1 km away from the actual landmark, because...
RETURNED. SAM RAINSY, 56, outspoken Cambodian opposition leader; to his home country; ending a year of self-imposed exile in France to avoid imprisonment on charges of defaming the government; in Phnom Penh. Rainsy, who fled Cambodia last February after being stripped of his parliamentary immunity, was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for linking Prime Minister Hun Sen to a fatal grenade attack at an opposition rally in 1997. Last week Rainsy received a pardon from King Norodom Sihamoni after issuing a statement expressing regret and pledging to temper his criticism of the country's leaders...