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...NOTEBOOK Cambodia: Bullets & Ballots N. Korea: Gulag nation Japan: Time to panic? Milestones Verbatim Letters...
Politics in Cambodia can be a lethal business. In recent months, unknown assailants have murdered nearly a dozen people in what appear to be political vendettas. Last week, popular singer Touch Srey Nich, 24, was leaving a flower shop in Phnom Penh when four gunmen on motorbikes?two in military uniform?opened fire, killing Touch's 62-year-old mother and leaving the singer with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. (She is now in critical condition in a Bangkok hospital.) Touch is known by many as the "voice of Funcinpec"?the royalist opposition party?and her rendition of Funcinpec...
...NOTEBOOK Cambodia: Bullets & Ballots N. Korea: Gulag nation Japan: Time to panic? Milestones Verbatim Letters...
...countries have a political divide like Cambodia's. In the '90s the nation was ruled by two Prime Ministers and two Cabinets, with power split between Funcinpec and the Cambodia's People Party (headed by current Prime Minister Hun Sen). That divide still splits the country: a national election in July left Hun Sen short of the parliamentary support he needs to rule?under Cambodia's constitution, the National Assembly can't convene without a party or coalition controlling two-thirds of the votes. So far, his attempts to form a coalition have fallen through...
...NOTEBOOK Cambodia: Bullets & Ballots N. Korea: Gulag nation Japan: Time to panic? Milestones Verbatim Letters...