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...three-judge panel took less than five minutes to read the guilty verdict and announce that Khem Ngon, 58, Loch Mao, 56, and Puth Lim, 57, would spend the next 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murder, kidnapping and membership in the outlawed Khmer Rouge communist movement. Khmer Rouge leaders were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people during Cambodia's infamous "killing fields" period in the 1970s...
...Economists say China's peculiar combination of unbridled capitalism and top-down state control has walled off the country's banks from most of the potentially harmful effects of the crisis. Although the country's membership in the World Trade Organization has required it to open its financial services sector to global competition and investment in 2006, "there is still only a narrow range of derivative instruments and innovation in financial products is still slow," says Sun Fei, Managing Director and Chief Economist at Hong Kong-based fund manager China International Capital. In other words, China's financial sector...
...this Pentecostal association that most concerns and confuses the McCain campaign. As Minnery makes clear, millions of Evangelicals have accepted Palin because of her membership in a Bible church. But there is no denying that mainstream Evangelicals and Pentecostals, while political allies on many social issues, have historically had significant tensions over theological differences. The Evangelicals' swoon for Palin might fade if it turns out that she continues to hold fast to Pentecostal practices and beliefs...
...refrain for Senator John McCain, who warns darkly that the former Soviet republic may be the next victim of Moscow's efforts to squelch plucky little democracies on its doorstep. McCain urges that the U.S. respond by doing whatever it can to speed Ukraine's accession to membership in NATO. But Ukrainian democracy has a way of muddying the picture. On Wednesday, President Viktor Yushchenko, a strong U.S. ally and champion of NATO membership, called a snap parliamentary election, following the collapse of his ruling coalition last month. Questions of the country's future relationship with Russia and the West...
...rivalry between the two has persisted, and the summer's hostilities between Russia and Georgia sharpened the differences between the President and his erstwhile partner over Ukraine's direction. Yushchenko rushed to side with Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili and urged NATO members to expedite Ukraine's NATO membership; Tymoshenko was sharply critical of his response, arguing instead for neutrality and promising voters that she would keep Ukraine out of conflicts between other countries. While committed in principle to NATO membership at some point in the future, she is in no hurry to force the matter or take any steps that...