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...Department, fed up with the impunity enjoyed by traffickers here, relegated Cambodia to it lowest tier 3 rating on its global trafficking report. Cambodia was lumped in with Burma, Cuba and North Korea, and Washington threatened sanctions against Phnom Penh for its inability to comply with "minimum standards" to combat human trafficking and convict officials involved...
...though the government may have the political will to combat pedophiles, it will also need to allocate physical and legal resources, Chanthol Oung said. Pedophiles are adapting to the new regime, and are working together in networks for safety and studying the loopholes in Cambodia law that could see them walk free if they are arrested, Chanthol Oung warned. "They are still coming, but they are being smarter," she said. Which means the authorities will have to stay even smarter if they are to have more success rooting out "tourists" who are no longer welcome...
Hacker is directing several programs as alternatives to a ban on trans fats that combat obesity and other health issues. “Golden Shoes” is a program where children search for golden-colored shoes throughout Cambridge to encourage exercise. In the Cambridge Public Schools, health progress reports are distributed to parents to get them involved in monitoring their children’s health...
...question everyoneseems to be asking is, Why Emily? U.S. Army 2nd Lieut. Emily Perez, 23, was buried last week at West Point, on a high bluff over the Hudson River, alongside two centuries of fallen graduates from the U.S. Military Academy. Hers was the first combat death in the 2005 graduating class--called the class of 9/11 because they arrived on campus just two weeks before the terrorist attacks. She was also the first female West Point graduate to be killed in Iraq...
...keeping with that history, the Lloyd's warning might be seen as a wholesale call to combat climate change. But few issues in the insurance business are that simple. The fact is, most big insurers like Prudential, Travelers and AIG are heavy investors in businesses that are believed to contribute to global warming. A 2000 report by Friends of the Earth on the investment portfolios of Britain's top insurance companies, for instance, found they invested heavily in such global oil and mining companies as ExxonMobil, Elf Aquitaine and Rio Tinto...