Word: huns
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...CHARGED. PARK JIE WON and LIM DONG WON, former South Korean government officials, and CHUNG MONG HUN, chairman of Hyundai Asan, with violations in connection with the 2000 summit between the two Koreas; in Seoul. Park (pictured), a top aide to Kim Dae Jung, then South Korea's President, was charged with having abused his authority. Chung and Lim, another Kim aide, were charged with having violated foreign-currency regulations. The Hyundai Group sent $500 million to North Korea months before the historic summit, the first since the Korean War ended in 1953. An investigation found that $100 million...
...Qaeda to fund its own activities and those of JI. "We're talking about huge inflows of cash here," says a senior diplomat in Phnom Penh, "perhaps even millions of dollars, amounts so large that they set alarm bells ringing all over the place." Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed that the men had been planning to attack a regional summit of foreign ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, scheduled to take place in the capital this week...
...It’s a terrible blemish on the United States,” he says. “What happened to the museum presents Americans as barbarians—Atilla the Hun, or the Nazis. Our European colleagues see us as co-conspirators. That’s why we have to do something, and not be silent...
...Cambodian parliamentarian turned adviser to the National Assembly president, Prince Norodom Ranariddh; in Phnom Penh. Ramsady was shot at an outdoor cafe by what's known locally as "a flying bike"?a two-man hit squad on a motorcycle. Ranariddh, whose royalist Funcinpec party faces off against Prime Minister Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party in general elections in July, claimed the killing was a political assassination...
...DISMISSED. CHEA SOPHARA, 51, governor of Phnom Penh credited with turning the Cambodian capital into a tourist destination, by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen; in Phnom Penh. The move comes after violent anti-Thai riots earlier this month, which sent relations between Cambodia and Thailand to their lowest level in decades. Sophara was reassigned to be ambassador to Burma...