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...busy working to watch," said Klang Sokhan, 62, tending to the small shop opposite Tuol Sleng's gates where she peddles soft drinks and DVD documentaries about the Khmer Rouge to the hordes of tourists that visit the prison each day. "I am interested in the trial," she added, "and if you want to know whether Cambodian people are interested, let [the Khmer Rouge suspects] out of prison to walk down the street. Then there will be a prosecution." (Read TIME's 1979 cover story on the Cambodian genocide...
...Like so many of her generation, Klang Sokhan lost numerous relatives during the regime that ruled Cambodian from 1975 to 1979, when an estimated 1.7 million people died, including her son and daughter who were 5 and 4 when they succumbed to starvation. For Klang Sokhan, the complexities and the slow pace of the U.N.-backed tribunal proceedings do not assuage her anger - or her thirst for revenge. "The court is difficult to understand. It's too complicated. What people want is for them to die," she said of Duch and the four other Khmer Rouge leaders now in detention...
...Temple eventually wants to hold outdoor performances and picnics at the back of the building, where the Klang River runs. Outsiders may see nothing but a grubby concrete gully there, but the Brickfields community sees a far richer place. As Gunaratnam says, "Swami called this our River Ganges...
...Back to the Future Malaysiakini has continued its aggressive coverage. The online paper has been particularly influential in investigating massive cost overruns in the building of a free-trade zone at Port Klang, not far from Kuala Lumpur. The latest official figures show that the project has ballooned to about $1.4 billion, more than double what was projected in 1999. Critics contend that graft has plagued the project, undercutting Abdullah's much-vaunted anticorruption drive. "Thus far, Abdullah's promises to curb corruption remain just that: promises," says Ramasamy Palanisamy, a former professor of politics at the National University...
...Twain's Following the Equator (1897) ° have a wanderer's leisurely impressions 3 been hammered into such wry, incisive ° mots. Venice sits on its industrialized gulf "like a drawing room in a gas station"; small villages in Malaysia roll by: "Bidor, Trolak, Tapah and Klang - names like science fiction planets...