Word: cambodians
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...Travellers' Tales," a column poking fun at bad use of English in Asia, remained one of the magazine's most popular features, even when Asian readers far outnumbered expatriates. In 1997, the Review snared one of the biggest scoops ever in Asia: an interview with Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator responsible for the Killing Fields of the mid-1970s, who died half a year later. Asia has lost one of its most measured weekly pulse takers. Numbers 142 Number of U.S. newspapers that have endorsed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, including the New York Times and Washington Post, compared with...
...whose real name is Phanom Yeeram, grew up in Thailand's rural northeast, a region most notable for its poverty and, in the early 1980s, the occasional mortar round fired across the Cambodian border by the Khmer Rouge. "Some days we'd be sitting down to dinner and the mortars would explode in the village, blowing out our windows and doors," Jaa says. He escaped these grim realities by viewing the films of Chan and Lee on outdoor screens at temple fairs. "It was powerful for me to watch," he says. "What they did was so beautiful, so heroic...
...RATIFIED. An AGREEMENT between the United Nations and the Cambodian government to create an international tribunal to try former leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime; in Phnom Penh. After almost six years of negotiations and delay, the 107 members present in Cambodia's 123-seat assembly voted unanimously to approve the proceedings, the focus of which will probably be on seven alleged former leaders from the brutal reign of Pol Pot. They are expected to be tried for atrocities committed from 1975 to 1979, when an estimated 2 million Cambodians were executed, starved or tortured to death...
...Sihanouk does step down, it may be because he's tired of trying to mediate among his country's warring political factions. "He's upset with the evolution of the country," says Thun Saray, a Cambodian political analyst. Sihanouk, once Cambodia's dominant political force, set up the royalist Funcinpec party now run by his son Prince Norodom Ranariddh, but the prince is not the political operator his father was. Prime Minister Hun Sen is now firmly in control: he overthrew the prince in a 1997 coup and has since won two controversial elections. In August, Hun Sen persuaded Ranariddh...
...RELEASED. KEVIN DOYLE, editor of the Cambodia Daily and reporter for TIME, by Cambodian officials after being detained for more than 36 hours for alleged "human trafficking" while reporting on Montagnard refugees; in Ratanakiri province. Doyle, along with another journalist and a human-rights worker, was held by military authorities in northeast Cambodia, where hundreds of Montagnards fleeing Vietnam are attempting to reach the safety of a shelter provided by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...