Word: penh
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...allow him to run for a third term. Kigali The Rwandan government launched a prisoner-release program that will seek to rehabilitate participants in the 1994 genocide before they return home. Moscow Russia deported American computer programmer Megan McRee, 35, accusing her of establishing contacts with Islamic terrorists. Phnom Penh Anti-Thai riots rocked Cambodia's capital after false reports that a Thai actress claimed the Angkor Wat temples actually belong to Thailand. Hyderabad An Indian research institute asked Iran to lend it a pair of Asian cheetahs, above, so it could clone the animals, now extinct in India...
...about a magazine article on Tuol Sleng survivors that omitted his name. Bo wanted it known that he is very much alive and that he wants to help prosecute former Khmer Rouge officials, particularly Tuol Sleng's ex-warden, Kang Khek Ieu, "Duch", who has been in a Phnom Penh jail since 1999 but has yet to face charges. "He is too inhumane to describe," says...
...DEPORTED. PAUL FRANCIS GADD, a.k.a. GARY GLITTER, 58, 1970s British glam rocker, after his December detention on unspecified charges; from Phnom Penh. In 1999, Glitter was convicted in Britain of downloading child pornography. Last summer, the Cambodian authorities asked Glitter to leave the country after he was found living with a young girl...
Cohen, a Crimson editor and a women’s studies concentrator, said Harvard’s cultural studies courses partly contributed to her decision to work in Phnom Penh as a reporter for the Cambodia Daily News, where half of the staff writes in English and the other half in Khmer—a language she will be learning...
...typically true, in part because brothels throughout the region are often protected by corrupt police and government officials with a vested interest in making only occasional, symbolic busts in which prostitutes?but no pimps or customers?are arrested. Says Pierre Legros, founder of a child rights NGO in Phnom Penh: "You can't change a system that is rotten to the core, no matter how good your legislation or how much pressure is applied...