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...years ago, two nephews of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen were accused of involvement in a shootout in a Phnom Penh shopping center. After a brief stretch in jail, the pair was released when a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to support charges that they possessed guns at the scene of the shooting. Last week, another of the Prime Minister's nephews was on trial, this time accused of manslaughter?and again the case appears to be falling apart. According to police, Nhim Sophea, the 22-year-old son of Hun Sen's sister, was partying with friends...
ARRESTED. NIM SOPHEA, 22, nephew of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, on murder charges in the shooting deaths of two people after a car race ended in a crash that killed a third person; in Phnom Penh. Police said Nim Sophea, the son of Hun Sen's sister, took part in the race. He allegedly fired an automatic rifle at onlookers who gathered at the crash site, killing two and injuring two. Authorities suspect Nim Sophea was drunk...
...even bigger bind. He has called for a high-risk national referendum next month on whether he should continue to govern. "If Roh approves any deployment," says Lee Seung Hun of the Democratic Labor Party, which currently supports Roh, "I can guarantee he'll find the rest of his presidency unbearable." The U.S. is being forced to relearn an old lesson in Asia: all politics are local...
...Reading the script actually made me feel better in some ways. It is, quite simply, idiotic. Everyone is a caricature, manufactured and inauthentic. My father is depicted as some demented evangelist, going on about Armageddon every chance he gets. My mother is cast as a female Attila the Hun, and I and my siblings are unrecognizable to me. There are absurdities, like depictions of Mike Deaver and political aides camping out at our house during my father?s early political career - in every scene, there they are, hanging around the house day and night. I suppose this is meant...
...accused of trying to discredit him. The shootings, he said, were "premeditated in nature, with an aim to serve a political purpose, stir up security and blame the government." He has made little secret, though, of his disdain for Funcinpec. Two days before the slaying of journalist Chou, Hun Sen singled out the party's radio station for criticism, accusing it of insulting his own party. He warned Funcinpec that it should monitor its media "to avoid any conflicts...