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...four gunmen on motorbikes?two in military uniform?opened fire, killing Touch's 62-year-old mother and leaving the singer with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. (She is now in critical condition in a Bangkok hospital.) Touch is known by many as the "voice of Funcinpec"?the royalist opposition party?and her rendition of Funcinpec's anthem receives constant play on the party's radio station, Ta Prum. Just three days before the attack, Chou Chetharith, a journalist at Ta Prum, was fatally gunned down in another motorbike hit outside the station...
...these, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), or CPN(M), a renegade Maoist group, commands twice the backing of its nearest (royalist) rival. The CPN(M) forms the backbone of the Maoist rebellion that began in 1996, which aims to eject the monarchy and take the country into Stalinist isolation. The guerrillas have an attachment to an antique dogma that borders on the bizarre in the 21st century. Much to the embarrassment of the modern Chinese leadership to the north, they studiously model their uprising on Mao Zedong's Basic Tactics (1937) and On Guerrilla Warfare (1937). Their rhetoric...
When King Gyanendra of Nepal named Suryabahadur Thapa the country's Prime Minister in June, no one had to show the new Premier where the pens and paper are kept?Thapa had been PM four times before. The moderate royalist is expected to be replaced once again in coming weeks, a casualty of partisan maneuvering as the nation's politicians attempt to unite with the palace against the Maoist rebels. At his home in Kathmandu, Thapa spoke to Time's Alex Perry...
...KILLED. OM RAMSADY, 50, former 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...
...Kandahari mujahedin (bodyguards for the former king) cocked their weapons and took aim at the Special Forces. The other Afghan government troops followed. "It was one of those times when you realize a minute is actually sixty seconds, and that can be an awfully long time," Hayatullah Diani, a royalist official, told TIME. "I thought they were going to start killing each other...